The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1891-10-23

Items of Interest which Concern Our
Own State.

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The Fenton ladies band is booked for a
footing tour of 5000 miles in the southern
states, beginning Oct. II.
The small boy and the Scent bounty
aren's the only enemies with which the
sparrow has to contend. Quails are said
to be an inveterate foe of the English
birds, and as the former are unusually
abundant just now the foreign intruder is
having an especially hard time of it.
The Cincinnati. Jackson and Mackinac
railway has been sold in two sections, I'M
der foreclosure proceedings at Toledo. for
the total sum of So, 967, go.
Mrs. Jennie Sullivan is an Almont lady
OF Is Octobers, who, after long matri-
monial experience Of two months, is SUI
ing for divorce credentials.
Strawberry blossoms and ripe raspber-
ries of the second crop for the season are
reported by j. G. Miller a Charlevoix
gardener.
Jackson is to have football contest on
November z, in which a whole raft of
the state university kickers are expected
to participate
kitchen has been engaged in slicing bread
and estimates that the loaves he has
carved in that time would make wall 4
feet wide, feet high, and miles in
length.
Jackson's public schools have an at
tendance of ], 732 pupils.
Counterfeit currency of the IS size is
circulating in some sections of the upper
peninsula.
The Howell lad who cleaned his vest
with gasoline and then lighted q match
to see il he'd done a good job with the
illumination, is now caring for a lot of
first-class burns.
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Miss Huldah Bates, who died recently
at Goodrich, aged 81 years, is thought to
have been the oldest maiden lady in the
state.
The Cheboygan River Boom company
has handled Sc, 900. 600 feet of timber this
season, which includes cedar ties, cedar
paving posts, telegraph poles and logs for
lumber.
Six soldiers, stationed at Mackinac ISL
and, have been arrested on suspicion
of having plundered the cottages of re-
sorters of their contents.
The proposition of the Grand Rapids
furniture manufacturers to furnish the
Michigan building at the Chicago Worlds
fair, has been accepted by the state fair
commission.
The superintendent of the st. Ignace
high school harvested white deer re-
Gently, which he will have mounted by q
Bay City taxidermist
There's an opening for q parson of the
Congregational variety at Union City.
A good salary will be paid to man who
suits.
Rev. K. Fl. Day, Lawton parson, grew
a pumpkin vine in his garden which
measured /, 1850 feet in length, decorated
with sixteen goodly sized pumpkins.
1t required 800, 900 baskets in which to
market the grape crop of Lawton and vi
entity.
Port Huron is the home of dude who
has an eye to business. He recently ac-
companied eight young ladies to local
restaurant and ordered nine spoons and
a single dish of ice cream.
Boston capitalists propose to build a
bad smelling tannery at Cheboygan, pro.
vidsd they can be assured of the neces-
sary supply of tan bark for term of
years.
The sexton of the Birmingham ceme-
terry believes in distinctions with differ
ence, and only mows grass from those
lots upon which the annual dues have
been paid.
Port Huron has a new dry dock which
holds A, $50, 600 gallons of water, and yet
the pumping arrangements are such that
it can be made dry in an hour and half.
Grand Rapids has gentleman who
thinks that it will be no great task to
keep record of those who attend the
weekly prayer meeting of his church, and
IL going to try the experiment that he
may know just who constitute the faith
full
James Lake grew 10000 heads of cab
bage in his garden at Stanton this year,
and good solid heads they are, some of
them containing sixteen pounds each of
sauer kraut material.
Competition among the three stage
lines from Alpena to Hillman is so keen
that one of 'em offers ride and dinner
free as an inducement for patronage Free
cigars will probably soon be added.
Cassapolis has voted to bond itself for
$40, 600 worth of waterworks, and Man
celona will sail in half that value of the
same article.
Mrs. j. j. Bowerfeld of Adrian, whose
husband was one of the unfortunate
mail clerks killed in the Kipton disaster,
has settled with the Lake Shore Railway
company for the sum of $500.
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Rentable houses are so scarce at Byron
that local parson was obliged to live in
the church basement for time, until bet
ter quarters could be secured.
The pine forests of Luce county are to
laid low the coming winter to the extent
of 100, DOC, 900 feet.
Talk of organizing humane society at
Surely there's an ample field
for its operations.
Mrs. Polly Goodwill, lady of SO sum-
meas, fell down flight Of Hudson stairs,
in her death.
Scarlet fever is so prevalent at Chesa-
ming that the large schools have temper
arily gone out of commission.
Carson City kids are given to profane
languages; at least some of 'em are, and
those who attend school are required to
Bible verse every time they
audibly let go cuss word. The enforce
ment Of this novel rule makes some Of the