The times., 1891-04-17

Mrs. Mary Sayles entertained large par
ty of friends at her home last evening.
There will be preaching at the Disciple
church next Sunday, morning and evening.
The Sunday services of the Congregation
al church will be held I'm the opera house for
the present.
The work of tearing down the Congrega-
tonal church was commenced Monday morn
ing and is now well under way.
Mrs. A. X. Roof formerly well known in
Owosso and COrunna died at Lyons, Ionia
Co., last Saturday. The funeral services
were held Wednesday.
The st. Mary's Guild will serve an Orange
Tea at the residence of 4. A. Todd, We'd
nesday. April 21st. There will be sale of
fancy articles in connection.
Mrs. Troop, residing on Grover ST., died
Wednesday morning, and the remains taken
to Mt. Pleasant for interment. Friday. Her
husband Is an engineer on the Ann Arbor
road.
A Laingsburg attorney wrote letter to
the co unity clerk requesting certified copy
of some papers, but enclosed a local program
instead and then wondered why his request
was not granted.
The measure to detach the southern tier
of townships i'm Saginaw Co., and annex the
same to Shiawassee, came up in the state
senate Tuesday, and was referred to the
Judiciary committee.
The paper delivered before the conven-
ton of the State Board of Corrections and
Charities last December by the Rev. r. r.
Davies has been published i'm the proceed
ings of the board by the State. The article
received much cOmmendatiOn at the time
and should be read by all thoughtful per-
sons.
Chauncey Wisner, of Saginaw, is a demo-
crat who sits i'm the Michigan Senate and
thinks he owns the whole senate chamber.
Tuesday an OwossO business man, ON invi-
ton of a senator, went into the chamber and
Wisner threatened to have him elected.
The Owosso man was not to be bluffed and
the Saginawian returned to his own side OF
the chamber discomftted.
Objections were raised to counting the
votes of the 4th ward OwossO City and to
Vernon township on account OF the election
boards failing to read off name by name on
the tickets as provided for by law. The
counting was done in the usual way by
COuIltlIlR tuc otiuiSutSs <ho ~ iioo oOSh
decided that the board of canvassers duties
were ministerial the votes were counted as
returned.
Farewell services were held in the COngre-
gatiOnal church Sunday. In the morning
the house was crowded to its utmost seating
capacity. The church had been neatly
trimmed with flowers and evergreen, and
the figures '55-'91 told how long the house
had been occupied. The choir had prepared
special music for the occasion, which was
finely rendered. Rev. G. Ii. Wilson Occu-
pied the pulpit, giving very concise his
tory of the church, its organization, growth,
and present needs. In the afternoon COM
munion services were held and thirty per-
sons received into memberships by letter
and twenty-four on profession-making a
very touching service. In the evening Rev.
Wilson again preached to large number of
interested hearers, giving a most practical
sermon, the result of which has been several
pledges for the new church fund. In this
connection mention may well be made of
the excellent work being done by Rev. j.
r. ReitZel, pastor of the church. In elk
weeks he has done marvelOusly successful
amount of work, making many acquaint-
ances in all parts of the city and drawing
large audiences each Sunday.