The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1891-02-06
LENT BEGINS next Wednesday.

Itib bcSthS ucAt w cQiitoudy.
Born. to Mr.. and Mrs. Chas Green, a
daughter, on Saturday.
Born. to Mr. and Mrs. VIII Kreher, a
daughter, on Sunday last.
DIR. Gallup, OF Grand Rapids, will ill the
Congregational pulpit next Sunday.
Jas. Upham has sold the Free Press
agency To Ed. Wright, who will assume con-
troll Monday.
The water pipes of the city are being
thoroughly flushed and as result the water
is considerably improved.
The Chicago Clothing Co. has closed up
business here. The store vacated will prob
ably be used as grocery.
Be sure to hear Prof. Simmons lecture
on Electricity" at the Baptist church on
Friday evening of next week.
Shiawassee Co. has an area of 52S square
miles, or 437, 900 acres. The average popu-
lation to the square mile being less than
60.
Counters, shelves, etc., are being placed
i'm the new store of Ira G. Curry and his
stock of hardware will be removed next
week.
The finishing department of the casket
factory will commence next week to run
1913 hours per day in order to keep up with
orders.
Shrove Tuesday, Feb. 9th, tea will be
served at the residence of Mrs. JAS Osburi.
Hours to s. Given by the ladies OF the
Episcopal church.
Frieseke Bros. had an opportunity Thurs
day to sell all the brick on their yard to
parties outside the city, but preferred to
hold them for the city trade.
Jno. Mabin. Co. agent of the state board
of corrections and truant officer for the city
schools, has issued a mandate against school
boys frequenting pool rooms.
There is altogether too much sneak thiev-
| ing going on about the city. A few people
| will have to follow r. Ponds example be-
fore the city will be free from this kind of
thing.
Sunday afternoon Y. M. G. A. meetings
! for the month of Feb'y will be lead by IL.
ii. Frost. G. S. Ensminger and ii. X.
White. Subjects, Halted, Pardoned and
Bankrupt.
Fayette Johnson, son of Representative
Hiram johnson, has been cOnditionally APP
pointed to place in the Office of Enrolling
and Engrossing Clerk Hopkins of the house
of representatives.
Mt. Pleasant business men got together
recently and discussed plans for improve
ment of the city. OwOssO was pointed out
as the model town. It's the the newspapers
that spread the reputation of q city.
A unique and interesting musical enter
tainment will be given at the home of Mrs.
w. X. TillotsOn, Adams ST., on Wednes-
, day, Feb. 18th, by the young peoples Bible
| class, OF the Congregational church. Don't
| you miss this.
Officer Retain fell on the street fainting In
| front of Woodlands IL North's store Thurs
| day afternoon. He was carried i'm ON O
stretcher and medical attendance summon
Ell. Later he was sufficiently recovered and
sent home in hack.
The M. E. society has large sketch OF
its new church building framed and open
for inspection to the public. The building
will be an ornament to the city. We under.
stand the money is being pledged quite
readily for the work.
There was no sunshine Feb. End and the
proverbial appearance of the wOOdchuck OF
ground hog on that day resulted i'm nc
shadow. hence an early spring, the passage
of the free coinage bill. a fall i'm the price oil
eggs, and long session of the Michigan
| legislature.
| Mrs A. G. Heaney, of Owosso, has re-
Gently been notified of the death of her sis
ter-in-law in Dublin. The property thai
will come into her possession will consist of
four houses in Dublin and real estate in the
west of Ireland. Mrs. III. is the only he'll
| ha, int ha;,, t,x
Mr.. Mcclure a leading lawyer in Brooklyn.
The change of judicial circuits which in
terest sShiawassee County now looks as il
Genessee and Shiawassee counties would bt
made one circuit. In as much as a bill ha:
already passed the house detachlng Living
stone from this district and will probably
pass the senate, the above will undoubtedly
be the solution of the circuit court district
problem.
Last week the directors of the Durango
Iron and Steel Co. met at the Grand Pacific
Hotel in Chicago and considered the propo
sitiOn made by an English syndicate. The
| property of the company consists of the IrOr
and Steel works and solid mountain OF
iron, 95 acres 5000 feet high. Several
OwOss0 capitalists are stockholders in the
company.
THE TIMES is in receipt of the University
Oracle. the annual publication of the sopho
more class. The work contains one hun
dred pages, is finely illustrated, university
life being well represented. The stories
poems and humOur are sparkling with Uni
versity buoyancy of life. The Owosso stu
dents, Will Parker and Fred Janette were
on the board of editors and have had much
to do with the success Of the publication.
Well done, boys.
The second in the series Of Y. M. G.. A.
membership lecture course will be given by
Prof. j. w. Simmons, Friday evening Feb.
18th. Electricity is the subject and being
an almost UNEMPLOYED field in the lecture
course. experiments being made in labora-
tories away from the public view, the eXhi-