The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1891-05-08

Children's Day-Sunday, June IA.
The Oakland Co. driving club will give
race meeting at Pontiac, June II, 10.
Rev. }. r. Reitzel will deliver the Me
mortal Day address this year in Owosso.
The last ChesaDing Argus has column
obituary of a road horse owned by gentle
man In that village.
The average annual assessment in the A
D. u, w. ON $4,000 for the past twelve
years has been SIS.
G. M. Edwards has a job to build a schOo
house In Clare. Frieseke Bros. sold him
$4,000 face brick for the work.
throughout In his ice cream parlOrs and has
first-class place to take your best girl fol
,ee cream.
Dr. Bulls Cough Syrup Is staple article
in the market. The demand for it was
never greater than now. The people find
it indispensable, and will not be without il
at any price. Price rs cents.
In the recent local elections i'm Montana
the republicans carried every city I'm the
state except Butte. The tide of republican
ism has set in and by 1892 will be so
strong as to sweep everything before 1t.
Pontiac expects soon to enjoy big BOOM
Arrangements are being made to run spec
ial trains from Detroit to that city several
times each day, making it suburban resi-
dence place. It's good scheme and will
give Pontiac a great boom.
The physician who examined the candi-
dates for appointment to the Eighth dis
trict naval cadetship says that In a majority
of cases they were rejected on account of
accelerated and abnormal action of the
heart, caused by the use of cigarettes.
The annual report of the Toledo, Ann
Arbor & North Michigan Railway, just
published shows that the earnings of the
road last year were ST., 1877, 20S.64 as against
$1,0l4.3169s in 1889 and $4l6, Alb i'm
1890. The number of miles operated is
274.
The FentOn Independent started on its
Gath volume last week. We regard the In
dependent as one of the best OF our eX-
changes. The news columns are well filled
with good local items every week. The
Messrs. Jennings are certainly newspaper
men.
The farmers around OwOssO should i'm
prove their poultry-a little money spent i'm
this direction is sure to pay good per
cent. There is always demand and with
thousands of dozens of eggs bought at the
Cold Storage there is generally scarcity in
the local market Raise better pOultry-it
will pay.
David EgglestOn, of Litchfeld, Hillsdale
Co.. tells the Hilsdale Standard that his
father and he own 100 acres of land, from
which last year they sold $1,000 worth of
produce, had three-fOurths or more of their
living, stock growing into value; and a
chance to engage 1915 wheat crop at 81 |
per bushel. He naturally sees nothing
wrong with the times.
List of letters remaining uncaled for at |
the OwOssO pOstOffice for the week ending |
May 2, 1891: James Brown, Geoge Patti, |
Barney Welsh, Charlie Sholtz, Mrs. III. |
Sidman, N. r. Swan, Frank Brass, o. |
Baker, Bertha Clay, Mrs. Mate Cramer,
Albert Ely, Prof. Ira l.. Forbes, Mrs. |
Elizabeth Flowers, Mrs. Birdie Grenway, |
Hinkey & Morris, Frank S. Ketchum, +. |
w. Miller, N. A. Nelson.
Ovid Union-Register: We either failed |
10 receive the OwOssO TIMES of the 18th |
ttbe boom edition) or else some one pur-
Joined it from our table before we had a
chance to see it and hence omitted to notice |
last week the enterprise of its publishers,
in issuing an illustrated edition giving full
account of the Estey six day factory. THE
TIMES issued an edition of $4,000 copies
1t is an exceptionally good paper.
The attention of the new city marshal is
called to nuisance first class one too
viz. the crowd which gathers Sunday even
ing around the doors of the several church.
es. They not only disturb service, but
blockade the walks when services are over.
Marshal Giles can do no better service than
by driving the crowd away once or twice
with a warning to either go into services or
remain away entirely. If the young men
will not do this an arrest or two will have
a good effect.
The paper bags IN which the groceries
are done up, are useful in many ways and
they should always be saved. For instance,
slip your hand in one of them when you
black the stove and it will not be soiled.
In fly time slip one over the clean chimney
during the day and 1t will be nice and clean
when you light it i'm the evening. When
you can fruit in glass jars, slip the sacks
over the jars and the fruit will keep much
better. The action of the light causes more
fruit to spoil than any other thing. By all
means save the bags.
The diary of a case of acute catarrh Mon
ddy Oh. lueSuay gone, use Via SaulS "a
Aarrh Cure for catarrh, influenza and all like
disorders of the nasal passages. Only 25 cts
at all dealers.
The Ovid Union-Register copies the ar
ticle from THE TIMES of April Gath, rela-
tive to the railroad question, says: Owosso
g after another railroad 1t is the much
.alked of Kalamazoo, Hastings & Bay City
road which is looking for northern termi-
nus. The original plan was to run from
Portland to st. Johns and thence north to
Saginaw or Bay City. Now they are said
DO be looking to Sand Beach as terminal
point, and If so will touch Owosso on the
line. We do not see how they can take the
latter course without giving Ovid depot.
At all events our citizens should be on the
alert and render all the assistance possible
Tor this southwestern outlet which no
doubt would be valuable one.
A man who has practiced medicine for 40
years ought to know salt from sugar; read
what he says:
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