The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1891-06-19
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springs are supposed to be balmier thar
that of '9l has been here.
The logging railway which runs from
Manistique up into Luce county, a dis
tance of fifty miles, is said to be the long
est log-hauling line in the state.
Grand Haven has new National banl
of 100000 capital stock, with Dwight
Cutler as president, and George Stickney
cashier.
Bay City's new Polish church will be 6
magnificent edifice when completed, and
the $50, 900 necessary to build it was con
tributed largely 10y very poor people
many of whom have no homes Of theil
own.
Ypsilanti masons are DESTROYS that 0
commandery of Knights 1emplar be es
tablished in their city.
S. S. Carson lives at Chesaning and the
United States district court assessed him
$3.50 for cheating poor widow out of hel
pension.
Albian college has an attendance of E3
this year-the largest in it's history. TIE
annual commencement is billed for june
IS
Somebody has been counting the fruit
trees in Shelby township, Oceana county
and finds that the plum and peach trees
number 142,507, nearly nine-tenths OF
which are peaches.
Romeo people will hold local election
with view of bonding the town $25, 00t
worth for good system OF waterworks
The Ashleys have begun work on the
Mackinac division of their Toledo and
Ann Arbor railway, the completion OF
which will give them a line clear across
the lower peninsula
The jury that reviewed the case of Wal
ter Richards, the Huron county man who
set spring gun that gave John Osttle 8
fatal dose of lead, expressed it's confidence
of Walters innocence of any wrong intent
and set him free. Osttle evidently had nc
business on Richards premises, which
was an important point in the latter's IA
vor.
The agents of the law got a hump OF
themselves in Ingham county and Frank
Allen has been convicted of forgery. Tbs
is the somewhat famous case in which
Gertrude Whitacre figured, and now she
must stand trial also.
Advents of the Seventh. Day persuasion
will hold 40 annual outing at Lansing b.
and by.
The Flint woo1eD mills have just turned
out . big pile of blankets for the locrl
sanitassNm, made from home grown woo,
Twenty Saginaw young men propose t..
charter boat and sail for the Worlds
Fair city, when the proper time comes
to see the big show. They will take their
meals and sleep aboard the boat, and al
now dropping quarter apiece, each week
into the slot to defray expenses.
The plant of the Adrian Furniture com.
pany was destroyed By fire on the 9th and
$50 hands are thrown out of employment.
Loss, SG0,0JN insured for $4,000 The fac
tory will probably be rebuilt.
Rumored that Kirby, the Marshall bank
defaulter, is also forger, spurious $500
note having turned up against Charles
Hutchinson.
Miss Harriet A. Deering goes to Ger.
many for years study and will then re-
turn to take the German professorship at
Hillsdale college,
Mr.. and Mrs. John Crawford, "a Maple
Valley couple, were each 20 years of age
when they were married, and they've just |
celebrated their golden wedding and 10th |
birthday anniversaries.
w. j. McKeeney. u Manistique man, en-.
gagged in deer hunting expedition and |
was assessed $25 for shooting them at |
what the law states to be an improper |
season.
Professor W. G. Durand has resigned the |
chair of mathematics held at the State \
Agricultural college, and has accepted a |
similar position at Purdue university, La,
fayette, Ind.
Pontiac is casting about for electric |
lights, and desiring the best glim to be
had, has sent out an aldermanic commit. ]
tee on a tour of inspection.
The Woman's Press association of the |
state held its annual meeting at Battle |
Creek last week, talked over various mat. |
tiers of interest, picnicked at Lake Cog. |
nae, and elected Mrs. Belle M. Perry, OF |
Charlotte, president, and Miss Florence |
Brooks, of jackson, secretary.
w. f. Lingohr is Monroe barber, 1s |
years of age, who's probably the youngest |
pensioner in the country. He didn't "fitn |
in the civil war, in fact wasn't born for |
some years after Lee surrendered. at Ap |
pomatox, but has done heap of sailing |
in Uncle Sans warships and survived |
mishaps enough to suggest the cats nine |
lives. The last accident, a back injury |
knocked him out for hard work, and he's |
drawn pension since he was IL. 81
Muskegon's circuit judge was routed |
ont of bed at o'clock on recent morn |
ing to receive the verdict of jury that |
was anxious to get little sleep itself.
A Montana wolf, owned by an Allegan |
citizen, broke loose at night and Toasted at |
q neighbours hen roost, whereupon the |
chicken man harvested the beast and now |
claims the g bounty offered by the state |
for the slaughter of wolves. at
This years graduating classes of the |
state university foot up nearly 600 stu |
dents, much larger number than was
ever turned loose at any previous COM
mencement.
Battle Greek is now having her first la |
Dor strike, the union school furniture |
moulders having gone out.
Mrs. Brimley Cambridge pioneer, is
dead, at the age of 100 years. She used to
amuse herself walking to jackson, Is |
miles away, and back the next day.
The United States court has decided
that Three Rivers must pay Miller Emery |
the $1,000 Judgment he secured because |
that municipality used more water from |
mi.lpond than the contract called for
DIR. George 4. Ranney, of lansing, was
elected president, and DIR. Charles w.