The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1891-05-29
The war Of the dentists Is lively.


Sparring match, Allen VS. Peaters, at
Grows hall, Monday evening, June 8.
The board Of health is busily at work get
ting the city in a good sanitary condition.
Miss Gracia Stewart entertained COM
pany of young ladies at tea wednesday
evening"
The first lot of furniture was shipped
from the ID. M. Estey furniture factory
Tuesday.
G.. r. Lyon has purchased the Carr prop
erty on Hickory street and is remOdeling
the same.
Quite an amount of stock has been sub
scribed for in the Shiawassee Savings asso-
citation this week.
The landlords or house owners of Owosso
are talking of organizing protective society
against deadbeat tenants.
Guy Downey, running a band saw in the
new Estey factory. had one OF his hands
cut Wednesday afternoon.
About forty persons went to Ann Arbor,
Thursday, on the excursion to attend the
Art Loan in Newberry hall.
A musical entertainment will be given at
the Baptist church Friday evening, June
9Th. Proceeds to pay for music for choir.
Corunna will soon feel the thrill of friend
ship of OwossO's electric light current that
will soon illuminate the dark places of that
town.
The perspective of the new Congregation
al church has been on exhibition in Parkill
q Sons window this week. 1t Is admired
by everyone who sees it.
Will Thorn, formerly of this city, plead
guilty to charge of forgery i'm the circuit
court at Kalamazoo. Tuesday. Sentence
has not yet been passed.
Oscar Halstead, highway commissioner of
Owosso township, has rented his farm and
will remove to Bennington, where he has
purchased house and lot.
ARRAY and Frazer have advertised for a
great sale of lots, Saturday, decoration day.
A free excursion to buyers, brass band
music, etc., have been promised.
Geo. Colt drew SOL on Saturday from
Geo. Edwards to pay off the masOns en-
plOyed on Richardson's store building, since
which time he has not been seen.
Forepaugh Will not visit Owosso this
year and Mat WixOm's aggregation sighted
the city. However Fred Locke's colossal
show will exhibit here June and I'd.
1t is proposed that one of the rooms in the
parlors of the new Congregational church
be fitted up and be under the exclusive con-
troll of the young men Of the society as a
reading room.
Bert c. Hall, clerk of Owosso township,
has completed very fine colOred highway
district map of the township. Mr.. Hall is
school teacher, which explains the excel
lency of his work.
Owosso can gain at least little knowl-
edge from Corunna in road making. Our
sister city certainly beats us in the matter
of improved ,oadways. The town also fixes
up the highways leading into the city.
Several members of the building commit
tee of the Congregational church went to
Ann ArbOr, Thursday, to enquire into the
cost of laying and facts relating to the
handling of field boulders for building pur-
poses.
Last week a Mormon, accompanied by
three women and twelve children enroute
through this state, changed cars at OwOsso
junction. Whether the women were his
cousins or aunts or related by marriage, de-
pOnent sayeth not.
Census bulletin No. GA shows that Sha-
wassee county has an Indebtedness of
$35, 900 or per capita Indebtedness of 81. Is
This is the back tax indebtedness
that so long remained an unsettled question
against the county.
The Epworth league convention of the
Saginaw district embracing Corunna, Owes
so, Henderson, Oakley. Chesaning, st.
Charles, Bennington and Laingsburg pastor
ates commenced at Corunna yesterday and
continues today. An excellent program is
being carried out.
From reports received from various sec
tons of the county the frost Tuesday night
did considerable damage. Cherries that es-
capped previous freeze were injured and
the large acreage of strawberries in OwOssO
township are reported as suffering great in
jury, except where covered with straw.
The rain Thursday night and Friday
morning, of last week has frightened the
crop prospects wonderfully. While wheat
and grass may have been shortened by the
May drouth, no great injury was done.
Oats have good appearance since the rain,
and this week sees all the corn planted. On
the whole crops are looking well.
Pittsfield Qll.) Banner: Mrs. Marden,
a missionary from Marash, Turkey, deliver
ed an unusually scholarly address at the
Congregational church last Sunday night
upon the work in Asiatic Turkey among
the Armenians. There were two things
which distinguished this address from the
ordinary address. First, the lady really had
something to say and said it WELL and sec
ond there was no contribution taken up at
the close.
L. +. Woodlands mill is having a big run
of business at present. Among the large
orders noted are one hundred door and
window frames and sash for the Michigan
military academy. at Pontiac, all the frames
for a large school house at Clare, Mich,
and also for the new M. Z. church. This
work was obtained in competition with out
side bidders. Owosso factories are bound
to keep in the lead.
The nominations for commissioned officers
of the military company to be voted for
Friday evening are as follows: list Lieu
tenant, Fred ii. Gould; I'd Lieutenants,
Messrs. Osburn, Stengle, Keller. Schenck
and Waters. For LIST Sergeant, the prefer
ences of the company were expressed in
suggesting the following names: Murphy,
Waters, Schenck, Stengle, Monroe, Walton