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


A house belonging to James A. Hayes at
Ovid, Clinton Co., was destroyed by fire
Sunday night, loss, 81 1000; insured.
| William and Irving Niles. two Ovid boys,
will work In the Detroit house of correction
| for the next 90 days, on charge of pur-
Joining money and its equivalent from the
high school building.
| And now comes the Canada thistle
swindler with the statement that he Is a
government agent and sells thistle exter-
minator for $3.50 per bottle. Farmers are
warned against him. Exchange.
"What do you do with that baseball mask?"
| "Why, Johnny is very bad sometimes, and
the only closet have to shut him up in is
where the preserves are. Iput the mask on
him with lock and the preserves are safe"
The Congregational church song service
at the opera house on Sunday evening drew
a large crowd and made a very pleasing
exercise. Mrs. Marden's remarks on songs
In missionary work were also entertaining
and instructive.
The cleanliness of city is largely mat
ter of individual effort. IL each one will
see that his own premises are clean and i'm a
healthy condition the entire city will be so.
The health officer will soon be making his
tour of inspection aud all are urged to have
their premises clean and in good sanitary
condition.
In copying the article from THE TIMES
of April Gath on the railroad question the
Hastings Banner says: We trust that the
above report may be true as we would like
to have railroad connection with OwOsso,
and there isn't any doubt but what the de-
Election of the road to OwOss0 would be
paying investment to the company.
DIR. Austin has recently refused an offer of
$3.50 for his standard bred FLY, not yet two
years old. Her sire, Okemos, is a brother of
Maud s. and son of Harold; dam Kentucky
whip, thoroughbred by Lexington. The
doctors colt, Charlotte had sister go in $50
list last summer, and he has great expecta-
tons for his colt, as she is a fine animal, and
good disposition. Tribune,
The Frankfort Express has the following
items: Rev. Farnum, of Flint, has pur-
chased the Black farm south of the city,
and will spend the summer there. Mr.. +.
made us visit last summer and was so de-
lighted with our surroundings that he de-
cided to locate here with the above result.
A team belonging to Rev. Farnum ran
away last Tuesday noon, breaking the har-
ness and wagon.
11dSllnSS DdnIltT. lneTt dTe ROOu
many people in this country who are land
poor. They own too much land to make
farming anything like it should be i'm the
way of profit. There is too much of the
capital tied up in land that cannot be farm
ed as it should be. One acre well titled is
worth more than three acres half cultivated. |
With proper care in the way of keeping the |
land up to a high standard of fertility, a |
farm of sixty acres is worth more than |
three times the number of acres only half |
cared for. Smaller farms and better tillage |
would be a good motto for more than half |
the Michigan farmers.
What Baltimore confectioner says: 81
have had rheumatism in my arm for six /
months, and Salvation Oil made an entire
cure of it after using less than one bottle.
VIM. Shellhas, jr, Baltimore, Md.
From the State Republcan:-Th supreme
court this afternoon handed down the long
00ked-for decision regarding the bounty
,Iaims of Michigan soldiers. which should
lave been made public before election, but
or reasons which perhaps Chief Justice
Jhamplin could explain was Withheld. The
decision is adverse to the soldiers, as was
expected.
Last fall one Adoniram j. Smith of Clinton
county made application for mandamus to
compel the board of state auditors to allow
lis claim of 500 bounty, under the act of
February 1, 1864. The court holds that the
ct only applies to those enlisted under the
all of FEBRUARY. 1864, and estimates the
Ost on the principal and interest of the cases
involved at So, 900, 900, and says the legis-
ature would not have created a. debt of this
ind without having made the language of
he act explicit. Smith enlisted In September
S64. The details of the case have been
generally published and are well known to
he public.