The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1891-05-22
LOCAL NEWS

The Ann Arbor Military company imposes
tax or IS for membership fee.
Sec'y Dewey was in Oakley, Saturday. at
tending meeting of the Saginaw Valley
Teachers Association.
The heavy frost Sunday morning is re-
ported TO have done much damage. Some
sections report no losses.
Il. w. Cressey, editor of the Midland Re
publican, has the honor of coming the much
quoted word ''squawbuck."
Mr.. and Mrs III. w. Parker spent Sunday
in Owosso. They are Eat home" now on
their farm in Saginaw county.
Levi Markham, one of the May term
jurors is sick with inflammation of the
lungs at his home in Mlddlebury township.
Chas. Farmer, a wool buyer of experience,
does not anticipate price will go higher than
80 OF 33 cents, and that early sales will be
best.
A. f. Eldredge, former TINES employee
is now working at Rawlns Wyoming. We
notice by copy of the Journal that he was
recently elected president of the printers
Union there.
the Shiawassee Co. Agricultural society for
damages resulting from their arrest for al
legged liquor selling upon the fair grounds
last fall seems to have fallen through.
The semi-annual meeting of the Shiawas-
see County Sunday School Association will
be held at Bancroft, June Is and 16. 1t is
expected that Miss Cuddeback, of Alma,
will be present and give some valuable
hints on primary Sunday school work.
b. j. Downing has bought an interest in
the planning mill of Benjamin Sandiford, at
Owosso. Business will be transacted here
after under the name of Sandiford Il Down
ing. AS they are both citizens of st. Charles
it is to be hoped the new firm will be a
prosperous one.-St Charles Independent.
List OF letters remaining uncalled for at
the OwOssO postoffice the week ending May
IS: M. McGregor, j. Perkins and r. j.
Mcintyre, Ensley Salisbury, VIM. Stevens
BERTHE Spencer, N. r. Swan, j. M. Kyes,
Frank Putnam, Jennie Fagelsong. II. Coon,
James w. Campbell, Bishop & Howe,
James Morgan, Mrs. Pauline Baker, Joe
Sayles, Kittie Doyle. Foreign. Andrew
Mcintosh.
The latest corporation in Ithaca is the
'Gratiot County Jersey Cattle Company"
which is to be Incorporated under the
general law, with Geo. Older as president,
JnO. w. Mouser vice president, j. Lee
Potts secretary, and Geo. M. Stead treasur-
er. The company will be devoted to the
breeding of Jersey cattle and will deal in
nothing but American Cattle Club stock, all
registered and of known pure blood. The
plan of issuing stock is novel in that it does
away with the possibility of "watering;"
each certificate being issued on some animal
as q basis, and being above or below par as
the animal is worth more or Less than 500.
The company will undoubtedly be an in
stitution which will give GratiOt county
reputation over the state for Jersey cattle;
for most of the members are now eXper-
fenced breeders of Jersey stock, and the
success ofthe company is thereby assured
Gratot Journal.
Ssratiot Journal: Faughner q Co.'s ex-
eelsior mill, flax mill, warehouses, etc,
burned to the ground on Saturday between
the hours of IL q. III. and p. m. Near the
mill were three or four stacks of flax and
some eleven hundred cords of excelsior
bolts and twelve hundred cords of single
spos, all of which were burned except
about 80 cords of bolts and 20 or so cords of
single spells. In the warehouses were
three or more carloads of excelsior and 5000
bushels of flax seed. The mills, warehouses
and contents are total loss. The engine
and boiler room were saved. The actual
loss to Faughner & Co. is estimated at
SIS, 900; but could they have run the mill
three months longer. they could have cleared
So, 600 at the present price of excelsior.
They were insured for 81, 800 only, it being
a difficult matter to get insurance on an ex-
celsior plant. The fire caught from spark
from Ferris q Co.'S single mill near by.
The firm have not decided yet whether they
will rebuild or not