The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1891-08-07

Comparison NTH contemporaries Is IN
vited.
The Savings society loaned Ss1Oo Monla
evening.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Rubekan,
son, Friday last.
The August st. Nicholas Is am UNUSUAL
interesting number.
Goodyear and Flanagan have dissolve,
partnership, the latter retiring.
A 70-horse power engine is being place,
In position at the casket factory.
The Congregational Sunday school will b.
held in the opera house, as usual, next Sun
day.
| +. Nj. Shepard reports yield Of 40 bush
els per acre from six acres of colder
Cross" wheat.
Those who have looked I'm upon the inst
| tute say that the personnel of the attend
ants Is above the average.
Shiawassee has nine lodges of Farmers
Alliance distributed principally In the south
ern and western portion OF the county.
The Estey factory continues closed thi:
week OH account Of the great number OF
employees who wanted to go to Detroit.
Oats harvested this week and reports
indicate an average or above the average
crop. notwithstanding the discouraging out.
look in May.
| Mrs. NJ. A. Pound will remove her millin.
cry business into the wooden building east
| of Duff's store. The building Is being paint
ed and repaired.
The State Teachers Reading Circle has
selected Putnam's Primer of Pedagogy and
Hale's Light Of Two Centuries for the
course the ensuing year.
The new buildings for the fair are rapidly
being put up. The addition to the floral
| hall Is well under way and work will soon
be commenced on dairy hall.
Lusk G. A. r. post at Elsie took strong
grounds against the use OF wine at the en-
campment banquet at Detroit protested by
resolution against such procedure.
Miss Mamie Shanafelt's Sunday school
class will give lawn social at b. 8. Knapp's,
August 18th. All are cordially invited.
+. w. French, of Byron, who is a
thorough student of electricity, is giving
some very pleasing entertainments and in
structive lectures along the line of electrical
research in this and adjoining counties.
Perry claims twenty more inhabitants
than Morrice, and Morrice offsets the claim
by stating that Perry takes more of the
surrounding country into her corporation
limits.
Charles Goodwin has purchased the in
surance business of G. A. johnson and will
continue the Office at the present location.
Mr.. Johnson will look after his Ovid office
entirely.
The east-bound passenger train Monday
morning was obliged to carry regular pas
sengers i'm the baggage car. One party of
campers made the trip from OwessO to
FentOn in this way.
The Ovid Register Union speaks of the
necessity of training in elocution. And just
at this point we rise to remark that the COM
mon, ordinary every day sort of expression
is good enOughwithout the assistance of the
elocutOr.
Visitors from Detroit, and the returning
Grand Army men have brought home the
national ard patriotic songs. You can hear
Marching ThrO' Georgia, John Browns
Body and other national airs whistled and
hummed as the trains stop at the stations.
County drain commissioner Mason last
week secured the right of way for the
Looking River drain in three days. Con-
sidering the vast number of descriptions
of land through which the drain passes and
that some of the land owners live outside of
the county it is seen to be an expeditions
three days work.
THE TIMES takes occasion again this
week to notice the good work being done at
the Elsie Summer Normal school which
stands out like bright and shining light
among those institutions which can be con-
Quoted to success or failure. The same
men who make public school work success
full in Clinton county have made the Elsie
Normal success.
Monday night the large barn belonging to
ID. Trocksell, situated on the line between
Bennington and Shiawassee townships, was
burned. The barn had been built but few
years and was filed to the peak of the roof
with wheat and hay. Some tools, wagon,
a cart and a calf were in the building. No
cause for the fire is known, but it was be-
lieved to be the work of an incendary.
Some insurance was carried in the Shiawas-
see County Mutual, but probably the insur-
ance was not sufficient to meet the loss.
Last week fake advertising scheme was
worked in OwOsso with most gratifying
SUCCESS. LII less IMAM TWO days over nifty
dollars were gathered in by the manipulation
of the scheme, for folder which contained
fourteen business cards on an issue of 5000
folders. The folder also contained some
cyclOpedic information as to the number of
pounds in bushel of clover seed; pounds
of pork i'm barrel, and the distance by rail
| and fare of 90 places with Owosso as a
starting point. The same advertisement in
a newspaper would reach ten times the
number of people ten times as often.
Flint Globe: Captain Peter Lemons
elevator at Lennon has been leased by
Kline, Goodenough q Co. of this city.
George Beahan. junior member of the firm,
well and favorably known through all that
region, will have the management of the
concern, and will buy all kinds of produce
everything that farmer has to sell. 1t
| will make splendid market for the farmers
of Clayton and that portion OF Shiawassee
county ajacent. Mr.. Beahan is personally
popular and the whole firm are among the
the most trustworthy business men in the
| county.
j. 4. Taylor, Grand Secretary of Patrons
of Industry, in letter to the Michigan
Farmer endorses the plan of farmers hold
| inn thair xyhaat hack from marknt until