The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1891-05-01
J. N. Mcbride was in Ionia, Monday.

j. n. Mcbride was in lona, Monday.
The sprinkler made its first trip Monday
May LEAVES on maple trees we'll out.
4. s. Laverock was in Lansing, Saturday
Frieseke Bros. made nearly $4,000 brick
last week.
Desirable city lots for sale by f. o.
Dewey, TIMES Office.
A. ID. Whipple's new house on Oliver
street is nearly finished
Mrs. farley" was success, netting the
NJ +. society a neat sum.
Coldwater liquor dealers have to give
a 1000 bond and good sureties.
The Congregational church will be heated
and ventilated by the Smead system.
VIM. Saver has been busy remodeing
some of the stalls at the fair grounds.
Born. to Rev. and Mrs. Z. b. Bancroft,
Thursday, April %, seven pound daugh-
ter.
The street commissioner cannot use the
street scraper too much for couple OF
weeks.
G.. M. Edwards. of Ovid, the well-knOwn
contractor and builder, will remove to
OwOssO.
Cadet Geo. M. Dewey Jr. has been order
ed to report at West Point, June Is, to re-
sumo his work.
Geo. NJ Dewey delivered an Odd Fellow
address at Benton HarbOr, Monday, and at
Holly, yesterday.
Jonah" was the subject of an excellent
sermon by Rev. j. r. Reitzel at the opera
house Sunday evening.
The city clerk of Flint receives $500 a
year salary. Nearly, IL not quite that
amount should be paid here.
Preston M. K. church, Detroit, of which
Rev. G. b. Spencer is pastor, raised $!,700
Sunday, to pay off all its debts.
Allegan Journal: The Owosso TIMES of
April 10 printed 1900 extra copies with an
illustrated number of that wide-awake paper
all in the interest of an extensive furni-
ture factory. Owosso believes i'm printers
ink.
1t has been definitely decided to build the
basement walls of the Congregational church
of field boulders. The walls will be several
feet high above ground. Whether field
bOulders, Ionia sand stone or brick will be
used for the rest of the building is yet I'M
decided.
The prosecuting attorney of Genesee
county has notified the Flint city council to
insist upon having men as suretes OH liquor
dealers bonds that were financially respOn-
sble,, stating that he would prosecute any
one for perjury who signed bonds If they
were not all right. Mr.. Miner, can you not
do as muchp
List of letters remaining uncalled for i'm
the post Office at OwossO the week ending
April 25: Arthur Clynor, Grant Hurley,
John /. Aisle, Mrs. Ella O'hair, James
Karne, Mrs. Anna Good, j. Arthur Gray,
Taylor, FL. M. Towne, Jimmy Cooper,
Henry Carter. Drops, l.. Cain, II. 0.
COmstock, John Secord.
Extensive and elaborate preparations are
being made for the meeting of the Mchi-
gan Brigade of the Uniform Rank, Knights
Pythias, at Detroit, July 1918. The pro-
gram will include reception, parades, noon
light excursions, band tournaments and
prize drills. For the latter not less than
$1,000 will be distributed to Michigan
divisions alone. Bodies will be present
from Ohio, Indiana and other states.
The opinion of an old and well known
merchant is given in a, few words viz: /
think DIR. Bulls Cough Syrup is the best
cough medicine make. LUTHER BLACK,
Selma, Ind.
All evidence goes to show that the English
sparrow Is one of the meanest of nuisances.
In dissecting the crops of sparrows, the De-
partment of Agriculture officials rarely have
found anything but grain seed and buds of
Inn &c and f..aa H.
the naples, elms and other trees. You can
even catch the mutilated buds in your hands
as they fall. Vines and trees are injured
and even destroyed by the chemical action
of their droppings. In this way the luxuri-
ant English ivy which once covered portions
of the Smithsonian building has been totally
ruined. On occasions as much as two cart
loads of nests with one thousand eggs of
sparr0ws have been taken from a single
building. In England, the damages of the
sparrow are estimated at 81 per acre. Think
what an enormous loss is cntailed in this
country, at even One-quarter that amount
per acre.
Dyspepsia's victims are numbered by
thousands. SO are the people who have
been restored to health by Hoods Sarsapa-
rilla.
The Country Gentleman says: "We have
found the most valuable and economical APP
plication to rough outdoor wood work to be
wash of crude petrOleum-either the light
or heavy oil, but best of a mixture. 1t is
not paint, for 1t Immediately sinks into the
pores of the wood, and renders it more dur
able, like cedar. A small intermixture of
some coloring matter, like Ochre, remaining
on the surface of the wood, will partly af-
feet the color, but Is not necessary. Next
to this is one of several preparations of lime
wash. The addition to 1t of small portions
of sulphate of zinc and of common salt rem
ders it more durable. Or, fresh water-lime
powder made into wash. with as much
fine, clear sand as the brush will hold
in applying. makes "a pretty good wash.
All will need renewing every few years;
the petroleum once in eight or ten.years."
A man who has practiced medicine for 40
years ought to know salt from sugar; read
what he says:
TOLEDO, o., Jan. 10, 1887.