The times., 1892-05-13

feltZel 10 tllat Ills mOlncr 10 IailinR very
fast.
The Y. p. u. of the Baptist church give
a reception at the home OF Ii. X. White this
evening.
1t is expected that the stone work on the
the Congregational church will be finished
next week.
The vestry of Christ church has decided
to make extensive improvements on the
church property.
The board of review will be I'm session at
the city hall Saturday, May 21st Attend
and see If your assessment is satisfactory.
Byerly q Loring pensions allowed this
week: Louis Ball, Henderson. Jerome Mark
ham, Bennington, Andrew Mix, Wexford
| Co.
Married. May 18th at the Baptist parson-
age, Mr. Franklin ii. Cramble of OwOsso
and Miss Nellie l.. Hart of Oakley, by Rev.
K. l.. Little.
There will be Union meeting of the
superintendents and teachers of the sew
eral Sabbath schools of the city at the
Baptist church Friday evening May Goth.
Rev. E. b. Bancroft will preach at the
Sabbath. Rev. j. S. Valentine of Lansing
| will preach morning and evening at the
First M. K. church i'm this city.
Owosso has few citizen who are more pub
| lie spirited than Robert Gemmel. who has
recently laid sewer pipe in the open ditch
on Williams street running by his residence
| and covered the same over in order to beau
| tify his premises.
In review of his trip in Michigan, A.
| Mr.. Kellogg writes to the School journal:
''In OwossO / found Mrs. Lucius Gould
| carrying forward very important private
training school,; her influence is felt over
| the entire county of Shiawassee. Every
| citizen. attested to her devotion and ability"
At the annual meeting of the Baptist
society held on Monday evening, the follow
ing officers were elected. Trustees, VIM.
Mason, HI. X. White; clerk, r. ID. Craw-
ford; collector, j. B. WOodin; treasurer. ii.
X. White; auditors, w. White, e. M. Mil
Ter, G. A. Osburn.
The annual meeting of stockholders of
the Owosso Gas Co. vas held in this city
Thursday. III. S. and S. Dean and w. G.
Stevens, of Ann ArbOr, were in attendance.
The officers elected are: President, c. S.
Williams secretary, S. Dean, directors, w.
g. Stevens, c. S. Williams, S. Dean. ii. S.
Dean, Albert Todd and N. A. Finch.
The Arbeiter Verein' has made contracts
for the expenditure of about S2500 in the
Gute's Hill property, which they recently
purchased. A large dance hall is to be
fitted up. an elegant dining room, toilet
rooms, and the whole to be made fine
place of resort. n. Ball has the contract
for the job.
Geo. o. Crane, ex-county clerk of Genesee
was in the city yesterday billing the town
for the grand republican rally at Ann ArbOr
next Tuesday under the auspices of the re-
publican students in the University. The
speakers on this occasion will he Maj. Nc
Knley, Judge Thurston, Of Nebraska, Hon.
j. Soat Fassett of New York, Hon. John
M. LangstoD, of Virginia, Gen. r. A. Alger
and others. The Il. & A. A. Ry. will run
a special train for the occasion at greatly re-
duced fare.
Ovid Register: There was whole life of
romance connected with the marriage of
Mrs. Phoebe Macomber, of Ovid, and l..
Morse, of Bangor, Mich. which occurred on
Tuesday of this week. The bride in this
instance is so years of age and the groom
SS, and with this wedding the former has
passed through the matrimonial ordeal six
times and the latter four times. They were
engaged 65 years ago, but drifted apart, but
after lapse of all these years the fire of the
first love is rekindled and the two have been
united. the ceremony having been perform
ed by Justice Smith.
The school meeting Tuesday evening to
make arrangements for additional school
facilities adjourned after stormy session
without accomplishing anything. A motion
to build an addition to the Second ward
building, to build new buildings in the east
and west parts of the city were voted down,
as was, also. a proposition to build a Sl6. 900
high school building; the vote on the latter
question being 9S to S5. AS will be seen
by reference to another column, the board
has submitted to the legal voters PROPOSE
ton to build high school building and
to buy site for a ward building on the
COrunna road.
ArbOr & North Michigan R'y last week
closed contract for the purchase of the
Frankfort IL Southwestern railroad extend
ing from COpemish to Frankfort. The line
is about 25 miles in length and completes
the Ann ArbOr line through to Frankfort
The consideration is said to be $3.50. 900.
This purchase will give the Ann ArbOr
through line from Toledo to Frankfort and
the company will take possession in about
ten days and operate their cars in connec-
tion with their boat line between Frankfort
and Kewaunee. where connection will be
made with the Green Bay, WinOna and st.
Paul railway for western and southwestern
points.
This year the Baptists everywhere cele
brate the centenary of missions, begun in
1892 by William Carey, who began life as a
poor shoemaker. became the most distin-
guished orientalst of the age, the pioneer
missionary to India, first translator of the
Bible into nearly forty different languages,
and dialects, a distinguished botanist,
renowned philanthropist, and one of the
brightest stars of the Baptist denomination.
Centenary meetings will be held throughout
the state to aid in raising $1,000,000 as a
centenary fund for foreign missions, and the
erection of Carey Centennial church in
Fowlerville. These meetings will be started
by grand rally of Michigan Baptists at
Fowlerville, OH May II, to be addressed by
many notable speakers.
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