The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1892-12-16
LOCAL NEWS
CIRCULATION THIS WEEK, 2,496.

The apple dryer building is being painted.
b. j. Rogers has opened a restaurant at
sos West Main street.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. j. j. Davis, a
daughter on Sunday.
Do not overlook the local news on our ex-
ira four pages this week.
The liquor dealers of the county paid
$19, 073. 90 tax this year.
The Gas Co. has piped the Estey Car
riage Co.'S building for gas.
Vernon Congregationalists gathered in
500 at their donation last week.
The ladies of the Congregational church
netted $110 from their recent bazaar.
Registered letters can be sent through the
mail after January LIST for eight cents.
F.. H. Banister has purchased of Harris
horn, Son q Grove new delivery wagon.
The quail season ended yesterday. Be
careful not to shoot any more of these birds.
DIR. Phppen has had his new office in the
Thomas block wired for electric lights this
week.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. j. j. Schlckem-
mayer, an eleven and half pound son on
Monday.
| w. K. Mckenzie has put Cheerful
Home" furnace into his house on Hickory
street this week.
The annual meeting of the Congrega-
tional society will be held next Tuesday
evening i'm the church.
The slate for the armory roof was unload
ed Tuesday. 1t came from Pennsylvania,
by way of the ID. & M.
j. w. Hubbard finds ready sale for the
large quantities Of celery which he brings
to OwOsso several times each week.
Hall Bros. call attention to their line of
goods in this issue. This firm is one of the
live ones i'm OwOssO, doing fine business.
Owosso lodge l. o. o. F. has issued five
hundred invitations to a New Years ball, to
be held in their hall Monday evening, jan
nary 1913.
OwossO business men should patrOnize
Owosso newspapers for their Job printing.
Just bear this i'm mind when the next out
side solicitor asks for your work.
The Electric Light Co., is busy this week
wiring the Bentley factory, for about one
hundred and eighty lights. The work will
probably not be completed for a week or
two.
There are go men employed laying pipe
for the water works system of OwossO. 1t is
to be completed in six Notwithstanding
Argus. The above is news to us. Wonder
where the extension is being laid.
The sentiment Of the city seems to be de-
cidedy against any change in the boundary
lines of the wards. 1t seems to most people
that the providing of an additional voting
precinct In each ward would be all that Is
necessary. A general discussion of this
question Is invited.
School Moderator; OwOssO board of edu-
cation give distinctive names to the various
schools of the city, and like good sensible
fellows they name the schools after great
men of our country, Washington. Emerson,
Bryant. This is thousand times better
than naming the schools from the street that
is hOnored by the location of the school.
Some OF the tax payers on east Main street
are Directing vigorously tn the assessing
of Sl5s grading tax when the ordinance of
the council only called for 500, also on the
ground that the street had previously been
graded and hence no further tax of the kind
could be levied. Are not both sufficient
reasons Tor refusing to pay the tax assessed?
The report of the Owosso Savings Bank
published in this issue shows an exceeding
, ly prosperous condition. The total loans,
discounts, mortgages, ETC., amount to $780,
225. 90; due from other banks, S12.694, O6;
cash on hand. $40, 956.27; the surplus fund
amounts to 81, 100000: undivided profits,
S4,695,01; individual deposits, $40, 512. 10;
certificates of deposit, S112, ,55; savings
, deposits, $61, 5S9.16.
The bachelor editor of the Alpena Journal
does not like the way certain things are run
ming In this world. Hear him: ''The ladies'
God bess'em-have been wearing our
suspenders this summer and now they have
taken our hats and are wearing them. Now
this thing has got to be stopped before IL
goes any further The next thing will be,
, they will be wearing our, well 1t has got
to be stopped-thats all, or else we'll have
to take to the woods or wear -four barrel"