The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1892-04-15
LOCAL NEWS
CIRCULATION THIS WEEK, 2,496.
This is Good Friday.

The street sprinkler has made its ap
pearance.
Easter will be appropriately observed al
the several churches Sunday.
F. FL. Banister's delivery horse INDUCED
in lively runaway, Wednesday.
Services will hereafter be held in the
Union chapel at 1880 Sunday evening.
The M. E. organ is to be opened April
27th by Frederick Archer, the noted organist.
Eleven persons were received into men,
bership at the Congregational church last
Sunday.
Born, to Prof. and Mrs. E. A. Blach, a
son, Wednesday morning. COngratu-
latiOns.
If Shiawassee county is to have an exhibit
at the Worlds Fair it is high time space was
spoken for.
DR.. A. V. Leonardson, homeopathic
physician, has opened an Office over
Sprague's drug store.
The fire department was called out Mon
day forenoon by an alarm at the residence
of M. A. Sprague. But little damage.
Oyer seventy-five applications for adms-
sion to the city schools have been refused
this term, owing to lack of seating capacity.
Hear Rev. Westlake's illustrated lecture
on Alaska at the Congregational church this
evening. Admission csc, 15c for children.
Numerous shade trees are being planted
i'm the city this spring and Owosso enjoys a
proud distinction of being a well shaded
town.
Rev. E. B. Bancroft will speak on the
subject, another Phase of the Temperance
Question:" at the M. E. church next Sabbath
evening.
Uncle Sam has furnished fine new safe
for Postmaster McBain's use. The post
Office inspector recommended new one
last July.
A. ii. Watson. of Unadilla, brother of
w. E. Watson, of Bancroft, died on the cars
at Somerset, KY, April 18th, while coming
home from Florida.
The X. p. band is endeavoring to clear
sufficient money at the ''Calco ball" Mon
day evening the 18th to pay the balance due
OH its uniform fund.
The report of the city treasurer will show
a balance on hand of SO, 400 The floating
debt of the city amounts to 80, 600, which is
So, 900 less than year ago.
The w. r. G. will have ten cent supper
in their hall Saturday afternoon from five
to eight o'clock. Warm sugar at ten cents a
for sale.
The State Republican, published daily by
ID. ID. Toorp, at Lansing, came out Satur-
day in a new ''spring DRESS" presenting an
elegant appearance. The Republican Is a
wide-awake sheet.
The Arbeiter society has made a bargain
with Mrs. Cute for the purchase of the
property known as Gute's Hill, consdera-
ton being SIS. 900. The society intends to
spend about 50, 900 improving the premises
A special session of the board of super
visors has been called for next Tuesday to
discuss the new tax law. The board can do
no better than to re-elect w. e. Jacobs as
chairman. AS a democrat remarked, ''the
republicans ought to do as well by Mr..
Jacobs as the democrats did"
Prepare for the rare musical treat of
Owosso, namely, the opening of the new
pipe organ of the M. E. church. 1t will oc-
cur on Wednesday evening, April 27th.
of the foremost organists of the country has
been secured to play the organ.
Married, by Rev. s. Roosevelt, Sunday,
April 10th. Volney M. Moreau, editor of the
r porter, and Miss Josephine Gilbert. Mr..
and Mrs. Moreau left for Chicago, Monday,
remaining until Wednesday, when Mrs.
Moreau left for California to be gone several
months. THE TIMES extends congratula-
tons and best wishes.
The Maple River Farmers Club petition
Congressman Youmans for free rural mail
delivery. Mr.. YOumans courteOusly replied
that he had received many requests for one
cent postage but that was the first request
for rural mail delivery. Mr.. Youmans
further wrote that he was anxious to know
the desires and receive suggestions from his
constituents.
In connection with the dedication of
the Congregational church building
i'm Owosso, program is being out
lined that will be an original and desirable
innovation in the way OF church dedication.
The building will be dedicated to every
good and proper purpose that can instruct
and elevate and in proper sense he the
meeting house of Puritan times. One por-
ton of the dedicatory exercises will probab-
lv be an address on the relation OF the
church to the industrial condition of the
present time IL Is hoped that the Rev.
Washington GLADDEN., of Columbus, Ohio,
can be secured for this address. Invita-
tjops would be issued to all industrial
organizations i'm the city for this address,
with the hope that these bodies would be
,,-osopt In their organized capacities.