The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1892-07-29
LOCAL NEWS
CIRCULATION THIS WEEK, 2,4s6.

The band concert Friday evening Melted
$50.
j. Shotwell has sold his saloon business
to L. Nelan q Co.
Rev. s. Roosevelt will hold service in the
Episcopal church at Corunna, Sunday morn
ing.
Will the chairmen of the various town.
ship committees please send in caucus calls
at once.
THE TIMES will add to its already COM
plete outfit about 500 worth of new job type
next week.
The four months old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. j. A. Barrie died very suddenly
Sunday morning.
The Tool Co. did by many thousand dol
lars larger business this year than ever
before in its history.
G. A. COnnOr smiles and smiles and
smiles again at the weather we have had
for week past. Its great for ice cream.
Commissioner Sheldon announces teach
ers examination to be held in the high
school building at Corunna, Aug and 5.
K. M. Hopkins says the democrats will
not re-nominate Gov. Winans. In his
opinion attorney general Ellis will be the
nominee.
In answer to several inquiries we will
state that the bill for Owosso's public build
ing has not yet been reported by the COM
mttee to the House.
The democratic county convention to
elect delegates TO the state, congressional
and senatorial conventions will be held in
Owosso, August 18th.
Co. G. made its first appearance Friday
evening i'm the long looked for new uniforms,
presenting fine appearance. But 81 uni
forms were furnished for 70 men,
Dr. Curtis forgot to pay his city license
before he left for Fenton. Marshal Evans
reminded him of it Friday. The DIR. settled
by paying $50 license and $500 costs.
The water board has notified all water
users that the ordinance and rules will be
strictly enforced. Lawns can only be
sprinkled from to Q a. m. and to 8 d. IN.
The examination of Jas. Shotwell, charged
with keeping his saloon open on the 4th of
July, resulted in his being discharged, the
evidence not being strong enough to hold
him.
The Corunna Stars defeated the st. Johns
Pearls i'm well contested game at COrunna,
Tuesday afternoon, by score of to 2. 1t
takes good club to defeat the Stars as
made up that day.
All who wish to furnish teacher with
room and board during the teachers insti-
tute to be held in OwOss0 Aug. S-12 will
please write the local committee, Hudson
Sheldon, at C0runna.
The call has been issued for the republic
can county convention to nominate candi-
dates for county officers to be held at
COrunna, Friday, Aug. ~. The candidates
for the several Offices will be on the still
hunt for the next two weeks.
Drain Commissioner Mason will let the
work on the Parker drain at the farm of r.
Bowles, Aug. Sth. The Maple River drain
will be let at the town house Middlebury
Aug. 10. This drain is one of the longest,
most expensive ever laid out in the county.
The retail clerks union at its last meet
ing elected Fred Carpenter, president; ). b.
Pitts, first vice president; Miss Adah HOl-
man, second vice president; l.. l.. Jones,
secretary; j. j. Carscadden, financial secre-
tary; M. N. Osburn, treasurer; Mrs. Fred
Carpenter, trustee; M. w. Southland, w. K.
Collins, III. w. Parker, grievance commit
tee; III. w. Parker, delegate to the trade
and labor council. The membership of the
union now numbers about S5.
AS the section men on the ID. & M. Ry.
were going east Tuesday morning, near the
city limits they saw man lying about Is
feet from the track on the bank. Stopping
to see If he was alive or dead. they were
startled to find the latter to be true Pat
rick Hughes. section boss, Immediately re-
turned to the station and Coroner Van Du-
sen was informed of the discovery. A jury
consisting of II. b. Gates, G. e. Lovett, II.
G. Gates, G. A. Dibble, Samuel Griffith
and Will Norris was impaneed, and went
to view the remains, after which the body
was brought to the city hall. There were
no marks of violence to be found. The
opinion of the doctors who saw the body
was that death was caused by heart failure.
Papers found in his pockets showed the man
to be Frank ID. Burt, a blacksmith, whose
homeIwas in Pontiac. Burt was man of
dissolute habits aged "a years.