The times., 1892-02-26
LOCAL NEws
Major Dane, March 4th.

Major Dane, March 4th.
DIR. Austin has moved his Office to his res
idence, 312 Park street.
j. w. Earle will open for business In his
new quarters Saturday morning.
Corunna had fire, Tuesday. Kennedy's
bakery and restaurant was destroyed.
Mrs. Geo. w. Fuller, of this city, died at
Westmoreland, N. Y, on Tuesday of last
week.
The light infantry has rented the second
story of the Odd Fellow building for an
armory.
Mrs. NJ. A. Pound will soon open millin-
cry parlors in the second story of the Amos
building.
The Swedish Ladies quartstte will ap-
pear as an extra in the YMCA. lecture
course April l3.
Ladies Episcopal church social at E. A.
Todds, Tuesday evening March 1st, to 8.
Everybody invited.
Ovid Republicans have organized a club
with Chas. Farmer as president, G. A.
johnson, secretary.
st. Mary's Guild, Episcopal, will meet at
the residence of Mrs. Il. j. Horsman, We'd
nesday evening. March 2.
Prof. j. w. Simmons will lead the mems
meeting at YMCA. hall next Sunday at 4:30
p. m. Subject, Reflected Light"
Better sermons than those delivered by
Rev. j. r. Reitzel last Sunday are rarely
ever heard by an OwOssO audience.
Rev. r. Cook, of Duplain, formerly of
Washington, will preach at the Disciple
church February %, morning and evening.
All are invited.
Warren Woodward has blank applications
for space for exhibits at the Columbian Ex-
position. The same can be obtained by
calling on him.
The Young Peoples Union of the Baptist
church give library social at their chapel
on Wednesday evening, March Q. All are
invited. Admission 10 cents.
Chas. Holman, of COrunna, read paper
before the state meeting of the County Su-
perintendents last week. The care of feeble
minded persons was the subject.
At the request of quite number of citi-
zens, Rev. j. r. Reitzel has consented to
speak again ON the saloon question next
Sunday evening, in measure repeating his
address of a few weeks ago.
The state bank at Perry opened for busi-
ness Saturday, with Stanley Olcott as
cashier. The stockholders are among the
best men i'm the county and the institution
should do fourshing business.
The social held at M. l.. Parker's last
week was grand success. Receipt $31. ID.
The music rendered by the either quartette,
Messrs. Jackson, Sargent, Robbins and
Harris, was pronounced by all rare treat
and the boys worthy of patronage.
Geo. l.. VanDyne, of Middlebury, is Re-
publican of the stalwart stamp. He met a
democrat i'm SciOta who has large flock OF
Springer free wool bill. The answer was
that the democrat thought more of his sheep
than he did of his party.
Shaftsburg has been divided upon the
the subject of social amusement for some
time. Last week they got together and
after lengthy argument decided that dane.
ing was more proper than the sO-calleG
parties. ''On with the dance, let JOY be un
confined" says Shaftsburg.
The young mems league of the Union
church is one of the best institutions of Oul
city. They have arranged to favor theil
friends with rare treat next week. Or
Tuesday evering Hon. Jerome w. Turner
will deliver a lecture at the chapel on the
subject Brotherhood i'm Nature"
Mrs. VIM. Wartenburg, who came tt
Owosso from Meseberg, Prussia, in 1865
died at the home of her son, Otto f. Helm
February 10. Funeral services were helt
at the German Evangelical church February
%. The family wish to express their thank:
to the friends for kind help during their late
affiicti0n.
j. j. Davis very properly calls attention
to some incorrect uses of the propositions
Many persons use the word ''at'' in connec
ton with such a sentence as, "He visited at
Chicago" The word at lacks the complete
ness of in and preferable expression would
be, "He visited in Chicago" "Onto" is the
union of two words and is as harsh as it II
incorrect.
M. s. Smith, who liyes two miles south Of
Durand, has two carp ponds. The pond:
were excavated in the muck and cost sever
or eight hundred dollars. The water is sup
piled from springs and yellow German carr
are numerous, i'm fact, Mr.. Smith thinks
there are too many for securing rapiC
growth. When every farmer can have hi:
own fish pond it will be added wealth to the
farm.
at would pay the business men of Owos
so to raise by subscription at least 81, 900 tt
improve the road leading from the city line
east to the coal bed" said one of the leading
citizens of the east side Of the county to THT
TIMES on Tuesday. "Such move would
bring to OwossO many of the residents Of
OwOsso who reside i'm Venice and HazletOn
Their produce would be brought here fol
sale and as a result many dollars i'm trade
would annually result. l know how the
residents of those townships feel; persona
interview with many of them convnces me
| that most of them want to make Owosst
their place of business, but poor roads com
pei them to go elsewhere. If the matter is
undertaken at all It must be well done; to dt
It in half way manner will not help. Many
of the farmers would be willing to turn ou
and put in several days work to help" Thi'
is only an expression of the sentiment prev
alent i'm the northeast portion of the county
Will Owosso undertake the work?
w. r. Burt says, relative to the Deawar,
& Lackawanna's new route. via the AM
Arbor road and the boat line between Ke
waunee and Frankfort, that an importan
departure i'm the fresh water marine will b,