The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1892-07-29
Bancroft.

Hot! hot! hot! is the expression from
everyone nowadays and think no one need
guess again. For slyself it is the hottest
weather of any previous record l have
known. Farmers have nearly finished
their harvesting and the wheat crop bids
fair to be a good one in this section of the
county. Simonson and wife have
returned from their bridal tour of two weeks
around the lakes. Mrs. s. Taskett, of
Antrim, died last Sunday morning. Funeral
at her late residence, Tuesday.
of our townspeope are outing in various
parts of the state and still more are to fol-
low. Prof. q. r. Brandt and wife will leave
Thursday for Petoskey and G. E Godfrey
and wife leave next week for trip to
Denver, Colorado, and many other points
of interest in the west, 10 be gone three or
four weeks. They go in company with the
Flint COmmandery of the Knight Tempars.
will Watson is suffering from severe
attack of I,euralgia. .-'Uncle Josh" was
again repeated at the opera house last Sat
urday evening to a fair audience. Rev.
Barnum, of FOwlervile, occupied the M.
Z. pulpit last Sunday morning and evening.
1t is said that f. w. Chandler, who
went west about three months ago hoping
to get better health by the trip, is about to
return and that he is slowly falling. This
Is sad news, for it was the desire of F's
many friends that he would find perman-
ent cure. y.
Is this hot enough for you? Of course
this expression is original and shodld sue
ceed in getting it copyrighted there are mil
lions i'm it and If it were possible to strike 1t
out of existence it would indeed be seri
Gus obstacle placed i'm the path of introduce
tory conversation. ON Wednesday last
Mrs. Austin and family and Mrs. Wheelock
and family returned home from Long Lake,
and the same evening Nathan Herrick and
family, Prof. Brandt, Ed. Sherman and
several others left for Petoskey and vicinity,
where they will remain during the extreme
hot weather.--Several of the boys, in
Guiding John Olnie and John Devereaux,
are spending a few days at Argentine and
devote a portion of the time at least in de-
ceiving a select few of the innocent finny
tribe into captivity. They left Monday
morning with their implements of warfare
poles and other fishing tackle.--Shall Mr.
Bartlett have the girls Mr.. Staley going
to get the twenty &C; es-hOw old is the
girl-how will this leave Mr.. Newman
did Mr.. Staley's people sanction the friend
ship Of Mr.. Bartlett and the girl until Mr..
Bartlett failed to pay any more on the
place-is 1t true that Mr.. Staiey's people
tried to induce the girl to run away with
Mr.. Bartlett, and thousand and one other
foolish questions which interest no one but
the parties concerned are being rolled and
revolved by the tongue of dame rumor, all
having tendency to increase the scandal
and make the matter all the more cOmpli-
Gated. and i'm the meantime the wheels of
Justice are slowly and steadily but very
surely bringing out new disclosures which
will eventually mete out justice to all parties
concerned, save it be to those idle gossipers
who do so much to make trouble under the
title of ''they say" which means no one and
for whom no one is responsible and whose
identity and existence ought to be squelched.
j. A. Austin spent Sunday with his
family at Long Lake, and III. Z. Shane,
Chas. Simonson, John Watson and Walter
Strong drove over Sunday morning and re-
turned quite late i'm the evening. j.
Gurney was at Shaftsburg Monday after
on.--Art. Patterson, of Owosso, mine