The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-08-24
Cut the weeds about your premises.

An original pension has been granted to
Cornelius BOerem of this city.
The tailors and bartenders played ball on
the fair grounds Monday, the latter winning
10 to Is.
The Lansing races have been well at
tended by Owosso people this week. The
races were all fast and exciting.
The Alpena papers speak very highly of
Supt. Simmons lecture at the educational
rally in that city on Monday evening.
Mr.. P. P. Bilhorn, the great singing
evangelist, will sing several solos at the Y.
M. @. A. meeting Sunday afternoon.
Laingsburg players are highly elated oyer
the fact that they were able to defeat the
Gorunna club by score Of SO to 81.
Members of Owosso lodge A. o. U. W.
are requested to be present at special meet
ing this evening. Business of Importance.
Mrs. Ferry's Sunday school class gave
very pleasant literary entertainment In the
N. K. church parlors, Wednesday evening"
The funeral of the infant child of Mr..
and Mrs. Thos. Bevens was held at Asbury
church Monday afternoon, Rev. Hill oflici-
ating.
The brick work on the new gas receiver
will be entirely finished by tomorrow night.
Two carloads of iron are already on the
grounds and third has been shipped.
Mrs. Jos. Freeman, of Rush, has our
thanks for basket Of fine grapes, the first
brought in this season. Mr.. Freeman has
a vineyard of five acres, two years old,
which will yield large crop this season,
The death of Miss Bertha Heron, young
est daughter of A. FL. Heron, occurred at
the family residence, 522 River street, Sun
house Tuesday morning. Miss Heron had
but recently come to the city from Oakland
county, where she had lived with a sister.
BY actual count $3.50 persons marched in
the Sunday school rally day parade at
Howell on Wednesday. The number in
attendance at the exercises is estimated at
10000 to $4,000. Oakland county people
claim from $4,000 to 10000 attendance on
the same day.
A pile of rubbish near the gas receiver
was set on fire Monday. The grass was dry
and the ground soaked with refuse from the
gas works and the combination made hot
fire, which was kept from the gas receiver
only by hard fighting on the part of men at
work for the company.
l.. o. T. M. social this friday evening
at the residence of Mrs. Charles Paris, sos
N. Shiawassee street, for the benefit of the
K. O. r. M. Band. Ice cream and cake
furnished by the ladies and music by the
band. An invitation is extended to all
friends of the order and lovers of good
music.
Sunday morning at the Congregational
church the pastor will preach on the theme,
1.-THE Christian person, the sensible person"
In the evening the subject for discussion
will be 1.-THE Christian church and fraternal
organizations, symposium. John Brooks,
Il. Wykes and the pastor will lead the dis
eussion. Persons interested in fraternal
organizations are specially invited to be
present.
The reunion of Company d, LIST Michigan
Cavalry, held Tuesday at Ovid, was the
largest held in years, thirty-three members
being present, including one from Omaha
Neb. Five members, j. w. Smith, John
Faxon, Jacob Kohler, j. B. Hathaway and
John Brooks were in attendance from
Owosso. It was thirty-three years ago
Monday that the company left Ovid for the
front.
List of advertised letters at Owosso post
Office for week ending August 10: Bert
Crandell, Sarah Morgan, Nina A, Dr.
L. Ringle. Henry Navarro, Harry Haight'
James Dasey, Henry Hicks. Frank Silver,
Maude Teal, Myrtle Vaughn, II. T. WHITE
Mrs. X. L. Wood, A. M. Young, Emmer-
son Degroat, Mrs. Viola Hamilton Smith,
George Brown, Will Lindsay, Mrs. Nettie
Mitchell, Rhoda Annibal. Drops.-Lena
Hanes. Mrs. Angelina Cobb.
Secretary Campbell returned Monday
from the encampment OF the Nationai
Guard at Island Lake, where he had spent
a week assisting State Secretary Clarke I'D
managing the Y. M. G. A. tent, which, wss
pitched on the camp ground. The tent
which was we'll supplied with literature
writing material, games, musical instru-
ments. etc. was much appreciated by the
soldiers, as is evidenced by the fact that the
daily attendance ran up well into the humid
reds, and from 1900 to 1880 letters were
written on stationery furnished by the Z.
M. C. A. The Y. M. G. A. tent Is re
garded as one of the best features Of the
camp life.