The times., 1894-01-26
TIE Times.
Owosso, MICH, JANUARY 80, 1894.
Entered at the pOstOffice in Owosso for
transmission as second-class matter
LOCAL NEWS.

The Vernon Argus is advertised for sale
The state of Michigan is fifty-seven year
old today.
Burns people have contributed 5000 fol
the U. p. sufferers.
The Congregational church society ha!
been re-incorporated.
Vernen Congregationalists realized S16e
at their annual donation.
The Estey factories commenced working
nine hours day this week.
Born, to Mr.. add Mrs. f. }. Lyon, of De-
4 troit, on Monday, a daughter.
Mrs. Geo. r. Campbell entertained the
Thimble Club yesterday afternoon.
The A. o. ii. will give ball at the
armory, Monday evening. February 5th.
A plate glass front is being put in the
Hutchins building on Washington street.
The honorary membership of the Light
Infantry is steadily increasing and now
numbers seventy-nine.
The Estey Carriage Co. reports business
improving. They shipped carload of car
riages to Grand Rapids, Saturday.
The singing evangelist, K. +. Miller, of
Chicago will begin work at the First M. K.
church next Sabbath. All invited.
The work on the sewers was interrupted
Wednesday forenoon by the storm but
number of men were kept busy in the after
noon.
The frame and rafters are up for Weld
man & Lingle's hay store house and the
work is going on well for this season of the
year.
The question of the tax rate in Owosso this
. year as compared with years gone by, lead
w. j. Lyon to make search through his
old receipts. In 1869 on a valuation of
so75 Mr.. Lyon paid $1.6s state tax, S5.S5
county, $s22o city. $39.2O school, total Of
s71.4s. or trifle over 1o1S per cent.
Ten persons were baptized at the Baptist
church Sunday evening as a partial result
Of the special meetings which have been
carried on there. On Wednesday evening.
Rev. w. l.. Farnum. of Flint, preached at
the church and Rev. Matteson will preach
tonight DR.. Dewitt will again assist at the
meetings during the coming week.
James West and Alfred Ciscoe were ar
rested and tried before Justice Byerly on
Tuesday charged with stealing potatoes
from John Babcock, Of Middlebury. Ciscoe
was discharged while West was sent to the
county jail for thirty days in default of a
twenty-five dollar fne.s
can be are being put in running order to
carry ice from the northern part of the state.
Thcre has been no ice Of any consequence
cut in the south part of the state and 1t is
expected that IL the present cold weather
lasts a few days longer, large amount of
ice will be cut and shipped south.
The public is invited to attend musical
to be given under the auspices of the ladies'
guild of Christ church at the home Of g. w.
Sackrider, Oliver St., on Monday evening
next Prof. Horst, violinist. and Prof.
Blakely. pianist, assisted by local talent will
make the evening delightful one.
The following from the Evening News Of
Saturday relates to a former resident of this
county: John b. Sedore, farmer shot
himself yesterday some distance from his
house, the body being found four hours
after by the hired man. The shooting Is
supposed to haye been accidental, though |
the coroner's jury has not yet rendered
verdict. Sedore was heavily in debt, and
~ times melancholy, and this fact caused
his death, at FIRST accounts, to be attributed
y suicide. 1t is thought he fell while
climbing fence. dIscharging his rife.