The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-02-16
LOCAL. NEWS.

Castree g. Shaw are making the sewer
castings for the city.
II. AFFORD has reprinted the interior of
his store this week.
J. A. Chaplin will move to his farm in
Bennington next month.
George Dennis had hand cut while at
work in the handle factory Tuesday.
K. F. Dudley has secured large dynamo
for his use in the creamery and cold storage
building.
d. r. Salisbury is re-arranging his front
windows SO as to have greater space for
displaying goods.
Pontiac will soon have local telephone
exchange. Subscribers will buy telephones
at cost Of about s12 each.
The old livery barn on Exchange street
is at last being torn down and cleared up, a
job which should have been done months
ago.
l.. f. Woodland will soon put in dynamos
at the furniture factory and at the casket
works and hereafter will furnish his own
electric light.
Fenton Independent: The Detroit, Grand
Haven & Milwaukee railroad was started
in 1852 on $1,000 capital. 1t is now worth a
little more.
John Vinkle was tipped out of his cutter,
Wednesday, at the corner of Washington
and Main streets The horse then ran
away causing considerable excitement for
the crowd and damaging the cutter.
A dangerous operation was performed
yesterday upon j. s. Haggart of the West
Side by DR.. Donald Mclean, of Detroit.
assisted by Owosso physicians, from which
ne rallied we'll and has now good chance
for recovery.
The funeral OF Mrs. Sarah Drown 0c-
Cured at the house on north Washington
street Monday, Rev. Bancroft, officiating.
She was the wife of Clark Drown and was
sixty-three years of age. She died Satur-
day of consumption.
A letter was received yesterday from Adj.
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Klnley expressing regret at his inability TO
be present at the G. A. X. Encampment
next month. Mr.. Phelps says however
we will have good list anyway"
NJ. Wood & Co. have paid out about
$4,000 for hickory bolts and $1,000 for ash
this season. Much more hickory has been
cut and drawn in this winter than usual,
and the firm has been able to get within a
few carloads, all they could use at home.
Caro- Advertiser: Contractor Beswick and
his men returned to Owosso last Saturday
having practically completed the carpenter
work upon the church. There are few
more days work left but this cannot be
done until after the arrival Of the big win
dows which are expected this week.
A pile driver backing down the T., &. A.
track Tuesday afternoon broke the telephone
wires to the Standard Oil Works and M. L..
Parkcr's and fire alarm wire. This caused
an alarm of FIRE to be turned in and brought
out the company. an expense caused by the
neglect of the men attending the pile driver
which should have been lowered.
Rev. s. A. Dean delivered his lecture
men Wanted" at Asbury church Wed
nesday evening to an appreciative audience.
The lecture was on the line OF education
and moral worth, yet 1t was so interpreted
with wit and humor that he kept his hearers
in a constant roar of laughter. Mr.. Dean
said what the world wanted was honest peo-
pie Of both sexes, men and women that wert
hustlers In all the honest vacations OF life
He admonished the young men to learn
some one thing and to be proficient In that
referring to Edison, the electrician, and
Stanley. the explorer, who were born poor
but were now such men as the world want
Cd. Il would be impossible to recount ell
the good things Of the lecture; every man In
the city should have heard him. The lee
ture committee will try to secure return
engagement.