The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1895-08-23
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LOCAL NEwS.
0wOSSO, FRIDAY. AUG. 90. 1895.

hours per day.
Entries for the county fair races are be-
ginning to come in.
Entries in the youths department at the
county fair are free.
The Mason band has been secured for the
labor day celebration.
Clyde Mason spent part of the week
visiting Grand Rapids relatives.
Ninety-One persons attended the teachers
examination at Corunna Friday.
Amos Walworth. of Burns, threshed sos
bushels of oats from four acres of land.
Ii. ii. Stever and Will May will attend
the Mt. Pleasant bicycle races next week.
The semi-annual reunion of the Shiawas-
see Battalion will be held at Bancroft, Oct.
18th.
One hundred and sixty-fOur tickets were
sold for the ID. & M. excursion to Detroit,
Sunday.
Geo. +. Bayley has purchased restau-
rant at Lapeer and gone there to take
charge. -
The ladies of the M. E. church will serve
meals Labor Day in the store building now
occupied by j. j. Davis.
OIfe hundred bushels to the acre is the
way oats yield on the fam of Supervisor
John Morrice, of Perry.
AT a meeting of the fire department We'd
nesday evening it was voted to participate
in the Labor Day parade.
1'ramps entered the dwelling of Arthur
Wright, Tuesday and stole various articles
including some wearing apparel.
Geo. Carpenter has been busy for week
past doing the billing for the county fair.
The paper put up is very attractive.
Geo. T. Mason was in Hamburg, We'd
nesday, to obtain the right of way for a
drain in Hazleton township passing through
a farm owned by parties at that place.
Fl. P. White and A. A. Crawford spent
Monday and Tuesday hunting near Elsie.
They returned with fine bag of fox
squirrels.
The funeral of Mrs. Wildermuth. mother
of j. Fred Wildermuth, was held at the
German Methodist church, Monday after
noon. Her death occurred Saturday night.
Commissioner Dwight is cleaning up the
streets about the city. Property owners
should have sufficient pride to cut the weeds
and grass in the streets about their prem
ises.
A rally of the young people of the several
churches connected with the Shiawassee
Baptist Association will be held at Laings-
burg, August 2Sth. A large attendance is
expected.
Misses Mary Henderson and E. Grace
Dewey entertained large company of
friends at croquet party yesterday at the
home Of the former. A very pleasant time
is reported.
j. S. Mcbride, of Burton. has sold his
herd of II A. j. g. G. Jerseys to parties al
Maukato, MINI. 1t is probably the largest
sale of blooded stock made in Shiawassee
county for several years.
f. NJ. Melyin reports business good. He
has three first class delivery wagons to turn
out in the near future, including one for
Deyereaux 81 LOOMS, one for Bells
bakery and one milk wagon.
Arthur Shippey is now delivery man for
the American Express Co. Erwin Smith
has resigned to accept position with w.
A. Olmstead, of Chicago, and will handle
school supplies for this county.
A letter from Henry b. Dewey states that
he has accepted the prlncipalship of the
Franklin School, Tacoma. at salary of
81, 400 for nine months. He also states that
business is considerably better than year
ago but does not compare with that of '91-
1872.
In the examination of Charles and Lavlna
Nye and Mary and Theodore Rose, which
was concluded Wednesday, Lavina Nye and
Theodore Rose were bound over to the cir
cult court while the others were discharged
This is the case brought by William Jewell
charging the defendants with leaving and
exposing an infant
On Wednesday, Sept IL, the second day
of the county fair at Owosso, every school
child in Shiawassee county under fifteen
years of age will be admitted free upon pre-
sentation of certificate from the teacher OF
the school at which the pupil attends, giving
name and age. Blank forms will be sup
piled to all teachers.