The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1897-02-26
Pioneer Meeting.

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church, Corunna, Monday morning at IL
o'clock After electing officers for the
ensuing year and transacting business OF
minor Importance, the meeting adjourn
ed until 2 o'clock. The following officers
were elected:
President, j. E. Sloan, Corunna; 1st
vice president, III. Howe, Owosso; I'd
vice president, A. III. Owen, Venice, Sec
re'ary, Mrs A. II Parkill, Owosso; treas
urer, Mrs III. M. Howe, Owosso.
The afternoon session opened with the
singing of "Auld Lang Syne" Minutes
IF morning session read song was
then rendered by quartette consisting
If Nesdames Kellogg and Mcbride, and
Messrs. lutterbuck and Colby; Mrs. Jar
Wis, organist
Mrs. Curtiss, of OSosso, gave reading,
''To shred of linen" Another song by
quart tie, "Give me.my own native isle ;
THE president then introduced Mr.. Ka-
mouse, of Livingston county, who gave
"reminiscences of pioneer days connected
with rhe same. Mr.. Kanouse said he
only came to see and'he zen, but gave a
sh ,rt talk which included an exciting
wolf STORY
Rev. Riley c. Crawford, Of Grand Rap
ids, gave talk. He was pioneer circuit
preacher in this county. He came into
the county i'm 1896, settled near Byron.
His sister Adelaide was the first white
child born in the county. He paid
tribute to the meWories of Deacons Com
sock, Barnes and Rutan, OF Ow $50. Mr..
Crawford spoke of the beginnings of the
village of Byron. A plat of the proposed
village was made OH paper, and with that
representation its promoters secured cred
it for stock of goods and established
store ia the to be village.
Mr.. Kanouse said there was about
cart load of the stock. He went there to
buy pound of tea, couldn't get trusted,
so went home and drank crust coffee.
A. Chapman asked Mr.. Crawford
about his soldier experience, which re-
vealed the fact that they were both in
the toledo war, and brought out some
laughable incidents of their soldier expe-
rience. Mr.. Chapman spoke of early
times and told of some of his experiences
as justice of the peace.
Jas. N. Mcbride gave an impromptu
talk on his pioneer days in this county;
then spoke ofthe present troublous times,
said the present generation had as hard a
problem before them as the earlier ones
had. They had cleared the lands, devel-
oped the farms, and now the question
was, "What to do with them?" Advised
the taking up the beet sugar industry.
Mesdames Kellogg and Mcbride sang
'The Old Red Cradle"
Mr.. Young, of Owosso, said he came
into this county in 1855 and came afoot;
spoke of his pioneer life and drew some
comparisons of past and present
Mr.. Barber, president of the Livingston
County Pioneer Association, responded
to a call for a speech. Told OF pioneer
frolics, husking bees, etc., and furnished
a paper giving history of the Toledo
war, which was not really war but a
make-believe. He gave impressions that
prevailed abroad as to the worthlessness
of Michigan as an agricultural state He
said in the early days there were no gold
bugs or silver bugs but all were neighbors.
Mr.. Brown said he had lived in this
county sixty years; told of the efforts
made in early days to navigate the Shia-
wassee river, the attempt to build aplank
road from Corunna to Chesaning gave
his experience as stakeholder in the d. &
M. railroad.
Exercises closed with the quartette
singing "Going Back to Dixie"
Almost every man in America has some
digestive trouble. When men meet, the
greeting usually is, "Well, how are yOu?"
That develops health talk. The man who
as no bowel or stomach trouble is almost a
curiosity. Trouble is men take no care of |
themselves. They eat as though they had !
copper stomachs and bowels of brass. By
and by, overworked nature rebels. Then |
come headaches, nervousness, bad blood. |
liver and kidney troubles DR.. Pierce's !
Pleasant Pellets furnish help for cOnstips- |
ton and tOpid liver, sick and bilious Read |
ache, dizziness, sour stomch, loss ri appe-
lite, indigestion, or dyspepsia, windy belch- |
iDgs, ''heartburn," pain and distress after |
eating, and kindred arrangements of the |
liver, stomach and bowels. Accept no
substitute.
Monice-Fields.
One of the most brilliant social events
of the season occurred Monday afternoon
at o'clock, at the home of F. G. Nor
rice, northwest of this place, when his
Miss Amy, was united in mar.
riage to Mr.. Geo. S. Field, a rising young
lawyer of Detroit. At the appointed
hour the bridal party marched into the
parlors, which were decorated with cream
bunting and cut flowers and smilax, to
the strains of the wedding march, played
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