The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1898-11-04
OWOSSO FRIDAY. NOV. A, 1898.
LOCAL NEWS.

Will Lucas spent Sunday in Lansing.
l.. j. Kenney is home from Lansing to
remain until after election
Clayton W. Loring is home from Lam
sing to remain until after election.
Charles Rhodes and wife, of Munising,
are In the city for an extended visit.
The paving is completed on Washington
street north of Exchange and on east Elk.
change street.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. N. Mcbride returned
tuesday from Colorado. MIR. Mcbride will
go back in about week.
Miss W. Swartz, of Chicago, has been en-
gagged as teacher Of music in the Owosso
schools. She began her work Tuesday.
81 Miss Nellie Cole has returned to her
home in Parshallville, after visit with
her.! sister, Mrs. M. G. Andrews, in this
city.
The excavation for w. E. Payne's new
implement store has been completed and
the walls are laid nearly to the height of
the first floor.
The rain of last Sunday prevented an
other day of Sunday work on Owosso
streets, except when the steam roller was
in use on south Washington street.
Fred Kamm has returned to Owosso
from New Buffalo, where he has been re-
gaining health and strength be is now
looking even in better health than vixen he
entered the Cuban campaign.
j. III. BRANDED has purchased the old
green house property south of the d. q NJ
track, on south Washington street, of j. B..
Woodin and is tearing down the buildings
preparatory to putting up boiler shop
The next university extension lecture
will be given next Tuesday evening, Nov.
s, instead of next Friday evening, the
opening night of the Y. M. G.. A. course.
The subject of the university extension lee.
ture will be, Revolutionary Waves from
1920 to ls4S and the Making of Italy,"
Mrs. Elizabeth Gregory died Friday at
the home of her daughter Mrs. B. Hazen.
402 Williams street. The funeral was held
Monday. The deceased was ninety one
years of age and had resided in Owosso
about thirty years. She was sick but a
very short time. Mrs A. Wicking and
Mrs. b. E azcn, of this city and Mrs. Harry
Jackson. of Corunna. are daughters living
in this vicinity who survive Mrs. Gregory.
The old Washington street bridge stands
on the new abutments near the water
works just as the mover left it. The
bridge will be frightened up and re. painted
before 1t Is replanked. Even then large
amount of earth will have to be hauled in
" make the bridge accessible at the north
end.
Attention Is called to the announcement
of the State Sunday School convention In
another column. Especial attention should
be paid to the paragraph concerning rail.
way rates and the one regarding entertain
ment. The names of those who desire the
latter must be sent In as there directed by
next Tuesday.
The question of putting hitching posts on
the principal streets Is at last settled. Ar
ordinance was passed at the meeting of the
common council Monday night providing
for the placing of uniform bitching posts
on the paved streets of the city. but leaving
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whether he has them in front of his place
or not.
Work was begun on the experimental
mail routes west and south of the city
Tuesday, when John Sprague, who wa.
selected as carrier, made his first trip de-
livering malls. Mail carrier No. 6 begar
delivering mail on his outlying distric,
Tuesday. The addition of the two new
desks in the postoffice nearly fills all the
available space In the office.
A good many Owosso people just nov
are wondering why they did not read coun
ell proceedings and board of public works
reports more closely some time ago. Til:
is especially true of the owners of south
Washington street property who now see
that the value of their property Is bound tc
have much smaller increase In value than
other property in the paving district, owine
to the narrowing of the paved portion of the
street to width of but forty feet includ-
ing the street car tracks. Other people,
too, are objectlng because they see now the
greater danger from having the approach ia
the bridge so narrowed. Still others, OF
perhaps all of these and others, are object
ing to the stingy appearance the street will
possess after being narrowed up twice in
the course of two blocks. The board OF
public works has been receiving numerous
blessings for the condition Of affairs but re.
fuses to take any measures to change the
matter. saying that the people alone are Il
blame for not knowing.