The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1898-11-18

FEE Mosely has sold his Main street
meat market to s. Scofeld.
The west side Foresters will give dan
cling party tonight at their hall.
The walls of the brewery viii sooD be
completed, giving the place much neatel
and more business like appearance than the
old wooden buildings ever possessed.
The brick walls of the new building be.
longing to W. K. Payne are beginning Il
rise and already show people that that cor
ner will look better than before the big fire.
At the Y. M. G. A. election for the mem
bers of the board of directors held Tuesday
night, Messrs CD. Stewart, @. S.Williams,
| A. T. Thomas and b. s. Sutherland were
elected for the ensuing three years.
The Michigan Central freight house IL
now connected with telephone No. 8 Of the
of the Owosso Telephone Oompany's switch.
board. The telephone was connected ur
| Tuesday morning and has been kept busy
since.
Hamblin Il Crawford sold the Peter Foess
| farm, two miles south of the Maple River
church, Tuesday to Matthew Cross, of Rich.
mond, Virginia, for $1,000. The farm
aroused the interest of a number Of pro
spective buyers.
The anti-saloon movement will be furthe,
advanced in this city next Tuesday night
when Prot. Wright, who spoke here few
Sundays ago, will give his stereOptlcon IL
Illustrated lecture entitled "Inside the saloon
and out" The lecture will 'be given in the
Baptist church.
The county ministers association met In
the Y. M. G. A. rooms Monday MORNING
and transacted some business besides elect
ing the following officers: President, John
Sweet; Vice Pres, G. V. NorthrOp; Score.
tary, T. M. Mott, of Corunna; Program
Committee, c. V. Northrop, G. e, Hill and
| Mr.. Vogel.
The Y. M. G. A. gymnasium will be open
ed again tonight The plan of work this
year will be somewhat different from that
of last year. Howard l. Crawford, chair
man of the gymnasium committee, will
have leaders class once week and the
work for the remaining evenings will be
divided among the most proficient of these.
Something of the condition of the Owosso
streets at present may be inferred from the
fact that two ladies who walked to the ID &
M. station Tuesday evening to take the west
bound train, found when they reached
the station that their personal appearance
had been so changed by the. mud through
which they had passed that they gave up
their intended visit in disgust and went
home again.
The Women's Literary Club held meet
ing Saturday afternoon In one of the rooms
of the Ladies' Library Association, where
they listened to papers by the Misses Hodge
and Naracon on 10th century German art,
as shown i'm the paintings and eDgravipgs of
that period. This weeks meeting will be
held in the parlors of the Armory where the
Dutch and Flemish art of the succeeding
century will be considered.
The prohibitonists of Shiawassee county
are urgently requested to assemble at
Brewers hail. Owosso, Wednesday, Nov.
20, at 10 o'clock a. m. The meeting Is
called by the president and secretary of the
county prohibition organization for a con
ference of prohibition workers. Business
of importance will be considered, and there
ought to be the largest possible attendance
of the county's temperance people. There
will probably be an afternoon meeting, also,
to get through properly with the conference
work.
A city league of indoor base ball teams
has been formed with Fred Edwards presi.
dent of the league The first meeting was
held Tuesday night when it was decided tC
limit the membership to four teams. The
Owosso Light Infantry, the Independents,
and the Casket Factory teams were at once
passed on favorably. 1t was then decided
to make the Estey Factory team and the
OwOssO Carriage Works team play Thurs
day night for admission. The latter team
won the game list night and consequently
is admitted to membership In the league.
A letter from II. B. Dewey at Tacoma
states that he was elected on the 9Th to the
Office of county superintendent of schools
an Office with salary and perquisites Of $1,000
per year In spite of the fact that Pierce
county went democratic by as high as 500
majority on some officers, as well as the fac
that the fusion candidate for re election was
very popular man, Mr.. Dewey was elect
ed by majority of 472. His nomination
was almost unanimous in convention Of
six hundred delegates. Owosso and Shia
wassee county friends extend their hearties
congratulations.
President Ralph believes in the advantag
es of reciprocity, and will give a rractica
demonstration of its advantages to OwOsst
citizens. He has made arrangements will
the GrotoD Bridge people to allow the new
bridge to be transferred from the Michigan
Central yards to the site on Main street owe