The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1901-04-12
a ROLL OF HONOR.

AROlL OF HONOR.
Twenty Owosso Citizens Ready to Put
up $500 Each for New Industries in
Owosso.
IL hereby agree to pay $500, when
called upon to do so, to create fund 10
establish or locate an industry In
Owosso. provided said industry is
established or located during the year
1901. The fund to be created shall be
at least $4,000, to be contributed by
not to exceed twenty persons; said fund
to be used only for the purpose for
which it is created and can be used at
any time and in any manner by two
thirds majority vote of the persons
creating the fund"
Detwiler d Son +. L.. Devereaux
Stanley E. Parkill j. f. Wildermuth
j. c.. Shattuck +. Carr
I. H. Keller Tod Kincaid
Hall Brothers Charles w. Gale
H. c.. Frieseke j. H. Robbins
Charles E. Rlgley A. M. Bentley
w. r, Hookway Lyon & Pond
Arthur M. Hume Hartshorn & Son
NIL. Stewart & Co G. l.. Dimmick
The above agreement with the sigma
lures beneath it tells it's own story. 1t
means that the prospects for Owosso's
advancement and further prosperity
are today better than they have been
before for many months. 1t means
that the men, or most of the men at
least, whose names are signed to the
above agreement will be on the outlook
as they have never been before for
some new institution or institutions
which will be of lasting benefit to the
city, and furthermore that they will
have both the financial and the most
active moral support of each other in
their efforts to locate such a possible
institution.
The knowledge that twenty men or
firms stand ready at moments notice
to place ten thousand dollars at the
disposal of the executive committee, as
the agreement printed above in reality
practically binds them to do, gives the
new association a power which no
previous organization in the city has
ever had at its command. Heretofore
when there has been any effort made to
secure some outside institution there
has been no such concerted effort put
forth as the above association will
guarantee. One or two men, who have
had no more personal interest in the
affair than any other citizens of Owosso,
have had to assume the brunt of the
work. The new association makes
every one of the twenty firms in effect
as much interested as any stockholders
in the establishing of an industry here
and in establishing only such an in
dustry as shall be profitable one for
many years to come and add to the real
wealth of the city and community.
The fact that they stand ready to put
in five hundred, or even a thousand
dollars apiece as the mutual under
standing really is, is sufficient
guarantee of the care they will use in
getting only such an industry as will be
perfectly safe and one which will not
only give employment to Owosso labor
but will make profit for the Owosso
people who may purchase stock in the
enterprise, should the opportunity be
offered for subscribing to the stock of
any new concern which they might be
instrumental in getting here.
At all events the chances for securing
a new industry have taken wonderful
forward stride since the gentlemen
whose names are given above have
taken the matter into their own hands.
What is everybody's business is usually
nobody's business and the above as
ISOLATION makes one of the most inn
portant things in the life of the city the
business of the men in the above
association and in particular the bust
ness of the executive committee of the
association, the Messrs L. I'll. Keller,
Geo. W. Detwiler and S. f. Parkill
THE TIMES wishes the new association
the very best of success 1t is only by
the united action of some few interested
citizens who are able and willing to
spend some time, effort, and money in
securing one or more new enterprises
for the city that Owosso can once more
begin to forge energetically to the front.
And THE TINES not only wishes the
new organization success in its efforts,
but it has enough confidence in the
ability and earnestness of the men
forming it to believe that it will be
successful and that even better days for
the city of Owosso than the be st days of
which it has any recollection may soUn
be in sight
Satisfaction No. for the Owosso
Post Office