The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1904-04-01

choice would have been hard to make
The candidates for constable complete
as'good city ticket as was ever placed
before Owosso voters. In the first ward
s. A. Crane is again nominated after
having served the city in that capacity
for years. Chas. Owens is again nom.
mated in the second after having given
good satisfaction there during the year
just ended. In the third ward L. H.
Norton makes strong candidate while
Hiram Finley and Charles Wilkes add
strength to the tickets in the fourth and
fifth wards respectively.
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The republican candidate for city
treasurer is a man who has devoted nc
small amount of time and effort to adj
vance the interests of the city of Owosso
During the years since he has been q
resident of this city no appeal to him
has gone unheaded when the matter un,
der consideration had anything to dc
with the furthering of the city's welfare.
He has taken an active interest in en-.
couraging the location of factories in
the city and has been largely instrument
tai in the establishing of another factory
which bids fair to become one of the
largest in the city in time, the Screen
Door & Window Company. Limited.
During the last few years he has seen
his own business increase until it de-
mands more and more effort and con-
centration, but during all of this time
he has taken the most active interest in
the business affairs of this city as we'll
He has served the city and the first ward,
and it should also be said the county as
WELL in the capacity of supervisor where
he has been able to do much for the tax
payers of the city and county For two
years also he was city assessor for
Owosso. In both positions he was
brought into intimate contact with
Owosso taxpayers and in both positions
he has served the taxpayers with the
greatest degree of satisfaction to all con-
cerned. The experience gained in these
two Offices cannot fail to give him es-
pecial advantages in the admins
tration of the Office Of city treasurer
in fact in every point the train
ing and experience of Jas. II. Law
crock has been of the kind to make him
one of the best of the many good city
treasurers Owosso has had for years
1t is understood that the democrats Of
the city as matter of party pride have
selected the treasurership as being of
especial interest to them and are making
hard effort to elect their
candidate. To do this however it
would be necessary for them to secure
no small number of republican votes as
the, city is normally republican by a
large majority. There seems to be no
reason therefore for anticipating that
they should be able to even make a per-
ceptible cut in the size Of the majority
by which James III. Laverock will be
elected city treasurer of Owosso next
Monday. He is safe. abundantly quail
fed, considerate of the feelings of others
and obliging, and last but by no means
least when it Games to accepting q
public office.a the hands of the people,
is one of the men whose public spirited
ness is of the kind that is more than
skin deep, the kind that extends down
into the pocketbook when it becomes
necessary to go down there or give up
being public spirited. Mr. Laverock
should receive majority as great as
any one on the entire ticket