The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1913-09-19
GOOD YEARS WORK.
Improvement Association Hears Hs--
ports and Re. elects Old Officers.

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ports and Re- elects Old Officers.
The Owosso Improvement Associs-
tion's annual meeting was held TGsc-
day in the Y. w. c. A. rooms and cha
members listened with interest and sac
isfaction to the reports made and lootzsd
with hope to the coming year. Mech
has been accomplished in many wsYs,
and more will be if the members oqu~
tinue their interest and assistance. Th&
old officers were unanimously re- elected
as follows.
President, H. B. Sturtevan..
Vice presidents, 1st ward, l.. B. At
lison; I'd ward, J.. c. Shattuck; ,SS
ward, Milton Grow; 4th ward, A. C.
Bowling; 5th ward, w. d. WAits-
head.
Directors for three years, W. f..
Van Sice; Merrick Blair; A. L. Ar
mold ,m
The secretarys report followsio,
Owosso improvement ASSN n-
Your secretary begs leave to sun
nit the following report:
Your organization commenced tina
new regime, July 1, 1912, with 22s
members. During the year, the fol-
lowing have ceased to be members
for the reasons stated, Died-A. r.
Thomas, and L. s. Benson; out az
business--F. F. Hartle, Lathrop &
Thompson, d. B. Reynolds and Snlisk
& Case; left the city,. W. Burr, G.
w. Clark, G. f. Coutant, w. d. Dan
ley, Miss Mae Everitt, c. H. JeweEs
e. o. Mason, u. S. Race, r. j. RaE2~
som, F. S. Smith, and H. A. ,Wick1ans
just quit-John Bessinger, r. N
Chrouch, F. H. Cherry, Chas Ellis.
j. F. Kebler, Theodore Kebler, j W.
Locher, G. N. Monroe, Ray More
house, Charles II. Rhodes, B. F. Rah-
inaugh, Ray Stinson, j. w. TnoTEs
and Clayton Watkins. During tlfe
same period, we nAve added the fp}-
lowing new members Mrs. l.. S. Ben
son, G. p. Bentley, l.. II. Thompson
j. W.. Maurer, Osburn e Sons, Mag
Brothers, Owosso Baking Co., G. =.
Smith, Miss Smafeld. We have l0sz
thirty-one from all causes and have
gained nine, making a net loss eg
twenty-five.
To date, / nave collected in dues
~$1,43S.95, and have deposited $ss
435.72. Prior to my incumbeac3a
there had been deposited as | am at
vised by your treasurer $6O7.41-A1.
L. p. Allison $576.41, and by Under
drawn orders on the treasurer sE
payment of accounts totaling $2,049--
81. OF this sum $227.25 was ncG
paid through my orders. $1,000 of
this sum was paid by l.. B. Allison ~
William McComb. This includeG
$3.10 paid to a Mr.. Chapman by Mo
Comb for signs. $1,000 was paid BIZ
Mr.. Taylor to Mr.. McComb and ne ar
so gave check for $2.25 to Miss
Houck. l have made out stubs 20
correspond with these sums and 1t 6s
not likely that any regular orders eT-
is: for them. On each order wss
placed a statement of what the ordar
covered. Read stubs. Your treas
urer has the orders to correspond
with tnese stubs and with which -
verify tne same.
Dues were to be paid in advance
but there was so much objection ID
this procedure, that upon oonsul.s-
tion with the president and some os
the directors. it was decided not y1
force this feature. An extra ese-r
was made to get in all up to the third
quarters dues and / succeeded in
collecting all but $4,000. There SS
now due and outstanding on TIN
fourth quarter about $500.
The reading of the minutes of tAS
several meetings apprised you }zs
much of the work of the associatfoN.
during the year but there was great
amount of work and results accom-
plished that did not there appear ana
to few of tne principal subjects,
wish to call your attention.
Good Roads Movement.
The question of better roads for
Owosso was presented to the peop)sS
as ! am advised, and defeated. Whsn
the matter was first taken up with
the board of supervisors by your ass-
sociation, little encouragement was
received from any of them and an ac-
tive hostility was manifested BY
some, your association presented the
matter to them collectively and 81
dividually several times; presented
the matter to several of your farmers,
clubs and in the meantime put on an
active campaign through the medium
of over 1000 letters and when ths
vote was taken on the proposition, IL
carried. There was still so much op-'
position in some of the townships
tnat it was only by the hardest AID
quickest work that it was possible
for your association to secure SUIT
cient signatures for the calling OF a
special meeting of the board of sup
ervisors so tha. work under thS
County Road System could be
commenced in 1913. Many of tAs
supervisors absolutely refused IN
sign the call for the special meeting