The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1913-09-19
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therefor. Your association was large
ly Instrumental in securing as large
ar appropriation as was made, as
strong effort was made to defeat the
proposition even after it had carried
by making the appropriation so small
that it would practically be of nc
value.
Wholesale Bakery.
A year ago now, 70 per cent of the
bread used in Owosso was baked out
side and shipped in. At the present
time less than 2 per cent of the bread
used in Owosso is baked outside and
shipped in. A year ago We were as
sisting in the support of the following
cities: Detroit, Saginaw, Grand Rap
ids, Lansing, Howell, Jackson, Flint
and one or two others in consequence
of the condition of the baking trade
Many of the citizens of Owosso ad.
vised your association that If the
shipment of bread into the city could
be stopped and the money expended
therein retained az home that the
existence of the association for a
year would be justified by this re-
suit. For over three months, an eff
fort was made to get the local bakers
to either change tneir product or
unite their plants in one organization
that satisfactory bread might be
made. Nothing came of this and
your association advised by travel
ing man, of the possibility, took this
subject up with the Millen Brothers
of Pontiac and for time met VITA
some success in interesting them in
the project of installing a wholesale
bakery in Owosso. A. least once
they had about given up the idea but
by repeated efforts on the part OF
your association, they were finally
persuaded to see the advisability OF
installing such a plant in this city.
The plant is installed and doing a
satisfactory business and instead of
proving a detriment to the local
bread trade it has had a tendency to
increase the sale of bread through
out the city. 1t furnishes employ
ment for ten people and the procur-
ing of the plant cost your association
in actual cash, $4.75.
McCurdy Park.
Your association has been interest
ed in the park proposition and real
ICES tnat McCurdy park has in it pos
sibilities for good. A year ago 1T
was supported by the people of Co
runna in as good way as so small
a municipality could support such an
The park was used by
The inhabitants of the entire county
but more especially by the citizens of
Owosso. The condition of the park,
more dilapidated every day with no
prospect for the better, 'excep. 1t
were possible to make some arrange
ment whereby larger sum could be
each year for it's main
tenance. Since Corunna could not
afford to increase it's appropriation
for it's maintenance, your associa-
ton concluded to ask the board OF
to make an appropriation
for such a purpose. 1t could no.
legally be done with the laws then on
the statute books and our represent
atives at Lansing were asked to in
troduce a bill that would overcome
this difficulty. This was done.
The Lansing & Northeastern Il. X.
Something like two years ago the
city of Owosso was asked to raise
some money to assist in procuring a
lot for the purpose of a new armory
and to assist in procuring for Owosso
an cutie. south by an interurban
railroad line. A subscription paper
was passed in the city and a sufficient
sum to cover the TWO projects was
subscribed and the subscribers agreed
that they would pay the sum set OPP
posite their names within very
short time after the subscriptions
were taken. Enough money was col
lected at different times to care for
the armory project but the balance
of the subscription was left uncol-
lected and turned over to your asso-
citation some two years after the sub
scriptions were made. 1t followed
that some of the subscribers fell that
so long as the railroad had been
built and so long as no one had SEEM
ed to take any interest in the collec-
ton of the subscriptions and some
.ning like two years had elapsed,
they did not see any great necessity
for paying, however, along in the
spring of 1913, Mr.. Atwood of the
railroad company, came to Owosso
and wanted the money which had
been promised him by the city. Your
association believed that the honor
of the town should be sustained and
succeeded in collecting practically
all of the outstanding subscriptions.
Ann ArbOr Car Shops.
In the spring of 1912, committees
of business men visited our. business
men and asked them 20 subscribe for
a lot at $3.50 in what was to be the
new Ann Arbor subdivision, the
money raised from the sale of the
lots to be used to buy land upon