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Elgin Watches at O. S. Allison & Son's, 116 West Exchange Street. The Owosso Times. OWOSSO, MICHIGAN, JANUARY 18. 1899. WHOLE NO. 1032 VOL. XX. NO. 42. i v J HOLIDAY HARDWARE! Skates, Hv..d Sleds, Boy's Velocipedes, Girl's Tricycles, Pocket Knives, Scissors, Shears, Razors, Razor Strops, Silverware, Carpet Sweepers, Steel Ranges, Cook Stoves, etc., etc. CALL AND H IB HI AND COMPUTE M of the above goods and you will buy. First Class Goods and Low Prices IRA G. CURRY, 113 East Main Street. OUR FIRST ANWML Beginning Saturday January 7th, contin ues until FEBRUARY 1ST. BIG CUT IN PRICES ON SHOES. 150 Pairs of Shoes to be Given Away. You may be the lucky one. Everything goes. Nothing reserved. This Sale is strictly SPOT CASH. No goods sent out on approval. You must be fitted out at the Store. See bill for further information. Crowe:Wesener Shoe Co. All the Latest Designs in WALL PAPER can be found at the store of the II PIT 1 I 115 West Exchange Street, Owosso. WE WANT TOUR TRADE !D"u.r ing: 1899. Every Article in our New Store is New and Fresh, Made by the most celebrated manufacturers of the respective lines of any in the world. We are now settled AT OUR OLD QUARTERS, COR. MAIN & BALL ST. In one of the most complete implement buildings in Central Michigan. We are represented on the road by Mr. Wm. Royce and Mr. Thomas Payne. We wish to thank you for your liberal patronage to these gentlemen. We have already more goods sold than at any former year at this early date. Come and sec us in our new home, examine our complete line of Wagons, Bug i gies, Robes, Blankets, Whips. Don't forget to see our sample McCormick Machine, for which we have more orders than ever before at this season of the year. COME AND SEE US. CROWE & PAYNE. A HAND SAW 18 A GOOD THING, BUT NOT TO SHAVE WITH." SAPOLIO IS THE PROPER THING FOR HOUSE-CLEANING. CLEMEN SALI Vernon Masonic Dedication. About tbirty-tive Owosso Masous and members of the Eastern Star joined company with an even larger number from Coruuna, Friday evening, and went on to Vernon to attend the dedi cation of the new Masonic Temple at that place. The new hall is. as has been men tioned before, located over DeHart Bros', new drug store, and is one of which the Vernon fraters have every reason to be proud. It is of generous dimensions, well arranged, and well lighted. There is a pleasant reception room at the head of the stairs. A preparation room and the lodge room are both conveniently located, while the members have especial pride in their parlor, dining room, and kitchen. All the rooms are handsomely finished and the carpeting consists of tine Brussels. Easy chairs, divans and pictures add to the comforts and pleasures of the rooms, making them cheery and home like The rooms were especially decorated Friday night for the dedication exer cises which were conducted under the direction of the deputy grand master of Michigan. Mr. Frank T. Lodge, of De troit. Flairs and artistically draped bunting were employed in every availa ble way to add to the beauty of the effect. An excellent program was given dur ing the evening, piano solos, duets and vocal music oecunviiiar their share of the program, while a number of speech ers were made by Shiawassee county Masons, lie v. W. T. Wood house, of Jackeon, and Mr. F. T. Lodge, of Dc troit, gave excellent addresses. During the evening a banquet was given in the opera house and those present insist that the Vernon mem bers of the order need have no fear of eutariug into any competition in the matter of hauauets, without regard to the persons entering into it with them. During the evening's program the lodge room was packed so full that the floor started to settle, but Worshipful Master McLaughlin announced that a part of the visitors wei'o requested to repair at once to the banquet rooms and the danger was averted without auy alarm being aroused. New Lothrop. Dr. Shoemaker was in Detroit and Pontiac on business a portion of last week Mrs. Carpenter, of Flushing visited her daughter, Mrs. Howard Cas lor, last week Mr. and Mrs. W. F Beattv were confined to their home with the grip a few days last week Geo. C. Passmore, of Flushing, was in town a few days last week in the inter est of the Loyal Guards William Ad ams, of Ortonyille, Oakland county, is visiting his brother, Ahijah, just west of town Mrs. W. L. Colby arrived homo Saturday evening from a few weeks visit with friends in Buffalo, N Y. Mrs. Elmer Judd and children returned home from a week's visit with Chesaning friends on Sunday W. T Colby has rented his hotel to Mr. Wooll of Elsie, who takeg possession this week He also purchased the livery in connec tion. Mr. Wooll comes highly recom mended as a hotel man, having had some experience heretofore Mrs Washington Snyder left for Auburn Bay county, on Thursday last to assist in caring for Mr. Snyder's parents, who were there to visit their children some time ago, who reside in that vicinity and were there taken seriously ill Mr Snyder left on Saturday evening for the same place. Vernon. Mr. and Mrs. R. Evans returned to their home in Canada on Saturday i he Misses Georgia and Lea Emeric re turned to Clio on Monday after a two weeks visit here A. Shaw was in Chicago this week Mr. George Clark is enjoying a visit from his mother and aunt of Spring Lake G. Gibbs and family attended the funeral of Mrs Gibb's mother, in Bennington, on Sun day N. J. Strong's condition remains about the same Mr. and Mrs. , War ren Holmes returned to their home at Tustin on Saturday Mrs. W. Lindley visited at Bancroft on Tuesday Mrs (i. Goff returned from Ovid on Satur day A large number of sheep have bjen shipped from here the past week The home of Mrs. Libbie Wilkinson was a scene of confusion on Friday on account of fire which broko out in a closet. A number of citizens hastened there and succeeded in ex tinguishing it. The contents of the closet and adjoining bedroom were badly burned. It is thought that some of the articles hung away a short ttme before must have been on fire C. P. Weeden's condition remains about the same The young people are enjoy ing the skating About 350 persons attended the Masonic dedicatory ser vices and banquet here on Friday even ing Mr. John Heed, who lives south of the village, is quite sick. just Death of B. S. Ingersoll. Late Friday afternoon Architect E. S. Ingersoll, of this city, died at his home on Cass street after an illness of but a week. Until the afternoon of the Sat urday before his death he was working at the new brewery building where he was superintendent of corstruction, the building being also erected after his plans. An injury received some months ago had left him less stronger than formerly, and when he was attacked by the grippe, neuralgia and nervous pros tration followed and ne sunk into an unconsciousness and delirium from which he never recovered. Mr. Ingersoll had been a resident of Owosso and vicinity for many years. He was well known as an architect of ability ami also as a trustworthy con tractor and a good builder. He leaves, besides a wife, two sons, Fred and Ed ward, and two daughters, Jessie and Lizzie. The funeral was held Monday at the house, Rev. John Sweet, officiat ing- The Supervisois. The supervisors completed the work of their January session Tuesday. The usual routine work of allowing ac counts, inspecting the records in the several offices, etc., occupied most of the time. The bonds of the several county offi cers were presented and approved, as follows: R. F. Kay. treasurer, in the sum of $80,000, with Arthur Garrison, John Driseoll, I H. Keoler, Roger Sher man, M. 0. Dawes, H. C Frieseke, M. L. Stewart, C. D. Stewart aud W. H. Bigelow as sureties; Seth E. Beers, county clerk and register in chancery, in the sum of 2,000 each with the Aetna Indemnity Co.. of Hartford, Conn., as surety; M. L. Scougale, sheriff, in the sum of $10,000, with J. J. Patchell, Geo. S. Leetch; Thos. Cooliug and A. S. Thomas as sureties; J. H. Collins, cir cuit court commissioner, in the sum of r2,000, with G. D. Mason and D. C Ceoper as sureties; Warren Pierpont, circuit court commissioner, in the sum of $2,000, with C. W. Gale and W. M. Kil pat rick as sureties. The board appointed R. F. Kay as county purchasing agent for the ensu ing two years. A telephone wa ordered placed in the office of the prosecuting attorney. The most important business dote was the submission of a proposition to be voted upon at the spring election providing for the issuing of county bonds to the amount of $10,000, the money to be used in completing the buildings at the county farm. The resolution is as follows: Resolved, by the board of supervis ors of the county of Shiawassee, that there be borrowed on the faith and credit of Shiawassee county such sum or sums of money as may be sufficient and necessary, not exceeding in all the sum of $10,000 for the purpose of erect ing and completing a residence and re moving the old residence on the county farm, located in the township of Cale donia, in the county aforesaid, and that the bonds of said county be issued and executed in the sum of and to the amount of such loan, made payable to the person or persons from whom such money is teceivf.d, or their orders to become due and payable as follows: $4,000 to become due on the 1st day of March, 1900, and the balance to become due on the 1st day of March, 1901, and with interest thereon not to exceed the rate of five per cent. Further Resolved, That the question of borrowing money and the issuing of bonds therefor as in the manner and for the purpose aforesaid, be submitted to the voters of said couuty to be by them voted upon at the next general election, to be held on Monday, the 8d day of April, A. D., 1899; and that the clerk of said county cause suitable notice of this resolution to be published and posted as required by law, and shall prepare suitable ballots containing the words, "Loan not to exceed $10,000 for the county house. Yes." "And loan not to exceed $10,000 for county house. No." And place the same in the hands of the inspectors of the several townships and wards of said county, and such ballots when voted for or against said proposition shall in all respects be can vassed, and returns thereof made at the time and in the manner, and the result thereof determined as of the election of county officers. The board adopted the following reso lusion by a unanimous vote: Resolved, by the board of supervisors of Shiawassee county, that we extend a vote of thanks to our retiring clerk, Duane C. Cooper, and treasurer, Ru dolph Colby, for the efficient manner in which they have couducted the duties of the respective offices. A vote of thanks was extended to Chairman J. Y. Martin for the fair man ner in which ho had served the board during its sessions. Royal Absolutely Wirf Absolutely Makes the food more delicious and wholesome ROVM. BAKING POWDFB CO. , NEW YORK. Church Dedication. The Kay Congregational church at Shaftsburg is to be dedicated on Tues day, Jan. 17th. The church was or ganized June 20, 1898, and work com menced at once on the erection of the itine building which has just been fin shed. The contract for the erection of the building was let to Geo. M. Ed wards, and the work has been superin tended by L. P Royce, both of this city. The structure is a credit to the society and its builders. The afternoon exercises which begin at 2:30 o'clock, will include scripture reading by Rev. F. M. Coddington, of Laingsburg; prayer, Rev. S. G. Taylor, Perry; sermon, Rev. W. G. Sperry, Olivet; statement of trustees, R. F. Kay; contributions, Rev. E. B. Allen, Lan sing. Evening, commencing at 7 o'clock, scripture reading, Rev. M. Knowles, Durand; prayer, Rev. A. Metcalf, Bancroft; sermon, Rev. W. H. Warren, Lansing; statement of trus tees, R. F. Kay; contributions, Rev. E. B. Allen. Lansing; dedicatory prayer, Rev. F. A. Stephens, Vernon. Ann Arbor Shops and Railway. John McCU'llan has recovered from his siege of Illness enough to be back at work Supt. W. F. Hi ml le y was in the city 1 hursday on business. Engineer Harry Bradley, of Toledo, was in the city Tuesday. T. H. Howard returned to Philadelphia I uesday, atter remaining to see the two Baldwin locomotives properly delivered, and accepted by the Ann Arbor Ry. George Palmer was in Durand Wednes day and Thursday to work on slight re pairs tor one of the engines. Engine No 6 came into the shops Tues day with a broken driving tire. No. ' came in Monday with a broken circulation tube. Engine No. 201 is in the shop for new truck wheels and a snow plow. Engine No. 26 went out of the shops Tuesday after slight repairs. Nos. 5, 18, and 21 are still in the shops. Coach 14 is being overhauled in the carpenter shop. Master Mechanic Robert Tawse was in Toledo on business Monday and Tuesday. Engine No. 27 broke twelve inches off the flange of one of the drivers Wedn sday morning, near Clare, and is now in the shops here for repairs. The grip has done its work in the shops this week and the following Is a partial list of this week's victims of the malady: W. Barnes, Victor Darling, J. Stewart, Walter Darling, Charles McCarty, A. Amspoker, Ed. Koch, ('has. Thlede, Henry Ackron. James Thompson, and W. L. Fauser. S. R. Van Tifflin was strack on the nose by a stick of timber while directing the un loading of some heavy lumber and was quite severely bruised. He has been laid up several days as a result. Jake Haupt Is acting as night watch in place of Fred Sanftleben who is taking a vacation long enoagb to go north and look over a farm which be owns. Geo. O. Dyke, of Mt. Pleasant, spent Tuesday and Wednesday in this city visit ing friends. John Bowles, who was so severely in jured December 17th while working on the big punch, returned to work for the first time the latter part of last week. His face shows by its scars that the wounds were no slight ones. Two Owosso boys were sent to Frankfort Monday to help take cate of the increased business at that terminus. Floyd Bailey will aid as operator and Arthur McDan .el as car checker. Ed. Broeffle and John Flemmlng were in Durand Tuesday night and a part of Wed nesday looking after coach repairs Engine No. 41, one ot the new Baldwin received last week, was found to have a slight scratch on one of the main Journals after getting It here and It has been in tne shop most of the week having it fixed up again. The engine was accepted by the Ann . rbor company, uowever, as no other defect xhowed up and this was one probably received on the way out here from the shops. Engine No. 42, the other big new Bald win, "ent through Owosso, north bound, Tuesday morning with the "Cannon Ball" through freight. While here No. 14 was unable to start out with Its load and partly to test No. 49, It was conpled to the other and started It oat at a lively rate, drawing the other engine as we.l as its train. The two engines, 41 and 42, are likely to be favorites. The new Baldwin No. 42 had its cab badly smashed by colliding with a coal chute near Cadillac Wedaesday, and is In the shops for repairs before being run a half week. - Baking PtWDCR wmm Ye Law Makers. it would have been a great satisfaction to a lot of us had we been orivileued to Miami in the boots of our leDresei tutivn In th legislature the other day when the late Gov. Pi gree called him down for not 8 iniMitig Into his band wagon, and dancing to his iih.su:. Laniruaire would have been feeble stuff for the occasion, but we should have selected some very choice sued mens for immediate use and scolloped it beauti fully. Of all svecimens of gubernatorial im pudence aud gall the present Incumbent takes the case and a pile of it too. Balng elected perhaps by the debris, largely, of all parties he belongs o none. He Is a party by himself No party owns him, no party claims him, to pa ty wants him, no party has auy use for him, and what he will do with himself at the expiration of bis term of office nobody knows and no body cares. Possibly he may then be troV ting along in double harness with the late Col Bryan. Oh, man! but how he'll kick and snort when he turns the corners. Our legislators have something, however, to occupy their tunc fully if thijadoo't pass a single bill. Simply uudoing some of the work of their predece-sors, and correcting, re adjusting and making intelligible, what laws we have. We have altogether too many laws now, and if the present legisla ture will scour up the statute book it will do well But they will do nothing of the kind. Every member has a lot of bills now and still there's more to follow that he wants enacted while the hundred and one state beneficiaries are rolling up their sleeves to see which cau thrust its arm farthere&t into the stut treasury. Speaking of this class of leeches and barnacles which have attached them selves to the ship of state to see a list of the number, kind and cost, is enough to give a taxpayer "the shakes." Look at the number of our institutions of learning not including reformatories and see what they cost the state, and every one of them ought to be wiped out. Years ago when the State Normal School was in augurated for the education of teachers, there were no "high sc.iools," as they are called, and it seeine t a necessity, but now every Incorporated village in the State has one, and pupils are graduated from ihem to go direct to the University. Who main tains these "high schools?" It is the poor taxpayer whose sole p ssesslon perhaps is a house and lot, and more than half his tax, frequently, is school tax. Now he is taxed for the benefit of his well-to-do neighbor who has money to loan, and children to school. Is there any equality or Justice about that? No, indeed. Our common schools educate the pupil just as far as the taxpayer ought It go, and If he wants a higher education let him buy it and pay for It. If be can't do it let hit go without It, as most of our prominent business men have done, fer he can get enough to do him, if be doesn't go much beyond "the three r's," read in,' 'ritln', and 'rit lime tic. It is a wrong, an injustice not only that, but it Is outrageous, and people are waking up to the fact, so that our legislators may well ponder over the situation. In our haste as a state to lead the world in educational matters, we are perpetrating a felony, but little better than highway robbery. We have had useless, utterly useless In stitutions foisted upon us time and again, the last one being that branch normal school, located at St. Louts or Alma, or both, perhaps. We are punished bad enough by reforma tory schools which have got to be "so ele vated" that many parents prefer to send their refractory children to a place where they have all the comforts ot a home or more than their own homes can furnish them, and then the parents know that they are not on the streets nights. So they feel easy about them, and everything is lovely. Very true, but if you want such delicacies, pay for them, and do not ask your hard working neighbot to do it for you. Lalngsburg, Jan. 12, 1890. Ward. Notice. The Farmers' Detective Association, of Owosso township, was organized under the laws of the state of Michigan on No vember 2fth, 1898, for the detection and prosecution of thieves and felons. The fol lowing officers were elected for the ensuing year: President John H. Moyses, Owosso. Vice President J. C. Farver, Owosso. Treasurer E. O. Place, Owossy, Secretary Wm. Sawer, Jr., Owosso. There will be a special meeting at the Owosso township hall on January 10th, at 7 p. m., to further extend the benefits of the association and to transact such other busi ness as may come before It. All farmers In the community who believe in self-preservation are especially Invited to be present. J. H. Moysrb, Pres. Wm. SA.WTBR, Secy.