The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1898-05-06
LOCAL NEWS.

George street, Monday. son.
The residence of Oscar A. Shadbolt, 627
Pine street, is undergoing repairs.
Mrs. A. M. Young has purchased M l..
Wrights residence, ia N. Oak street.
The Congregational Sunday school cleared
about $50 from its popular entertainment
course.
Prof. w. j. McKone, formerly of Nor
rice, has resigned as superintendent of the
Mason schools.
Supt. G. B. Chaffee. formerly of this city,
has been re. elected as superintendent of the
Farwell schools.
Capt. Ashton has been engaged as janitOr
of the First M. e. church to succeed w. FL.
Halstead, resigned.
The TIMES has received an order from
the high school class of '9s for 900 COM
mencement programs.
The Kaleidoscope met Wednesday even
ing with Miss Bell Foster, at the home Of
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Ii. Laverock.
A bicycle was given away by Osburn &
Sons Saturday night. FJacklin, of the
west side, held the lucky ticket, No. 30, 919.
Rev. F. l.. Currey, of Ludington, filled
the Baptist pulpit Sunday morning, the
pastor being confined to the house by sick
ness.
We are pleased to state that Sergeant
Henry Bartrem is steadily improving. The
doctors now hope to save the sight of the
injured eye.
The work of grading and cleaning up
streets is being rapidly pushed in the south
ern part of the city, by street commissioner
Guy A. Cole.
Several of the dlsreputable characters
recently ordered to leave the city have re-
turned. Marshal Barresford should make
arrests this time.
Harry lzor has resigned his position as
foreman of the Evening Argus Office and
has accepted similar position with his
father on the Durand Express.
Mary James and Maud Sherman, resid-
ing Oh Dickerson street, left $500 with
Justice McCaughna, Monday, for using I'M
becoming language to neighbors.
e. G. Bacon, who recently came to the
city to accept a position with the Estey Car
riage Co., has been elected secretary and
treasurer of the Castree & Shaw Co.
At the annual meeting of the City Super
intendents' Association of Michigan, to be
held at Lansing next week, Supt. j. w.
Simmons will give a report of "The Chatta-
nooga Meeting"
The Owosso City Mills call attention in
this issue to its brands of flour. Already
a good market has been built up at home
for their flour, users finding it equal to
anything in the market.
Jacob Born, of Lansing, representing the
State Labor Commissioner, has been in the
city this week gathering statistics relating
to the men employed in our twenty-one
manufacturing institutions.
The Owosso Boiler Works is making five
steel culverts twenty four inches In diameter
and thirty-six feet long for the Michigan
Bridge Co., of Portland; also smokestack
for the Laingsburg FIGURING Mills.
A new mortice machine has been set up
In the machine department of the OwOsso
Mfg. Co.'S plant. This additional ma
chine was necesstated by the large num-
Der of orders for screen doors arriving daily
from the west. Twenty car loads Of com
mons" are to be made at this factory and
shipped within the next few days.
Frank l.. Whiting, superintendent of the
Owosso Carriage works, reached his 33rd
. birthday last Friday, and on that occasion
was presented with book case and writing
desk combined by the employees of the fac
tory, the presentation being made by r. b.
Warren. Mr.. Whiting regards his present
very highly, not only for its intrinsic value
but for its associations as well.
Jas. ". Mcbride left Monday evening fcr
Bed Rock, Colorado, where he will remain
some time overseeing number of improve.
ments for the La Sal Copper Mining Co OF
which no has been made manager. This Ii
the company In which ID. M. Estey and
j. w. Angel are interested. A contrac,
has been let for a $4,000 smelter to be
erected at once. Mr.. John Knight. formerly
of this city, has been engaged as engineer
and assayer for the company.