The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1898-12-23

The house of s. Sweat on Comstock street
was ransacked by burglars Sunday night
Mason q Sons planning mill and spoke
factory is shut down for repairs on the
engine.
Mr.. and Mrs +. j. Marvin entertained
a party at progressive pedro Wednesday
evening.
The City Laundry has temporarily in
creased Its force for the holiday rush of
business.
j. II. Robbins residence will be connect
ed with the Owosso Telephone Company's
system In few days.
THE TIMES acknowledges the receipt
from Col. K. P. Byerly of several Washing
ton papers of recent date.
The Port Huron indoor base ball team
will play team from the indoor base ball
league In this city next Wednesday.
A meeting of the republican county com
mittee is to be held at the Office of chairman
f. ii. Watson in this city at one o'clock p.
m, Dec. 2sth
Appropriate Christmas services will be
held in the NJ. K. church Sunday night. The
older members of the Sunday school will
take part. The choir will furnish special
music.
A large amount of dirt, claimed to have
been left in the river by the sewer construct
ors, appears to offer every opportunity need
ed for the formation of an ice gorge if other
conditions should be favorable.
The enrolment of the high school is now
14s, which is two more than it was last
year at the end of the whole year. 1t is ex-
pected that much more decided increase
will be shown before the close of the year.
A good job was begun Tuesday when
men were set at work scraping the mud
from the new pavement and the employ
ment Of team with good tight wagon
box to haul the mud away later on made
the move several hundred per cent better
STILL
| A. l.. Bemis, editor of the Carson City
|
been about the state considerably of late In 4.
tervlewing members of the legislature and
gives 1t as his opinion that either Rep. Lusk
or Adams will be elected speaker of the
4 house.
A young man giving the name of A. G.
Mcneil was sent to the Detroit House
of Correction, Saturday, by Justice Nc
Caughna, for obtaining money under false
preteDses. He claimed to be from St. Johns
and made a specially of working Masons
and Knights of Pythias.
Next Monday, December 20, and the fol.
lowing Monday January will be observed
by the Ann Arbor Railway as holidays and
only passenger trains and the necessary
through freight trains will be run In
accordance with this, agents are instructed
to accept no perishable freight for transpor.
tation on those dates.
fake report of the death of Miss Grace
Ledbeter, who went to Detroit Monday for
short visit, was spread broadcast in the city
Tuesday, deceving the relatives and news
papers alike. Mrs. Ledbeter even went to
Detroit TUESDAY, evening but found her
daughter still alive with no intention of
dying, and returned Wednesday evening,
leaving her in Detroit. where it is claimed
she has situation in music house.
been laid and work has been begun on the
last manhole close beside the M. G. Ry.
crossing. The ditch has already been filed
up for large part of the way and apparent.
ly all that remains to be done is to clean the
mud ont of considerable portion of the
sewer in front and west of the Catholic
church when 1t will be ready for business
How long it will continue In that condition
is another matter.
A Joint degree staff composed of picked
workers from the two Odd Fellow lodges
in this city, has already commenced work
ing to get into shape for the 1899 compete
ton In Detroit. They hope by months o
hard work to perfect every little point will
the idea of competing for the $1,000 priz,
offered for the best examplifcation of tn,
degree work of subordinate lodges. Tn,
Patriarch Militant are also taking an extr.
interest In drills and hope to get both tn,
, military maneuvers and fancy movement
perfected sufficiently to warrant their con
. testing ct the next cantonment.
This is the season when people seem t
take especial pains to send old newspaper
, through the mails with only a one or tw
, cent stamp on them There is frequently
a suspicious feeling about them howeve
which invites investigation, and as merchan
q disc requires higher rate of postage thai
printed matter it Is the duty of mailin
clerks everyw here to investigate suspicion
: packages and to hold the same for postag
, If they contain such articles. Handkel
q chiefs, neckties, gloves, ribbons, etc. ar
, frequently found concealed In this way
q They usually 90 more safely AID certainl
, much more quicdly when properly wrappe
and labeled in the beginning.