The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1899-06-09

celeDfatlOn.
Mr.. and Mrs. III. s. Hadsall spent Sun.
day in Vassar.
Henry Steadman and family have re-
moved to Lansing.
Mr. Fred Osburn took his first lesson In
Masonry Wednesday evening.
M. II. Reynolds has placed an Owosso
phone In his residence on West Main
street.
r. E. Sheldon, of Shiawassee, reports
the poorest outlook for wheat in the county
he has ever known.
Miss Vesta Armstrong. of this city, who
graduates from the Ypsilanti Normal this
month, has secured position in the Frank
fort schools.
DIR. A. M. Hume is spending few days
in Columbus, Ohio, attending the meetings
of the American Medical Association of
which he is a member.
Grand Lecturer Goodrich will hold a
school of instruction for the Royal Arch
Masons next Monday night in the lodge
room of the Owosso MasOns.
Miss Maud Marvin, who has been teach
ing at Harbor Springs, spent Tuesday in
Owosso with her aunt Mrs. K. M. Mi Her
She was on her way home to Byron.
Vernon Argus: Perry Brown has just
closed deal with Detroit parties for 4, GAO
acres of land located in Glare Co.. on which
he will start sheep raising on large scale.
The Masonic Lodge No. 81, +. & A. M.
is in session this afternoon and will be this
evening in school of instruction. Grand
Lecturer Clark Is inspecting the work in all
three degrees. Degree teams from different
parts of tina county are doing the work.
The Owosso Court No. 500 Independent
Order of Foresters will give mid week ex-
cursion to Detroit next Wednesday.
Round trip $l.25, children half fare. The
Grand Trunk is making fast time on its De-
troit excursions this year.
Sunday will be memorial day with the
Knights of Pythias and both the subordi-
nate lodge and the uniformed rank will
march to the cemetery where the graves of
the departed Knights will be decorated.
The lodge will be escorted by the city band.
1t is now probable that the work of
paving Main street between Washington
street and the bridge and Ball street
between Main and Exchange will be
begun in the course of about two weeks.
The Warren Scharf Co. was the successful
bidder. The cost will be between fourtee
and fifteen thousand dollars. The cost per
square yard is somewhat greater than last
year.
Sergt. Winkler, with the First Colorado
regiment in the Philippines, writes home
that he is in good health, altho the rainy
season and hot weather are almost unen.
durable. His regiment has seen considera-
BILE active service lately. He also says that
1t is expected that the volunteers will soon
leave for home. He may remain several
months, II his regiment is mustered out, to
engage In business.
Supt. E. T. Austin and his corps of as.
sistants are to be congratulated on the
smo0thness with which all arrangements
for the commencement exercises Wednes-
day evening were carried out. With good
judgment too, the program was kept
within reasonable limits so that In spite of
hao thar ba ~ Sha
ing nor the address by DR.. Colledge seemed
either long or tiresome but rather full of
enjoyment for the audience to the very
close.
Mrs. Walter Hamilton, living with Mr..
and Mre. 8. F. Whitney, on Abrey street,
near the Riverside church, was frightened
into Mysteries and 1t now seems into an
almost hopeless case of insanity, Monday
evening, by two men who wound them
selves with sheets and appeared In the door
way of the Whitney house. Miss Myrtle
Martindale, sister of Mrs. Hamilton, was
spending the evening with her sister and
she too was frightened so badly that she
tainted away.
The school board at its meeting Friday
night engaged Mr.. l.. +. Anderson, of Low
ell, as principal Of the high school for the
coming year. Mr.. Anderson was principal
of the Three Rivers school for four years.
He is a graduate Of the University of
Toronto, and during the last two years has
done special work In the German UNIVERSE
ties of Jen and Leipsic. He-comes very
highly recommended and the board feels
that 1t has made an excellent selection.
Mr.. Anderson is a married man and will
take up his residence here this summer.
The residents of Dickinson and Detroit
streets were highly worked up Sunday over
what appeared to them to be brutal mis-
treatment of boy by his stepmother. The
neighbors were attracted by the cries of the
boy, and Monday an attempt was made tc
have the woman brought to trial. Justice
McCaughna, however, took time to look In.
to the matter, and upon questioning the
bow found that he did not cOnslder himsel,