The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1899-05-26

| l.. A. Hamblin was in Chicago the first
Of the week.
Clyde White has assumed the manage
ment of the Perry Journal.
Mr.. and Mrs. b. S. Foskett. of Union
T iains were in the city Tuesday.
Druggist O. ID. Kerby, of Henderson, lis
slowly recovering from his long sickness.
Albert West returned home Wednesday
evening from his trip to the Pacific coast.
| DIR. @. Mccormick left Wednesday on
brief visit at mis- old home In Ridgetown,
Ont.
Prof. A. j. Cook, of California, will visit
his son. A. B. Cook. of Shiawassee, during
the summer.
Mrs. Ray W. Crawford was initiated into
membership In the Kaleidoscope Club We'd
nesday evening.
j. 81. Roooins attended meeting of the
National Dining Table Association held in
Chicago the first of the week.
Next Sunday will be confirmation Sunday
at the Episcopal church. Bishop Davies, of
Detroit, will administer the rite.
Miss Mae Batl agton died at her home In
Corunna Sunda, evening after lingering
illness. She wis an estimable young lady
who will be greslv missed In Corunna as
well as by many .llends in this city.
| Farmers repOI, hat no potato bugs have
made an appear so far this year. 1t is
thought the OK me cold weather last
winter destroye hem.
The indicatio are that the civic societies
will quite gene &. ! accept the invitation to
observe Memorial Day next Tuesday and
take part in the parade. Several of the
uniformed bodies have signifed their in
tention of taking past
B. B. Johnson, who graduates from the
literary department of the University this
year, expects to remain In Ann ArbOr next
year in charge of the Y. M. G. A, posi-
ton he held few years since with marked
success for nearly year.
At the meeting of the board of review
last evening the Owosso and The Michigan
Telephone companies were placed on the
tax rolls at $500 each, the Western
| Union Telegraph Co. at $1,000, and the
American Express Co. at 5000.
Mayor Hume and the new police officers
should feel complimented on the new view
taken by certain papers of cases of Sunday
drunkenness. 1t is only recently that such
cases have been considered rare enough to
| justify their mention as news.
The Owosso Y. M. c. A. carried off
honors at the Grand Rapids international
Convention this sweek on its library, its
printed matter and Its congress exhibits.
The printed matter consisted of samples of
the cards, tickets and leaflets used in adver
Using the meetings as we'll as other adver-
Using matter while the congress exhibit
consisted in the record of the congress
itself.
the Normal training school at Ypsilanti,
| figured quite largely in a lengthy article in
the Detroit Free Press Of Monday, which
purported to give the principal points In an
alleged controversy between Mr.. Simmons
and Pres. Boone, of the Normal Accord
ing to most accounts Pres. Boone has a
very ugly way of trying to freeze out any
one to whom he takes personal dislike.
| The trouble is said to be no new thing ex-
cept in so far as Mr.. Simmons Is connected
with it. 1t seems that the state board of
education has had this characteristic of Mr..
Boone under consideration before and is
quite likely to again. 1t may even ask him
to resign, and II the charges which are gen.
orally made are true it should certainly see
that Pres. Boone makes room for fairer
minded and better man.
The reception given in the parlors of the
Congregational church Friday evening, was
a very nicely arranged and very pleasant
affair. The down stairs rooms were hand
sOmely decorated. Rugs, easy chairs,
screens, flowers and handsome ported
plants and palms made the scene still
prettier and more home like. There was
no set program but throughout the evening
there was q constant stream of visitors
coming and going. A committee from the
Social Union escorted guests to side rooms
where they could lay aside their wraps.
They then met the reception committee
composed of Mesdames G. ID. Stewart and
J. Thompson and Messrs. M. Osburn and
z. T. Austin, and were presented to Mr..
and Mrs. Hanks. A large number of
people other than the church members, who
were out 10 full force, were In attendance.
the number including nearly all of the
other pastors of the city. During the even
| ing the guests we're served with ice cream
and cake by the Y. p. s. G. K. The recep-
ton was pleasant one In every way and is
one more event adding to the suspicious
beginning with which Mr.. Hanks pastorate
has been begun.
| The Class OF 90 Q. II. S.