The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1899-06-30
Local News.

l. G. Curry spent the first of the week in
Detroit.
Mrs. A. W. Hookway and daughter are
visiting In Saginaw.
j. ID. Estes was In st. Johns, Wednesday
evening on business.
A number of Owosso people will attend
fourth of July celebration at Perry Tues
day.
Miss Grace Dewey returned home yester.
day from Gambler, Ohio, to spend her vaca-
tiOn.
ID. G. Clapp, Geo Noble and G. K. Rigley,
Jr.. will go to Grand Rapids next week to
represent the Estev Mfg. Co., during tn
July furniture sales.
The OwOsso high school class of '92 will
hold reunion this afternoon and evening
at the Central schoolhOuse grove, and a {
the home Of Mrs. Il. P. White.
DIR. II. II. Large, Detroit dentist, has
opened an Office In the rooms occupied by
DIR. A. l.. Arnold, on west Main street, be-
fore the recent removal of the latter to
rooms over the Walsh store across the street.
The annual meeting of the Ow) )sso union
school district will I've held July 10, a week
from next Monday evening. The terms of
Mr.. A. K. Aartshorn and Mr.. Herman
Frieske will expire and their successors will
be chosen.
Two former Owosso men, Ora Perlaberg
and Ben Fisher, were arrested in Flint Sat-
urday evening charged with picking pockets
In Flushing. Fisher has a bad record in
OwossO and had been warned that IL he did
not change his tactics here he would be
placed under arrest.
The music at Caledonia Park Sunday
was unusually good. The Ionia City Band
came down some thirty strong, and when
associated with the Owosso City Band
made fine combination OF good musicians
who handled some difficult music In q
thoroughly eDjoyably manner. A large
crowd was present at the park.
Grove & Payne have sold over one hun
dred Mccormick machines in spite of the
short wheat crop. This certainly shows the
Mccormick machines to be not only an en-
inently satisfactory line of harvesting ma
chinery but shows also something of the
hustling qualities of the Owosso firm and its
reputation among the farmers.
George Bray was tried and convicted in
Justice NcCauxhna's court Wednesday
afternoon on the charge of attempting to
assault Mrs. Portlance, young married
woman, who went Into Bray's store to pur.
chase some goods week ago. He was
fined $2s.45. One of the features of the
case was a thoroughly hot verbal castiga-
tien administered to tho defendant by At
torney Hamper.
A ladies' mandolin club Is among the lat.
es. musical organizations In Owosso. Miss
Maud Gates has been secured as instructor.
Mesdames F M. Grove, j. G. Tuf-
ford, P. II. Black, Misses Anna COnant,
Nellie Decker, Nina Broad, May Sutton,
Maude Gale, Ernestine Dimmick, Clara
Woodland, Alma WILDER, Vera Haskell and
Anna Todd are the members.
Hudson Sheldon, Of Corunna, who took
the degree of master of arts at the Univer-
sity last week after two years of post gradu-
ate work, has received an offer of Cali
fornia professorship in chemistry. The
offer which carries with 1t fine salary and
comes from Santa Ana, California, has al
ready been accepted Prof. Sheldon will
take up his new work early In the fall.
Mrs. Sheldon will accompany her husband.
Prof. Sheldon is thorough scholar and be-
lieves in doing thoroughly whatever work
he undertakes, as his work in the superin-
tendency of the Corunna schools and as
school commissioners in Shiawassee ty
abundantly prove. In his examinations for
his masters degree his standings were re-
markaby high-so high as even to sur
prise the professors in charge who declared
that better showing had not been made in
twenty years for a masters examination.