The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1899-12-08
OWOSSO. FRIDAY, DEC. 8. 1899.
LOCAL NEWS.

in Byron.
DR.. j. Il. Waite was in Detroit The first
of the week on business.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. Wykes are visiting in
Iona and Grand Rapids.
Miss Jennie Roseboom returned Monday
evening from visit ct Lansing.
Mrs. q. ID. Stewart has been the guest of
her parents in Adrian this week.
f. ank WescOtt, of Vernon, was in the
city Wednesday on a business trip.
Mrs. Fred Carpenter returned Monday
evening from a visit at her former home in
Byron.
Mrs. Oscar Wells entertained her sister,
Mrs. Jennie Fenton, of Lansing, a part OF
the week.
FL S. Hadsal WAS in Kalamr 200 Tues
day to attend a meeting of the asylum
board.
The Y. M. G. A. directors met Tuesday
evening but adjourned for one week with.
out electing officers.
B. s StrattOn was in Toledo short time
the first of the week on a business and
pleasure trip combined.
Special Affection is called to tue ad. of ID
j. Evans in this issue of Saginaw county
farm lands for sale"
Mrs. Wellington White Is very low with
a complication of diseases from which she
has been suffering for nearly year.
The Bay View Reading Circle will meet
next Wednesday evening with Mrs l. IL.
Wood, when the first lesson in The winters
work will be given out and talked over.
Through the efforts of Congressman Ford
ney a claim of w e Cummins, of Corun
ma, against the war department which has
been pending for a numb r Of years. has
been allowed at the amount claimed.
Rev. G. V. Northrop, pastor of the Bap
fist church in this city, has suffered another
relapse, the first since he left for the west,
and his friends are quite worried over his
condition. Mrs. Northrop is now with him
The members of Abigail Chapter, Eastern
Stars, to the number OF about seventy five
attended the Tuesday evening meeting and
, after the work was finished, enjoyei light
refreshments and a Photographic concert.
The third assembly Of this years series
will be given in the Armory Tuesday even
Ing. The next assembly will however be
given on J.npary l and will be dress
affair. WeseneI's full orchestra will fur.
nish the music for both events.
r. e. 0. Dewey attended meeting of off
GERS Of independent telephone companies of
the state in Saginaw Wednesday afternoon
Plans for still further improving = service
, of these companies by the adoption Of uni.
form apparatus and extending lines for state
service were discussed.
Every indication is that the poultry show
to be given Ia this city next week will be
an exceptionally good one. The dates, as
everyone interested knows, are Dec Is 10
Besides the fine thoroughbred stock which
is owned in this city and which will form q
part of the show, there will be large
amount from the county and even from out.
side the county.
!, FL. II. Seeley, of Owosso, and A. w.
Straight, of Chicago, have been spending q
part of the week in this city in the effoit &c
organize stock company for the manu-
facture of gasoline lamp invented by the
latter gentleman. The same match which
lights the lamp generates the gas in which
form the gasoline is burned and once
started 1t generates its own gas.
Representative blacksmiths from different
cities and villages In the county met in the
shop OF Frank Manning IN this city Monday
night to discuss the matter of proposed
advance In prices TO mset tho necessity
which they are under Of paying some three
! tunes as much for toe caulk steel and higher
pric ss on other supplies IN much the sam
I proportion. AS a result OF the meeting i
? was decided 20 make u uniform charge o
thirty cents straight for all new shoes anC
6iteen cents straight for resetting.
Xmas silverware al Allison's.