The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1900-12-14

Mrs. j. ID. Estes visited st. Johns rela-
tives Wednesday.
Ed j. Hunt Is working on a paper at
Bakersfield, Calf.
The Knights Of Pythiss confer red the
q ret degree last night.
w. d. Ellis, of Ypsilanti, was the guest
of his son Frank, in this city Wednesday.
Ed. b. Conner Is expected home from his
Alaskan mining operations sometime this
month.
r. w. Crawford was in Saginaw on
business for the OwossO Telephone Company
Tuesday.
Miss Jessie Clark, of Ovid, has an ex-
hibt of hand painted china in b. s. Gay
lords store.
Company III received a consignment of
ball cartridges for the Lee-RemingtOn
rifles this week.
Miss DeSellem. who sings In the Women's
Club concert this evening, IS the guest of
Miss Ivah Peterson while in the city.
Mrs. G. VanNess returned Wednesday
evening from six months stay in Colorado
with her daughter, Mrs. Harry Clapp.
Mesdames f. M. Grove and w. ID.
Royce entertained the Rathbone Sisters at
thimble party Wednesday afternoon at
the residence of Mrs. Grove.
The supper and concert which was to
have been given next week bv the Jun ior
band and the ladies of the Dorcas society
has been put of until after New Years.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Il. Curwood celebra ted
the thirty-eighth anniversary of their mar
riage Wednesday evening at the home of
their daughter, Mrs. M. Gaylord on Rive r
street. A number of friends were in attend
ance.
The teachers in the different grades In the
city schools have been receiving some ex-
pert instruction In the methods of using the
Speer system of teaching numbers this
week. A Mr.. Hisey, of Chicago, has been
giving the pointers.
The o. Fl. s. foot ball team was photo.
graphed Monday afternoon by Mclean.
The boys whose faces appear in the picture
Of the team with which they were connected
this year.
The Women's Auxiliary of the Y. M. c.
| A. met In the association rooms Monday
evening to consider plans for the New
Years reception. The reception will be
! held from three until six o'clock and the
| ladies voted to ask the ministers of the city
and their wives to act as the reception COM
mittee.
David e. Hood died at his home on Wood
| lawn avenue Monday morning after long
sickness. Previous to his sickness he had
been employed In the Ann Arbor shops for
a number of years as carpenter. He was a
soldier 10 the civil war, belonging to Wis
consin regiment. He was sixty. six years Of
age at the time of his death. The funeral
! services were held al the house Tuesda y
afternoon Quackenbush Post attending, aud
Rev. Paul Desjardins officiating.
Lee II. Retain received letter from
Private Henry d. Shsddeau of Company K
9th u. s. Infantry yesterday morning
which was written In Pekin on the 23d OF
October. Mr.. Shaddeau was member of
Company G SD Michigan Volunteer
Infantry during the Spanish-American war
and sent his regards to his former comrades
In this letter. at the time of its writing
his regiment was making preparations for
spending the winter in Pekin and his own
company had just begun doing garrison
duty at the south gate. He was looking
forward to a lonesome time during the
winter.
AT the meeting of Company Ii Tuesd ay
evening circulars were read concerning the
observance of the night of Dec. 81 as watch
Night" The plan is to have the various
companies of the national guard through out
the country observe this evening with some
sort of an appropriate entertainment with
the object of advancing the interests of the
national guard and also of assisting in the
work of the Red Cross Society to whom one
half of the proceeds of the entertainments
are to 30. A committee was appointed to
arrange for the form of entertainment to be
given, the committee being m ade up as fol-
lows: Capt. Geo. B. McCaughna, Sergt. l..
G. Brewer, and Corp. Ralph Baker
The regular weekly meeting of the Gu r
rent Topic Club was held at the reside nee
of Mrs. X. r. Dudley Monday afterno on.
Mrs. q. s. Allison read a paper upon the
subject of "Gregory the Great" portraying
the conditions Of his time with respect to
the influence which the philosophy OF the
Greeks, the policy of the Romans, aud the
practice of the Christians had upon tn EN-.
The developments of the forms of worship
In the early church were traced to quite an
extent In the paper. The discussion Of the
paper was led by Mrs Dudley who read
few passages from Cardinal Gibbons "Faith
of our Fathers" loaned by Father Slane.
The next meeting will also be held with
Mrs. Dudley at which time she will read
her paper on ''St. Benedict and the Mon
asteries."