The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1900-05-25

the city Monday.
w. e. Payne Il Co., unloaded car load
OF binder Irvine this week.
The Eastern Stars will initiate class
next Tuesday evening.
S. (. Parkill spent Sunday in Lansing
with Hon. q. A. Towne.
Hon. G. II. Morse, of Carson City, spent
Monday night In Owosso.
The Modern Woodmen initiated another
large class at its Wednesday evening meet
ing.
Mrs. Frank Nelan returned Saturday
night from Pontiac where she has been
visiting friends.
Miss Mabel Ferry played violin solo at
a concert In the Legatt school In Detroit
Friday evening.
Work has been begun on the excavations
for the new brick fiat to be built by Albert
Weston West Oliver street.
The w. R. G. made up pleasant party.
Thursday evening, and called on Mrs.
Deal at her home on Comstock street.
Miss Edna Berry, of the Owosso Tele-
phone Company's exchange, spent Sunday
at her former home in Lansing.
Miss Edith Cooper entertained the, None
Such Club at hard times party Tuesday
evening, at her home on West Main street.
Mrs. j. II. Pulcipher went to Manistee
Monday morning to reside Her husband
has already been employed there for some
time.
T. d. Harris expects to leave next week
for Washington to take his final examina-
ton for appointment as assistant paymas-
ter in the navy.
Petitions have been circulated during the
week asking for the establishment of free
rural mail routes running out of Perry and
Morrice.
Quackenbush Post, the W.R. G. and other
allied organizations, and Co. FL will attend
Memorial Day services Sunday at the Con-
gregatlOnal church.
Contractor John Davies finished work on
the Oak street sewer Monday with the ex-
ceptiOn of the iron outlet pipe to be placed
in the river at the foot of the street.
w. Fl. Bigelow entertained an old friend
Sunday whom he had not met for a number
of years before. The genteman's name
was Charles Foster. His home is in Chicago.
Miss Alene Dooitt!e is expected home
the first of next week from Chicago where
she has been obliged to spend some time in
hospital for treatment of an ear trouble
The Shiawassee Poultry Association will
hold meeting, Monday night, to elect a
secretary to succeed Z. st. Clair, who is
about to move to his peach farm in Ottawa
county.
s. g. Burbank has the contract for the
excavation for the new basement of the
north wing Of the new Central School and
began work with force of men Monday
morning.
Q. A. Conner and children spent Sunday
in Swartz Greek where Mrs. Conner has
been visiting. Mrs. Conner, who has been
in very poor health for sc me time was not as
we'll Sunday.
Hon. II. r. Pattengill, of Lansing, shook
hands with Owosso friends Monday morn
ing. He predicts the construction during
the summer of the electric railway from
Lansing north to st. Johns aud Ithaca.
The Uniformed Rank K. p. is drilling
weekly for the annual meeting of the national
encampment of the order which is to be held
in Detroit in August. The Owosso divi-
sion expects to have fully fifty men in line.
One of the prominent farmers of Venice
township informs us that he netted $500
from one carload of sheep which he fed
during the winter He charged every
pound of hay and grain consumed and still
had the neat sum mentioned to repay him
for his trouble.
Mrs <. 5. Richards received telegram
yesterday morning announcing the death of
her mother, Mrs. j. V. Bayer, at Seattle,
Washington, where she had been taking
care of her father during the past winter.
Mrs. Richards had supposed that her mother
was in the very best of health and the news
was entirely unexpected The body WILDE
brought to OwOss0 for buriaA
Seldom has there been better advice for
the conduct of the human family than Is
boiled down in nine comprehensive anti
theses: Drink less breathe more; eat less
chew more; ride less, walk more; clothe less,
battle more; worry less, work more; waste
less, give more; write less, read more; talk
less, think more; preach less, pratice more
To follow these is to strike for greater sue
cess.
A number OF cities about the state are
agitating the matter of the adoption of stand
ard time as the only time to be used wtn-
In their borders. The idea is a sensible one
but will probably not be carried into effect
for some time to come. The most encour-
aging feature OF the case Is that continu-
ally larger number Of people are carry ing
only standard time anyway, regardless OF
auy regulations requiring them to do so,
and are finding that 1t Is by far the most
convenient thing to do.
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