The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1900-06-01
Local News.

eS~NA AN~"Ss
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank E. Wicking leave
Monday for Detroit. They will reside al
113 Henry street.
Miss Maud Jackson has accepted posi-.
ton as clerk with the Davis Dry Good Co.,
commencing work this morning.
Census Supervisor o. l.. Sprague spent
Wednesday in Tuscola county on business
connected with the department
The republican state convention will be
held at Grand Rapids, June 27th. Hon. d.
P. Markey will be the temporary chairman
Supt E. T. Austin will conduct the
Petoskey state teachers institute this year.
The institute begins August 25 and lasts
five days.
Rural Mail Carrier Sprague handled 49,
459 pieces of mail matter last month-the
largest number of any month since the
service was commenced.
Glen Blanchard returned from his school
work in Detroit last evening and will be at
home for few weeks. He expects to be-
gin work In the postoffice the first of July,
the time when the allowance for the addi-
tional clerk In the postofice takes effect.
The G. A. R. and w. r. G. will visit the
cemeteries in the country next Sunday,
June 8, as had been planned for last Sun
day, when the heavy rain and the funeral
OF Comrade Dorman made 1t impossible to
do so. We will be pleased to meet the
friends as previously planned. BY order
of the committee.
Smoked glass was in good demand Mon
day morning during the time of the eclipse,
and large number of Owosso people saw
the sun with the big piece apparently cut
out of it. For time 1t was so cloudy that
it could be observed safely without the in
PREVENTION of smoked glass even.
Mrs. L K. Gould expects to leave Mon
day for Milwaukee to attend the National
Federation of Womens Clubs as delegate
from the Michigan State Federation of
Women's Clubs. Mrs Gould will go in
company with Mrs. Sharp, of Jackson, the
other delegate from the Michigan fedora
ton.
Supt K. T. Austin gave very practical
and unusually valuable talk to the young
men of the city in the Y. M. G. A. rooms
Sunday afternoon. He urged that young
men should not consider money the chief
object in life and urged them to work for an
IDEAL The matter of recreation was also
considered and Its proper use commended.
Knapp q Smith have purchased one of
the Voorhees, patent casket lowering devices
and will hereafter use the same at the
funerals of which they have charge. The
device is one of the few inventions OF
special merit which have been made for
years in the equipment made use of at
burial services. Messrs. Knapp & Smith
are to be congratulated upon their enter
prise in securing the same.
Mr.. G. w. Parker, of Owosso, In Byron
of late. He ia il, the field for the nOmine-
ton for sheriff, and because of the showing
made In his favor when the present in
cumbent was first nominated, and because
of overtures made to him by representative
men promising support later il he was a
candidate, and further because of Mr..
Parker's special qualifications as an intelli-
gent, active citizen, honored by his friends
politically and socially, we think no mis-
take will be made In selecting him as can
didate for the important and responsible
office of sheriff OF Shaw assoc county,
Byron Herald.
The council passed the bicycle ordinance
at the Tuesday evening meeting and now
all who persist In riding on the sidewalk,
rain or shine, whether In paved district or
In district where the ruts In the road are
as thick as the hairs on q dogs back and as
deep as original sin, may know that they
are violating the law. The ordinance, which
Is published In another column In the
council proceedings, is short one, In fact 1t
Is so short that II contains no provision as
to when 1t goes into effect, but the charter
provides that In such cases ordinances shall
20 into effect twenty days after their pas
sage.