The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1900-01-19

The Home Forum held a social meetn
at the home OF j.. w. Sherwood Wedne,
day evening.
Geo. w. Detwiler went to ClevelanG
Ohio, Monday evening to attend the na.
tiOnal meeting of grocers.
Several additional men have been added
to the force of the Vincent Valve Com.
pauy's factory In this city.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. d. Fitzpatrick have
gone to housekeeping in Washington, their
address being 1911 U. st.
Charles A. Norcross, who has been suf.
fering for some time with dropsy, is quite
low at his home on Cute street.
R W. Crawford has been spending the
week In Morrice experimenting the installa.
ton of the new telephone board.
Hon. Milo d. Campbell, of Coldwater,
president of the State tax commission, spent
an hour in the city Wednesday morning.
Remember the farmers institute to be
held In this city Jan. 29-3Oth under the
auspices of the State board of agriculture.
Clifford II. McCurdy has again resumed
his position as stenographer for Watson &
Chapman after an absence of two months
from the Office.
K. j. Foster, of Grass Lake and a mem
Der of the Foster Bros. furniture and hard
ware firm of this city, was recently elected
president of the bank at that place.
The owe-Wesener Shoe Co. store has
been crowded with customers all the week
anxious to take advantage of the bargains
offered in their 'Red Letter Sale."
r. r. Sergeant, formerly an employee of
THE TIMES. has assumed the management
of the Manistee Sentinel. Raye's numer.
GUS Owosso friends wish him every possible
success.
A ball game for the city championship
will be played in the armory this evening
between the o. l.. 1. and Owosso Carriage
Co. teams, 1t being the first of series of
three games.
The Bennington Maccabees will install
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Past Great Commander Conner, of Saginaw,
as installing officer. An oyster supper will
be served after the installation.
Hon. F. II. Watson is In IOnia today at
tending a meeting of the executive com.
mittee of the Republican State League.
He will attend the annual banquet Of the
Gridley club in that city this evening.
Lyon & Pond, Murray & Terbush, Grove
q Payne, The Fair, Knapp & Smith, and
the Foster Furniture Co. have changes of
ads In this issue, while Hartshorn q Son,
the Grove esener Shoe Co. and the Owos-
so Poultry Co. have new ads.
Last evenings Lansing Republican states
that I'M. Norman Osborne, the popular
manager of @. @. Longstreet's grocery, Is
critically i'll with pneumonia at his home,
312 Washtenaw street west" Mr.. Osborne
has host of friends In OwOsso who will
hope soon to hear of his speedy recovery.
A fire was discovered on the I'd floor Of
the new Frieseke block Wednesday evening
about eight o'clock In Grahame's cigar fac
tory. Evidently a spark from cigar had
set fire to some dry leaves which In turn
had set fire to one of the workman's benches
Miss Anna Clark daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Daniel Clark, died at the home Of her
parents, on South Shawassee street yester
day morning of consumption. She was
twenty.one years of age, but had been af
ficted with the dread malady for a long
time. The funeral will be held Sunday.
The Katharine Ridgeway Concert COM
pany will give the third number of the Y.
M. G. A. star course 10 the Baptist church
on Wednesday evening next. The com.
pany consists of Miss Ridgeway, reader;
Mrs. Warehouse soprano; Mr.. Mcpherson,
basso; and Mr.. Bush, pianist; a splendid
combination and the program will please
everyone. Single tickets so cents.
M. Il. Knapp of the firm Of Knapp &
Smith, spent the first half of the week In
Grand Rapids attending the furniture show
and securing attractive and new designs In
furniture, which will soon be on exhibition
In their new Main street store, Mr.. Smith
was in Grand Rapids last week and be-
tween the two there should be but few good
things in the furniture line for 1900 which
can escape this firm.
To accommodate its advertising patrons
without encroaching upon the space devoted
to reading matter. THE TIMES prints IL
pages this week. On our extra four pages
will be found considerable local and general
news. the speech of Senator Beverage on
the Philippine question-which we ask all
our readers to peruse carefully-and the
laws passed at the recent special session of
the legislature.
The Estey factory A has been started up
again this week with a full force in every
department, after the brief shut down for
repairs on machinery and engines. The
success of the company's Grand Rapids
RAPIDS salesrOOms during the furniture