The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1901-07-05

! for the Sloan bakery On Saginaw stTee.,
Mrs. w. NJ Case and chile. went to
Ludlngton Wednesday for visit of several
weeks with Mrs. Cases parents.
DR.. and Mrs. c. Mccormick and sons
Gladstone, Donald and Colin leave on Tues
day next to visit relatives near Rdgetowp,
| Ont.
One of the plate glass windows In the
store of j.. Thompson has hole through it,
the result Of careless shooting of rocket by
| someone.
| Duchess" the largest trained elephant
In the world, one OF the many animal
features with Golmar Bros. Il Schumans
new united shows at Owosso, July IL.
Mrs. Ella White was taken to the county
house yesterday by Officer Retain for tenn
| pOrary detention. She has been becoming
insane for some time and has lately become
violently so.
Kinney Parker and j. Corcoran had a
bicycle collision on the corner of Washing
ton and Main streets Saturday evening in
! which both wheels were badly smashed and
the riders somewhat bruised,
The Cushman house on the old fair
grounds, North Adams street, was struck
| by lightning yesterday afternoon. The
house was not set on fire but was bad y
damaged otherwise. No one was in tie
! house at the time.
r. w. Crawford has resigned as manager
Of the Union Telephone Company at its
Owosso exchange, to accept position as
Michigan representative for the American
Electric Telephone Company, of Chicago,
with headquarters at OwOsso. He left this
morning for Alma on his first trip for the
company.
After paying the expenses Of the county
eighth grade graduation and public school
rally held In COrupns, June 90, there is a
BALANCE on hand, of the fund raised from
various sources for that purpose, of S3S,
which will be disposed of according to the
dictates of the teachers at the next meeting
of the county teachers association. 1t will
probably be used for similar exercises neyt
year.
The Detroit Tribune of this morning says:
''Several republican politicians from out in
the state were discussing state politics at the
Russell house last night. The general senti
ment seemed to be that State Senator Fuller,
of Menominee, will be the republican can
didate for lieutenant. governor next year, and
that Frank Watson, OF Owosso, will defeat
Senator Geo. Nichols, of Ionia, for the NOM
inaton for attorney general"
The west bound freight on the ID. Il Nj,
division of the Grand Trunk was ditched
just this side of Corunna this morning by
washcut and twenty-one cars were piled up
in the ditch and on top of each other in the
water The engineer, man named Hobart,
living In Detroit, and his fireman, were con-
siderably injured, although not dangerously.
The water stood over the tracks and was
even over the fencefor some distance. The
Grand Trunk has been using the Ann Arbor
tracks between Durand and Owosso since
the accident this morning,
Gollmar Bros. & Schumans arrived here
Saturday. There was one thing about the
company that was commented upon every
where and that was the absence of profanity
and roughness on the part of employees.
Neither was there the usual misrepresenta-
ton. Everyone from manager down was
gentemanly and courteous. Gollmar Bros.
& Scbumans have nothing connected with
their entertainment or company that the
most particular can take offense at
Fayette Co. Union, West Union, Iowa. At
Owosso, July ~.
The school board has reappointed JAM
tors A. Wicking, and II. Jacobs for the
Washington, and Emerson schools re-
spectively. M. A. Halstead was appoint.
ed janitor of the Bryant School to succeed
Thos. Morton. The appointment for the
Central school was not made, the duties of
janitor and of engineer at the school rCquir-
ing some distinction to be made between the
duties of the two positions. The meeting
of the board was held at the home of Or. A.
NJ. Hume Tuesday night and at the close of
the meeting the members of the board were
served with ice cream by Mrs. Hume
The Knights of the Maccabees of Wilson
Tent No. 100 enjoyed themselves at a
banquet in their hall Friday evening. The
occasion was the long promised banquet
which was to celebrate the close of the
contest for new members which increased
the membership Of the order in this city by
the number of about seventy. Before the
banquet itself a short program was given,
w. II. Bigeiow having charge of the
assembled company. Among those who
took part in the speaking were Rev. Frank
s. Lyon, DR.. j. ID. Crum, o. l.. Sprague,
and W. l.. Parker. A dialogue, Rotations,
and music were also provided.
Company Il is getting in splendid shape
for the coming camp of the Michigan Ma
tional Guard. The quarterly report sent in
by Capt. McCaughna for the second quar-
ter of the year showed membership of
eighty men and 1t also showed that there
had been an average attendance of the same
number at drill for the last three months,