The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1902-08-08

of her sister, Mrs. F. B. Woodland.
H w. ConkIin Is in Detroit ON bust
ness and will be absent several days
| Secretary Bromley of the Union
Telephone Co. was in the city Tuesday.
Geo. NJ Dewey was oI-c tom Ian
sing from ur y Ill A-onday eve
ming.
Geo. M. Dewey was home from Ian
sing from Saturday until Monday even.
ing.
Rev. M. DeVoist left last week on q
business trip to Sanilac Center and
Harbor Beach.
Mrs. NJ Keyte left Monday for San
francisco to visit abrother whom she
has not seen for years. So,
Geo. l. Thomas spent Sunday at Haz-
Lett Park with Leo Crum and Monday
in Lansing on business.
Miss Lulu Gilbert entertained the
Congregational Y. P. s. @. E. at her
home Tuesday evening.
Thomas Morton, of West Main street,
recently stricken with paralysis, has
almost entirely recovered.
w. D. Murray sent a fine box of trout
down Monday from Frankfort, to be
divided among his clerks,
The infant son of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
Williams, Factory street, died yesterday
morning after short sickness.
Miss Bernard, of Chicago, is stenog-
rapher for the Estey Manufacturing Co.
during Miss Sackrider's absence.
An engine at the power house broke,
Monday evening, tieing up the street
cars until the middle of Tuesday fore
noon.
The Y. M. G. A. team expected to
| play base ball with the Durand team
here Tuesday, but the latter failed to
come.
Jacob Rentz, local tailor, is serving
thirty days in the county Jail for beat
ing his wife and children while he was
drunk.
Rev. J. G. Cromer, former pastor of
the church, will occupy the pulpit of
the Congregational church, Sunday,
Aug. nth.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. " Robbins and son,
Harlan, are home from Estey City n.
NJ, for visit here. They may decide
to remain here.
Mrs. Shay, leading lady of the Marks
Bros. Theatrical Company, of London,
Ont, is visiting Misses Minnie Warren
and Maude Gates.
The Deacon Goodhue house on Oliver
street has been remodeled on the inside,
and is now an apartment house for
| light housekeeping.
Mrs j. T. Wildermuth, Jr., and baby,
Mrs. Gus Wildermuth and son, Henry,
and Mr.. and Mrs. A. G. Sax are enjoy
ing an outing at Linden.
While on their way to Lake Orion,
Monday, Rev. and Mrs. James Chap.
man lost handbag containing 81 in
money and quantity of silverware.
Telegraph operators are so scarce that
the Grand Trunk can get no one to dc
the night work at the depot, and the
day force is dividing it among them.
Bert AFFORD, son of Mr. and Mrs. w.
H. AFFORD, West Main street, has been
promoted from the agency of the Ann
Arbor at Shepherd to be agent at Clare
The old frame boarding house on
Corunna avenue, which has been vacant
some months was set on fire on Monday
evening and badly damaged. The
Estey Mfg. Co., owners, are protected
by insurance.
| Officer G. A. Griffith is acting as
marshal during the absence of Marshall
! q. HI. Ross and Undersheriff Case at the
Sheritfs and Police convention at the
500. Bert Hodges is walking Mr..
Griffiths beat
The work of getting the releases OF
property holders along the Comstock
creek drain, so that it may be deepened
and widened, is not proceeding very
rapidly. So far nineteen have refused
to sign releases.
| The petition of the sidewalk men fo1
a raise in wages from ST. 80 to 81. rs pei
day was presented to the council Mon.
day evening, but failed of its passage,
as no one would support it, and the
petition thus could not be acted upon.
Thomas l.. Johnson and George Den.
ton, pickpockets who robbed Herman
Abels, show day, plead guilty Monday
to simple larceny, and were sentenced
| by Justice McCaughna to sixty-five
days each in the Detroit House of Cor
rection.
Hereafter the cement and tar walks
will not be built by the city's hiring
laborers, but will be built by contractors
who put up $4,000 bond to do the
work right. The ordinance was
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