The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1902-11-21

George Eddy is the new sexton al
Oak Hill.
H. w. Parker was in st. Charles
Tuesday.
Miss Louie Fox is clerking at Ferris
tBros'. store.
Miss Ruth Potter is now employed al
Sloans bakery.
Many Owosso stores will close all day
Thanksgiving.
John Miller, of Mt. Pleasant, is work
ing for Sloan, the baker.
E. M. Miller has been engaged as
sexton of the Baptist church.
The price of soft coal dropped on
Saturday from 1915 to a. so per ton.
F. H. Watson has been appointed
city attorney to act until Jerome w.
Turner RECEIVERS from his injury.
The school children made deposit of
S4701 at the Citizens Savings Bank
Friday.
H. G. McGuineas is now the owner of
the store occupied by Woodland, North
81 Jennings.
McElwane Miner will spend the win
ter on his farm on South Chapman
street, moving from Bradley street, this
city.
William Tucker accidently broke his
finger the other day while at the Rob
bins Table factory by striking it with a
a mallet.
The Owosso Broom Company is far
behind on orders and is adding to its
working force. The factory is located
at Middletown.
Paul Bradish, an Owosso apprentice
boy who recently entered the navy, has
been assigned to-the training-ship Con-
stellation, at Newport, R. 1.
The Salems German church steeple
was struck by lightning some time ago
George w. Loring has adjusted the
claim by payment of $161.74.
While Mrs. E. E. Cowan and Mrs. c.
E. Jackson, of Ovid, were on the streets
here one day recently, Mrs. Cowan lost
purse containing seven dollars.
Owing to the continuous rain this
fall, which drowned out most of the
young birds, Thanksgiving turkeys will
cost eighteen to twenty cents per pound.
Surveyor H. G. Main has provided for
the opening of Chestnut and Oliver
streets, near the Sugar factory site,
having completed survey of the land.
The Ann Arbor railroad has restored
to Miss Helen Decker, of Corunna, a
| purse containing a sum of money,
which she left on a passenger train re-
Gently.
The Robbins Table Co. has installed
an automatic machine for turning table
legs from the rough block to the hand
somely carved leg. 1t works very salts
factorily.
Miss Myra, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
E. o. Place, Owosso township, and Mr..
William FL. Kirker will be married
Thanksgiving afternoon at the home of
the bride-elect.
John Brooks entertained a good crowd
at the Lemon school-house recently with
his Spanish-American war pictures
The funds went for the purchase of a
school library.
Grand Trunk Engine 1O46 was recent
ly sent to the shops at Port Huron for
repairs, drive wheel having dropped
off while the engine was hauling a train
between Ovid and Owosso.
The funeral of Joseph Dennis, Jr. of
Owosso township, occurred Tuesday
afternoon from the Baptist church,
Rev. F. S. Lyon officiating. Mr. Den
mis- was twenty years of age and died of
consumption.
Grand Lecturer w. III. Loomis, OF
Grand Rapids, paid Owosso Lodge No. 81
Knights of Pythias, fraternal visit re.
Gently. All the Grand officers will be
here in December, when Owosso Lodge
puts through large class
The railroad companies are, it is said,
more favorable to granting Owosso a
union freight shed than union depot
Such a shed, located near Michigan
avenue, would save roads and shipper:
an immense amount of transferring.
The Michigan Central Railroad de-
tective discovered recently that gravel
had been taken by outsiders from the
company's pit at Maple River. The
identity of one Owosso man who i:
charged with taking it has been dis
covered
Employees of the Owosso Manufactur
ing Company who now buy their sof
coal from their employer at 1926, ar,
thinking of lowering living expenses
still more by purchasing co-operativ,
store. They have store in mind which
can be purchased.
A rock weighing ten tons blocked thu
path of trench, last week, which tn