The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1902-03-07

Inc pension OF hlcflaru Haley, VI Unls
city, has been increased to $50 per month.
0Ray Retain, of Flint will spend Sun
day with his mother, Mrs. E. E. Retain.
A girl was born Monday to Mr.. and
Mrs. f. G. Wickham, West King street.
Ray Townsend and Fred LOCKER are
machinists apprentices at the car shops.
Mr.. and Mrs Henry Beswick are
visiting in Kalamazoo and Battle Greek.
w. S. Beebe's incubator has Matched
80 White Wyandotte chicks from 40
eggs.
A son was born to Mr.. and Mrs.
Herbert Wilson, Corunna avenue, Sat
urday.
Will Fox has gone to Wheaton, ILL.,,
where he has position with Lawrence
Gould
w. E. Payne e. Co. unloaded a car
load of Clark & Cos. Lansing buggies,
Saturday.
Nicholas Miesen is now running the
Turf Exchange saloon, and has moved
his Office there.
Miss Grace Ainsworth, of Flushing,
student at the Owosso Business College,
is book keeper at E. F. .Dudley's.
Mrs. w. l.. Guipe has packed her
household goods and gone to Flushing
to join her husband, who is working
there.
Master Harry Noble, six year old son
of Aid. Harry Noble, gave party to
thirty of his friends Friday afternoon in
honor of his birthday
Augustus Mccartney and Harry
Matthews, of the. Ann Arbor shops,
have gone to Saginaw to work in the
Pere Marquette shops.
Rev. Frank S. Lyon united Mr.. Bert
Allen and Miss Lodema Kentfield, of
Shiawassee township, in marriage at
the Baptist parsonage Sunday.
Owosso Lodge No SO, l. o. o. F. is
soliciting other Odd Fellow lodges in
the county for assistance in getting the
State Home for the aged Odd Fellows
here.
The Elks at a regular meeting Tues
day evening entertained Grand Secre
tary George Reynolds, Past Exalted
Ruler Renick, and Rowland Common, of
Saginaw.
The Daughters of Rebekah of the
county will be asked by the Star of
Hope Lodge of this city to cooperate
with the Odd Fellow lodges in an effort
to get the Odd Fellows Home for
Owosso.
The supreme court has reversed the
decision of the circuit court in the case
of w. j. Sax VS.. the D., G. H. & M. Ry.
The case has been twice tried in the cir
cult court, the last time plaintiff being
given verdict for $4,000.
The house owned by p p Beswick
and occupied by Mrs. Emma Rutledge
on North Water street, caught fire Fri
day evening The department ex-
tinguished the blaze with 5000 loss on
house and furnishings, partially insured.
Rolla Detwiler son of George w.
Detwiler, had an operation performed
upon his hand at Ann Arbor last week.
1t was found that blood-vessel had
been ruptured, probably during a base
ball game last summer. This caused an
abnormal growth
L. c. Cheney has applied for patent
on beet harvester which is said to be a
winner. 1t consists of knife connect
ing two mould boards. The beets are
thrown back, and the dirt separated in
the process. The contrivance is also a
good potato harvester.
The High school will resolve itself
into a congress and debate on the follow
ing subject at the Central building to-
night: Resolved, That the proposed
reduction of the tariff on Cuban sugar
would be beneficial to the United
States"
Richard Van Giesen, of Chesaning
who formerly lived on farm west of
the city in Owosso township, received a
bad fall Monday night He missed his
way, east of Owosso junction, and fell
into Comstock creek The banks were
twenty feet high at this point-near
the Grand Trunk tracks-and he was
thoroughly drenched and badly bruised
Alfred Taphouse died of measles at
his home in Caledonia Wednesday.
Deceased was SO years of age and had
resided in Caledonia 35 years. He left
a wife and two sons, Charles and Ward
Taphouse, a brother, Charles Taphouse,
resided in Owosso. The funeral took
place this afternoon at Corunna, Rev.
Paul Desjardins, assisted by Rev. w.
g. Nixon, officiating.
Mrs Andrew d. Sherman died very
suddenly of heart-failure early Tuesday
morning at her home in Sciota. Mrs.
Sherman had been out during the even
ing, and felt in her usual health. She
leaves a husband-the brother of A. A.