The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1902-09-19

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weeks in Saginaw.
: Mr.. and Mrs. A. W. Hookway were il
Detroit few days this week.
Mrs. E. p. Gilbert will spend the win
ter with her daughter at Ruddock, La
Mrs. A. T. Thomas, Mrs. George M
Dewey and son, are in London, Ont.
for visit.
The sixth district convention of the
Christian church will be held here Oct
Z to 8, inclusive.
Ora F. Maxted, secretary of the bar
bers union, attended a convention OF
tonsorial artists at Lansing this week.
ID. l.. Winkler reports that some per-
sons, presumably boys destroyed large
number of water melons in his patch,
Sunday night.
Bert Gage, Geo. Hunt, Thos. Callard,
Arthur Burhans, and IL. Tubbs are
| playing this week with the Durand band
at Mt. Pleasant.
/ The Knapp family reunion was held
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. M. H.
Knapp, Thursday. There was large
out of town attendance.
Frank Hopkins has purchased S. j..
Rouses house at 715 Mulberry street.
Mr.. Rouse will move his family to his
other place, GA East Main street.
The report of the school census sub
mitted to the board Tuesday evening
shows the number of children in the
| district is 2542-an increase of 254 over
last year.
Prof. John Stone, of Lawrence, is
teaching the intermediate and Miss
Chatield. of Bedford the primary de-
partment of the Adventist school, at
Middletown.
Mervin P. Hunt, after four and one
half years absence at Nome City, Ala,
Manila, p. l., and Tahoe City, Idaho, is
visiting his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. S.
Hunt, in Owosso.
Master Coultard, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Ernest Greenwalt, and Master Leo
Brown, of Henderson, were taken to the
Michigan school for the deaf at Flint,
Wednesday, by Mrs. Greenwalt.
Mr.. and Mr.. l. G. Curry returned on
Wednesday evening from their trip to
California and other western states.
They were away seven weeks and report
having had most enjoyable time.
Fred Ingersoll, Ann Arbor machinist,
who resided on East Williams street,
has been transferred to Durand, where
he will work in the round house nights.
He will move his family there in few
weeks.
Mrs. VIM. Harrison, of Grand Rapids,
whose husband is proprietor of the Har-
rison Wagon Works, is visiting her
brother, G. S. Gilbert, 439 East Main
street Brother and sister had not met
for twenty years.
The clerks beat the business men in
ten inning base ball game Tuesday by
score of to 4. Allison and Lewis were
the business mems battery, Day and
Matthews appearing for the clerks
Both pitchers did fine work.
Corunna Commandery No. 81,
knights Templar, held its first meeting
last week since closing the work for
the summer. The Commander accepted
the invitation of Fir. F. j. Northway to
be entertained at Durand within few
weeks, after an exhibition drill.
The carnival at Laingsburg Thursday,
Friday and Saturday of last week was
not success, owing to the bad weather
The o. L. 1. Band was a popular feature
of the entertainment. Miss May Nor
ton, sister of Mrs. L. G. Heyer, of
Owosso, was elected queen of the carni-
val
Thomas Benedict, aged A, and Mary
Stark, 33, both Of Sciota township, got
license Tuesday to be married, but be-
fore they could leave the county clerks
office a telephone message from Joseph
Stark, the bride-to-bes brother, caused
Mr. Martin to secure the license from
Benedict. Stark claimed his sister was
crazy. He took her back home later
and the wedding did not come off.
The residences of Rev. j. H. Thomas,
pastor, and Mrs r. B. Ford, treasurer,
of the M. E. church, Corunna, were Wis
tied by burglars Sunday night, but the
thieves in both instances were fright.
ened away empty handed. 1t was the
last Sunday before conference, time
of the year when a large amount of
church money comes in and the burglars
had timed their visits on account of
these facts.
The damage suit of William Maudlin
of Vernon, VS.. the Union Telephone Co.,
of Owosso, ended Saturday with de-
feat for Mr.. Maudlin. The jury brought
in a verdict of six cents damages on the
count of trespass, but the twelve men
declared that there was no cause of
action on the count of damage to the