The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1902-05-23


of Grand Marais, are visiting Miss Kate
Rourke, State street.
E. E. Hacket, of Bennington, has pur.
chased the house owned by James Lock,
on Corunna Ave, and will occupy it.
| Quackenbush Post, G.. A. r., the w.
r. c., Company H, and the o. L. 1.
Band will attend memorial services at
the Baptist church, Sunday morning.
subscribers of the Union Tele-
phone Company must hereafter pay ten
cents to talk with Corunna, new rule
having gone into effect.
Misses Augustine and Anna Fischer,
of Alsace, Germany, have arrived in
| Owosso, and will make their home with
their brother, j. X. Fischer, of the
Owosso Cigar Co.
Chief Engineer M. j. McAuliffe and
Oiler William Ryan, of the Savona,
lake-steamer, spent part of Thursday
here. Their boat had been tied up at
Toledo to take on cargo.
Miss Lena Speck. who lives on Abbot
street was stricken with an epileptic fit,
Tuesday. She cut her scalp and sus-
tanned slight fracture of the skull
while falling. She will recover.
Dr.. r. H. Scott, of Laingsburg, will
take in the Mystic Shriners convention
in California the latter part of the
month. DR.. A. S. Scott, of Owosso,
will attend to his practice while he is
away.
The A. o. U. w. will have large
class of candidates for initiation at their
meeting on Wednesday evening, May
20. Every member is requested to
make special effort to be present
Friends and neighbors surprised Dan.
lei Foote, Jr., Monday evening, the oc-
casion being his fortieth birthday ami
versary. Mayor White, on behalf of
the assemblage, presented Mr.. Foote
with handsome rocker.
DR.. j. D. Crum attended the meeting
of the State Homeopathic Society at
Mt Clemens, two days this week. He
was given a place on the bureau com.
mittee, and read paper on Com,
pound fractures at the ankle oint.
Miss Julia Deane, who went to
Wichita, Kas., recently to get an uncle
who wandered away while insane
will return to Owosso before the close
of school, accompanied by the old gentle
man and by her sister.
At meeting of Owosso lodge No. 81,
F. and A. NJ, Wednesday evening,
Bro. D. H. Lamb presented the lodge
with handsome gavel of ebony wood
and caraca. The lodge accepted an in
vitation to visit Durand lodge in the
near future
Fred Eldredge was overcome in the
trench on West Main street while max
ing gas connections Tuesday. Fellow
laborers rescued him in time to prevent
serious consequences. The gas-mains are
being extended from State street west tc
the Ann Arbor.
Several members of the Owosso Camr
of Woodmen went to st. Johns last
evening to hear State Deputy Byrnes
of Ishpeming, and Hon. John Sullivan
of Kansas City of the executive council
NJ. W. A, speak on the proposed read
| instrument nlan of the order
Asa Gardner has resigned his position
as superintendent of the Ovid power
house to become foreman of the Grand
Trunk gravel pit near Ovid. Mr.. Gard.
ner formerly lived here. He has already
established record at the gravel pit for
the large amount of work put out.
Circuit Court Commissioner Stockdale
will hear the case of Mrs G. P. Pitts, of
Owosso, VS. Floyd Walton, of Benning-
ton. Walton purchased 1870 acres of
land in Bennington township of Mrs.
Pitts on contract The plaintiff claims
he has violated the termso f the contract,
and is suing for possession of the land.
The Elks will put through a class OF
100 at the Armory tonight. Much new
paraphernalia has been purchased,
and the candidates will undoubtedly
carry away the impression that the
Elk's goat is in reality a buck
ing broncho. The initiation will take
place on the floor of the auditorium
Frank H. Lambert, theatrical ad
vance man was recently arrested at
Battle Creek for uttering forged check.
BY representing himself as advance man
for the Thoroughbred Tramp company,
Lambert got all the mail of that or
ganization here a few weeks ago. 1t is
not supposed that any of the letters con
tanned money.
The fierce storm Of Thursday after
noon, although it lasted scarcely ten
minutes. did 81, 900 worth of damage in
Owosso and vicinity. The Ann Arbol
shops new smoke-stack was blown
down, entailing loss of $500; plate
glass window was broken at the Mill.
ken; the::Salems Lutheran church was
| nartial1v unroofed and large show