The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1902-04-18
Local News

to spend the summer.
Ora Linabury, George Gabriel Will
lam Lowrey and Floyd Devereaux have
joined Lawrence Gould at Chicago.
The l.. o. T. nj. will give a musical
entertainment and fancy drill at the
Armory Wednesday evening, April %.
Late returns show the total member
ship of the Y. NJ. G. A. to be 527. OF
this number, 50 are from the Ann Arbor
shops.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Woodland have
returned from Detroit. Mrs. Woodland
has been in the hospital there for several
weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas E. Rigley, Jr,
entertained the Eight O'clock Pedro
Club, Wednesday night. H. c. Brown
won first prize.
Architect George M. Edwards, of
Owosso, has drawn the plans for three
story, 50x150 addition to the Ovid
Carriage factory.
Mrs. Jud Willis, of the Kelley school
neighborhood, has purchased A. M.
Gays home on Adams street, and will
soon move to Owosso.
Eugene May, delegate from the Typo
graphical Union, has been elected presi-
dent of the Central Labor Union, vice
E. B. Conner resigned.
Mrs. Newton Baldwin, Henry Bes-
wick and John Schofeld have purchased
large monuments of w. l.. Parker to
place on their burial lots.
Daniel Burhans has entirely re-
modelled the old Reporter building on
East Exchange street. A new brick
and plate glass front will be put in.
Willie Best, nine year old Pittsburg
boy, will lose the sight of an eye. He
was struck by jagged piece of slate
schoolmate threw. DR.. Lamb is in at
tendance
Miss Mona Bryson received Texan
burro by express from her father, j.
M. Bryson, recently. The animal is
scarcely two feet high and weighs about
100 pounds.
The Ann Arbor Ry. is building an
observation car at the shops here. 1t
will cost about $4,000 The Car will
rln between Beulah and Frankfort.
The American Equity Association,
with home offices in the Haarer block,
Owosso, received $1,000 in assessments
the first four months of 1902 The as
sociation's financial condition is very
satisfactory
DR.. E. T. Wilson, now U. S. con-
tract surgeon, is awaiting sailing orders
at the Presidio San Francisco, Cal. He
expects to leave for the Philippines
before May 1. The doctor has light,
pleasant duty, and good quarters.
Howard Slocum, of Caledonia, mem
Der of the county board of school exam
liners, has been engaged as superintend-
ent of the village schools at Vernon for
next year. Mr.. Slocum graduates at
Ypsilanti in June.
W. d. Mahon of Detroit president
of the Amalgamated Association of
Street Railway Employees, and Daniel
d. Mulcahy, of Detroit, National Presi-
dent of the Woodworkers Association
will speak at A. o. U. w. Hall tonight.
All laboring men are invited to attend.
Miss Maude Squire spoke on
Wrecks" last week, at the annual
college prohibition oratorical contest at
Albion. She won first prize, and will
represent Albion in the State contest at
Ypsilanti next month. Miss Squire is
daughter of Rev. G. G. Squire, of st.
Charles, former pastor of the Corunna
avenue NJ E. church, Owosso.
Owosso, with all her improvements,
public spirit and enterprise, allows
bicyclists to ride upon her sidewalks.
Tuesday night while in that city the
writer saw the collision of bicycle and
a lady on the sidewalk just after dark
Where is there city the size of Owosso
that allows anything of the kind.
Chesaning Argus
A broken fue on Michigan Central
engine, three miles south of Bennington,
late Friday afternoon, caused two brake
men who were in the cab to jump.
The steam was shut off, and the train
ran into Bennington of its own mo-
mentum. The .brakemen, who were
came in on hand-car.
Mrs Orilla Griswold, of Durand, has
sued saloonist Frank Hulburd and his
DR.. A. G.. Cowles and James
Harrington, for S., 900 damages, because
her son, Ward Griswold, eighteen year
old, procured liquor at Hulburd's saloon.
Griswold was recently sentenced to !
year in Ionia for robbing his uncle, M.
V. Russell. Mrs. Griswold says the boy |
did it while under the influence of LIQUOR |
sold by Hulburd.
Many of the miners in the vicinity of |
the Owosso coal mines own patches of |
land which they till during the usually
idle summer months. AS fate will have
It, however, the Owosso mine is the |