The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1902-03-21

Oi DtiSAHtSS.
Hartshorn & Son have beardless seed
barley for sale
The officers of Corunna Commandery
will be installed on Friday evening next.
The Current Topic Club will meet
with Mrs. T. o. Christian on Monday
next.
Mars Council, Royal Arcanum,
initiated fifteen candidates at A. o. U.
w. hall last evening.
George H.. Grahame arrived in the
city Wednesday to move his family,and
household goods to Detroit. n
Thirty seven members of the w. r.
G. took dinner with Mrs. julius Frieseke,
Corunna avenue, Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Ingle will re-
turn from North Dakota, this spring,
to make their home in Owosso.
Miss Emma Lawrence will go to
Detroit, Monday, to spend few days
with her brother, F. G. Lawrence.
Mrs. Julia F. STARTS has presented the
Ladies Social Uuion of the Congrega-
tional church with check for So.
Prof. and Mrs. J. c. Osburn leave to-
night for ten days trip to Washington,
d. c., New York City, and Wells, N. Y.
G. w. Pickell. of Detroit, general
agent for the Massachusetts Mutual
Life ms. Co., was in the city yesterday.
{, Mr.. and Mrs. r. D. Crawford go to
Mt. Pleasant tomorrow to spend Sun
day with Ray w. Crawford and. family.
Congressman Fordney is at home for
few days to attend to business matters
and work of interest to this COMPRESSION
al district.
Miss Emma Neuman and Mr.. Orson
Noonan were married by Rev. Frank
| S. Lyon, Wednesday evening, at the
brides home on East Oliver street.
Under Sheriff w. M. Case arrested
Orrin Harris of Laingsburg, at Lake
view Wednesday. Harris is charged
with deserving his wife three years ago.
d. H. Moss received word this week
of the death of his brother George
Moss, of Rochester, N. Y. The latter
was secretary of the Chamber of Com
merce.
Owosso Company Uniform Rank,
Knights Of Pythias, will help install a
company of U. R. X. p at Alma, March
%, going to that place via Ann Arbor
special train.
G. L. Dimmick will move the double
house to the rear of the lots at 331 and
1913 Hickory street, and erect handsome
frame structures in their places. The
old houses will be put in good condition
| d. G. Cooper and family will soon re-
move from Corunna to their farm in
Caledonia township. Prosecuting At
torney Richards has purchased theft
residence in Corunna
Mr.. and Mrs Oliver Davis and Mrs
S. T. Van Dusen attended the annua
banquet of HoweA Commandery knights
Templar, on Monday evening, and Mr.
Davis, retiring Eminent Commander O.
the organization, was presented with {
handsome past commanders jewell by
his fraters.
The hearing in the matter of tn,
Fletcher street opening occurs Marcel
26, before Justice McCaughna. The
street will be carried across the NJ c
tracks west to Chapman street Resi-
dents whose property will be cut in TIVE
are strongly Directing
The fruit and berry growers of Owes
so and vicinity have organized, and
propose to make dealers pay for crates
and packages which they fail to return
The loss falls on the growers, and tn
, leak, though small one, mounts up il
season. L. S. Bowles, the veteran
melon man, is behind the movement.
The Abbott voting Machine, to b
tried here this spring election, is manu-
featured at Adrian, and sells at $500
Its advantage over the old way of votinl
is its speed and accurancy, and the fac
that each vote is counted as registered
so there is no labor after the polls ar
closed. The machine works by com
) bination of keys and levers
; The common council on Monday eve
: ming named j. s. Haggart, w. E. Hal
and R. d. Crawford as the board O
election commissioners. The gentlemen
are all republicans, and as the law pro
vides that not more that two-shall b
, members of the same political party
one member of opposite political faitl
) will be named next Monday to replac
J one of the trio.
The fire department made Ian ex
ceptionally good run at $50 Saturda
morning. Four minutes after an alarr
had been turned in, water was bein
thrown ON the home of Jay Austin
I Dickerson street, three and one-hal
blocks from the city hall. The,Austin
just escaped with their lives, and thei
q household goods were nearly total loss