The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1903-03-13

Edward Rourk Is working at Hol
mans cigar store.
John Fletcher has been ill of rheuma
tism for several days.
Frank Comstock is very ill at the
sanitarium at st. Louis
George B. McCaughna has received
his commission as Major.
Calvin Bentley has left for three
months trip to the west and south.
The Ann Arbor wrecking crew was
at Mt. Pleasant this week picking ur
q wreck.
The Central Labor Union, by resolu,
ton, has expressed itself as favoring q
new court house.
The street car Magnet jumped the
track twice Tuesday, once in Corunna,
and once in Owosso.
The X. o. T. M. M. met Monday
evening and had smoker, after initia.
ting class of candidates.
At the democratic state convention
in Detroit, Tuesday, Stanley E. Parkill,
of Owosso, acted as chairman.
Miss Blanche Brewster is back at her
work at Hookway & Sons store, after a
long absence on account of illness.
Mrs. S. McCarty, of Ovid. who is
quite sick, is being cared for at the
home of her daughter, Mrs H. r. Cole,
in this city.
William H. Clark was arrested al
Lansing this week on charge of selling
a horse ON which chattel mortgage is
held in this county.
Mrs E. T. Wilson and son Egerton
arrived in Manila safely January 27,
and has since joined DR.. Wilson at
Puerto Princesa, p l.
George James, an employee at Factory
B, cut the knuckles of his right hand
quite severely ON striking machine at
the shooting gallery Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Levi Swan, of Quincy,
celebrated their golden wedding on Sat
urday. Their daughter, Mrs. w. A.
Kent, of this city, attended the cere-
mony.
Mrs. G. Rourke, of State street, fell
one day last week at her home and
broke her leg in two places She Is in
a serious condition on account of her
advanced age.
John H. Kernaghan, of Durand, has
declared his intention to become citi-
zen of the United States. He has re-
nounced his allegiance to the King of
Great Britain.
Ira Thompson, of Owosso, has been
granted divorce from his wife for
desertion. He says she ran away with
Roger Peca, who formerly conducted a
fruit store here.
The Dorcas Board expect to have a
rubber gathering this spring. All those
having old rubbers will please put them
in barrels which will soon be placed
about the streets for the purpose.
The street car made record run
Monday night bringing a party of
Owosso people who attended club
meeting at Corunna to the New Nation
al hotel, Owosso, in eight minutes.
Sergt. Fred E. VanDyne will un-
doubtedly be promoted to the Second
Lieutenancy of Company H, vice First
Lieut.. Ross promoted to Captaincy, and
Second Lieut.. Case to First Lieutenancy.
Leo Crum, of Owosso, was one of the
Homeops relay team in a recent Fresh
man meet at the U. of M. At another
meet, Eugene Brewer, of Owosso, cleared
the bar at feet II inches in the high
jump.
The Pacific Express Company's Office
on Exchange street has been moved off
its former site. Daniel Burhans will
at once commence the erection of two
story brick building as an Office to re-
place the inadequate wooden structure.
The sum of 500 has been appropriated
by the council as the city's contribution
to the fund for a. memorial tablet in
honor of Fireman James Fred Ross,
who was killed three years ago in fire
at the Central school.
Rev. Z. H. Hanks entertained Mon
day at dinner at his home, the other
members of the program committee of
the Genesee Association of Congrega-
tional churches, as follows: Revs. j. F.
Fryer, of Ovid w. G. Allen, Laings-
burg; S. d. Wildwood, Bancroft; VIM.
Weidenhoeft, Vernon.
In the current issue of the Philistine,
Ebert Hubbard speaks highly of the
sugar beet as factor in the renewed
prosperity of Michigan. In speaking of
the lecture he delivered here, Mr.. Hub
bard said that "his audience of fifteen
hundred people was well-dressed, appre-
ciative, prosperous and intelligent.
Although the Michigan National
Guards will go into camp with the reg
ulars this summer, and receive pay from
the government only at the rate of thir-
taan dollars ner month thew will get.