The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1903-03-06

h. ID Lyon returned from New York
Monday.
B. E. Smith, of the Sugar Company
was in Bay City on business Tuesday.
Ann Arbor Union men will hold a big
celebration Labor Day. The Owosse
Unions will assist them.
j. B. Mcintosh is making trip o.
several weeks through Ohio, Indiana
and Kentucky.
George w. Axtell, job printer for the
Press American, has resigned his place
to go east for Howell hay buyer.
Mr., and Mrs. o. L. Sprague returned
from Caro-, Tuesday, where they were
called to attend the funeral of relative
The local post Office is to be supplied
with Brant automatic cash register
for the use of the money order depart
ment.
E. Carr is now located in his new
Office on east Exchange street, formerly
occupied by the Misses Herbison's MILL
merry store.
Dana E. Seeley, of the Superior Man.
ufacturing Company, Ann Arbor, for
merly of Owosso, is in Mexico on a
business trip.
Frank Mccartney has sold his farm
in Rush, and has purchased one of 1870
acres near the North Owosso church.
He will build house and barn this
spring.
A. d. Whipple and Andrew and
Erven Geek are home from a trip to
Estey and vicinity, where the Geeck
brothers may purchase large tract of
farm land
Company H expects to go with the
Michigan National Guard either to
Chickamauga, FIT. Riley, Kas., Fort
Douglas, Utah, or Fl. Sheridan, Ills,
for the annual encampment.
Company H voted in many new mem
bers at its meeting Tuesday evening.
Major McCaughna, Sergt. Phillips and
Corporal Hamper were appointed a
committee to revise the constitution
and by laws.
John Drury. the printer whose leg
was cut off Friday near Byron by the
cars, died two days later, He was
buried at Eaton Rapids Drury was 80
years, old and married. He formerly
worked in Owosso.
Grant A. Randall, who recently
moved to the city from Olney, has been
appointed to weigh mails for thirty
days at the Grand Trunk depot in Du-
rand. The appointment came through
Congressman Fordney.
Nusbaum & Shannon, manufacturers
agents, who recently opened an Office in
the rooms over Stewart & Co.'S bank
vacated by E. Carr, are in receipt of
large orders daily. They will have sew
eral men ON the road.
The ordinance for sealer of weights
and measures will be passed upon at
the meeting of the council next Mon
day. The aldermen wished it put over
until the expense of establishing the
office could be Appropriated.
A general order has been issued by
the state military authorities requiring
National Guard men who are non
officers to wear light blue
stripes, instead of white, as at present.
This affects the members of Company Fl.
J. NJ. Bryson entertained fourteen
Owosso, Ovid and Chicago guests at
a stag pedro party, followed by a
lunch at Connor's cafe on Tuesday even
ing. Mr.. Bryson and family go to
Boston soon for an indefinite stay.
A. L. Sager, the Saginaw contractor
who had agreed to dig the trenches for
the sugar factory, has thrown up the
contract and gone back home. The
Kilby Manufacturing Company will
finish the trenches, and has a large gang
Of men at work.
Mrs. E. T. Garrison entertained the
Zig Tag Pedro Club Saturday evening.
Fred Buchholtz won the first prize, a
silver match safe, and Miss VERNE
Fletcher won the BOBBY prize, rag
doll. Music was enjoyed and an ele-
CANT menu was served.
Amos Parmenter, of Shiawassee, sold
a car load of go lambs in Chicago last
week which averaged SO pounds each
and brought $685. per hundred. The
price was good one and will net Mr..
Parmenter good per cent. He is still
feeding over 700.
George B. McCaughna, of Owosso,
has been elected major of the third
regiment, M. N. G. Major MAC" is
one of the best and most popular fellows
that ever shouldered a musket, and his
election as major suits everybody that
knows him.-Corunna Independent.
Larkin B. Ellis, formerly a prosper
Gus farmer of Vernon, later an inmate
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