The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1903-02-13


raised a 30x50 foot barn.
Mrs. r. N. Parshall has started ON a
several months trip to Germany.
Harry L. Izor, who has been very
sick of typhoid fever, is slowly recover
ing.
William Comstock, brakeman on the
G r. /. q p. Ry., is now on a freight
run between Chickasan and Fl Worth,
Texas.
Principal and Mrs. Lester McDiar-
mid entertained the seventh and eighth
grades of the Central school, Saturday
evening.
Fred Edwards has been elected cap
tain of Owosso company No As, U. R.
X. P to succeed Capt. L. A. Sanderhoff,
resigned
r. Schulze, an Owossoite who has
been working at Cincinnati in fur
niture factory, has gone to Berkeley,
Cal, to reside.
E. G. Jenkins, Lansing agent of the
International Correspondence schools,
expects to speak before the state round
up here this month. -
Howard l. Crawford, manager of the
Rhinelander, Wisconsin, telephone ex-
change and secretary of the company
owning the same, is recovering from a
severe attack of pneumonia.
The X. o. T. M. initiated two can
didates Monday evening. The COM
mander M. p. Mcmahon, presented
retiring Commander E. T. Broeffie with
handsome leather carved Norris chair.
The Ann Arbor yards will be remod-
eled this spring and new sidings put in
to increase the capacity. The Ann
Arbor Milling Co. and Todds playhouse
are on Ann Arbor land and will have
to be moved.
Dr. Charles Shickle had seven acres
of beets in last summer. The beets
tested Is 2-5 per cent and brought him
in 1917. The net profit was $S5, at
least $50 short of what good year
would have brought.
Miss Clara Stevens entertained Miss
Morrice's Sunday school class of the
Congregational church on Friday even
ing. Miss Bertha Alliton had the mem
bers of her class Of the M. E. church as
her guests on Friday evening.
Charles Richardson's horse frightened
at a fur coat Mr.. Richardson was wear
ing, plunged at him in its stall and
sprained his ankle by-a kick. He was
rescued from death or at least serious
injury, by neighbor who dragged him
out.
The sum of 5000 was voted on Mon
day evening by the common council to
defray the expenses of the state round
up of farmers clubs, which will be held
in this city this month. The armory
will be used as the convention hall.
w. J. Burke, stone cutter employed
by w. L. Parker, has returned from
Mt. Clemens, where he has been taking
treated for rheumatism. When he left,
Mr.. Burke was so badly afflicted that
he could not walk step, but has now
completely recovered.
Charles D. Stewart made detailed
statement to the council, Monday even
ing, as to the expenditure of the sum
of $15, 300 in securing the site for the
sugar factory and getting the acreage.
The report was entirely satisfactory.
It was received and placed on file.
Fred Beardsley, of Lansing, relief
operator on the Michigan Central has
been in the city for week, organizing
a branch of the order of Railway
The local operators ex-
pect to ask, when the organization is
for pay for work after seven
p. M.
While getting breakfast at her home
in Antrim township Sunday morning,
Mrs. Mary Poland, aged N years,
dropped dead of heart disease. She
leaves son, Charles, with whom she
lived, and two other children. The
funeral was held Wednesday morning
from the Morrice Catholic church.
DR.. VIM. Jopling, V. S., of this city,
has diagnosed the mysterious cattle
disease which has devasted the herds
of A. L. Chandler, of Corunna, j. G..
Olney, of Venice, and J. B. Eveleth, of
Caledonia, as hemorrhagic septicaemia,
a disease prevalent and very deadly in the
west. The symptoms are exactly the
same. The Owosso man believes the
disease is caused by baccilli in the
water.
j. w. Hubbard, manager Of the Ben
nington creamery and one of the large
and progressive farmers and stock
raisers of Shiawassee county, was in the
village Tuesday with view of opening
the creamery in this village. Mr.. Hib-
bard is q very enthusiastic creamery
man and says that the benefits to be de-
rived by the farmers from q creamery
properly conducted are an important
factor on the farm. He is also Of the
opinion that this locality is one of the