The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1903-06-26

sin the city Wednesday.
A. d. Whipple was at Estey on bust
ness Tuesday and Wednesday.
J. B. Hathaway has returned from al
extended stay in Pennsylvania.
Carl Cummings, rs River street, hai
| gone to Detroit for the summer.
Mrs. Nj. E. Lepper leaves for Boston
to-day to be gone for some time. -
J. H. Robbins was in Grand Rapids
on business the first of the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Truman Jones have re
turned from years stay in Ohio.
Miss Annie Osburn entertained friends
at the Wildermuth, Thursday night.
Aid. J. R. Ketcham is entertaining his
father, Cornelius Ketcham, of Lockport,
IN. Y.
| j. J. Moorish, of Hartland, has pur-
chased the farm of j. w. Thorn, east of
this city.
Colfax Odd Fellows conferred the
third degree on three candidates, Tues
day night
j. H. BRANDED has been given the con-
tract to build three large water tanks at
the Ionia reformatory.
Otto M. Stever has quit his job with
G. G. Duff, and succeeds W. H. Bates as
clerk for E. L. Devereaux.
Mrs. A. P. Holiday, of Bradford, Pa,
is the guest of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
John Brown, East Howard street.
Thirty-seven deaths were reported to
the State board of health from Shiawas-
see county during the month of May.
The Oriental degree team will confer
the Order of Humility on large class
at K. o. T. M. Hall, Thursday evening,
July O..
Ben Williams was guest of his uncle
Charles S. Williams. this week en- route
home to Denver from Cornell Uni
versity.
Miss Julia Stack was at Monroe this
week, attending commencement exer-
cises at the convent schools of which she
is graduate.
Mrs j. G. Osburn entertained Tues
day in honor of Misses Van Volkenburg
and Stem, guests of Misses Gale and
McHardy respectively.
Andrew Jackson has returned from
Fenton, where he had the job of en-
gineer in the cement works and is now
foreman of the planning mill at Wood
ards new factory.
DR.. Herbert I. White, former
student at the Owosso high school, who
graduated last year from the U. of NJ.
has located at Homer. He lived in
Caledonia township.
Minnie L. Sweet, of Detroit, Ellen E.
Hanes, Laura Harmon and Alta Snyder,
of Owosso, and Richard A. Smith, of
Laingsburg, graduated this week from
the Ypsilanti Normal.
Mr.. Charles Menzies and Miss Daisy
Willoughby will be married at the home
of the brides parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A.
d. Willoughby, Linn street, on We'd
nesday afternoon, July 1.
Frank Shook, of Grand Rapids, and
James Thompson, of Muskegon, are
serving thirty days in the county Jail for
stealing copper wash boiler of Will
liam Butler, of Middletown.
Miss Glynn Williams gave dinner
party, Monday in honor of Misses Wat
son and Van Volkenburg, guests of Miss
Maude Gale and Miss Stem, who is
visiting Miss Alice McHardy.
The building committee of the board
of supervisors was in Jackson, recently,
inspecting the plans of the new court
house. The members suggested several
changes which will be great improve
ments.
1t was reported in this city Tuesday
and Wednesday that Stephen Scofeld,
of Detroit, formerly of the Scofeld
House, Owosso had committed suicide.
1t was found to be utterly without foun-
dalton.
Company H was inspected Friday
evening by Inspector General Fred w.
Green. of Ypsilanti, Major McCaughna,
and Capt. Hanks. The Company and
company stores were found to be in ex-
cellent condition.
An Owosso base ball team defeat ted q
Bennington team at Bennington, Sun
day, by score of Is to 90. The batter
les were Haggerty, and Brown, for
Owosso, and Burns, Hagan and Horn
for Bennington.
The capital stock of the Owosso Sugar
Company, since the purchase of the
Lansing factory, has been increa sed
from 81, 900, 900 to $1,250,0OO. Local
stockholders may increase their stock
% per cent at par by purchasing before
June 30.
Mrs. Charlotte Faye, who leaves a
husband and four children, died at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Charles