The Owosso times., 1903-05-08
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/ F~oAeph SoiiCIy.
The Ladies of the Maccabees will NEE
thursday evening, May ID.
The Estey Factory B is again running
after a shut down of two weeks.
Mrs. G. Dew. Bower, of South Haven
is the guest of friends in the city.
A. @. Hodgins has sold his bird dog
jack to l.. LaClear. of Bay City
George Filkins has sold his farm west
OF the city to John Luckhurst. The
price was 1,SOO
Recent frosts have not damaged th,
peach buds in this vicinity to any
noticeable extent.
County Drain Commissioner Fl. s
Myres sold the OFT drain in New Haven
township, Monday.
| Architect George M. Edwards is pre-
pairing set of plans for the new school
house to be built at Elsie.
The Ann Arbor chair car Cadillac. has
been sent out of the shops here, newly
equipped and repainted
Manley Johnson, son of Henry John
son, King street, is i'll in hospital al
Ashland, Wis, of typhoid fever.
w. l.. Tucker has left his job at the
Laverock screen factory and is working
at the new Woodland furniture factory.
Charles Ellis and Ami Nelson attend
ed the meeting of the State Letter Car
riers' Association at Battle Creek, this
week.
George Martin, of Maple River, was
recently given fine Norris chair on
the occasion of his 54th birthday ami.
versary
The official council proceedings will
be printed this year by THE TIMES,
Press-American and Argus at the rate
of 45 cents folio.
l.. Opdyke, Wilson Brooks, Henry
Schmidt and o. T. Graham were in De
troit attending the Odd Fellows State
Encampment Tuesday.
Philip Cavanaugh, of Chicago, Illi-
nois, representative of Lash's Bitters, is
at his home here for few days. He
expects to take trip to Oklahoma for
his firm.
Two shepherd dogs were caught in A.
l.. Chandler's flock of sheep at Indian
Clearings, east of this city, Tuesday, but
were driven off before they killed any
of the sheep.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. j. Gerow. of Corun-
ma, are home from trip to st. Louis,
Mo. They brought back with them
Albert Gerow, brother of Mr.. Gerow,
who was sick in the hospital there.
The offices of the county treasurer
and register of deeds at Corunna, are
being torn down so that vault may be
built of the brick at the Commercial
House, where the temporary Offices of
the county will be located.
DR.. and Mrs. William Twilley, of
Colorado Springs, called on Mr.. and
Mrs. J. Thompson, this week, on their
way home after two years tour of the
world. Mrs. Twilley was formerly Mrs.
Cora B. Hudson, and was at one time a
teacher in the Owosso City schools.
Patsy Cavanaugh and James Myers
are doing thirty day sentences, and
Frank Harrington fifteen day term in
the county Jail, for drunkenness. Cav
anaugh resisted arrest, and was thrown
so hard by officer Bert Hodges that his
shoulder was dislocated.
Twenty taxpayers have petitioned fer
the deepening of Maple River through
Ovid township. 1t is proposed to have
the river made "a feet wide on the bot
tom, and to put it feet below its pre-
sent level for six miles or more OF It's
length. The cost will be $6 per rod.
Mrs. John T. McCurdy gave a
unique May-day party at her home in
Corunna, last Friday. Twenty-Five
ladies' from Owosso and twenty-five
from Corunna were present. The fav-
ors were May-day baskets containing
candied violets, each basket tied with
May-day ribbons.
Mrs. Edna whitmore recently applied
in the shiawassee circuit court for di-
vorce from her husband. She did not
anpear when the case was called, and
Judee Smith dismissed it. She then be-
onn a suit in the Genesee circuit court,
Snlv to have it dismissed in turn by
Judge wisner, who knew Of the action
Of his colleague, Judge Smith.
shark from threshing engine
wbich p. b. Reynolds, of Maple River,
,vas using to haul large consignment
Of sheep to market set fire to the barns
Of John Cunningham, neighbor, last
Friday. Three barns, quantity OF nay
and straw, and a number OF agricuitur-
Al implements were burned. The loss
- between 50, 900 and "a, 900.