The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1903-01-30
OWOSSO. FRIDAY, JAN. 30, 1908.
LOCAL NEWS.

r P. Bigelow was i'll a few days this
week.
Headley Wickham is clerking at Rem
ington's grocery.
Fred w. Pearce is on the road for the
Callard Furniture Company.
r. P. Lord was confined to the house
by sickness the first of the week
Charles Yerkes, of Vernon, is working
for the Burnett Knitting Company.
Philip Cavanaugh, who has been in
Owosso for several weeks, has gone to
Chicago.
Walter Cook, of this city, is now re-
| ceiving operator for a newspaper at
Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Ernest Rush entertained friends who
came by sleigh to his home south of the
city, Friday evening.
Fred Walton and Fred Fillmore have
been accepted as machinist apprentices
at the Ann Arbor shops.
Rev. Frank 8. Lyon announced last
Sabbath that he would close his pas
torate in this city next Sunday.
Fred Roy will move his family to
Dayton. O., soon, where he has a place
as carver in furniture factory.
Misses Thomas and Arnold, of the
Owosso Junction House, entertained at
a six o'clock tea, Tuesday evening.
j. M. Terbush, Jr., H. Bigelow and
William Findlater gave masquerade
Friday evening at the home OF James
Findlater.
Louis Deal, who took up ranch in
Texas several months ago, is now a
telegraph operator on the Santa Fe at
Purcell, o. 7.
James Stewart, who was timer for
several years at the Ann Arbor shops,
but who went to Cheyenne, Wyoming,
is now working in Detroit.
The Grouchy club met last week with
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Hammell. The
prizes were won by Mrs. Frank Des-
pond and Miss Eta Cronin.
Aid. j. J. Brown has received YER
dict of $50 against the Ann Arbor, be-
cause water backed up last July and
ruined his garden. He claims the Ann
Arbor culvert was too small.
Elon, two year old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. A. L. Pond, died last week at
Coldwater Interment took place at
Belding. Mrs j. b. Sullivan, of Owes.
so, is an aunt of the deceased.
The truancy law has been so thor
oughly enforced in this city, that there
are just two boys who should be in
school and are not If the parents dc
not send them, arrests will follow
Jockey Fred Edwards, noted Local
character, fourished a gun about the
streets recently. He was looking for q
man whom he claimed, was trying tc
rob him of Mrs. Edwards affections
| Walter Swarthout, who has been in
the employ of Knapp e. Smith for sew
eral years, leaves February 18th fol
Pasadena, Cal, where he will work a:
an upholsterer for Sutliff 81 Brown.
DR.. A. M. Hume, of Owosso Lodge
No. 81, F. & A NJ, was candidate a.
the meeting of the Grand Lodge in De
troit, this week, for the Office of Crane
Marshal. He was defeated after clos,
contest.
The roundup of state farmers clubs
| will be held here the last of next month
An educational session will be held ON
afternoon. Supt. j. w. Simmons il
helping arrange the program for tina
session.
Mr.. and Mrs William H. Bigelow en-
tertained the Entire Nous club o
Corunna, at their home M onday even
ing. Prizes at cards were won by Mrs
f. HI. Pettibone, Odell Chapman and d
J. Gerow.
| William Green, who was taken seri
ously ill at Milwaukee the last of th'
week, was brought home by Cecil Post
He resides on Michigan avenue ant
went to Milwaukee to follow his trade
as painter.
A. E. Shannon is no longer a mem
Der of the Owosso Hardware Company
having sold out to go on the road al
manufacturers agent. w. w. Palmer
also member of the firm, will soon &C
cept position at Saginaw.
Unless the members Of the BARRIERS
union of this city recede from the posi-
ton that they have taken, there will
soon be a strike here. The union want
the shops TO close at six o'clock Tues
day and Thursday evenings after Feb
| I, and at 1890 on Saturday night.