The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1904-02-12

| The o. l.. !. Band gives a masquerade
party at the Armory tonight.
Miss Ivah Peterson returned Wednes-
day evening from a short visit wit h
friends in Flint.
| Otto M. Stevens house caught fire from
a coal stove, Monday, and inflicted
slight damages.
One of the twin sons of DR.. and Mrs.
f. F. Hoyer was seriously sick with con-
vulsions this week.
A. F. Horton is soliciting acreage for
the Owosso Sugar Co., near Ann Arbor,
and is meeting with good success.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lee R. Clarke entertain
ed the mail carriers and their wives,
Saturday evening" at the Clarke farm
south of town.
Mrs. John T. McCurdy writes from
Englewood, Fla. to Owosso friends that
they are having fine sunny weather. 1t
is quite comfortable to sit bareheaded
on the veranda.
Charles Cooper, who has been work
ing at Chicago for the Western Electric
Supply Co., has been transferred by his
company to Pittsburg, Penn, where his
sister, Miss Edith, is now employed.
In the Saginaw circuit court Monday,
the case of Charles Peters VS.. Minnie
Peters, of Henderson, for divorce, was
given a hearing Mrs. Peters was
granted $50 solicitors fee and So so per
week alimony.
DR.. Shickle reports the following adj
ditions to the census list on Saturday,
Feb. 6: A son to Mr.. and Mrs. p. G.
Slater, Bennington; and daughter to
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Watts, corner
Oliver and Dewey streets.
Capt. r. H. Ross has received a
record set of books for keeping of
the clothing account of each soldier, the
terms of enlistment and other details.
The National Guard companies of this
state are now equipped. in this respect,
like the regular army.
BY the overlooking of large amount
of water, which froze on the street car
tracks near the switch, passengers were
forced to walk distance of 500 yards,
the first of the week, on their way to
and from Corunna. One of the cars,
fortunately was on the east side of the
frozen district so traffic was not COM
pletely interrupted.
The Bancroft Peat company will erect
a storehouse in Lansing for peat as soon
as the factory, which is to be running
by May 1,begins to produce peat in mar
ketable quantities. The company be-
drying which have embarrassed the
other peat companies in the state.
William H. Cromer, proprietor of
bowling alley here, is under arrest for
passing a counterfeit dollar on Master
Joseph Amos. When the money was
returned, Cromer refused to take the
bad money back, and was arrested.
Some bars of white plating metal were
found in Cromer's rooms, but no dies or
molds
Among the contractors for the ST.
Louis Sugar Company who had large
yields of beets (for the wet SEASON. were
Sherd Summerville with 144 ton to the
acre. j. l.. Smith with 49, ton and
Charles Sanders with 10 ton, all of En-
erson, and Andrew Shuttheiss of Beth
any with Is ton. 1t is important to
know that their land was thoroughly
tiled-St. Louis Republican.
The r. F. D. letter carriers, who will
enjoy their first legal holiday February
90, are to some degree indebted to Con-
gresham J. w. Fordney for it, as they
have been for nearly every good thing
that has come their way. A letter from
the congressman received yesterday
mentioned that he had been at the post
Office department recently, and had
been encouraged to believe that an or.
der granting the holiday would be is.
sued. Saginaw Courier-H Herald.
Following is the list of advertised let
tiers remaining uncalled for at the Ow0s
so postoffice for the week ending Satur-
day, Feb. 6: Miss Myrtle Brown, Cen
trail Mich. Produce Co., Miss Willie
Cummins Mr.. Pat Delmore (2), Franl
Eldridge, Mrs. Avis Fowler, Miss Bel
Hand, /. G. Kendall, Frank Martin
Mrs. Fred Miller, Robert Newton, J. A.
Omeara, j. J. Quinn, Oron SHAY err
Mrs Cora Smith, F. S. Talbot, Mr.. Wild
decomb, Charlie Wood.