The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1904-01-22
The OWOSSO TIMES
Entered at the Postofnce In owosso for
transmission as second class matter.
Published everv FRIDAY noon.
SUBSCRIPTION Sl.OO YEAR
OwOSSO. FRIDAY. JAN. 20. 1904.
LOCAL NEWS.

Lieut. Fred E. Van~Dyne is quite sick
A son was born Wednesday evening tt
MIR. and Mrs. a. II. Ross.
A party of Dawson citizens visited
the sugar plant Wednesday.
Edward Perica is home from stay
of several months in Montana.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl M. Bergy have
gone to their new home in Chicago.
Mrs. Henry Foote, pioneer resident
of the county, died Tuesday night al
Byron.
Colfax Lodge, 1. o. o. f. installed
: officers on Tuesday evening in its lodge
rooms
There will be an auction next We'd
-nesday at the j. u. Miller farm north
of Owosso.
day afternoon for Miss Kathleen COOPER,
of Chicago.
Conrad Mehlenbacher was in De-
troitl this week buying chairs for the
new opera house.
Fully 1000 visitors inspected the
sugar factory on Wednesday, the last
day of the season.
st. Agnes Guild and invited guests
will spend next Tuesday evening with
Mrs. w. d. Burke.
Misses Ivah Maliskey and Margaret
Heney, of the Union Telephone Offices,
are both quite sick.
The clerks at Lyon e. Ponds gave Mr..
and Mrs. Felix Cummins linen shower
on Wednesday evening.
Mrs. A. Splitter, of New Haven, en-
tertained twenty members of the Owes
so w. r. G. on Tuesday.
Thomas Lobdell, of the Owosso Mfg.
Co., had four fingers of his right hand
bg]ly cut on shaper this week.
The Bell Telephone operators and
their escorts enjoyed sleigh ride to
the Bowles farm on Tuesday evening.
Miss Nettie E. Hoover, sister of Mrs.
Ray w. Crawford, died at her home in
Ypsilanti this week of typhoid fever.
A sleighload from Owosso and one
from Corunna attended dance at the
Gibbons farm, northeast of town, Thurs
day evening.
A sleighload of Owosso young people
rode out to the home of William Dryer,
Owosso township, Tuesday night, and
had very pleasant time.
Mr.. and Mrs Clinton Horton enter
tanned at their home in 'Owosso town.
ship, Saturday evening, in honor of their
neice, Miss Marion Bowling.
Mrs. Samuel Russell, formerly of this
city, is very seriously sick at her home
in Detroit. Her mother, Mrs. G. w.
Livingston, has been called to her bed
side.
A fire which ate into the floor from I'll Q
furnace, did $500 worth of damage in
q. w. Golfers house late on Tuesday
night. The family escaped in their
night clothes.
George E. Martin, of Maple River,
has auctioned off his heavy farming i'm
plements, and will raise only small fruit
hereafter. His son, Claude Martin, will
work for the Owosso Sugar Co.
:, The building committee ofsthe board
.Jof supervisors, will meet Saturday at
Corunna to accept the work on the
court house as far as it has progressed,
after which time operations will cease
until spring. The walls of the edifice
have risen to height of ten or twelve
feet.E PA 81 RI
After campaign of as days, having
started Dec. a, 1908, 1.-The sugar factory
finished cutting beets on "Wednesday
night, but ten days more will be neces-
sary to run off the syrup and sugar.
About $4,000 tons were sliced S15O,oOO
was paid out. all told for beets, and
$1,000 was distributed here every fort
night in wages. Next years campaign
will undoubtedly be much longer, as
more beets will be raised.