The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1904-05-27
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! C. N. Race has returned to the city to
reside. ee ~
| ID. d. Robertson spent the week at
Tilsonburg, Ont.
Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Johnson will
move to jackson next week.
Mrs. A. E. Stanhope has gone to
Archer, Neb., for long stay.
J. G. Davies. the Saginaw sewer con-
tractor, was in the city Wednesday.
Edward Merell and Charles Burbank,
of Burton, are at the st. Louis exposi-
ton.
Perry Mcintosh, of the Owosso Bust
ners, College, has accepted position at
Ionia.
Supr. Boutwell,, of Perry, and j. F.
Barnes, of Byron, were in the city We'd
nesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Allen, Bennington
township, welcomed daughter to their
home Sunday.
The Owosso City Mills team was de-
! feated by Battle Creek Sunday by a
score of to 4.
A twelve pound son was born to MIR.
and Mrs. John Hammond, North street,
Sunday morning.
Miss Emma Ruess, of the Owosso
Business College, is bookkeeper for Han
kins Bros. at Elsie.
DR.. d. HI. Lamb is in Grand Rapids
attending the meeting of the State
Medical Association.
Barney Gabriel of Saginaw, is work
ing for the Bell Telephone Co, with
headquarters at Owosso.
A ten pound son was born last week
to Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Skinner, of Otis
vile. Mr.. and Mrs. Skinner formerly
lived here.
Rev. James F. Fryer, pastor of the
Ovid Congregational church, sails early
in June for England, where he will
spend the summer.
Rev. j. L. Nickerson, of Adrian, ex-
changed pulpits with Rev. ]. p. Var
mr. Sunday, and preached two good SER
mons at the First NJ e. church.
Phil Shepard left Wednesday morning
to run as mail clerk on the Ann Arbor.
Beginning on Monday he will be on for
a month running from Detroit to Chica-
go.
A carriage occupied by Albert Van
Hansen, of Laingsburg, was smashed by
a street car on Sunday night near Shia-
wassee street. Van Hausan was not
hurt.
The second advertising car for the
Barnum & Bailey show was in the city
Wednesday. The show will be here
June 10Th, coming from Alma and going
to Ann Arbor.
| Howell high school defeated Owosso
high school base ball team here Satur-
day by score of to 2, The game was
marred by the senseless kicking of
Owosso rooters.
The Farnham Co., of Chicago, has the
contract for building the electric line
between Grand Rapids and Ionia. The
job will be completed next April, when
the Ionia-O wosso line will probably be
taken up.
Michigan won the inter-c collegiate
meet Saturday at Chicago by score of
70 to So. Eugene Brewer won first in
the high jump, and Irving Goodwin,
also of this city, got second in the
quarter mile run.
| Beginning with Monday next the De-
troit Free Press will increase its rates to
rural route subscribers so cents per year.
The TINES will fill any orders received
Saturday for The Free Press and TIMES
at $3.50 for year. After that date the
rate will be So. 90.
G.. B. Symes and j. X Fischer were
arrested Tuesday for violating the liquor
law, the first for not removing his
screens after hours and the latter for
selling liquor to a minor, They will be
examined June Sth and 9th before JUS
tice Walsh. The complaint was made
by Patrolman Dynes.
The Owosso Gas Light Co. at it's an
nual meeting reelected the old board of
directors and decided to make a reduc-
ton amounting to about seven per cent
in the price of gas after June 1st. The
new rate will be $1.2O per thousand
feet, with rebate to large consumers.
The sale of gas for the last. year exceed
ed that of the previous year by 759, 600
feet. 5H.1
The City Mills team defeated Hills
dale College base ball team Monday by
a score Of @ to A. The victory was due
chiefly to Owosso's fast playing, and the
eight errors of the collegians, who could
not hold thrown balls. Rabidon pitched
good game for Owosso. Hall, Hills
dale's pitcher, put the ball over the
fence for home run in the sixth inn
| ing. Bucks, of North Adams, has join
| al tba Ouuoeao faa,n 40 catcher