The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1904-07-29
Frank Common has gone to Detroit to

work.
Mrs. M. Gaylord has been sick for
several days.
Milton Grove is working in the har-
vest fields near Elsie.
The finishing touches are being put
on the interior of the Elk's Temple.
Supervisor Orsen Sugden, of Shia-
wassee. was in the city Wednesday.
Fred Beardsley is the new proprietor
of the Wildermuth saloon on Ball street.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. H. Byerly are at
Baldwin Lake, Greenville, for an outing.
J. S. Thompson, of Chicago, shook
hands with friends in the city Wednes-
day.
Farmers have commenced threshing.
The yield of wheat is the poorest for
years.
Postmasters Parker. of sBancroft, and
Teller, of Henderson, were in the city
Wednesday.
The pension board met at the home
of DIR. Perkins, Wednesday and disposed
of several cases.
Louis Mueller and j. A. Barrie left
last evening for brief trip to Milwau-
kee and Chicago.
Ray Virgins, Ralph Sayles, John La
Clear and Frank Sternaman are hoeing
beets atSwartz Creek.
Dr. A. L. Arnold is able to get about
a little each day now He was confined
to the house seven weeks.
The eight year old son of James Helt
cut an artery in his foot this week, by
stopping on piece of glass.
H. r. Durham, w. j. Baese, Porter
James and w. G. Fox, of Fairfield, were
in the city on business Wednesday.
Harry Renker. who recently returned
from Fort Wayne, Ind, will open a
cigar factory over Hall & Byerly's
grocery.
William Sullivan has returned from
Detroit, and is employed at Collins
drug store while G.. T. Reynolds is on
his vacation.
A neighborhood picnic was given at
McCurdy park, Wednesday evening, in
honor of Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Bentley, of
Cortland, N. Y.
Mrs. j. E Figg is at the White Cross
sanitarium at Jackson called there by
the serious illness of her son, Edw in,
who has typhoid fever.
Andrew Geeck, Clarence Geeck,
Harry VanDyne, Frank Eaton and j..
Arnold left this week for Newburg, to
put in cement bridge.
William Bates, Claude Willoughby.
Willis Mcbride, Ernest and Laurence
Hamilton, all of this city, are working
for the Oldsmobile company at Lansing.
J. Frank Barnes spent part of the
week in Owosso and vicinity looking
after his candidacy for sheriff. He was
called home yesterday by the sickness
of one of his sons.
Mrs C. S. Williams was struck in the
back recently by bicycle handle bar,
and painfully bruised. The rider was
on the walk, and made no alarm as he
attempted to get by.
The cement walk and culvert to re-
place the one over Comstock creek on
River street, which was washed away
last spring, has been put in at a net
cost to the city of $500.
The name of John w. Thorn, of Ben
nington, has been mentioned in connec,
ticn with the democratic nomination
for representative from this district to
the state legislature.
A brief biography and good likeness
| of Charles A. Towne appear in Leslie
Monthly Magazine for August in con-
nection with an article, "Spellbinders, I"
by Congressman Bede, of Minnesota.
| The official board of the Ames NJ. e.
| church, Saginaw, has extended a unani.
nous invitation to Rev. James Chap
man to return to the church for another
year. He was formerly pastor of AS.
bury church. this city.
F. w. Pearce, of this city, has been at
Bonestell, N. d., during the opening OF
the reservation there, and was twice
surrounded by men involved in quar-
rel, who fred promiscuously. Mr..
Pearce was not injured.
The K. o. 7. M. M. have organized q
membership contest to last for thirty
days and Eugene May and Arthur Cor
don are captains of the two teams. De
lano Burbank was appointed manager
of the base ball team which the Macca
bees will form.
Contractor M. Walker, of Fenton
who is putting in the water works sys
tenn at Corunna, believes that the cos
for pumping, when the system is in op
GRAFTON, will not be over two cents
thousand gallons. Many cities pay
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