The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1904-06-24

Mrs. j. p. Warner and son Oren will
spend the vacation in West Virginia,
Miss Gertrude Russell, trimmer for
Dora Q. Kenyon d Co., has gone home
to Kalamazoo.
Jesse B. Darling has gone to Forest
City, Ark, to visit his daughter, Mrs.
E. l.. Vandakin.
Mrs. w. HI. Richards, Mulberry street,
who has been quite sick for several days
is improving slowly,
Victor Welte has gone to Michigan
City, Ind, to join Barlow Bros. min
strels for the summer tour.
w. D. Griffith, who lives near the
city, killed blue racer Sunday morn
ing, which was So inches long.
The Union school district received,
during the past year, the sum of 1894. 81
from outside pupils as tuition, the
largest sum so collected in several years.
H. P. White and Miss May Lawrence,
clerks in the Owosso post Office, have
been granted an increase of 800 each in
their salaries.
The fund for the purchase of the Dor
cas- Home COW has grown to $3S.21, and
it is evident that good COW can be pur-
chased, while the surplus will be devot-
ed to something else.
Indications point to large turnout
for the Odd Fellow excursion to Detroit
on Wednesday of next week The train
will leave Owosso at 700 a. m; return
ing will leave Detroit at II p. IN.
Miss Static Wilson, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. G. H. Wilson, who has been
quite ill in the Methodist deaconess'
home at Grand Rapids, where she was
being trained, has returned home to
Owosso to recuperate.
Miss Marie Spiegel. of Chicago form
erly of this city, and Mr.. Charles V.
Rush, of Union City, Ind, will be
married at the home of the brides sister,
Mrs. o. w. Comstock, 90 Aberdeen ST.,
Chicago, Saturday, June 25th.
Hon. Hiram Johnson, of Washington,
formerly of Venice, has been elected
Lieut.. Colonel of the Union Veteran
Legion, of Washington, D. G. 1t is
quite an honor as this encampment has
several brigadier generals and colonies
in its mann arshin
Roy E. Lewis, of Chase's shoe store,
and Miss Lola NJ, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. A. N. Goodwin, were married last
Thursday by Rev. G. E. Benson at the
brides home on Shiawassee street.
Fifty guests were present Mr.. and
Mrs Lewis will reside at the home of the
formers grandfather. Lloyd Lewis, 500
Park st.
Prof. Newton w. Riddell, who Great
ed such favorable impression here six
years ago, has been attracting large
audiences by a series of lectures he has
been delivering this week. On Tuesday
and Wednesday evenings he spoke at
the Congregational church, for Thurs
day and this evening the Baptist church
was secured, and on Sunday afternoon
and Monday evening he will be at the
M. e. church.
G. w. Wilmer, who did the 'leap-the-
gap" act this week at McCurdy Park,
did not secure momentum enough in his
ride Wednesday afternoon, and his BIZ
cycle, after leaving the inclined plane
did not have momentum enough to
reach the other platform 30 feet away.
Wilmer was thrown violently from the
wheel and was badly skinned and bruis-
ed about the face and body. He was
able to repeat the turn on Thursday
without mishap.
George Morehouse, a member of the
Goth U. s. Infantry Band, is spending
three months furlough at his home in
Ovid. Morehouse has just returned
from two years service in the Philip
pines. He has served six years, first in
the 35th Michigan and later in the regu-
lars. Three and one-half years of the
time were spent in the islands. If
Morehouse re-enlists, he will go to Salt
Lake City. He is cousin of George
Hunt, of this city.
Farmers of the country are agitating
the question of uniform rates for rural
phones, the use of the phone in the
evening, which is now denied, and the
privilege of talking anywhere in the
county without toll. They have organ
lied the Rural Telephone Patrons Pro-
tectiye Association, with A. l.. Chand
Ter as chairman and A. B. Cook as Sec
rotary. A committee consisting of Ira
Snyder, of Maple River, Charles Whelan,
of Shiawassee, and Fred Perry, of
Durand, will report at the next meeting
on the proper steps to be taken.