The Owosso times., 1904-09-16

New steel rails are being laid in the
Grand Trunk yards.
| Fred Osburn has gone to Boston to
buy goods for the store.
Mrs. @. H., Hanks and children are
back from their outing at Frankfort.
The Grand Trunk is putting in
new railroad scales opposite the depot.
Charles Hanes of Niles. is a guest of
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. H. d. Hanes.
County Drain Commissioner and Mrs.
HI. S. Myers spent this week at the state
fair.
Mr.. and Mrs. N. MacBain have NOV
ed into their new home at 626 N. Ball
street.
Dewey Wilcox, Ann Arbor ticket
agent, has gone to Salem, Mo-, to visit
his parents.
Misses Mabel Wilson, Mamie Tap
house and Clara Eddy have entered the
County Normal.
DR.. A. l.. Arnold is back from Chick
asaw, 1. 7. He left John S. Haggart
much improved.
A. @. Nichols and family have moved
here from Chicago, and are living at
$50 Comstock street.
Mr. and Mrs. George Hunt welcomed
a daughter, Bernita May Hunt, to their
home on Wednesday.
Philip Shepard is acting as sub mail
clerk on the d. & M. division of the
Grand Trunk for few days.
August Abel, with his Epicture ma
chine, gave an entertainment on Tues
day evening at 1. o. o. F. Hall.
The degree team of the Modern Wood
men, 16 strong, attended log-rolling
at Mt Pleasant, Wednesday and Thurs
day.
The o. L. l. Band defeated the Ovid
Band at base ball, Tuesday at Ovid, II
to 12. Chipman and Fletcher were the
Owosso battery.
A local ball team will go to West
Branch, Monday to play the team there
on Tuesday and Wednesday. st.
Charles and Standish Will also be;played
on the trip.
G. st. Clair, formerly a well-known
poultry raiser of this section, but now
residing at Holland, will judge the
poultry next week at the West Michi-
gan State Fair, Grand Rapids.
The west siders defeated the Y. M. G.
A. baseball team at Dewey Park on
Tuesday by score OF 8 to 10. The bat
teries were Waters, Graham and Spring
and Allison and Hughes. Another game
may be played next week.
If any tax payer thinks the location
of the sugar factory in this city was not
a good thing from financial stand
point let him make note of the fact that
the company paid $4,766.20 city tax
this year. This is more than double the
amount paid by any other institution in
the city.
Frank T. Pine, of Buffalo, N. Y, ar
rested here some time ago and confined
in the city Jail for few hours, has
brought suit against the city in the U.
S. court at Bay City for $40, 600 damages.
He claims to have contracted rheuma-
tism at that time and to be permanently
crippled. The case will be strongly
contested.
Real estate has been in demand the
past week. E. A. Barnes, of California,
sold house and lot at 400 Huggins
street to John Deederly G. ST. Clair, of
Holland, disposed of his property at S31
Dimmick street to A. Trowbridge; w.
w. Dennis, of Ovid, sold the house at
402 Detroit street to Fred Gessler and
F. L. Parker, of Flint, disposed of the
house he owned at 519 Randolph street
to F. G. Lake.
BY the breaking in two of the north
bound M. G. local on Tuesday evening
near Maple River, wreck was caused,
doubleheader freight which had been
following close behind crashing into the
stalled rear section of the local. The
track was blocked for several hours.
The only man injured was Engineer
Rowley, of the double header. His face
was somewhat torn.
List of advertised letters at the
Owosso Post Office for the week ending
Sat. Sept. 10 1904, Edd Braden, DR.. L.
ID. Carpenter, Miss Laura Chamberlain,
Mrs. VIM, Haley, Mrs. Cora Howell,
E. A. Johnson, Fred Johnson RID,
Alice Leveitter, James Merrick, Mrs.
Ella Miller, Mrs. Dora Nelson, Owosso
Music Co., Ira Pate, Mrs. Mary Quinn,
James Quinn, Mrs. Bryan, Miss Iva l..
Stoddard, Luther West, Address 62S
Lee st.