The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1906-01-26

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in Lansing yesterday.
Mrs. 1. III. Keller is spending the
week in Grand Rapids.
| j. H. Faxon and Mrs Dennis, Of Ovid,
visited friends here Tuesday.
Victor Almendinger is in Ann Arbor,
called by the death of his father.
| Mrs. Emma Moore entertained the
Rathbone Sisters officers Tuesday after
noon.
The Price Food Factory, after run
ming almost continuously night and day
| for several months is closed for few
days for repairs.
| Owosso carpenters and painters put
in day this week repairing and paint
ing the home of Nathaniel Ball, who
has been i'll for long time, local deal
ers furnishing the needed material. 1t
was a very commendable act.
G. S. Richardson received $973 33 for
beets grown on seventeen acres last
summer and has made a contract to
grow twenty acres this year. He is
satisfied that careful trial by all farm
ers of beet growing would make it as
much a part of their business as grow
ing corn.
Mr. and Mrs. John Sneider were very
pleasantly surprised at their home on
Stewart street Tuesday evening, the &C.
casion being their twentyninth we'd
ding anniversary.
! W. T. Alexander's horse was killed
and his buggy wrecked by Michigan
Central train Wednesday evening, but
he escaped uninjured, The horse
| baked on the track.
Mrs. Patrick Hamburg died Wednes-
day morning at her home in West
Owosso. She leaves husband and two
daughters. The funeral was held this
morning at st. Pauls church.
Odell Chapman celebrated his birth
day Wednesday by stag dinner party
to twenty guests, G. J. McNally being
in charge. After dinner the guests
played cards and with stories and cigars
spent very pleasant evening.
Supervisor Thomas NJ Wiley calls at
tention Of supervisors and others that
by an act of the 1905 legislature $40
may be spent lawfully for the burial of
soldiers widows, being the same provi-
sion that has applied formerly to soldiers
only. -.,,..
The marriage of Miss Fannie Card to
Edward Brown, of Edison, North Da-
kota, will take place soon. The other
ladies employed at ~ M. Christians
store gave her snBwer Wednesday
evening A dinner IN her honor was
given Wednesday by Misses. Bessie and
Bertha Edwards.
The case of Fred NJ Grove VS.. the
Michigan Central Railroad Co., in
which verdict was given the plaintiff
of $3.50 in the circuit court, was re-
yersed by the supreme court this week
and the case sent back for new trial.
Mr.. Grove was permanently injured by
stepping into a hole in the cinder path
platform at the station in Owosso.
\ The man who worked IN Owosso not
long ago under the name of Stephen
O'Brien and made two attempts at
suicide in the Owosso Jail was found
dead at Battle Creek last Friday. He
had been working in the Grand Trunk
yards and while drunk fell or jumped
off the Michigan Central bridge into the
mill pond where the body was found.
1t appears that his name is Douglas
COPYRIGHT and he is brother of Mrs.
DR.. Wilson, of Mt Clemens, VIM
COPYRIGHT, hotel man at NewaygC
and Frank COPYRIGHT, a druggist al
Detroit. He has been tramp for years
and took the name OBrien to protect
his family.
A portrait of President James B
Angel, painted by John s. Sargent Of
the Royal Academy, will be one of the
first contributions of University Of
Michigan men toward furnishing the
Michigan Union club house, at Ann Ar
, Dor when that building shall have beer
erected. 1t is expected that the por
, trait will cost between five and ter
thousand dollars. This amount is to
be raised by small subscriptions, in or
der to permit as many friends of the
University as possible to contribute
Until the completion of the Union clul
house, the portrait will be hung in some
building on the University campus
Leo j. Crum, of Owosso, will represent
the homeopathic department on the
general committee that will secur,
: funds and have charge of the securing
of the portrait.
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