The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1906-03-23
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Ralph Sayles was home from the u
of M. Saturday.
H. ID. Lyon was in Ann Arbor Mon
day to consult an eye specialist.
Claude Martin, of Maple River, spent
the first of the week in Genesee county
visiting friends.
Archie Evans has taken the place Of
car checker at the Michigan Central
succeeding Clare Irish who will go tt
Detroit. Evans has been employed in
the Grand Trunk Offices
Owosso Lodge No. SO, I. o. o. f. and
Star of Hope Rebekahs will 90 to st.
Johns, Wednesday evening April 4th,
and confer the initiatory degrees, enjoy
banquet and return on special train.
A man called at the Travellers Home,
Michigan avenue, Friday, claiming to
be a detective. He took a pocketbook
containing gold watch and disap-
peared. No trace of the thief has been
found. The property belonged to F. J..
Kirkhoff.
Miss Helen Cooper spent Sunday in
Ann Arbor with Miss Lena Gould. She
met her mother, Mrs. r. D. Cooper,
Tuesday morning in Jackson and they
left for Chicago where Rev. Cooper has
begun his rectorship of ST. Johns Epis-
copal church.
Patsy Cavanaugh was arrested and
fined again last week for threatening to
kill his father. He is out on probation
on an old charge and it would seem that
to save expense and trouble which may
some day result in murder that this Of
fender should be locked up.
Mrs Helen Mcdonald, of Ann Arbor
sister of w. d. Royce, formerly of
Owosso, and Mrs. M. H. Seeley, who
died two weeks ago at Ann Arbor, died
Sunday. I'D. Royce, of Corunna, at
tended the funeral Tuesday.
E. E. Turner, formerly of this city,
was arrested at his home in Milo last
Friday for obtaining money under false
pretenses, the prosecuting attorney
claiming that he endorsed a draft for
Turner for $50 on Peter Nicholson, of
Gaylord, and the same was returned
protested.
Oscar Phelps, prominent farmer Of
Bengal township, Clinton county, was
sentenced to one year in the Detroit
house of correction for placing obstruc-
tions on the electric railway track
short time ago. His wife commenced
habeas corpus proceedings before Judge
Miner but later discontinued them.
Advertised letters in the Owosso post
Office for the week ending Mar. II, 1906:
Fred Bennett, Miss Ina Darling, Carey
G. Frise, Mark Jacobs, G. Keif, Will
helm Lehtinen, Mr.. Madray, Chester l..
Mcdonald, Mrs. Nellie E. Miner, Miss
Muriel Stein, T. A. Stone, JOSEF
Tzarimari
Mrs. William Irland was granted a
divorce in Detroit last week by Judge
Rohnert from her husband William
Irland on the ground of cruelty and non
support. Irland, who succeeded, while
the woman lived in Owosso in getting
her away from former husband, &C.
cused her of running away with her
uncle, Robert Russelo.
BY clerical error the voters of the
city will vote onApril I'd on the question
of bonding to furnish funds to buy a
five million gallon pump instead of
three million gallon pump. The amount
asked for is not sufficient to purchase
five million gallon pump, but change
cannot be made now as the time is too
short.
The question of the passage of the
franchise asked for by the O. q G. E.
was taken up by the council Monday
evening and a committee consisting of
Mayor Parkill. City Attorney Pierpont,
and Aid. BRANDED, Lamfrom and Rigley
appointed to consult with the COM
pany's representatives and report at a
meeting Tuesday evening. No salts
factory arrangements was made, how
ever.
The Catholics of the city and a large
number of friends filed the opera house
Saturday evening to celebrate st.
Patrick's day and were entertained with
music by Harry McKerring, Andrew
Mylotte, Miss Kate Kearney, of st.
Louis, and the parochial school
quartette. Speeches were made by J.
j., thinner, of Lansing, Rev. A. M.
Efinger, of Detroit, David Armstrong,
of st. Louis, and Neil r. Walsh, Of
Owosso.
Expert Accountant Dresser reported
to the council at special meeting Tues
day evening that his denomination Of
the records of the city clerk, with the
! use of some books which he did not have
when making his first examination,
showed payments of 81, 1851, leaving a
shortage Of So, 0Sz96. A resolution was
offered by Aid. Lamfrom providing that
If the shortage was not made up by