The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1907-12-27

| idst week, one OF lt5 Dlack team dying.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Palmer, Of
Ament street, are visiting their daugh-
ter in Sandusky, o.
Elmer Augsburg and B. w. Calkins,
of Venice leave England this week for
home after horse-buying trip to Eng
land and Ireland.
Mr. and Mrs o L Bristol and children
of Benzonia, were in the city Saturday.
They are spending the week with Mr..
Bristols parents at Morrice.
Herman and Karl Klingbiel and Hen
ry Schneider are home from Water
town, Wis, where they attend theo-
logical seminary, for the holidays.
| William Delaney. the young man.
who was kicked by horse recently, has
recovered consciousness, and will get
well unless the unexpected happens.
Robert Shannon has returned home
! from San Francisco where he was for
| several months and is now at his home
in Garland. He saw his father, A E.
Shannon, before the latter sailed on his
trip round the world.
DIR. Joseph Marshall, of Durand, we'll
known here, has returned from Helms
vile. Mont, to spend the winter at
Durand. The doctor is doing well
with his mines, and has almost COM
pletely recovered his health since the
amputation of his leg a few months ago.
Sparrow-killing is in full swing, as
the law again gives bounty of two
cents per head, and many small boys
are out hunting the birds daily. One
provision of the law not generally un-
derstood is that the head must be paid
for in the township or city where the
birds are shot.
Judge Willis Brown, of the juvenile
court, Salt Lake City, delivered his ad-
dress on the work he is doing, as q
number in the Y. M. G.. A. course Fri
day evening. He pleased the large
audience and still left it something to
think about. To save the boy inclined
to be bad, Judge Brown believes he
should be given care and proper envi-
ronment.
Joseph Murray, nineteen year old
boy who has been making his home
with his uncle, John Collard, and work
ing at the sugar factory, disappeared
Saturday night. He had been sick
with consumption for some weeks, and
is said to be demented. He was thinly
clad and had no money. He walked to
Oakley. it was discovered, and walked
back again Sunday night. The young
nan has since been in a serions condi-
ton on account of exposure.
The local electric lighting situation
is complicated by the fact that Owosso
men who have been promoting the
establishment, of dam on the J. w.
Thorne place north of this city will
cease their labors if the Shiawassee
Light and Power Co., of Corunna, is
given the contract for the city lighting.
The Commonwealth Power Co., of
Muir, is also understood to be about
ready to bid for Owosso's business.
Bird Babbitt, sugar factory employee
who went suddenly insane while at his
work, and was taken to to Corunna by
Chief Hodges, has been taken to Sagi
nav by the sheriff of Saginw county.
He will be cared for there or sent to
some asylum. He is resident of that
county, his mother living near Chesan-
ing He has been in the Pontiac asy-
lum on three different occasions, the
last time for about one year, five years
ago.
Rev. A. o. Alexander. who has filled
the Congregational pulpit at this place
for the past three years, has received
unanimous call from the st. Broadway
Congregational church of Denver, Colo.
Mr.. Alexander, at the annual meeting
of the Perry Congregational church a
few weeks ago, was unanimously asked
to remain here for another year. He
has not fully decided whether he will
accept the new call or not.-Perry
Journal
An alarm of fire at the Trenton
schools was met in a commemorate
manner recently by the principal, E. A.
Sherman, the teachers and the 400
pupils. The fire was in the basement,
blazing under the stair case down
which most of the pupils passed, but
there was no confusion, and no one was
hurt. The building was emptied in
less than five minutes and the fire was
soon under control. Mr.. Sherman is
we'll known as former school exam
liner and teacher of this county.
Miss Ida Bishop, who was brought up
in London, England, by her grandmoth-
er, came to this country recently after
the death of the latter, and is now liv-
ing with her mother at Morrice. She
says that this country is preferable to
England, inasmuch as the farmers here
are n great deal better off than thev