The Owosso times., 1907-11-15

w. g. Hawcroft did business in Dams.
vile, Tuesday.
Miss Mollie Roberts returned from
Detroit, Monday.
Ben Essig is assisting at Collins drug
store out of school hours
G. E. Rigley Jr., has been in Chicago
on business part of the week.
Floyd Barnes. of Alma. was guest
at the home of G. N. Tyler, Sunday.
E. w. Connors of Saginaw, is now
in charge of the Postal Telegraph in
this oity.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. G.. Williams left,
Tuesday evening, for their home in
Newark. n. j.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. d. Matthews, of
Shepherd, spent Sunday in the city
with their parents.
Misses Clara and Tena Byrnes, of
Detroit, were at the home of their par
ents, in this city, Sunday.
E. d. Young is arranging to go to the
Pacific coast for the winter and will
doubtless take government land claim.
Miss Josie Corcoran, of the Bell Tele-
| phone Co., leaves tomorrow for an ex-
| tended visit in Toronto and London,
| Canada.
Miss Bessie Crickmore, city, will be
examined before Justice Peacock, Co.
runna, tomorrow on charge of obtain
ing goods by false pretenses.
The Anti-Saloon League announces
that vigorous fight will soon be waged
in twenty-three counties in the state
for the adoption of local option.
The Doyle Cheese Co., Ovid, paid
farmers $4,000 for milk delivered in
September, the rate being $1.15 per
hundred 1t is thought the October
rate will reach $1.25.
1t is not probable that any work will
be done on the post Office building this
fall as the third sample of cement sub
mittted by Contractor Hickman has
been rejected by the authorities at
Washington as not being up to the
specifications.
The work on the Maple River drain
in this county has been completed and
the dredge is now at work in Clinton
county. Many who were opposed to
starting this job are now entirely salts
fed that it will prove great benefit to
the territory through which 1t passes.
Miss Ella Wade, an employe of the
Perry Glove & Mitten Co., attempted
suicide, Saturday, by taking laudanum.
She had quarrel with another en-
ploye and was discharged and wanted
to end her life as a consequence. She
doubtless has changed her mind by this
time.
Advertised letters at the post Office,
Owosso, for the week ending Nov. 8,
1907: Miss Ruth Arnold, Rev. VIM.
Baldwin, John Cook, Lawrence Cooper,
Grace A. England N. Flowers, Guss A.
Kaufman, Owosso State Bank, George
Plumer, Mrs. Rauzer, Miss Dora Rouse,
Wm H. Whitehead, Mrs. Anna Wilcox.
Geo. Simpson, convicted in the Liv-
ingston circuit court of maintaining
house of ill-repute, was sentenced by
Judge Miner to serve from two to fifteen
years in the Jackson prison. Previous
to his arrest Simpson was treated to
coat of tar and feathers by the people
residing in the neighborhood of his
farm.
The Ann Arbor r. R. has settled a
damage suit with Elmer Sowle by pay
ing him $4, 900 for injuries received in
an accident which occurred near Bag
nall year ago. 1t was in this acci-
dent that Fireman Ivan Bennett, of
Owosso, was killed and Conductor A.
G. Veit seriously injured. Veit sued
and was given judgment for $4,000.
The case was appealed to the supreme
court and is still pending,
The Dawson Index says that the busy
place in that village just now is the
corner where the Mt. Clemens and
Owosso Sugar Beet Companies are un-
loading their beets. In less than two
weeks the Mt. Clemens people took in
397 loads of beets and the Owosso peo-
pie $40 loads During the season both
companies have taken in nearly thous-
and loads. The crop is enormous and
the people of Dawson consider it good
crop. During the month of October
there were 1854 tons of stock and pro-
duce shipped from that point. Fenton
Independent.
A dispatch from Fenton, says Del
bert Traphagen, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
A. Traphagen, has written to his par
ents stating that he expects to be in
Fenton within the next two weeks and
will spend the winter here. Six years
ago Mr.. Traphagen caught the gold
fever for Alaska, and since that time