The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1907-04-26
Special bonding election, MAY "a.

of physics and chemistry in the State
normal at Springfield, Mo. His salary
will be $1,sOO
Harry Killey will spend 30 days in
the county Jail on a charge OF vag-
rancy. He had been begging about
the city. and had annoyed people at
night by proving around their
Thieves stole the gum slot machine
from the Ann Arbor depot Saturday
night, broke it open with stove po-
ker and took the pennies.
Myron Nye is preparing to overhaul
his residence in Oakley. 1t will be
raised and a new foundation put under
! it and the interior is to be thoroughly
Iremodeled
Edward Carr has purchased the
building now coupled by A. F. Hollis,
as plumbing shop on Ball street, and
will take possession when Mr.. Hollis
moves into his new building on Main
street
Alton Rundell received handsome
new naphtha launch Saturday from
the Bryan boat works at Wyandotte,
and has launched the craft on the
river near Corunna. He will ship it
to Topinabee in few weeks.
The Owosso Driving Association is
looking forward to a successful sea-
son, with race meeting this fall as 4,
possibility. Work has already begun
| to get the half mile track east of the
| city in the best condition, and the first
driving matinee will be held, tits expec-
ted, in the early part of May.
The school board has passed a
resolution requiring graduates in the
future to wear cap and gowns at
commencement. Supt J. W. Sim
mons was instructed to go to Kala-
mazoo and get ideas on the subject
Of manual training and domestic sci
encc to help install the work here for
the coming year. He was there yes
terday.
After speaking of President Zim-
norman connection with d. T. & l..
financial affairs, the Detroit Journal
Tuesday said: AS tothe claim in the
Columbus dispatch that Eugene
Zimmerman, president of the road =,
profited largely through the reorgan-
ization of the Ann Arbor railroad, it
is positively stated ON high authority
that there is no ground for such an
assertion.
There is the same authority for the
staement that Mr.. Zimmerman has
never drawn cent of salary since
me became associated with tint COM
pany."
Will Ross, of Owosso, was in the
city yesterday to visit his wife, who
is here with their little child who was
recently bitten by pet dog. The
child, a little boy eighteen months
old, is receiving treatment at the
Pasteur institute. and is doing very
nicelv.-Ann Arbor Argus.
The prosecuting attorney OF Eaton
county has announced that nolle-
pros will be entered in the case Of
the People VS.. John w. DAYS, for
kidnapping his little nephew. Days
took the boy away from the lads
father, his brother-in-law. last fall.
and came to Owosso to live He was
arrested here this winter. The boy
is again with his father.
Felix Teal, who intended to locate
a veneer factory here, has gone to
Wisconsin, and will probably not re-
turn to Owosso. The Teal factory
would have started in a small way,
necessarily, and remarks which he
heard at recent meeting gave Mr..
Teal the idea that small institution
would not be welcome, although this
is emphatically not the case. Owosso
wants all the industries, small and
large, she can get. Mr.. Teal got an
entirely wrong idea of the general
feeling in Owosso, and it is hoped he
may yet be pursuaded to locate here.
In regard to the proposed special
election on May IA, for the voting of
$4,000 to secure industries for the
city, Dr. d. II. Lamb, mayor of the
city, said:
IL want to go on record as favor
ing the scheme heartily, but / want
nothing to do with the handling of
the money, and the aldermen feel, the
same way We believe that the inn
provement association is the proper
agency through which to secure fac
tories, as it has a good working or
ganization and is already in touch
with several industries which wish
to move. We will put our shoulders
to the wheel and help push the town
to the frontH
Mrs. L. +. Bradley went to Lansing
the first of the week, to be absent
several days.
Mrs. r. n. Parshall went to Green
vile today, to join her husband. They
will spend the summer there.
Silas NJ. Campbell, of this city, has
signed a contract to build cement
house on John Carland's farm near
Corunna.
Twins, boy and a girl, were born
last Saturday to Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
j. Ransom, formerly of Owosso. The
girl died Sunday. The boy is getting
along nicely.-Alpena News.
A daughter was recently born to
Mr.. and Mrs. Otto p. Won Mier, of
Port Jervis, N. Y, formerly of this
city.
The Lansing factory of the OWosso