The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1908-02-14

Saginaw.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Mat.
lock of Muir. daughter.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. E. Boylan of Detroit,
spent Sunday with relatives here.
Richard Harnish of Saginaw, spent
Sunday with his parents in this city.
The West Side indoor ball team will
leave tomorrow for Alpena and Onaway
to play four games next week.
P. B. Reynolds of Maple River, at
tended meeting of Gratiot county
beet growers held at Ithaca, Saturday.
w F. Gallagher attended banquet
given by the Bankers Club of Detroit,
at the Hotel Cadillac, Wednesday
evening.
The examination of Lyman H. Dun
ming was again adjourned in Justice
McCaughna's court Monday, this time
for two weeks.
Owing to sickness Rev. Hoyt was not
able to fill the pulpit of the Corunna
Ave. M. E. church Sunday. Secy. ST.
denius spoke at the morning service.
J. j. Rieder, who formerly owned the
theatorium on North Washington
street, has returned to the city and
purchased the Temple theatre on Main
street.
Frank Collamer has been elected Sec
rotary treasurer of the Ann Arbor Rail
road Employees Relief Association to
succeed r. R. Fox, who resigned on
account of his transfer to Toledo.
E. J. Hibbard, record keeper of Benn-
ington tent K o. T. M. M, has paid
Mrs Emily G. VanLiew s., 200, the in
surance carried by the late H. B. Van
Liew in the order.
The Croswell, Mich, indoor ball team
claims the championship of the state,
and this without playing with either
Owosso team They might be quite
surprised if they could be induced to
visit the city for two or three games.
The w. c. T. U. has elected the
following officers for the year resi-
dent, Mrs. Ella Hook; vice pre-. de IT,
Mrs. L. A. Tyler; recording secI etary,
Mrs. Will Horton; financial Sec etary,
Mrs. Frank Weidman; treasurer, Mrs.
M. E. Densmore.
Register Cole states that large mum
Der of farm mortgages have been paid
and discharged within the last month
two discharges for one new mortgage
is about the per cent. 1t is just posi-
bic that sugar beet money has some
thing to do with this.
County Clerk Martin very properly
refuses to pay for q set of law books
recently ordered for the county from
the American Law Book Co., of New
York, and sent with draft attached to
the bill of lading. 1t is his belief that
it will be time to pay when the books
are delivered to him with the privilege
of examining the same. Right he is.
Geo. B. Campbell. the Ann Arbor
brakeman whose injury at Milan was
mentioned last week, died in the hospital
at Ann Arbor on the 9th. The remains
were taken to Mt Pleasant for burial,
the funeral services Monday being at
tended by number from this city.
Mr.. Campbell was % years old.
The following letters at the Owosso
postoffice are advertised for the week
ending Feb. 8, 1908: Carl Barley,
Louie Benn, George Bennett, Miss My
ra Conway, Miss Elizabeth Fry, Mann
Hassm, Will Hubbard, II. Holland,
Miss Lena Jackson, Lock Box 565, Mrs.
Nellie Noble, Owosso Furniture Co.,
Mrs. James Switzer, Mrs Emily Van.
Sickles.
The water pipes in the cook stove at
the home of w. E. Mckenzie froze Fri
day night and while his daughter, Miss
Vera. was preparing breakfast Sat-
urday morning the force of steam
which collected in the pipes blew up the
stove, wrecking the room in bad shape
Miss Mckenzie was slightly injured by
piece of the iron, but can be thank
full that she escaped without serious In.
jury.A
Wilhelm Detroit, Tuesday, DR.. A. NJ.
Hume had very pleasant interview
with Geo. w. Lowell general manager
of the Ann Arbor and d.. T. 81 1. K. r.
Mr.. Lowell expressed great regret that
it had become necessary to close the
Ann Arbor shops in this city and ex-
pressed the hope that business would
soon revive so that there would be a
call for opening the shops and running
everything to its fullest capacity as the
road had done for several years past.
The business depression of the past few
months has cut off the freight business
of all railroads and in the case of the
Ann Arbor it has plenty of rolling
stock so that present demands can be
met without making any repairs. Mr..
Lowell further stated that there was no
intention on the part of the manage