The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1908-01-17
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Mrs Britton and Mrs Yeomans, OF
Bancroft, were guests at G. " Hoover's,
Tuesdav-MrsB S Fosk-t and Mrs b
+ Miller attended the me-ting of the
Bancroft Ladies' Aid at William Par
sons, Friday-George Waits and
wife, of Flint, are guests OF William
Waits anu wife. George has been laid
off for the winter by the firm he was
working for, but has the promise of re-
employment in the spring-The re-
rains of Mrs John Frye of Antrim.
were buried in the u p Cemetery, Fri
day MIR and Mrs F w Gurden, of
Madison, were guests of B s Fosket and
wife from Friday till Sunday-Mr
and Mrs o ] Hendee, of Durand, are
with Mr. and Mrs Jay sturgis at pre-
sent. They have sold their household
goods and intend to go to Alberta to
live in the spring-K M Fosket and
family visited his brother Alfred from
Thursday till Monday.
Local News.
j. j. Keagle, at 1.-THE Ooks" East
oliver street, has some white Pekin
ducks of which he is justly proud.
The drake weighs SR pounds and
the ducks about z pounds each. One
duck evidently believes in paying her
board if money is scarce, having laid
80 eggs since Oct. LIST, the largest
one weighing over ounces. What
duck can beat that? Another duck
is a beauty having a crest which
covers the entire top of her head.
Charles Schmidt has been confined
at the county Jail most of the week,
while the question of his sanity is be-
ing determined. Schmidt, who has
been living alone on his forty acre
farm northwest of Burton since his
wife was divorced forty years ago,
imagines that enemies have been
trying to break up through the floor
to kill him, and would sit for hours
watching for them, shotgun and
butcher knife in his hands. Under
sheriff Herrick and another officer
brought him in Monday.
Samuel Irwin. sent up from this
circuit last winter for attempting to
clean house at the Durand depot, is
in trouble at Lansing for threatening
his former employer.
John T. McCurdy is back from
Florida, and is recovering from an
attack of malarial fever. He says the
south is very unsatisfactory place
this season, as there are few strang-
ers from the north, and there has
been but little rain in a year. Mos
quitoes are as thick as in August,
sickness. The fruit crop is fail
ure.
Sidney Shipman, son Of County
Treasurer G. w. Shipman, has pur-
chased the old Nathaniel l.. Brown
farm Of fifty acres east of Corunna,
and will move thereon in the spring.
John B. Turner. of Columbus, |
formerly of this city, whose right |
hand was cut off in an accident a few
years ago, is dispatcher for the Hook |
ing Valley at Columbus, o. He has |
taught himself to send messages |
with his left hand.
Conductor Eddy, who for many
years ran on a Grand Trunk freight |
through this city, died recently at |
MS home in Detroit.
H. B. Peters, of Fairfield, met with |
4 painful accident Tuesday afternoon,
while working with an ensilage ma
chine. His left hand became caught |
n the feed" and only his resistance
saved the whole hand from going in. |
He lost the middle finger below
he first joint, while the tip ends of |
he Bird and 4th fingers were taken
off. DR.. Campbell was called and |
dressed the wounds.-Ovid Register
Union.
Chairman Diekema has issued a
,all for meeting of the Republican
state central committee in the Nor
on house, Grand Rapids, at 2 p. M,
Feb. H. This meeting will set the
late for the state convention to elect |
delegates at large to the national