The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1908-01-03
: Local News.

troit New Years.
Mrs. s. a. Jackson is spending {
few days in Ovid.
L. H. Retan was home from Ian
sing, over Sunday.
Mrs. J. M. Curwood, John street
is sick with pneumonia.
Mrs. Lillian Hadsall spent Wed
nesday in Mason with friends.
P. p. McGinty and family return
ed, on Thursday from Detroit.
Mayor and Mrs. Lamb spent New
Years with friends in Ann Arbor.
The Union Telephone Co., has de-
clared a quarterly dividend of pei
cent.
The Owosso Savings bank declar
ed semi-annual dividend of four pei
cent.
Attention Is directed to the ad oi
Howard e Son, undertakers, in thi:
issue.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Raymond
were guests of friends in Ovid, Wed
nesday.
Ninety couples attended the
Knights of Pythias party Wednesday
evening.
Mrs. Maria and Miss Grace Greer
entertained dinner party of ter
New Years day.
Frank H. Rush is presiding in the
municipal court during the absence
of Justice McCaughna.
The bond of A. ID. Whipple as dis.
bursting agent for the post Office
building has been approved.
Miss Ivah Staley, stenographer al
the Citizens Savings bank, spent
New Years at her home in Oak
Grove.
Geo. d. Palmer, returned to Tole.
do, Thursday, after visiting at the
home of w. w. Palmer and F. w
Pearce.
The National Union has paid to
Mrs. r. d. Crawford $1,000, being
the amount of the policy carried by
the late A. A. Crawford.
The store of Lyon e Pond will
close at noon today to put the stock
in shape for their great "Short End
sale which starts Saturday morning
The Citizens Savings Bank paid
it's stockholders a dividend of three
making a total of seven per cent fol
the year.
The pension board organized
Tuesday by electing Dr. H. p. Hal.
stead, of Perry, president; Dr. S. S
c. Phippen, secretary and DR.. A. NJ
Hume treasurer.
Mrs. Ethel Agnew, of Henderson
who has had a clerkship in the Office
of Land Commissioner Rose, at Ian.
sing, has resigned on account of poor
health and is now in California.
Geo. Busell is home from Fillmore
e. M. Hopkins, of this city, is tc
respond to the toast, "a Greater
Lansing and a Greater America" al
the annual banquet of the Lansing
Business Mems association on the
evening of the 18th.
Mr.. and Mrs. G.. L. Page, of Mar.
shall, who have spent the week with
Mr.. and Mrs. c. j. Page, Cedar street
north, left today for Owosso, where
they will remain week with friends
Lansing Journal.
Canada, where he has been for the
past four years. He has proved-uI
on his claims of 160 acres of govern
ment land which he homesteaded ant
will soon receive title to the same
He likes the country and will return
in the spring.
A. H. Heron, formerly of this
city, now editor of paper at Gage
| town, greeted friends in the city
| Wednesday. Mr.. Heron has passed
his 72nd birthday but is still hale
and enjoys the work incident to the
| life of a newspaper man.
John p. Hopkins, of Detroit, &
brother of e. M. Hopkins, is in the
city and will have charge of work re-
i lating to the securing of renewal.
of franchises for the electric roads
| between Pontiac, Owosso, Ionia ant
Grand Rapids which have been sc
much talked of.
The Mississippians, famous com
pany of colored jubilee singers, are
to give concerts Monday and Tuesday
evening next week in the Congrega
tional church under the auspices Of
| the Y. M. G. "A. Wherever these sing
ers have appeared about the state
they have given the highest satisfac
tion and no one should miss hearing
them.