The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1908-01-31

ness.
Mr.. and Mrs Benz Smith have com
menced housekeeping at 602 North Bal
street.
l.. c. Hall and G. H. Barrett attended
a meeting of Bean buyers in Detroit
Wednesday.
.. L. Sprague has been confined to
the house part of the week by an at
tack of grippe.
d. L. Murphy of Detroit, formerly of
this city, has been refinishing the wood
work of the Central hotel.
S. F. Shumaker of the American
Farm products Co., was in Detroit,
Tuesday and Wednesday.
/ The first zero weather of the winter
came Tuesday night when the Their
mometer registered eight below.
A F Howard is spending the week in
Munising. His family will return with
him to make their home in Owosso.
A good quality of ice is being taken
from Hopkins lake this week and the
various ice houses about the city filed
Seymour Arnold claims to have been
knocked down while on his way home
from work Saturday night and robbed
of SLIGO.
Mrs. G. o. Post returned home Tues
day evening from visit with her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Seth Hughes at
Worthwhile.
Mrs. Dwight Purdys of Dowagiac.
was the guest of Miss Mary Shaw the
first of the week. She will be remem-
bered as Miss Della Doan.
Congressman Fordney writes: II be-
lieve the Philippine bill is dead for this
session. Secy. Taft is willing to &C.
cept anything as compromise.
The girls high school basket ball
team was defeated at Marshall, Friday
evening, II to 8. And still return
game is to be played in this city!
Mrs. Sarah A. Haslet, one of the
we'll known Spiritualists of the state
and who frequently visited Owosso,
died on Tuesday in Washington.
The young ladies of st. Agnes Guild
presented Miss Catherine Castree with
set of solid silver teaspoons on Friday
evening at the home of Miss Jennie
Copas.
For the month Of December the
births in the county numbered forty
and the deaths thirty three. Nine of
the births and thirteen deaths occurred
in this city.
Shoppenagons, the Indian chief who
visited Owosso at the time of the home
coming last year, is serving a ten days
sentence in the county jail at Crawling
for wife beating.
The West Side indoor ball team met
its first defeat of the season at Grand
Rapids, Friday evening, the score being
10 to s. The local team missed Pitch
er Shotwell.
The students of the Owosso Business
College drove to the home of j.. M.
Walsh, in Caledonia township, Tues
day evening where they passed several
hours in a most pleasant manner.
A private pension bill introduced by
Senator Burrows giving Rev. James
Fisher of Corunna, $50 per month has
passed the senate. Senator Smith has
introduced private pension bills for
Lewis H. Leland and Mrs. Martha F.
Turner of Owosso.
Joseph Kelly, formerly of this city,
died at his home in Sandusky, Ohio,
the last of the week. Mr.. Kelly was
member of Co. g and went to Cuba
during the Spanish-American war.
His wife and one child SURVIVE him.
John w. Fournier died at his home in
Owosso township on Friday evening
after long sickness with dropsy, aged
"a years. He is survived by his wife
and one child. Funeral services were
held at Asbury church, Tuesday morn
ing, Rev. W. s. Smith officiating.
Louis Lahring, for nearly sixty years
resident of Burns township, died on
Tuesday, aged SO years. He is survived
by three children. w. II. Lahring and
Mrs Ralph Collins of Gaines, Mrs. Il.
Granger of Argentine. He had been a
member of Masonic lodge at Byron for
many years.
Miss Cecil L.. Hunter of Ovid, died at
Oberlin, Ohio, Saturday, of scarlet few
err. Miss Hunter was an accomplished
young woman, graduating in the Latin
course from Ovid high school at the age
of sixteen, winning the honors of her
class. She was afterward employed as
local reporter on the st. Johns Republi-
can for two years, taught school at Zee
land one year and then was appointed
to clerkship in the Office of the State
land commissioner, resigniug to take a
course in Oberlin college.