The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-08-06
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Mr.. and Mrs. R. M. Sayers are spend
ing the week in Howell.
Born, Sunday, to Mr.. and Mrs. T
Tubbs. Mason street, son.
A. L. Nicholas and family returned
from Highland park Tuesday.
Loomis & Osmer will supply the
groceries for Co. HIS trip to Ludington
next week
Mrs. L. s. Shears and daughter OF
Muskegon, are guests at Chas. Shears
Michigan avenue
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Peacock of
Corunna, has returned from a visit in
! Rochester, N. Y.
Attorney John J. Carton of Flint,
was operated on for appendicitis at a
hospital in Detroit, Tuesday.
The annual picnic of the Cook Cooper
Waugh. Bartlett families will he held at
McCurdy park Wednesday, Aug. II.
Charles Hathaway of Corunna, has
gone to Sault Ste. Marie to accept a
position with Swift & Co., of Chicago
Mr.. and Mrs. Uhlinger and daughter
of Amsterdam, N. Y, are guests at
G. A. Vanderhoof's and George Browns
Pine street.
Fred Stevens was arrested in Owosso,
Tuesday charged with seducing a 10
! year old girl and was brought before
Justice Friegel.
Union Telephone employees enjoyed a
fish supper at Lovett's Cafe Friday eve.
ming, the fish being brought by Fred
Burt from Crystal Lake.
V. M. White has been awarded a
contract to build cement top on the
Cedar street bridge over Comstock
creek, his bid being $751;.
w, R. Reynolds has purchase the
brokerage business of G. s. Weaver,
who will continue to run his Muskegon
branch and make that city his home.
Adam Deckert has purchased forty
acre fruit farm near Crystal Lake st
Beulah and will add 800 cherry peach
and apple trees to the stock this year.
The Genesee Coal Co., with capital
stock of $3.50, 900 has filed it's articles of
incorporation. The company owns
land in Hazelton township in this
county and in Genesee, Saginaw, Bay
and Tuscola counties.
The farm home of Mrs. Eugene Clark
three miles north of Owosso was burn
ed Monday afternoon, the contents of
the house being saved. The loss was
about $500 with 5000 insurance in the
Shiawassee Mutual.
The drinking fountains on Washing
ton street have been fixed in a more
sanitary condition and the matter of
new style of fountain will be investigat-
ed by the superintendent of public
works and report make to the council.
Thomas Donigan, aged Is years, died
Sunday at the home of his parents two
miles south of Owosso after a two
years illness of tuberculosis. The par
ents and one sister survive. The
funeral was held Tuesday at the home,
Rev. G. M. Keene officiating.
Mrs. Anna Campbell, aged go years,
died Monday at the home of her son
Thomas Campbell in the Kiefer adj
dition. She is survived by two sons,
Thomas and James and one daughter,
Mrs. VIM. Bowling. The funeral was
held at st. Paul's Catholic church
Wednesday morning, Rev. FIR. Slane
officiating
On application of f. L. Warren of
Ionia, Mrs. Mary l.. st. Johns, his
mother of New Lothrop, will have a
hearing today in the probate court and
will probably be adjudged insane and
sent to the asylum at Pontiac. She
locks herself in a room fearing someone
wants to destroy her and has done
many dangerous things.
Mrs. John Haker is locked up in the
Clinton county Jail charged with muir
dering her former husband at their
home six miles west of Laingsburg last
Friday night. Haker who was 81 years
of age, obtained divorce from the
woman not long ago on the ground of
cruelty, giving her $3.50 as alimony, but
she refused to leave his home, and
as result of his insisting that she go,
she shot him, after quarrel. The
couple had been married twenty three
years and had eight children.
The Welsbach Street Lighting Co.,
of Chicago, by its representative, r.
w. Bingham, stated to the council
Monday evening that it would bid for
the lighting of the city of Owosso by
gas when the present contract with the
o. & G. E. Co expires. The company
claims many advantages for the gas
system-no poles or wires, one light
may be out without affecting the entire
lighting of the city, the shaded streets
can be reached better, etc.
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