The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-02-26
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Miss Grace Amos is visiting friends
in Champaign, IL.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Mcclellan, spent
Monday in Shepherd.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. c. Shattuck spent
Wednesday in Ann Arbor.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wallace Hood were in
Mt. Pleasant, part of the week.
w. L. Frisbie has sold his Odds run
about and bought Maxwell automo-
bile.
Misses Hattie Hunt and Lena Martin
have been in Grand Rapids this week,
buying millinery,
Married, Feb Is, by Rev. c. H.
Hanks, at the Congregational parson-
age, Richard King and Miss Marie
Giffei, both of Owosso.
Judge K. s. Scarf and Sheriff Convis,
of Ithaca, were in the city, Wednesday,
en- route to st. Johns. Both men are
warm advocates of locol option.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. s. Launstein of
New Orleans, La, are guests at w. b.
Launstein's, Owosso township, having
been called by the serious illness of the
latter.
Mr.. and Mrs w. g. Eggles ,on enter.
tanned Wednesday evening for Mr.. and
Mrs. O'Connell, who leave tomorrow
for their home in California after a
visit at J. H. Frieseke's.
Serg. Geo. E. Hood, Co. T eth U. S.
Inf, is a guest of his father, Wallace
Hood in this city. He has finished his
second enlistment and will again enter
the service.
Aaron Dietrich secured a ju lgment of
$40 against w. H. VanSice for timber
cut on the formers land in excess of the
amount contracted for, at trial before
a jury In the municipal court. Saturday.
Fire destroyed an old barn in rear of
Moses Fletcher's home, Clinton street,
Monday morning. The fire started
from a stove which boys had used
in one corner of the building. The loss
is small.
c. f. Hoffman talked to the Y M. T..
A. boys Sunday on George Washington
giving an interesting and patriotic
address. Fife and drum music was fur
nished by S. Lamfrom and w. Will
loughby.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. l.. Smith of Howell,
spent Monday with Mr.. and Mrs. o. L.
Davis. Mr. Smith is cashier of bank,
at Howell and was formerly connected
with the Owosso Carriage Co. in this
city.
Worthy s. Cooper, assistant cashier
of the Owosso Savings Bank, was
in Cleveland, Ohio, last week to visit
his parents. He stopped at Charleston on
his way home where Mrs Cooper has
been the guest of relatives
VIM. Sidney, formerly of Corunna,
died, Thursday, FEB. IL, at his home in
Chicago, where he has lived number
of years, being in the undertaking bust
ness. His father, Henry Sidney, lives in
Corunna and the remains were brought
to that city for burial Saturday.
Miss Gail Carpenter, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Fred Carpenter, formerly of
Owosso, won an oratorical contest on
the temperance question at the Lake
Linden Methodist church last week re-
ceiving prize of five dollar gold piece.
There were quite number of contest
ants.
Rev. Leslie Bower, until recently
pastor Of the Baptist church in Corun-
ma, will act as travelling representative
for the Michigan Presbyterian and the
Christian Herald in Michigan. His
headquarters will be in Corunna but he
will be home only for short periods,
once in three or four weeks.
Dorr Shaft, formerly Of Shaftsburg,
continues to give the Lansing police
officials trouble, the latest being his
arrest for threatening his wife and
later for grabbing her with the in
tention of showing her how he would
kill person. Shaft has just completed
a 90.day term in the house of correction
and if he keeps on will probably be-
come a permanent resident of some
state institution. He is 55 years of age,
his wife 70.
Mrs. Alonzo Oberly has returned to her
home in Middle. town and will, under
advice from the authorities, hold pos
session of it, even though her husband
makes further attempts to keep her out.
The husband was married to a Mecosta
county woman, but DESERVING her. went
through two other marriage ceremonies
with women, living with them awhile,
but after securing divorce from his
first wife, married Miss Susie Fuller and
moved to Middle.town, and now owns
home and four lots there. He has
been cruel to his wife and she started a
divorce suit, but withdrew it.. Another