The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-06-11

A. B. Freeman of Durand, was in the
city Wednesday on business.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. F. Bush spent Sun
day with relatives in Chesaning.
Ex-County Treasurer R. F. Kay OF
Morrice, was in the city Wednesday.
E. F. Joslin, Frederick Gould and J.
G. Shattuck were in Detroit, Saturday
Mrs Frank Stengel of Detroit, spent
the first of the week at Thomas Ha-
gems .
! Forty-three hundred pounds of butter
| was made at the Durand creamery on
Saturday E,l c--
Mr.. and Mrs, Irving Geek of Grand
Rapids, were guests at Andrew Geek
part of the week.
Liquor licenses have been issued to
Bert Norton, Vernon, and Arthur An
derson, Durand.
The June number of the Michigsn
Railway Guide. issued by John R.
Wood of Detroit, is at hand.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. Dingwall and
daughter of Ithaca, spent part of the
week with relatives in this city.
Shiawassee taxpayers are boarding
Harry O'Haire of Genesee county dry
for being drunk in Durand last Friday.
Miss Ina Baldwin, Miss Wayne Hal.
sey, Misses Eva and Ellen BRANDED and
Carl knight spent Sunday in Lansing.
Benkleman & Mulhall have been
given the contract to furnish the city
with cement, the price to be $1.25 a
barrel.
The Kings Daughters have opened
rest rooms at Durand for the accom-
mediation of ladies who come to the
village.
The plans for the Sd of July celebra-
ton at Durand have been dropped ana
'Hubites' will join in the merrymak-
ing in this city.
Seven cases for violation of the local
option law are on the calendar of the
Clinton circuit court for June term, and
four more will doubtless be added,
Mrs. G, Nixon has returned home
from Laingsburg, where she has been
caringfor her sister, Mrs. Edwin Par
ker, who is i'll with appendicitis.
Rev. Geo. Laughton attended the
Jackson Baptist convention at Eaton
Rapids this week, and delivered an adj
dress with Drinking from Old Wells
as subject.
Liquor licenses have been granted to
Bert Norton to do business at Vernon,
and to Arthur Anderson, Durand, each
having paid the $500 fee to County
Treasurer Shipman.
Leroy Gilmore will work for Payne q
Euler this summer, having resigned his
position as Assistant Y, M. G. A. secre-
tary. He will enter the Agricultural
College in the fall.
Frank McNamara's second dancing
party at the casino Tuesday evening.
was attended by forty couple, who en-
joyed very pleasant evening. The
third of the series will be given June
10.
Rev. E. P. Knight of Lowell, has &C.
copied call to the Baptist church in
Corunna. Mr.. Knight is native of
England having lived in Michigan but
one year. His family will not move to
Corunna until fall.
VIM. l.. Guipe, N. Washington street,
has been in Newcastle, Pa, this week
to attend reunion of Company B,
First Penn, Light Artillery, of which
he was a member and the majority of
whom he has not seen since the war.
Manager Abbott of the Owosso
threatre, was here from Ann Arbor part
of the week. He reports poor seasons
business, but hopes for better patronage
next year, and has booked number of
shows. He will send new assistant
manager here soon.
Harold Miner of this city. who gradu-
ates today from the U. S. West Point
Military Academy with the rank of
second lieutenant, stood twenty. sixth
in his class of one hundred three mem.
bers. The average standing of the
class is said to be the highest of any in
recent years. Lieutenant Miner will
spend few days in New York City
before returning home for his furlough,
pending his assignment to duty.
The paper written by Chief James
Brown of the Owosso fire department
on the subject, What is a proper fire
apparatus to purchase for a town of
five to ten thousand population" is re-
ported by the Grand Rapids Herald to
have evoked extended discussion
at the meeting of the Michigan
Firemens' Association held in Grand
Rapids, this week. The general ex-
preston favored a combination hose
and chsmical wagon.
The following is the list 81 advertised
letters in the Owosso post office, for
the week ending June s, 1909: Cecil
Audrey; Arthur Chapman; John Con.