The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1910-11-25


L. M. Woodin was in Detroit on bust
ness the first of the week. 50
Mr.. and Mrs. Fl. p. Wallover were in
Detroit the first of the week.
Lloyd Webb is employed on a job of
carpenter work at Bancroft.
A large porch is being built on the
parsonage of the First M. e. church.
Harry Moulton has purchased the
music business of Zimmerman & Sails
bury.
MIR. and Mrs. Floyd Blair took their
Thanksgiving dinner with Mr.. and
Mrs. q. M. Edwards in Flint.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. r. Goodrich, Oliver
street west, entertained the Indepen.
dent Club Tuesday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Lanphere of
Ithaca, were guests. yesterday. at the
home Of Mrs. Sarah Shanafelt.
The steel poles for the trolley line of
the Lansing & Northeastern are being
set on South Washington street.
w. H. Bigelow is able to get down
town once or twice a week and feels
that he is little stronger from day to
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. G.. L. Taylor were in
Detroit, Monday and Tuesday, the
former attending a meeting of the
Bankers club.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. F. Gallagher were
in Detroit the first of the week, the
former attending a meeting of the
Bankers Club Monday evening.
Owosso Aerie of Eagles is gaining in
membership very rapidly, thirty appli-
cations are now pending and large
class will probably be taken in this
evening.
F. III. Meier. of st. Anne, Illinois, has
purchased the Elmer Joslin farm one
mile south and one mile west of Byron,
paying $S5 per acre, or $4,000 for the
$50 acres.-Byron Herald.
Supervisor Godfrey was in Detroit
last week and had another X-ray made
of his broken limb He is much en-
couraged over the outlook and can bear
quite little weight on that foot-Ban-
croft Commercial.
A civil service examination for the
appointment Of postmaster at Vernon
has been ordered to take place at the
Owosso Office on Saturday, Dec. nth.
Applicants must file their applications
with the commission at Washington
not later than Dec. 9th.
A number of friends of Miss Edna
Geek of Owosso, were entertained in
her honor at the home of Opal Jones
Friday evening at miscellaneous
shower. Miss Geek received many
pretty and useful gifts. Refreshments
were served.-St Johns Republican.
Mrs. Florence Millner of Detroit, a
sister of Mrs. Maud Thompson of this
city, will have leading part in social
function to be given this evening by
the Womans Club at the home Of Mrs.
A. M. Bentley Mrs Millner is at the
head of the Detroit university school
for boys.
Mrs. Mary E. Weeks, who with her
husband, now deceased, left for the
state of Washington five years ago to
take up homestead claim, arrived in
the city Wednesday for visit with her
father Cornelius Vanderhoof, and later
on with her son Louis E. Weeks, OF
Bannister.
Miss Gertrude Smith, uusic instruc-
tor in the city schools, is preparing to
give an operetta December 16 and II at
the Owosso theater. The cast will be
made up of about $50 school children
all the way from five years of age up
Miss Smith expects to make 'The
House That Jack Built" the hit of the
season.
Three of the deliverymen of the
Merchants Delivery Co. left their jobs
after the first delivery Wednesday
morning because they were notified
that a delivery would be made Thanks
giving morning, the grocery stores
being open part of the forenoon to &C
commodate customers. During the
afternoon men were found to take the
positions vacated.
Mr.. and Mrs. h. ID. Crawford are
greatly concerned as to their son, Ray
w. Crawford, who is seriously sick il
one of the hospitals at Portland, Ore
Mr.. Crawford had written home tha
he was not feeling we'll and little latel
wired the r. lance Motor Truck Co, o.
this city asking for leave Of abseDc,
to return home. This was granted, bu
nothing further was heard from Mr.
Crawford. A telegram of inquiry sen
by the Truck Co. brought reply tina
he was patient in hospital, while ,
a telegram to his wife from Mr.. Craw