The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1910-07-01
Local News

Mrs. NJ. Brown entertained the Socia
Afternoon Club at her home on Wate
street, Wednesday.
Ernest Jacobs and family of Schenec
tady, n. Y, are guests of Mrs. e. II
Jacobs, King street.
The hottest June day in 81 years i
the record of the u. S. weather burea,
at Detroit for Thursday.
w. E. Collins has had placed in hi
drug store one of the finest soda foun
tains in this part of the state.
Misses Emeline and Eta Doane o.
this city will be home the first week il
July from Sierra Madre, Calf, where
Miss Eta went for her health.
Will d. Royce OF Ann Arbor, former
ly of Owosso, has been guest of Owos
so and Corunna friends this week. He
is recovering from a three months i'll.
ness.
Miss Grace Jacobs is home from
Bridgewater, Mich, where she taught
school this year. She has accepted a
position at Crawling for 1910.
G. j. Kryzanowski, chief engineer at
the Reliance Truck factory, was knock
ed down and severely bruised in an au-
tomobile accident at Lansing, Sunday.
Clerks Hugh NJ. Miller, V. A. Doug
lass and J. L. Mcintosh of the Owosso
post Office each receive an increase Of
salary of 800 year dating from July
1st.
Col. G. B. McCaughna has been in
Saginaw, Bay City, Sault Ste Marie,
Cheboygan and Alpena this week in
specting the military companies of the
third regiment.
The case against Tracy Hewitt on a
charge of taking 81 from the money
drawer in Ross q Beattie's store was
heard by Justice Frlegel Thursday af-
ternoon. Decision will be given Satur-
day.
essmarriage of Miss Goldie Guiles
and Archibald r. Calkins of this city,
was solemnized at the home of the
formers parents in st. Johns Thursday
noon, Rev. A. B. Leonard officiating.
A wedding dinner was followed by
reception. They will reside on East
Mason street, Owosso.
The contract for remodeling the
building formerly occupied by Murray
& Terbush for the Owosso Savings
Bank has been let to the Nachtagall
Mfg. Co., Of Grand Rapids and the
work will be completed in November,
giving the bank one of the handsomest
and best equipped bankingb uildings In
the state.
l.. H. Kingsley was arrested Monday
in Detroit ana brought to Corunna to
the county Jail to answer to charge of
obtaining money under false pretenses
He is said to have bought watch in
Durand, paying 81 down and then pawn
ing the watch in Detroit. He is the
sole prisoner in the Jail and unless he is
able to settle the affair will have hot,
lonesome summer
W. F. Gallagher, president of the
State Savings Bank, was elected as a
member of the executive committee of
the Michigan Bankers Association at
the meeting held in Port Huron last
week. The honor is worthily bestow-
ed, Mr.. Gallagher being a banker Of
long experience, gentleman who free
ly devotes his time to matters of public
concern and deeply interested in the
upbuilding of the banking business
A motion for q new trial was made
Saturday in the circuit court in the
case of Mrs. Emma Groesbeck VS.. the
Grand Trunk, in which the jury return.
ed verdict of no cause of action, some
time ago. Alex Groesbeck was killed
while employed as brakeman for the
Grand Trunk some time ago, and his
widow sued for $35, 900 claiming that a
round of the ladder on the side of the
car upon which Groesbeck was riding,
was loose, allowing the man to fall tc
his death. The motion, it is understood,
will not be granted, but is merely a
formality that must be complied with
before appealing the case to the su'
preme court.
Roy L. Colby, son of former County
Treasurer Rudolph Colby, and Miss
Ruth Parmenter, teacher in the Wash
ington school, surprised their friends
Friday by announcing their marriage,
which took place February 1, 1910, al
Lansing, while they were there to at
tend party given by Mr.. Colby's fra
ternity. The romance started ten years
ago, when both attended school togeth
or at Corunna, and graduated in 1906.
Miss Parmenter later graduated from
the Ypsilanti normal, and Mr.. Colby
from the M. A. G.. They are at present
residing with Mr.. Colby's parents, on
West Oliver street, but will soon move
to the Colby farm, south of the city.