The Owosso times., 1910-12-23

the nrst or next week with friends at
Kalamazoo.
Bernard Ward will enter the M. A.
G. after the holidays to take up the
course in forestry.
Postmaster and Mrs H. H. Pulver
of Laingsburg, were guests of Mr. and
Mrs S, Q, Pulver, Wednesday.
Mrs Herbert E Needham, E. Ex-
change street, was called to Byron the
fir It of the week by the serious sickness
of her mother, Mrs E. P Lord
A. E. Ferry has been given a contract
to build a stock case for the store room
in the federal building. also drop re-.
ceptacle for letters, papers and pack
ages.
Miss Cora Vandewater instructor in
music in the schools at Crystal Falls,
will be home TO speni the holidays
with her parents, Mr.. AMI. Mrs E P.
Vandewater.
James A Cooper of this city has ac-
cepted the agency for this county and
Clinton for the North American Life
Insurance Co. of Toronto one of the re.
liable old-line companies with a splen-
did reco d.
1t will be decidedly to your advan-
tage to read the ad of Bullard & Hagan
on page two this week You can find
almost everything in the way of cloth
ing, gents furnishings, ETC., in their
large stock and at prices which will
| please.
The Consumers Power Co is to oc.
cupy the building at the corner of Main
and Water streets now being remodel
ed by d. M. Christian as soon as the
repairs are completed This will give
the company fine offices, large wait.
ing room for the public and plenty of
store room for the supplies carried.
The Au Sable Electric Power Co.
has filed an application with the State
Railroad Commission for permission
to issue bonds to the amount of $3.50, 900
with which to secure funds to build
transmission lines from the AuSable
river power plant to Saginaw, Flint,
Owosso and other central Michigan
cities. 1t Is stated that power line
which will carry voltage of 295, 900
will be constructed.
The stretching of the high tension
wires from this city to Lansing for the
Commonwealth Power Co. has been
completed nearly to Lansing and it is
expected that during the next week
connection will be made with the trans
forming station at Lansing, and the
transmission of current commenced.
Considerable work is being done in
Owosso to make ready for the changes
which will be necessitated by the shift
in voltage from the present system.
T. A. Mears, principal of the Byron
public schools, has announced that he
will be candidate for the Office of coun-
ty school commissioner in Shiawassee
county in the Republican convention
to be held the latter part of the winter.
Mr.. Mears was former resident of thi,
township where his early life was pass
ed. He has been one Of Shiawassee
county's well.known and popular school
teachers for the past twelve years and
his old friends here trust he may be
successful in securing the nomination.
He is son of Mr.. and Mrs. VIM Mears,
who were former residents here, but
now reside in Burns township in that
county. Flushing Observer.
The Owosso friends of Mrs. s. Beach
Conger formerly Miss Lucille Bailey, a
tescher in the 0wosso high schooD will
be interested in the following item,
taken from Grand Rapids paper: s.
Beach Conger, formerly of Grand
Rapids and now in charge of the Office
of the Associated Press at St Peters
burg, Russia, has been promoted to
the most important Office in Europe
He has received notice Of his promotion
to the charge of the A. p. Office in
Berlin and will soon take up his duties
there. Mr. Conger is graduate of the
University of Michigan, where he was
one of the crack mile runners of Ameri.
ca He afterwards entered the service
of the newspaper business in Grand
Rapids and from here entered the SER
vice Of the Associated Press, being
finally placed in charge of the Office in
st. Petersburg. He returned to Michi-
gan last summer and when he went
back carried bride with him.