The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1911-01-20


day and tomorrow at Ovid.
The state farmers institute fol. Shia.
wassee county is to be held at Perry
Feb. 8 and 8. President Snyder :of the
M. A. c. is to be one of the speakers.
VIM. McKendry, engineer at the plant
of the Owosso Sugar Co., has resigned
and will go to Colorado to accept a
similar position.
Gurden Bingham, assistant postmas-
ter, will spend weeks vacation with
his daughters in Chicago, leaving Sat-
urday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. G.. Williams left on
Monday for their home in Newark, N.
j., after visit of nearly two weeks
with relatives in this city.
The river below the Mulberry street
bridge to the dam of the Sugar Co. is
well frozen over and skating is enjoy ed
by merry crowd every day.
The marble and interior woodwork
for the new quarters of the Owosso
Savings Bank has been received and a
force of men is busy placing the same.
The municipal skating pond on West
Main street was again flooded by the
fire department Wednesday morning,
the water being pumped from the
river.
Owosso has been we'll represented
this week at the automobile show in
Detroit and as a result some new autos
are expected to appear on ourisstreets
early in the spring.
The first meeting of the creditors of
Lloyd Cooper, bankrupt, was held Mon.
day in the Office of Attorney Chapman.
Cooper was formerly engaged in bust
ness in Greenville.
Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Euler have been
guests of their daughter, Mrs. II. E.
Payne in Bancroft during the week.
They leave next week for California to
remain until spring.
Mrs. G. d. Monroe was in Detroit,
Wednesday, to attend a banquet given
by the Daughters of the American
Revolution in honor of Mrs. Matthew
T. Scott, national regent.
Charles Shirreff of Chesaning, for a
long term of years an employee of tire
Michigan Central railroad and until
recently agent at Chesaning, has been
retired on a pension of $S5 month.
Misses Hattie Detwiler- and Florence
Greenwald have been teaching in the
Washington and Bryant schools this
week during the absence Of the Misses
Stearns and Bowen on account of sick.
ness.
The receipts of the local post Office
for 1910 were $29, 203. SO, a slight in.
crease over the previous year. The
removal from the city during the year
of c. H. Barrett lost to the Office its
heaviest purchaser.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. w. Crawford are
guests at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. R.
d. Crawford. Mr.. Crawford has
recently returned from Portland, Ore
gon, where he was sick several weeks
with typhoid fever.
G. W. Gale and E. o. Dewey were in
Alma. Monday, to attend a meeting OF
the board of directors of the Union
Telephone Co. The reports for 1915
show the largest volume of business in
the history of the company.
Mrs. William LaBar died at hel
home in this city on the 5th after d
short sickness with pneumonia, aged
48 years. She is survived by her hus
band and daughter. Funeral ser
vices were held Saturday afternoon.
The council committee appointed tc
consider the franchise which the Union
Tel phone Co. has asked to have sub
mitted to vote at the April election
was not prepared to report at the meet
ing Monday evening and was granted
further time. The committee was also
authorized to expend not to exceed $2t
in making its investigation.
The address of Superintendent W. E
Hanson on Our Brothers from Over
the Sea" was thoroughly enjoyed by
those present at the meeting of tn.
Brotherhood of the Congregations
church Monday evening. The discus
sion following the address was partici
psted in by q number of the member,
and the meeting was a very profitsbl,
one.