The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1912-02-09

doweli tne lasJ or the week by the
sickness of her mother.
The county board of pension exami
ners was in session Wednesday with
four applicants for examination.
Rev J. 8. Steininger is to be one OF
the speakers at patriotic banquet to
be given in Ashley on the evening OF
the 10th.
o. L. Sprague will attend meeting
of the Republican state central com.
mittee In Grand Rapids, Monday after.
noon next.
The Lansing branch of the Owosso
Sugar Co. was forced TO close temper.
arily on Wednesday because of short.
age of coal.
f. B. Stevens is now -ent for the M.
U. r. in this city, having been trans.
ferred from Albion. He IS the son of
Postmaster G.. Fl. Stevens of Perry.
To save the four per cent penalty on
the payment of winter taxes it is we'll
for Owosso taxpayers to remember that
the time for settlement expires Feb a.
B. E. Hardy of Bennington township,
attended the meeting of the Western
Michigan Holstein breeders associa ton
held in Grand Rapids, Wednesday.
He was elected a member of the exc
cutive committee.
The registering thermometer at the
post Office showed % degrees below
zero Saturday morning, while the
government thermometer at the sugar
factory recorded 10 below. Either is
low enough.
Frank M. Reed, who has been assis
tant at the post Office for nearly two
years past. will succeed e. d. Young as
fireman March list. Mr.. Young resign
ed because the duties were rather
strenuous for man of his years.
J. w. Hibbard of Bennington, will
leave Monday for Memphis, Tenn, to
attend a meeting of the executive
committee of the American Berkshire
association and the annual gathering
of the Berkshire congress.
q. F. Friegel addressed the men of
the Church of Christ, who assembled
Tuesday to consider the question of
organizing Brotherhood, and within
short time an organization will be
completed. Mr.. Friegel's talk was en-
joyed by those present.
E. B. Smith, former resident of
Corunna, died at Howell on Saturday.
aged 6S years. Mr.. Smith married
Mrs. Ellen Palmer of this city in 1895
He was prominent member of the @.
A. R. and known to many of the veter-
ans of this county.
Albert. eldest son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Chandler residing on the A. l. d.
Chandler farm in Shiswassee town.
ship, died Thursday night Of last week
of peritonitis, aged nine years. Funeral
services were conducted Saturday after.
noon BY Rev. %. n. Hanks. .sr4. lA5s..
The funeral of Charles Green, who
died Thursday evening, will be held at
the home on Saginaw street at 80 p. IN.
Saturday. Rev q. II. Hanks officiating.
Mr.. Green had suffered for long time
with tuberculosis. he is survived by
one daughter and FIVE sons, his wife
having died some months ago The
children have the sympathy OF the
community in their bereavement.
Because of the fact that Frank 81.
Watson, recently employed to conduct
the defense, was engaged in the U. S.
court at Detroit, the examination of n. |
Il. Simpson of Durand, was adjourned
on Tuesday until the Goth inst. Simp
son is still assisting in strengthening
out the affairs of the Durand bank and |
it is understood that $4,000 of paper
thought to be poor has been paid or
secured 80 that the bank will realize on
it
The call for the county convention to
elect delegates to the State and con-
gressional conventions to be held at
Bay City, April II, and at Caro-, Feb.
80 appears in this ISSUE The first con
yention will select six delegates at.large
to the national Republican convention,
nominate the Is presidential elv ctors,
chose new state committee, etc.
while the district convention will elect
two delegates and two alternates to the
national convention. The county con-
vention will be held at Corunna, Tues:
day. Feb. 81. at 80 p. m.
The owner Of the Post, the great
morning newspaper published in Wash
ington City, is Democrat, but be is
neither blind nor dumb. He says the
agitation of tariff revision downward
during this year has cost the South
$l2, 100000. With such an admission
as this from SO prominent Democrat
as the Post editor it would seem that
the time has come for the southern
people to forget their free trade folly,
Marion Ia Register.
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