The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1912-11-08

Nichols in Corunna.
Clare Billiard has resigned as ste.
nographer for John T. McCurdy OF
Corunna, and has gone to Flint to work.
Fred Brown, former member of
the city police force, has accepted a
position with the Owosso, Carriage
& Sleigh Co.
Positively the best school shoes on
the market for boys at $500 a pr.
Button or Butcher, Gun Metal and Box
Calf. Thome & Frisbie. Advertise
ment.
Miss Grace Abbott, Instructor at
the Central school, who went to
Grand Rapids last week to attend
the State Teachers institute, was
obliged to remain there until Mon
day on account of illness.
Edward Hamblin returned to this
city Monday evening after being con-
fined to the University hospital in Ann
Arbor for the past five weeks, where he
submitted to an operation.
William E. Cornford, for three years
turnkey at the county Jail, has been
appointed a guard at the prison at
Jackson and took up lis work Nov. 6.
Mr.. Cornford has the necessary quail
fications for the work and will doubt
less make good from the start.
Mrs. Belle Lillebridge Lauer of Port
Allegheny, Pa, is the guest of hrs. F.
A. Watts, of North Saginaw street.
Mrs. Lauer is a sister of Will Lilli-
bridge. the noted author, and is en-
route to her home, after visiting him
at his ranch in Washington.
Joseph Rundell, Corunna's miller for
the past eight years, has accepted a
position in Battle Creek and will move
there shortly after the new year. He
says that if the mill is not rented
before that time it will be closed by
the Chicago owners. Mr. Rundell will
be connected with large grain and
feed company in the food town.
Mrs. H. E. Needham, 436 East Ex-
change street, was badly burned about
the face and arms Friday afternoon,
and her hair was singed. Mrs. Need
ham opened the furnace door to re-
plenish the fire and tongue Of flame
struck her full in the face. A physi-
clan dressed the burns. Mrs, Needham
is now more comfortable and it is hoped
that no bad scars will be left.
Advertised letters at the Owosso post
office for the week ending Nov. 2, 1912:
Miss lone Burly (s), Mikordoh Berpa.
lok, Mrs. Frank Donlap, NJ s. Dwight,
Mrs. Herman Elberts, Miss Maude
Fouth, Earl Camo, Mrs. Ethel Griffens,
w. w. Harris, Mrs. Bertha Howiths,
J ohm Jelinck, E. s. Jones, Fred Jones,
J. e. Keisler, Mrs. Myrtle Lightheart.
John E. Miller, Arthur Rallard, Lynn
Ralya, Anton Shild. Mrs. Anna Soggs
Miss Adah Treffey.
An Owosso grocer noticed that of
late his clerks haye sold great many
small bottles Of Jamaica ginger that
is kept in stock. He decided to investi-
gate. An examination of the label
showed the following: Jamaica GIN
ger, alcohol, so per cent" Fearful
that he was liable to prosecution under
the local option law in effect in this
county, he fastened to the municipal
court room, and while Justice Friegel
is looking up the law on the question,
he has ordered the discontinuance Of
the sale of the ginger.
Miss Gertrude Newman. daughter of
Mrs. John Cute, West Main street. and
Steven Fletcher, were united in mar.
rage Thursday evening at the home
of Rev. Paul o. David, who officiated
They are residing in the AFFORD apart
ments, 734 West Main street. MI.
Fletcher has been prominent as an in
door and outdoor base ball player and
is employed by the Owosso Manufac-
turing Co. He and Mrs. Fletcher are
both popular and estimable young PEG.
pie and have the hearty congratulations
and best wishes of large circle Of
friends.
Holding his wife, relatives and neigh
bors at bay, Edward Crooks, laborer
and former saloonist, in a drunken
frenzy Sunday afternoon, broke num-
Der of window panes in his house on
Stewart street. near Shiawassee. Crooks
had the group that had surrounded the
house pretty we'll frightened, when
Chief Patterson and Constable Forster
arrived in an automobile. A few min.
utes later his attitude had changed con.
siderably and he looked out upon the
world through the lone window in the
city jail His nose was cut and bleed.
ing and his fists which he used to break
the glass, were also somewhat the
worse for cuts. He was fined $l5.