The Owosso times., 1913-04-04
THE OWOSSO TINES
EDMUND o. DEWEY. EDITOR.
OWOSSO MICH, APRIL 4, 1918.
Local News.

Local News.
Miss Laura Matlock is visiting friends
in Grand Rapids.
Miss Harriet Dewey is visiting rela-
tives in Lansing.
A. M. Bentley was in Detroit on
business Wednesday.
Clare Everetts has resigned his posi-
ton in Bunting's store and has gone to
Chicago, ILL.,, to work.
MIR. and Mrs. Fred Lotridge are pack
ing their household goods and will
leave this week for Saginaw to reside.
The curfew ordinance went into
effect Monday night and the curfew
whistle was blown for the first time at
$50 o'clock.
Mrs. D. E. Hinckley and daughter,
Miss Nellie, of Fentou. are guests at
the home of the formers father, Hiram
Galusha.
Mrs. n. A. Brown of N. Elm street,
entertained party of little folks at
FIVE o'clock luncheon in honor of Mas
ter Ted Mccullough, Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. F. Gallagher arriv-
ed home Saturday evening from their
trip to Cuba, Panama. Bermuda and
other southern points. They were gone
nearly six weeks and had q fine time.
The ceiling OF the kitchen in the home
of Ernest Sanderson, North Mulberry
street, was ignited by an overheated
stove pipe Monday afternoon, occasion
ing an alarm of fire. The damage was
slight.
Owosso Odd Fellows plan to celebrate
the ninety-fourth anniversary of the
order Thursday, April "a. There will
be street parade and banquet and sew
ersl outside speakers will be present.
Thomas Harris of Owosso, who is
suing for divorce from Maggie Harris,
claims that his wife used him for q
punching bag and occasionally varied
the performance by assailing him with
stove poker.
A telegram from H. M. Post states
that he is in Lexington, Kentucky, and
unable to get home on account of the
floods. Mr.. Post left Jacksonville
Florida. a week ago today and expected
to arrive here last Friday.
Members of the Woman's club and
frie Ids were entertained Friday even
in ut the home of Mrs. d. II. Lamb,
West Oliver street. About seventy
people were present and enjoyed sew
eral readings by Miss Ida Saye Smith,
and solo by Mrs. Fred Watts. Re-
freshments were served
Byron p. Hicks of Durand, and Pros
ecuting Attorney Collins will have to
be admitted to practice in the United
States Circuit Court of Appeals, at
Cincinnati before they can defend the
county in the McCurdy case, which has
been appealed to that court They
will file petition at once for admission
to the court.
County Agent Hanks has recon-
mended that Cecil st. Johns, the Ban
croft youth whom an effort is being
made to have committed to the indus
trial school, be taken from the juris.
diction of the probate court and appear
before Justice Symes of Bancroft. The
boy is II years old, which is too old for
the juvenile court.
Judge s. s. Miner and J. G. Shattuck
reached home Saturday morning from
their trip to Florida. To get sfrom
Cincinnati, Ohio, to Owosso they were
compelled because Of the floods to go
70 Louisville, KY, st. Louis, Mo and
then home via Chicago. They visited
most of the points of interest in Florida
and enioyed their stay in the south.
Mrs. Laura Gerow, Oliver street, has
received a letter from her daughter,
Mira Robert Anderson of Sidney, Ohio,
stating that she and her family are safe
and describing food conditions there.
In the lower parts of the city. Mrs. An
derson stated the water was up to the
house tops, but when the letter was
written. the floods bad receded one foot
and were fast lowering
Rscause the flood at Dayton, o.,
has effectually halted work in the plant
where all of the stamped envelopes
sold at the postoffices OF the United
States are printed, it is possible that
tha next few weeks will see the post
Office department placed up against a
hitherto unheard of condition, that OF
being unable to supply the demand for
stamped envelopes. The machinery in
the plaut is 30 badly damaged that 1t
may have to be replaced by new.