The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1914-03-06

born, tuesday, to MIR. and Mrs. Grin
Jennings of Corunna, a daughter.
A. F. Hollis is in Mt. Clemens for
treatment at one of the sanitariums.
Deputy Sheriff C. Stephan of st.
Johns. was in the city Wednesday
Albert Norris has opened a tailor
shop in the lobby-room of the Miner
block.
The annual meeting of the Union
Telephone Co. will be held in Alma,
March 18th.
w. j. Melchers was in jackson, Tues
day, on business for the Union Tele.
phone Co
Every new idea and style in Coats,
Suits, Dresses, Skirts for spring at
Davis. Adv.
L L. Conn was in Alma, Monday,
looking after business matters for the
Union Telephone Co.
Timothy Carmody of Henderson. was
operated on for appendicitis at the
Swayze hospital in this city, Wednes.
day.
Mrs. Bush Moore of Corunna, has
gone to Dayton, Ohio, to be with her
father Bert Waldo, who is again serious
ly ill.
Miss Jennie Sackrider has been un.
able to attend to her duties in the
Offices of the Estey Mfg. Co. for ten
days because of sickness.
Rev. and Mrs. G. H. Hanks will
entertain the Congregational church
choir at six o'clock dinner this even.
ing at their home on Oliver street.
Chief of Police Patterson has reported
that the police answered 140 calls in
February, housed 146 transients at the
jail and found "a doors unlocked.
The annual meeting of the Kings
Daughters will be held this evening at
the home of Mrs. G. s. Watson, N.
Washington street A picnic supper
will be served.
The city council has refused to re-
turn to the Church of Christ $40 40 for
sprinkling tax on the claim of the
church that they had filed objections
to the payment of such taxes.
Oscar Barry of Corunna, was arrested
by the police Wednesday on the charge
of jumping board bill contracted at a
local boarding house last fall. Barry
settled the bill and was discharged.
A line from T. D. Harris. paymaster
U. S. Navy, states that he was snow.
bound over night seventy miles out Of
Toledo on his return trip from Owosso
last week, arriving in Washington "a
hours late.
About fifteen friends and neighbors
pleasantly surprised Mrs. J. Dengler at
her home on N. Saginaw street Tuesday
afternoon. Mrs. Dengler was presented
with a clock and flowers. A pot luck
supper was served.
Colfax lodge, No. 436 1. o. o. F..
initiated two candidates at their meet.
ing Tuesday. Invitations have been
sent to several neighboring lodges to
attend the social session and dancing
party to be given by the lodge March
Goth.
VIM. Bowling is communicating with
those interested in forming a central
Michigan baseball league in an effost
to have the meeting to have been held
here Saturday postponed week. Mr..
Bowling will not be prepared to report
then whether or not Owosso will sup.
port league team.
Mrs. Fred A. Lewis of Byron, has
been taken to Ann Arbor for treatment
at the psvcopathic ward of the hospital
She Is suffering from nervous disorder
that gives her queer ideas one being
that she is leper and has given the
disease to others. She attended a re.
vival meeting recently and became
hysterical; and the nervous disorder de
veloped since.
The Improvement Association con-
sidered the county fair proposition at
its meeting Tuesday noon without com.
ing to any definite conclusion. Steps
for permanent organization and the
purchase of site will probably be
abandoned for the present and possibly
until another year, the activities of the
Association in financial way being
meanwhile conferred on industrial pro.
positions.
Nearly rs men attended the regular
monthly meeting of the Galilean bible
bible class of the First M. E. church
Monday evening, the subject of local
option being discussed by Roy Mat
thews, W. o. Phillips, Rev. G. r.
Woolford, G. l.. Pattee, A. N. Good.
win, HI. B. Sturtevant, E. T. Wallace,
G. F. jennings, Rev. J. q. York of this
city and Rev A. Il. Leonard of Flint
who told of the good local option had
done in Genesee county. A supper was
served at the close of the meeting.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. DeFrenn, living