The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1915-07-16
The OWOSSO TINES
Local News.

Local News.
Mrs. G. L. Dimmick and family left
Wednesday for vacation at Beulah.
Ben Grant of Wixom, is opening a
general store in the Bacon block in Co.
runna.
Fred WEIGH is in Washington, D. c.,
on business for the Michigan Bean Job.
bers' Association.
Charles E. Godfrey of Bancroft, and
his brother William of North Dakota,
were Owosso visitors Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. 81. and MIR. and Mrs.
Harry Northway and children are
spending the week in Mt Pleasant.
The Union Telephone company opera.
tors in Owosso and Corunna are calling
rural patrons each morning to inform
them of the weather forecast.
G. 81. Bristol of Owosso, has pun chas-
ed the F. Eddington farm near Corunna
and will move on it Immediately. Mr..
Eddington will move tc Flint.
The Lennon schools will remain as
they are for another year, much op.
position having developed to increasing
tle grades from ten to twelve.
Claude Beagle of Owosso, has been
released on the charge of desertion pre-
f5rred by his wife, he having agreed to
aid in the support of his wife and child.
Elmer Brown and daughter leave
Saturday for Bridgeport for short
stay, Mrs. Brown who has been a
visitor there will accompany them
home
Mr.. and Mrs G. e. Moody have re.
turned from Shelby, where they attend
ed the funeral OF E. NJ. Moody, who
was resident of Corunna manT years
ago.
The Penelope Sewing club was enter.
tanned Tuesday by Miss Marguerite
Danforth. Several new members were
added to the club. The next meeting
win be with Miss Ethely Peterson, west
Of Owosso.
The annual picnic of the W. G. T. U.
will be held on the First Methodist
church lawn today. Mrs. Cora
Haskins, state president, will be pres.
emit. Owosso ministers will give ad-
dresses.
Fifty ladies attended the Congregs
tional Social Union meeting at the
home of mrs. G. L. Taylor, Water
street, Mrs. T. D. Christian and Mrs
: Taylor being hostesses. The Union
voted to re.decorate the parsonage.
After the business session, Mrs Mary
Lyon Taggart of Massilon, Ohio, sang
three solos much to the delight of those
present.
Ray Wilkinson of Owosso, whose wife
was bound over to the circuit court on
an adultery charge, has begun suit for
divorce asking that his wife be refrain
ed from having anything to do with
their four children. He left his wife
some time ago because of other mems
attentions to her, but has paid IS q
week for the support of the children.
BY his attorney, Geo. E. Pardee,
David r. Salisbury has made answer
to the suit begun by his brother John
Salisbury. asking his removal as trustee
of the opera house block in this city
and for an accounting. He claims the
trust has been properly administered,
and that none of the heirs have griev.
ance. He asks that the temporary in
junction be dissolved
Miss Aria Kemp, ftteen.year old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. John Kemp,
who lives south of Laingsburg, was
burned to death last Thursday night
when kerosene exploded in can while
she was lighting a fire in Kitchen
stove. Her clothing was entirely burned
and her flesh roasted from her head to
her ankles. The funeral was held Sat-
urday at the Laingsburg Methodist
church, Rev. Nagel officiating.
Gustave Knop, the bachelor who was
found in an exhausted condition in the
woods last week after having left his
home in Corunna, believing it to be
haunted, and who escaped twice from
the Swayze hospital in this city, Friday,
clad only in his night shirt, will be
sent to the state hospital at Pontiac.
He was carrying $500 in certificates of
deposit when found, but had evidently
suffered for some time from lack of
food.