The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-09-21
LOCAL NEWS


for Toledo, Saturday, after visit with
Mr.. and Mrs. 8. A. Crane. Ada street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Reiff of Detroit.
were guests part of the week Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas Kerwin, East Oliver
street.
Mrs. Thomas veit Of Middlebury
township, fled petition in the probate
court. Friday, asking that her husban'
be examined as to his sanity.
DR.. A. M. Hume and A. d. Whipple
spent the first of the week at Toronto,
Ont, to visit Lieut.. Charles Williams
at the Canadian aviation camp.
Misses Ivah and Vivian Bilhimer of
Caledonia township, left Friday to re-
sumo their duties as teachers in the
Battle Creek schools
Exemption claims of Joseph Hass
farmer. has been allowed and that of
John w. Hall of Byron, and Harley j.
Wooden, principal of the Elsie school,
disallowed.
F. 81. Rush and z. d. Hurrell for the
Shiawassee Mutual, have adjusted the
fire loss sustained by John King of Rush
township, by burning of his grain stacks
on $3.50 loss basis.
A. B. Cook will be a speaker at the
Michigan Bean Jobbers Association an.
nual meeting in Saginaw, Oct. 6. his ad.
dress being on the subject prices
Farmers Receive for Their Beans"
Raymond, seven months old child of
Mr.. ind Mrs. Ralph Miller, died Satur.
day at the home on King street after
three days illness of pneumonia. The
fnbe'al Was held Monday. Rev. q. W.
Webbink officiating.
Petition has been fled for the pro-
bate Of the will of the late P trick
Flood Of Burns township. The estate
is value1 at sl5 500, mostly real estate
The heirs are the widow, five sons and
five daughters.
A petition asking the censorship of
Sunday moving picture films, but that
the theatres be allowed to continue to
operate, is to be circulated in opposi-
tiou TO the petition to close them en-.
tirely. and this appeals to the large
number of people who attend Sunday
evenings.
William A Ferris, aged 60 years,
passed away Saturday at the home OF
his sister, Mrs d. Fl. Morris, in Shia.
w issee township, after an illness of one
year with dropsv. lie had been resi-
dent Of this county 45 years The fun
eral was held Monday under the aus
pices Of the Odd Fellows lodge. One
daughter survives.
Suit has been commenced by Seth @.
Pulver as astorney for Florence Diefen
dorfer and Agnes Kinney against Ethel
Riegel, for the sale of land owned joint
ly or the division of the real estate, the
mother and one daughter claiming tn,
other daughter is disagreeable and they
can no longer live together on the farm
Wilder Main, aged 7S years, was ar
rested Friday night at his home il
Bancroft on charge or committing
statutory rape on an 11.yesr old Ban
croft girl Women of the neighborhoot
made the complaint. Main. who is {
well-to- do retired farmer, denied TIT
charge, although admitting that he wa
in the barn where the offense is said t.
: have been committed, long enough t.
: hang mp hoe.
William Hughson arrested at the fai
; grounds for having liquor in his stall
illegally, changed his plea in the circui
: court when his case was called, an
plead guilty, and was placed on probe
ton for three months and ordered I
= pay the costs. He had not attempte
I to sell the liquor, and has been a goo
g prisoner at the Jail since fair week
Owosso Council knights of Colun
bus, has received acknowledgment c
its contribution of 5000 toward til
national one million dollar fund for K
of G. war work. The councils assess
ment was $44S and the balance wa
u donated voluntarily The Nation,
7: Catholic War Council has determine
Q that it is necessary to raise $4,000, 0C
;, more and all Catholic societies will joi
q in this big task.
Roscoe Sloat of Ovid. arrested lat
u Thursday in connection with the Rur
y dell Merrill murder, established con
plete alibi and was discharged, and
g is also freed of suspicion Of stealing tt
y Berger automobile in Owosso on th
!. night of the murder, as 1t was testifie
d he worked in a gravel pit Thursda,
v spent the early evening in an Ovid pot
II room and was at home in bed by
:, o'clock, and at work early the ne,
q morning in the gravel pit.
Attorney Neil r. Walsh has fled II
Is Mrs. Florence King cross bill fl
!. divorce against William J. King, {
;. Owosso. She charges misconduct G
II his part with other women. Mr.. Kin
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