The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-10-11
LOCAL NEWS

for stay of several months.
A daughter was born Friday to Mr..
and Mrs. George Sherman, Adams
street.
A daughter, Margaret Eleanor, was
born Sunday morning to Mrs. Merrill
Kerby, 1925 North Water street.
o. L. Whitney, of this city, left Mon
day for Detroit, where he will attend
a post graduate clinical course in
optometry.
Miss Vera Stebbins has resigned
her position as teacher at the Emerson
school and accepted one in the Ann
Arbor Office.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Hansman, Of
Detroit, are guests of Mrs. Barbara
Hansman and Mr.. and Mrs. Ora Max
ted.
Lieut.. H. X. White has returned
to Brooks Field, San Antonio, Texas,
after spending two weeks in Owosso
with his bride.
Mrs. Jenesha 7. Gates, an Owosso
pioneer, who is living with her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Charles VanDeusen, at CAL
umet, fell Friday and broke her hip
and her recovery is doubtful. She is
over ninety years of age.
Chris Cook and A. L. Fowler, school
janitors, have resigned. Samuel Dick
will succeed Mr.. Cook at the Washing
ton school, but no one has been en-
gagged to serve regularly at the Emer-
son.
A petition has been filed in probate
court for the appointment of Mrs.
Elizabeth Cady, of Owosso, as admin
istratrix of the estate Of the late Mary
A. Sharp, who left property valued at
5000.
Mrs. Ellen Hoover, of Owosso, has
begun suit for divorce from Samuel
Hoover, claiming he has repeatedly
struck her and paid fine recently for
one of these offenses. They have one
child, six years old.
Lieut.. Lesion Arnold, of this city,
who recently reported in New York
for reassignment in the navy, has
been promoted and is now assistant
surgeon with the rank corresponding
to that of captain in the army.
The will of the late j. c. Elton, of
Bancroft, was admitted to probate
Thursday and G. B. Fellows and Mon
roe Simonson named as appraisers and
commissioners.
Paul Hermec, the beet weeder ar
rested last week on charge of violat
ing the local option law pleaded gull
ty in circuit court Friday. Judge Col
Inns fined him SIS With IAN alternative
of spending rs days in Jail.
The school board has voted to send
rs second arithmetics to Selfridge
field for use by student aviators as
recommended by Miss Elsie Nipple,
assistant superintendent, who recent
ly attended a meeting of school librar-
ians at Mt. Clemens.
Shiawassee friends of Mr.. and Mrs.
c. j. Matthews, formerly of Owosso,
but who now reside at Palmyra, New
York, have received cards ANNOUNCE
ing the marriage of their daughter,
Lillian Donna, to Mr.. Harry Marshall
Evens, on Monday, September Both.
A petition has been filed in probate
court asking that Mr.. Sarah Kittridge,
of Bancroft, be adjudged insane and
sent to the state hospital. She is II
years of age, and while not violent, is
in such condition that her relatives be-
lieve she could be better cared for in
the hospital.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. E. Osmer have re-
turned from Iowa, where they attend
ed the funeral of Mrs. Osmer's BROTH
err. Lawrence Osmer returned with
them expecting to stay few days but
received telegram calling him to a
New Jersey coast camp and the sup
position is that he will embark soon
for overseas.
Owosso banks have received sub
scriptions for nearly one half Of Shia-
wassee's quota of the Fourth Liberty
Loan. The Owosso Savings Bank has
taken 1850 subscriptions with $780,
600. the Citizens Savings Bank HOO
subscriptions with $4,000 and the
State Savings Bank $50 with $4,000.
On Sept. 14th, Dewey Burke, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Burke, of Swartz
Creek, Mich, and Miss Olive Borst,
of Swartz Creek, were quietly mar
ried at the Episcopal church by Rev.
Blachford. They will make their
home here as the groom has a position
with the Independent Stove Co., of this
place.
Robert Storer, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
F. ]. Storer, of this city, has been
commissioned an ensign in the u. S.
Naval Aviation service and has re-
ported at Washington. He left the
University as a junior in the engi-
neering department to enlist, going to
the school of Technology at Cam
bridge, Mass, and later to Key West,