The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1919-11-21
LOCAL NEW S


Mr.. and Mrs o. L. sprague and Lent
and Mrs j. Henry Sprague are at their
farm near Clare, for a weeks outings
The cost OF six months experience o
the U s. in running the business OF the
telephone and telegraph companies was
about $4,000. 900 Rather costly for
the country.
HI Crosby has accepted position
with the Owosso Savings Bank. com
mencing Dec LIST.
Mrs. l. @ Smith. of Howell, arrived
"Wednesday evening to spend the winter
with Mr.. and Mrs. o. L DAVIS.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. E.~Collins and Har.
old Collins, of Detroit, were pleasant
ca lers on Owosso friends, Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs I. FL. Keller, of Grand
Rapids, spent Tuesday and Wednesday
as guests of Owosso friends.
Arthur Christian, of Detroit. sper
part of the week with his parents, Mr..
and Mrs T. q. Christian.
Mrs. Julian butcher, North Shia-
wassee street entertained &c friends
and relatives at dinner Sunday in
honor of the birthday of four of the
guests, st. Johns, Ovid, Flint, Lam
sing and Bath were represented in
the catering.
Miss Margaret Hollis and Ray
Fletcher have formed a partnership
known as the Hollis-F Fletcher Hard
ware Co., and will carry stock of
hardware in the building occupied by
A. F. Hollis, plumber. Mr.. Hollis will
continue the plumbing business.
] Suit to collect on $500 bond given
by George James and C. E. Ripley,
Jr., of Owosso, to insure the filing Of
a special bond by James in the capias
suit brought by, Miss Edith Broker
against James, was begun Tuesday
morning in circuit court by Attorney
R. Stanley Day, representing Miss
Broker. This action ends the damage
suit, the law providing that the plain
tiff may elect to take the amount of
the bond instead of continuing the
original suit, providing the pledges
guaranteed by the bond are not full
filled. =
Mrs. Ruhama Butts, 70 years old, a
resident of Owosso for "a years, died
! Tuesday at the home of her daughter,
Mrs. Nellie Jackson, SIG East Gene
see street. She had been in poor health
for some time. Mrs. Butts was the
widow of Jacob Butts. They came to
Owosso from Chesaning where her
body was taken for burial following
funeral services at the house Thursday
morning, Rev. F. ID. Draper officiating.
Besides the daughter at whose home
she died, Mrs. Butts leaves two sons,
Delmer Butts, of Middletown and John
Butts off Gfandt' Eedge,j land d, step
danghbteE. N MRS, John Htinkley, Of To-
ledo. = ''sl
Rev. B. g. Mattson was in Grand
Rapids. Thursday. assisting in organic.
ing the campaign being undertaken by
the Congregational churches in the in.
.terest of the Pilgrim Memorial fund
The churches of the state will under
take the raising of fund of 5000, 600,
half of which has already been pledged
by few of the larger churches The
services in the Congregational church
next Sunday will be given over to thi
enterprise and will be addressed by
Rev. Sutherland, state Superintendent
of Lansing.
A special meeting of the directors o
Of the Union Telephone Co. was held
in this city Tuesday afternoon to con
slider the question of securing new quar-
tiers for the local Office in Alma After
considering the several offered it was
decided to rent the Office offered In
buildings owned by the Alma Realty
Co, and lease covering term Of
twenty years will be executed for thu
same. The location is in the centra
part of the city and is desirable one
for telephone exchange Needed en-
; largement and the consolidation OF TIT
local and long distance service can now
,, proceed. Location for exchanges II
other cities was also considered but M
decision reached All but two Of tn
directors were In attendance.