The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1919-10-17

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the A. E. Osmer grocery store.
| Waldo E. and Innis j. Royce, of De-
troit, We're called to this city Sunday
by the serious illness of their father,
L. p. Royce.
Mrs. Vera Haskell Sackrider enter
tanned thirty ladies at thimble par
ty Tuesday afternoon at her home.
The party was in honor of Mrs. Frank
Kohler.
| Harold Inman, of Alma, and Miss
Rhoda belong, of Owosso, and Glen
Goodrich and Lilah Leisner, of Owes
so, were granted marriage licenses
Saturday.
Sam Lebowski and Harry Salmonow
have moved from West Exchange
street to 120 South Washington street
where they carry stock of mems
suits, shoes and furnishings.
James Laverock of this city, and a
relative, riding with him, escaped in
jury Sunday evening when Mr.. LAYER
ock's automobile was forced into the
ditch and turned over at the county
line between here and Flint.
Rev. Geo. Laughton; Of Riverside,
California, expects to attend the annual
meeting of the. National Council Of
Congregational churches to be held in
Grand Rapids next week. He will
come to Owosso for few days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Niles Virgins have
received telegram from their son,
Ray, stating that he would sail in two
weeks for Europe as distributor for
the Bethlehem Truck Co., by whom
he was employed before the war.
The Owosso high school football
team lost its chance to annex the
Saginaw Valley championship Satur-
day when it was defeated at Saginaw
by the strong Saginaw Eastern high
school eleven by a score of Is to IL.
The members of Owosso lodge No.
763 Loyal Order of Moose held social
session October 8 and were hosts to
Lansing lodge No. 288. A large class
Of candidates were initiated, by the
Lansing lodge degree team, exempli-
| flying the ritualistic work in a very
creditable manner.
Mrs. Stella Keeney Piper, of Per-
ry, has appealed from the probate
court to the circuit court'in an effort
to prevent the payment of claim
against the estate of her mother, Cora
Keeney, deceased, by the Perry bank.
The claim consists of two promissory
notes totalling $1648.32, with inter-
est.
| AS the result of an injury received
last week threatening the sight of his
left eye, William Lietzau, of the firm
of BRANDED & Lietzau, went to Detroit
Sunday to consult specialist. Mr..
Lieutzau was burning on terminals in
a storage battery when gas was ignit-
ed by his torch and the flames shot
into his eyes, burning the optics Sc
verely.
Four new lococotives have just
been received by the Ann Arbor Rail-
way company from the Baldwin Loco
motive Works at Philadelphia and
have been put into service. The en-
gines are of the Santa Fe type, and
are modern in every respect. They
are equipped with mechanical stokers,
which convey the coal from the. ten
ders to the fire boxes.
p. Francis Cavanaugh, 814 Lyon
street, Owosso, was one of the twenty
three students at the University of
Notre Dame recently invested with
the cassock and baretta Of the Congre-
cation of the Holy Cross. Cavanaugh
is a sophomore in the college depart
ment. He is a candidate for the priest
hood and for the past several years
has been studying at Holy Cross Sem
mary, Notre Dame.
The many friends of Mrs Helen Zim
norman, for many years resident Of
this city, will be sorry to learn that she
is confined to her bed by serious ILL.,
ness at the home of her daughter, Flor
ence. 1847 Holland avenue, Utica, N. Y.
Mrs. Nix writes her mother is much
interested in the old home friends and
enjoys hearing from them, but is I'M
able 10 write letters. Her address is as
above, care Mrs. Harry E Nix.
Mayor Wright has received from the
state food and drug apartment, reports
on eight samples of milk. sent to that
department for analysis two weeks ago.
One sample was secured from each of
eight different dealers and was taken
from their wagons. The milk. was
analyz ed by w. Q. Geagley, state anal
ysist. who states that as a whole the
samples show fairly good grade of
milk. with the exception OF one sample,
which contained II per cent added
water.
P. T. Hutton has sold his farm, 10.
Gated just east Of Durand across from
the Geo 8, Cole farm. to q foreigner.
Mr.. Hutton was not In the market for
sale and had not even considered It,.
The foreigner visited his farm. asked
for price and received It, Mr. Hutton