The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1919-06-13


The heavy rainfall Wednesday is said |
to have done considerable damage to |
growing crops of grain.
Mr.. and Mrs. Erwin Geeck OF Grand |
Rapids. are guests at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. E. r. GETS, Oliver street.
Thos. Wilson. Corunna avenue, is
recovering from an operation which he |
underwent several days ago in Sparrow
hospital. Lansing.
Postmaster and Mrs. H. X White
and Mrs. A. M. Bentley are guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold K. White in
Chicago.
A decree of divorce was granted
Saturday afternoon by Judge Collins
to Mrs. Anna Bond, of Owosso, against
/ Frank Bond, for non-support. A de-
cree was also granted in a suppressed
divorce case.
Earle Shelp reported to the police
that $25 in money was stolen from
his home on North Lansing street
Friday. He said that the family re-
tired without shutting the doors and
that in the morning the money was
gone.
Mrs. Maude A. Doyle of Owosso, has
been granted license to sell real es-
tate belonging to the estate of the late
Emma Adams. Similar license has
been granted to Charles Godfrey, of
Shiawassee township, administrator of
the estate of John Hutchings.
Victor Herrick, of Lansing, has
been released from the county jail af-
ter paying fine of $50 for driving
an automobile while intoxicated. He
wanted to fight the charge when first
arraigned, but after day or two in
Jail changed his mind and pleaded
guilty.
Private Erwin Barrie, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. j. A. Barrie, East Main street,
, who served overseas with the Templar
Ambulance company, has arrived
home, discharged. Privates Harry
Sutfin and Leslie Angus, who were
with the company, have also returned
home.
= Mr.. and Mrs. Claude c. Day and Mr..
y and Mrs r. Stanley Day expect to
E leave Saturday on a motor trip via.
Detroit and through part of Canada
\ to Buffalo. thence east to Boston They
: will visit New York City and perhaps
: Philadelphia and Washington. They
plan to be absent about two weeks.
Walter A. Osburn has just present
ed to Joseph Robbins, Jr., a cornet OF
: which both thing a great deal for SEN
n timental reasons, for it was this in.
d strument that Mr.. Robbins grand.
t father, Joseph Robbins, played as
a leader of the Owosso City band more
than half century ago. The cornet
h is more than 60 years old.
The Owosso BARRIERS union at a
I meeting held June 5, adopted without
i disagreement an increased schedule
of prices effective Monday. The price
d of cutting hair was advanced from 35
g to 40 cents; shaves from Is to &c
e cents; hair tonics from Is to 20 cents
= and shampoos and messages from %
e to 35 cents.
Frank Gale, of Corunna, went to
D Cleveland Tuesday on business in con-
I nection with the estate of the late
n Tod Kincaid. Mrs. Kincaid, at the re-
4 quest of Mr.. Kincair, has given to Mr.
Gale, the Knights Templar watch
charm and ring of Mr.. Kinchaid. Both
are of solid gold, dug out of Colorado
mine by Mr.. Kincaid in 1894.
Rev. M. DeVoist left last Monday
for Greenville, in Southern Illinois, as
+. one of the delegates at the general
conference of the Free Methodist
church. This conference meets once
in four years, and is the lawmaking
body of the church. All parts of the
world will be represented. This meet
ing will last nearly three weeks.
The Improvement association has
adopted a resolution declaring it to
be the desire of the assemblage that
the Grand Trunk Railway Company
put back into service the fast trains
between Detroit and Grand Haven,
known as the steamboat express
trains. The matter will be brought to
the attention of the railroad company.
| The First Baptist Church of byron Is
made the beneficiary of the will Of Mrs
Sarah Hawley, of that village, who died
recently. In 1905 she executed deed
to real estate in that village, to the
church. The deed was not to take
effect until after her death, however,
and It has now been fled as her will.
It constituted her entire estate, and
was valued at $780,
Clayton J. Thomas, former supervisor
of bennington township, has purchased
the q. w. Gale property, corner Of Pine