The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1919-04-18


in Flint, is home for vacation of a
week.
Mrs. M. S. Angel, North Water
street, has gone to Ovid to visit her
daughter, Mrs. Lou Storrer.
Major Geo. P. Sackrider, who serv-
ed at base hospital No. SO at Bittel,
France, has sailed for America and
will land at Charleston, S. c.
The body of Burr Lantz, 38 years
old, and the son of DR.. d. F. Lantz,
was brought Saturday forenoon from
Flint for funeral services at the Haw-
kins school at 1890.
Mrs. c. o. Loring left for Wash
ington, d. c., Friday as a delegate
from the Shiawassee Chapter of the
d. A. r. to attend the Continental
Congress to be held there next week.
The first man to make application
for bond Of the Victory Loan issue
is William Trenkas, cook in an Owosso
restaurant, who has been in this
county but six years. Trenkas takes
5000 parcel of the bonds.
| County Treasurer Dean Saturday
received check for $4,000 from the
state treasurer, representing Shiawas-
see county's portion of the automobile
tax money collected. More money will
follow later.
Bans of marriage were announced
Sunday at St. Paul's Catholic church
for Miss Irene Byrnes, of Detroit,
formerly of this city, and Edward j.
Conlan, of Detroit. The marriage
will be solemnized Saturday, April 26.
Richard Barrie, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Jacob Barrie, East Main street, who
has been in France since last August.
arrived home Saturday night. His
coming was surprise to his parents.
James E. Wright, of Kent county,
and Miss Emeline Yerrian, of Shia-
wassee township, this county, were
united in marriage Saturday after
noon at the Asbury M. E. Parsonage,
Rev. Cramton officiating.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. P. Walover, West
Oliver street, have returned home
after a several months absence. Mr..
Walover has been making his regu-
lar winter trip for the Mishawaha
Rubber Co, and Mrs. Walover has
been visiting a sister in Illinois.
Forrest Bassell, the 1S-year-old
youth who is alleged to have stolen a
horse and rig from Calvin Willoughy,
farmer living near Garland, was ar
rested Sunday by members of the
sheriff's force and the missing outfit
was recovered.
County Road Commissioner Bailey
has let contract to Lewis Heath tor
the construction of four and one-half
miles of state reward road, just out
side of Durand on the Durand- Byron
road. When the job is completed there
will be a state reward road from
Owosso to Byron.
Mrs. A. X. Giles, of Ovid, who has
been very low for the past three
weeks with pneumonia and heart trou-
BILE at the home of her son, Ed. Mer-
rill, west of Owosso, is better and her
brother, Charles Merrill, of Dunkirk,
N. Y, called here two weeks ago,
has returned to his home.
Glen Davis, 17-years-old, of Owosso,
was arrested Saturday by Deputy
Sheriff Coe, charged with stealing
wrist watch from Miss Mary Polasek,
also of Owosso. According to the
officers, Davidson called on Miss Pola-
SEX and during the evening he remov-
ed her wrist watch and put it on his
own wrist. He was was given 60 days
in the Detroit House Of Correction
Tuesday.
Mrs. Lucy Jackson, living just south
of the Maple River church, in Shia-
wassee township, has the distinction
of being the oldest woman voter in
this county, and possibly in the state.
She cast her vote this spring at the
age of 81 years and II months of age.
Mrs. Jackson is in quite good health,
and was able to make the journey to
the polls, a distance of nearly eight
miles from her home and back again
the same afternoon.
After months of suspense, which has
been far worse than the actual knowl-
edge, that their son was dead, would
have been, Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Wat
son, Of Corunna, have been officially
advised by the war department that
their son, Private Leonard Watson,
of Co. M, 125th regiment, was dead.
He had been reported missing in ac-
ton since July 81, and not single
clue as to his fate could be found.
Even now the war department is un-
able To give the date OR the canse of