The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1920-08-27


Richard Hart has returned home
from Ann Arbor after completing his
work at summer school there.
Mrs. Fred Osburn, of Akron, O.,
who has been spending the past four
weeks with friends in this city left
Wednesday for her home.
Charles Murphy, James Coe and
James Slane returned to their studies
at Holy Cross seminary, Notre Dame,
Ind, Wednesday, after spending their
vacation in this city.
| In what was by far the best game
that the Owosso city team has PLAYED
this year they defeated the strong
Oldsmobile team of Lansing in a 49,
inning game at Odds Park, Lansing,
Sunday, by the score of to 3.
G. E. Carr, formerly trainmaster
of the Virginian railroad, has accept
ed like position with the Ann Arbor,
and has removed to Owosso with his
family, consisting of his wife and
two children.
The L. o. T. M. of Shiawassee
'county are planning a picnic at Nc
Curdy park, September 1st. All
Lady Maccabees, families and friends
in the county are invited Bring
sandwiches and one other article of
food and dishes for own family and
friends.
c. w. Hollinger and w. C. McCor-
mick, drivers of automobile BUSES
owned by Flint people and plying be-
tween Owosso and Flint, were fined
five dollars in justice court here We'd
nesday morning for operating without
licenses.
Louis Hutton, 38, a member of the
firm of Hutton Brothers of Bay City,
is in Memorial hospital badly injured
and his automobile is wreck, as the
result of an accident which occurred
near the Kelley school house at about
o'clock Monday afternoon.
Miss Blanche Jenney, East Ex-
change street left Saturday for Mil
waukee, Wis.,, to visit college friends.
From there she will go to Lake Gen
eva, Wis, to attend the Town and
Country Y. w. C. A. conference as
a delegate from the Girls Council
of the local Y. w. c. A.
The county road commission has
decided to offer to investors of the
county, $4,000 worth of road bonds,
the proceeds of which will be used
to pay for the highway now being
built northwest Of Owosso, through
what is known as the Mason neighbor-
hood. 1t begins at the five points
west of Owosso, and follows the angl-
ing road northwest, and thence
straight west. -..
Elimination of bad curve and
shortening of the Owosso-Flint road
by half mile, is contemplated by
County Road Commissioner Bailey in
his plans for securing a right of way
through several farms, made neces-
sary to straighten out the road at
Kerby. He says that the new road
would cut through the Kerby, Vedder,
China, Tobin, Jenkin and Hannah
farms.
The difference in the prices paid
for milk in the Detroit area and in
this county by the Detroit Creamery
Co. and the Belle Isle Creamery,
which buy the bulk of milk produced
in this county, will be the subject of
Itcn OF nf
the Shiawassee County Milk Pro-
ducers' association to be held at Nc
Curdy park Saturday morning. The
meeting will be held at 1890 o'clock
and will precede the farmers picnic.
With the first of September, Du-
rand will have substantial increase
in it's railroad industry, at which time
the Office of Supt. Thos. White is to
be transferred here from Detroit as
we'll as that of the resident engineer
and the supervisor of bridges and
road work. This not only means the
heads of these departments being
transferred to Durand but many en-
ployes under them. The superintend-
ent's office includes fifteen clerks.
The John r. Kelly Co. of this city
have been awarded the contract for
the installation Of the plumbing and
heating of the new Durand school
building, now under course of con-
struction. This contract will amount
approximately to $4,000. Contract
ors from Flint, Lansing, Detroit and
other cities in Michigan also submit
ted bids for the contract awarded the
Kelly Co. The work on the plumb
ing and heating will be commenced