The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-12-08
State NEWS NOTES
Cleaned From the Latest Michigan
Happenings.

Medical inspection in all the schools
OF Michigan is to be taken up by he
state board of health, with a state
wide sanitary crusade in view.
Four cases of smallpox are report
ed at Hudson's logging camp, Menom-
inee county. One patient will die.
The prospect of the spread OF the
disease in the lumber camps is caus-
ing lumbermen much concern.
Mrs. Torrey, wife of L. e. Torrey,
of the Shaw-Torrey advertising firm
of Grand Rapids and Detroit, was the
victim of an attempted holdup. A seed
lily dressed man accosted her on the
street and demanded her money. She
escaped by running and screaming
for assistance.
Once a common laborer, Louis Dou-
Der, of Iron River, because Of the dis
covery of iron ore on his homestead,
has become a rich man. The property
was recently acquired by the United
States Steel Corporation on long
time lease, which pays royalty on
the ore mined, about 100000 tons an
nually.
Because Frank Parker, a farmer,
near Three Rivers, Is alleged to have
given information to Deputy Sheriff
Wing which threw him off the track
in his search for the assailants Of
Henry Gemberling, Parker was arrest
ed. The justice administered a fine
which, with the costs, amounted to
$32 40.
Adrian X. Roos, of Holland, an in
valid for twenty-five years, from par
alysis is dead. Mr.. Roos had been
unable to partake Of food for fifty-nine
days. His only nourishment during
that time has been homemade wine.
Pontiac members of the Ancient Or
der of United Workmen have decided
to retain their policies and stick by
the order. They were at first inclined
to drop out when the announcement
was made of the society's financial
condition.
The car famine Is proving costly to
lumber dealers. 1t has reached such
a stage, in fact, as to cause the Sagi-
nav Valley Lumber Dealers associa-
ton to make a strong protest in reso-
lutions passed and submitted to the
railroads.
The annual meeting Of the state
board of corrections and charities and
county agents will be held at the AL
Logan court house December 5, and
z, at which time Gov. Warner, Bishop
Gillespie and numerous other promi-
nent men will be there.
The jury in the case of the People
VS.. William Prain, of Battle Creek,
after being out eleven hours, returned
a verdict of guilty of attempted crimi-
nal assault. Ella Marston, an inmate
Of the Adrian school for girls, was the
girl whom Prain was charged with
assaulting.
The Holland Sugar Co. has issued a
call to have all beets delivered by
December Is. The supply of beets
this year is only $4,000 tons and the
campaign will end in three weeks.
This is the most unsuccessful year,
with the exception of the first that
the company has had.
With his skull split from a point
above the eyes to the crown Of his
head, Clarence Lambert was picked
up from the ice on Ford river at Els
canada. The peculiar accident hap
pened when he was skating, his head
| striking the ice with terrific force in
fall. His condition is critical, there
being little hope of his recovery.
| Gov. Warner has appointed A. L.
Fearles of Grand Rapids and a. r.
| Cade of Au Sable, delegates to the
| national conference on immigration
at New York this week.
ST. Josephs Polish catholic church,
one of the handsomest edifices in Jack
son, constructed in the Byzantine style
of architecture, was dedicated Sunday
with impressive services.
1t has been given out at Albion that
students had been asked to leave
dsconduct at the Olivet
Hra '. s. Weld