Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1905-06-02
STATE NEWS NOTES

The nineteenth reunion OF the Sew
enth Michigan infantry will be held
In Saginaw June -.
The board OF supervisors OF Ogemaw
county has appropriated s425 for an
exhibit at the state fair In Detroit this
fell.
Capt. Dan Wall Of Menominee, of
the steam barge l. Watson Stephen
son. a veteran OF the great lakes, is
dead.
Potatoes are worth 10 cents bushel
n Oakland county. and farmers are
letting them rot rather than sell them
OF that price.
Thomas G. Morgan Of Battle Creek
has been appointed colonel on the gov
srnors stan in place Of Raymond A.
Linton OF Saginaw. resigned.
While excavating for a sewer at st.
Joseph laborers struck rock which
revealed traces OF gold. There Is con-
siderable excitement over the find.
Mrs. Isabella Black CT Detroit, aged
so and deaf, was struck by a trolley
car Monday and her face and arms
cut, but she was not seriously In
jured.
Dewitt Fry OF Dimondale was "a
tackled by an angry bull and so badly
Sored that he died within few hours
He leaves widow and several cnil.
dren.
Mary f Mcdonald OF Detroit dol
very suddenly while visiting in Santa
Barbara, Cal The particulars have
rot been learned by her parents at De
troit.
Rev. William Brooks Taylor has re
signed the pastorate OF the Church OF
Christ, of Ionia, 20 accept position
In the faculty OF Bethany college, West
Virginia.
Marshall has the least expensive
postoffice in the United States. the
percentage OF cost to gross receipts
being S41. according TO reports from
Washington.
Reuben Smith, an old pioneer Of
Metamora. is dead. He leaves a wiG
ow and two daughters. Mrs. Frances
Jersey and Mrs. Maude Russell Of
Rochester Mich.
An Alpena dispatch says. Amer
can Express Co. drivers on the line OF
the Detroit e Mackinaw railroad have
been ordered to Chicago TO take the
places of strikers.
Because his wife objected to him
paying what she thought too much at
tenton 10 other women at dance,
Carl Boyer took a dose OF morphine.
Doctors saved him.
1t has been ascertained that the I'M
known man killed at Greenwood by
a logging train was Henry Budd, a
section hand at Alger. He is survived
by widow and two children.
There will be delay OF two years
la the erection of the new federal
building at Owosso 70 allow Congress
man Fordney to get an additional ap
preparation of $4,000 or $4,000
Henry Belfast, Of Battle Creel;
opened a closet, and, forgetting he
; had gasoline stored there, struck =
match to find something He was ser
iously burned in the explosion which
followed.
To supply the crop for a large can
ming factory to be erected there by
Williams Bros. OF Detroit, farmers In
l the vicinity OF Carleton have contract.
t ed a large acreage for the raising OF
| tomatoes.
} An incendiary fire at Barron Lake,
four miles east OF Niles, destroyed
three ice houses and contents belong.
Ing to John ]. McMullen, involving a
loss OF $4,000. There was an inslr-
D Gnce OF $4,000
e The trial of Clarence l.. Messer, TO-
mer cashier of the Marlette State
bank. on charge of embezzlement.
which was to have come up at this
: term of court, has been postponed I'm.
{ I'll September
The coroner's Jury in the case of the
5 death of Maurice Melner, who fell
down a shaft az Boydell Bros factory,
' Detroit. returned verdict that he
came to his death through his own
carelessness.
Thomas Haynes, a prominent pio-
neer resident OF Niles and old-time
! railway engineer is dead at Ann Ar
Dor, aged IS years whittier he went 10
undergo an operation. He leaves a
y widow and one son.
Saginaw Is protesting against tho
proposed mastering out of Company
e c OF the state militia. The company
has been in existence thlrty-two years
j., and Saginaw people do not want II
done away with. A protest has been
T, sent to Gov. Warner.
Rev. Henry Beets, pastor OF La.
grave Street Christian Reformed
: church, Grand Rapids, declared Sun
day that because wickedness was ram
pant in that city 1t had aroused the
wrath Of God, who has visited the city