Charlevoix county herald., 1906-11-17
MICHIGAN BREVITIES.

There are $40 miles OF electric in.
terurban railway in the state.
The Michigan Central shops At
Marshall are badly crippled for lack
OF mechanics.
TO 0oen vast timber tractT the ID.
& M. railway will build branch line
from Alpena to Boyne City.
The board of trustees Of Oak Hill
cemetery, Pontiac. has decided that
Sunday funerals will not be permitted
after November %.
Methodist Episcopal ministers OF
the Bay City district have memorial
lied the conference asking for re-
turn To the time limit pastorates.
! The Ypsilanti Civic Improvement
association will send protest 10 Sec.
rotary Taft asking that the further de-
struction OF Niagara Falls be stonped.
Capt. r. n. Stevans. of Michigan,
was chosen one of the vice-presidents
of the Society OF the Army OF the Ten.
nessee at the lattcrs convention at
Council Bluffs. Ia.
Floyd Deahl. of Goshen, Ind. won
the Har.ilto1 oratorical contest at
Ann Arbor and will represent Mfchi-
gan in the final contest at Chicago
January IL, in the inter.league.
The retail vehicle and implement
! dealers OF the state will meet at tho
| ST. Cecilia building In Grand Rapids
! December 5. q and Z. Mayor Ellis will
deliver an address of welcome.
The biggest hotel in Munising has
| haax l,, ~.
Iron Co. has been remodeled and
equipped for an association. This coma
pany furnishes industry OF town.
Owen Gernon. aged 75 yeGys, OF La
! peer, claiming that he had received
! but $123 for twenty-three years "a.
| Dor, has ben awarded $2,4l5 back pay
by suing Jeremiah Donovan, his EN-.
ployer.
The state convention of Latterday
Saints OF Christ, the branch Of the
Mormon church opposed TO polygamy
will be held in Grand Rapids Novem'
Der IA. Speakers Will, come from Utah
and Chicago.
Peter Carmody was instantly killed
/ willie working in the sawmin of
Thomas Carmody, at Egg Harbor. He
was repairing the elevator belt un.
derneath the floor and became wound
! about shaft.
George Wilcox, Of Lavonia, Wayne
county. has been appointed storekeep.
err in the Jackson prison, to succeed
! G. +. Thoms, who goes TO Lansing 10
! take position in the office of the
bank commissioners.
The Michigan state Sunday school
convention will be held at Jackson
/ November l., II and H. There will
| be speakers Of national reputation
and the music will be furnished by q
New York delegation.
Oliver Reed. of Jackson, charged
! with dccamping with Il 5000 election
bet won by Aid. II. ID. Jackson, was
arrested in Cement City. Reed says
that he deposited the money in the
bank before leaving the city.
Owen Gernon, aged 80, recovered
! $2,415 from jeremiah Donovan, of
/ Inlay township the balance due. on
twenty-five years farm work at sal
airy of SIS a month. Gernon had been
paid $3.50 in wages during that time
John G.. Dawson. married, pron1in
| ent socially and for years trustee
purchasing clerk for the Postum Ger
cal Co.. Of Battle Creek, confessed,
J the authorities say. TO embezzling
/ 5000. He is in jail awaiting bail for
| l,00G.
Deputy Secretary Of State Pierce
refused to file articles of incorpora
ton Of the New York Mortgage Co.
because he, did not approve OF the;'
business and when their Representa-
! tive demurred. he told them: Go ge.
mandamus'
T. w. Tewksbury. proprietor OF the
Commercial hotel, at Morrice, has q
young wolf which is said to be the
cub of a wolf shot down by President
Roosevelt on his bear hunt last year
II was sent to A. l.. Chandler, of Cor
,nna, who presented IL to Tewksbury.
1t is believed that an snesthetic ad
| ministered : to George +. Hughes, y
music teacher, OF Bay City, while b
+! broken shoulder blade was being set,
/ was the cause OF his death. lie raj
/ Ned from the operation In good shops
and died very suddenly two hours
after.
Thlrty-six captains OF Industry, rep
, resentins some OF Grand Rapids larg
est manufacturing plants, have Just
completed q 70V-mile trip, covering
forty towns in northern Michigan, to
promote closer relationship between
jobbers, manufacturers and their Gus
toners.
One hundred and seventy licenses
F., have been issued in Tuscola COUNT &c
deer hunters so far this season. One
woman, Mrs. Ester NJ. Harding, of
Deford, Is among them. Twenty-Five
from vassar have gone north and
there are still more who will leave in
a few days.
Tommy Chaholski, aged IL, Of
Grand Rapids. picked . s,volver frow
the floor at the bidding of MARY
Grseszak, aged IA. and w0ap the
weapon reached the height Of her
head IL was accidentally exploded. the
bullet passing through her head, Aill.
ing her instantly.