Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-01-12
MICHIGAN BREVITIES.

During the past year 16O recruits
were accepted in Lansing for the IN
tied States army.
Samuel Kerns, of Muskegon, lost his
right foot by being run over by
Pere Marquette engine.
The Michigan Central railroad will
begin the construction of another 400
foot freight house in Bay City.
Mrs. Mary Hoig, a 75-year-old resi-
dent of Millburg, fell from chair and
did not know for five days that her
shoulder had been dislocated.
Mrs. Emma Hastings has asked for
divorce from Edward Hastings, of
Jeddo township They have been mar
ried 80 years. Plaintiff charges cruel
ty.
William c. Mcmillan was somewhat
better Friday morning and improving
steadily. The fever has entirely gone
and he expects to be out in few
days.
In "a hours Jesse w. Tayor, II
year-old burglar, was arrested, con-
fessed arraigned and sentenced to Is
years in Ionia, for robbing Grand
RAPIDS grocery.
A bequest of $1,000 to the Masonic
Temple association of Bay City is re-
vealed in the will of N. B. Bradley, one
Of Bay City's lately deceased and long
prominent citizens.
The Grand Rapids Gas Light Co. had
a surplus last year of 1882, 103.S4 from
net earnings Of 1929, 1854. The report
u,ith he nit ri tn nj l.
ance with the city charter.
This year will be a recordbreaker
at the M. A. c. The first days class-
fication reached 292. of which lis
were special course students The to-
tai attendance will run over 500.
Ed. Mcneil, Michigan Central rail-
way section hand, attempted to jump
! from moving passenger train at
| Hastings. He got off with the excep-
| ton of his left leg. Condition serious,
family dependent.
Michigan beans for Cuba sounds like
a Wolverine incursion into far lands.
Henry Carr, president Of the Saginaw
Milling Co., says Michigan produces
more beans than all the rest of the
United States together"
A $4,000 monument to the memory
Of Gen. Custer will probably be erected
in Monroe. The city council, business
men and civic society are cooperating.
The monument is to be placed on the
site of the Custer homestead on Mon.
roe street.
The township of Meridian is getting
rich as the result Of the boom at
Pine Lake, where many Lansing PEG.
pie built cottages last year. Others
will build next summer, and the taxes
of the regular residents of the town.
ship are gratifyingly low.
officers went to Mishawaukee Sat
urday and captured Otto Janson. who
was accused of stealing large sum
Of money from the residence of Dave
Bremen where he boarded while in
Dowagiac at Christmas time. He is
bound over to the circuit court and is
in the county jail, being unable to
furnish bonds.
Acella Briggs is suing her twin sis
ter, Amelia, for s1,946, which she
claims is due her for her services fol-
27S weeks. They live in Cortland
township.
Talcott II. Camp, of Grand Rapids
has been notified that his father. Fred
erick s. Camp, agent of the largest
cotton mill in the world, took his life
by shooting himself at Norwich, Conn
At the biggest cock fight in Jackson
county history, one in which it is sale
that $50 battles were fought New
Years eve, Oscar Yost. well-knowr
sporting man, was stabbed in the wrist
and face. An artery was severed anC
he narrowly escaped bleeding to death