Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1908-10-15
NEWS or STATE.
Cleaned From Daily Michigan Hap
penines Of the Past Week.

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Roy Welch, author of the Mich
ieenda," is preparing another opera
for presentation by the Michigan
union OF the u. of NJ.
The Oakland County Federation OF
Citizens leagues has been organized
10 start q systematic campaign of
law enforcement in all townships and
10 work FOR dry" candidates in the
November election.
The Michigan Central depot at
Omer was entered and the mail sacks
left by the midnight train stolen. 1t
cid not contain registered mail and is
believed to have been of little finan-
cial value.
Rev A. Raymond Johns. for the
last four years pastor Of the Wyan-
dotte Methodist church, has been
assigned TO the Court Street Metho-
dist church at Flint by Bishop Ham
ilton
Lamont W. Richards, manager of
the Wenona Beach resort of Bay
and Riverside park, Saginaw, one OF
the, best known amusement men in
The middle west, is dead at his home
in Bay City
James Wiley of Port Huron, aged
sixty-six, who removed his personal
property from rented house and then
fred the building, was convicted of
arson. He had insured his goods sew
eral weeks before for $1,000.
Charles b. Snow. a wealthy and
we'll known resident of Cadillac who
mysteriously disappeared from his
home in that place three weeks ago,
was found wandering about, apparent
ly in a demented condition, at Ann
Arbor
Upon opening for business in the
morning, Sturn, Kull & Sturn OF Mon
roe discovered that their place of bust
ness had been burglarized during the
night Jewelry, notions and several
suits Of clothes were taken. The po-
lice have no clue.
The Grand Trunk was fined 500
in United States district court at Bay
City for failing 10 have a car equipped
with a safety coupling as required by
the interstate commerce law This is
the first fine in the state for that
offense.
Francis A. Ford pleaded guilty to
stealing $500 of the Big Rapids post
Office funds in order to enter matri
mony and was released on bail 10
await sentence Since the theft Ford
has been married and the money re-
turned
a Pere Marquette passenger train
was held up b. e sewers iIaii storm
near New Boston The hail rel SO
thickly that the engineer was unable
10 see the track ahead and stopped
his train until The storm passed Many
windows were broken.
Overcome with remorse because he
was drunk, man VINO said that he
was laborer. forty-five years old,
staggered into police headquarters at
Flint and asked an officer to shoot
him. He declared that it was the first
time he had ever been drunk and he
couldn't 60 home and face his wife
, p new pension district in Michigan
with Bay city as its headquarters has
been created, and j. T. 1'owan special
pension examiner. has been transfer
led from Virginia to that district The
new district will include the Tenth
district and the eastern part of the
upper peninsula, The headquarters
we're formerly al Saginaw.
According to the October @rop re
Sort issued by the secretary Of state.
the final estimate Of che wheat crop
Is placed al eighteen bushels per acre
The total crop m bushels Is estimated
at 12O0O,O00, rye at 5.272,OO0 bushels;
oats, 46.3S6, 900 bushels; corn. 49,165,-
600 bushels: beans, 1901 900 bushels
and buckwheat 7O2, OO0 bushels.
Residents of East Grand Rapids who
raise garden truck for the Grand Rap
ids market have been suffering from
the depredations of three deer which
escaped some time ago from an en-
closure at the Michigan soldiers home.
The market men have presented their
claims to the state board Of auditors,
asking for 800
John ". Kern, Jr. son OF the Dem
ocratic vice presidential nominee. VINO
has been seriously III in the Petoskey
city hospital. has recovered sufficient
" to return to his home in Indian
apolis. He was making trip through
the resort region when he was strick-
en- with what It was feared might de-
velop into appendicitis.
Jessie X. Letson, who pleaded guilty
in the circuit court at Lansing to
stealing two stamped envelopes val
ned al FIVE cents, was sentenced to
from two and one-half TO five years
in Jackson prison by Judge Weist.
Letson had previously served two
terms in the lonia reformatory and
one term in Marquette.
The arrival of Professor L. A. ia
cobs of Graysville, Tenn, to take
charge of the Adventist school at Pc
toskey marks the beginning Of a move.
ment hat will make Petoskey the
center of Adventist effort in this state,
second only to Battle Greek In impor.
lance Elder Bristol, superintendent
- tho Ntorrrv nrona canda has lonO