Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1908-03-25
STATE NEWS NOTES,
Cleaned From Daily Michigan Happen.
Ines Of the Past Week.

One OF the largest drains In the
state viii soon be commenced in
Shelby township. Montcalm county, e
extend to Clinton river.
Peter Gooseman OF Greenville. aged
seventy-six. an old pioneer and
soldier. having served In the Mex
can and civil wars. is dead.
Chesterfield grange has passed a
resolution calling upon the prescott.
Ing attorney and sheriff OF Macomh
county to see that the laws governing
saloons and gambling are enforced.
Professor Clinton ID. Smith has left
the Agricultural college, at Lansing,
and will proceed at once TO Bahia,
Brazil. where he will organize a new
agricultural college.
Municipal ownership OF waterworks
system has been made to pay in Bat.
tie Creek. The board of public works
has $4,000 surplus on hand and no
bonds due until 1916. 1917 and 1918.
James l.. Main, the oldest business
man in Tekonsha, is dead. Up TO
his retirement. year ago, Mr. Main
was in the drug business for thirty.
seven years. He had held many
offices of trust.
Chairman Kirkley OF the Jackson
Democratic county committee has
been assured by d. j. Campau that
William J. Bryan will speak in Jack
son as one OF the four places he will
visit during his two days visit to
Michigan.
Because the council refused 10
make any changes in the bread ordi-
nance. eleven bakers have proposed
test One will make small sized
loayes, and II he is arrested and
fined the other ten will pay the costs
of the case --<~-z y d -. 90 80.
The body of Aquilla Carey OF Bat.
tie Creek, drowned in the flood March
IL. has been found in some willows,
not far from the scene OF the accident
II had been under the icy water until
the foods recession, the body being
perfectly preserved.
President August s. Bruske of Alma
college has been granted leave of abb
sence for six months and. with bis
wife, has left for North Carolina. He
has been in i'll health. Professor
Frank n. Notestein, dean OF the col.
ilege, viii be acting president.
S. Walker. master Of the Muskegon
county grange, bitterly attacked the
new state constitution, at a big meet
ing of the grange. at Muskegon. The
rejection of the initiative AMI referen-
dun clause. which the grange favored,
was the principal cause of the attack.
The death of Henry Lamb Of Al
bion marks the passing Of one Of
the most interesting characters in Cal.
houn county When five years old he
was stricken with fever, which left
him totally blind He speculated in
sheep and made considerable money.
It is proposed by the finance com
mittee Of the city council at Saginaw
, divert the various rivers in Ros-
common county, which flow into the
Saginaw river. into the Kawkawlin
river, and hence to the bay BY this
plan. they believe they could prevent
much damage during spring floods.
Carleton is to have new school
house, and VIII Carleton, for whom
the village was named, is to have the
first bond of the $4,000 issue. After
the village voted 70 bond, Postmaster
c. B. Herman wrote to Mr. Carleuon
and received check for 800, the
value Of the bond
While walking down a stairway in
Bouty's hotel. at Spalding, a village
north Of Menominee, Edward Nord-
inschid fell and was picked up at the
foot Of the stairway with a broken
neck. Death was instantaneous. Nor1-
inschild was sixty-three years old and
a resident OF Spalding for the past
twenty-five years.
News from Manila announces the
death Of Corporal Horald S. Poole,
Battle Creek. with an infantry regi-
ment in the Philippines. Beyond the
fact that the death was sudden,
nothing is known. His mother. Mrs.
j. NJ. Poole. wired the war depart
ment to ship the body 10 Battle
Creek
Wesley Eakett, a section man on
the Munising railroad, was almost in
stantly killed at Stllman He was
leaning against the door OF the snow
pillow, looking out when il suddenly
slid, letting him fall TO the track.
The immense snow banks on either
side left no room for Eakett TO move,
and the wheels OF the pillow crushed
his head.
In fire which destroyed a mattress
factory, at Port Huron. George
Rhodes, who was passing by when the
blaze broke out, sustained injuries
that may result seriously Rhodes
kicked in the window. His foot be
came caught, with the result that a
deep cash was inflicted in his leg.
severing the tendons and arteries and
resulting in a great loss OF blood.
A romance OF the woman's early life
Is recalled in the will of Miss Mary
f. Cook OF Charlotte, who leaves the
earnings of her estate to her sister
until the latter's death The estate,
which is valued at several thousand
dollars. will then go to charity When