Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-10-21
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

or Peter Legs, of Grand Rapids, ar
rived on Friday, Aug. Is.
Alger r. Cummings, a ST. Clair boy
now in San Jose, Cal, has construct
ed a wireless telephone that works
successfully.
Burr Oak First National bank has
been authorized by the comptroller
OF the currency.
Jail sentences, instead of fines, for
automobile speeders is the new pol
Icy of Holland officials.
B. A. Merrick, OF Webberville, drew
claim worth more than $4,000 in
the Idaho reservation lottery.
A nervy thief stole the horse and
buggy Of eX-Sherif V. O. Ginger from
in front of a Muskegon bank.
DR.. Robert Irwin, prominent Bay
City physician, died at Grand Lake,
where he was visiting friends.
Latter Day Saints of western Michi-
gan at their first annual gathering
elected Thomas Hartwell president.
James Mckay, a Scotch machinist
of Battle Greek, drew $4,000 claim
in the Occur d'Alene land lottery yes.
! terday.
Frank Schumacher, of Auburn, Bay
county, has asked the police of Flint
10 look for his 15-year-old son, who
left home, following a quarrel with
his father.
Joseph Lacy, aged 16, caught steal.
ing, was so eloquently repentant
when arraigned in court in OwossO
that the judge freed him and prom
Used to help him hunt job
EY
ma Durham, of Muskegon, has mailed
a description and reward offer to
every house in three townships. Her
postage bin would buy an acre Of
cats.
Charles Robinson, colored, was
stricken with paralysis while facing
j Judge Hess in the Grand Rapids 20
lice court Monday morning Robin
son was charged with disorderly con
! duct.
Prosecuting Attorney Brown, OF
| Port Huron, is out with his ak look
! ing after violators Of the liquor laws.
| He says some of the saloon men will
come TO grief if they don't mend their
ways.
Mrs. Nellie Vanderlnder, Of Pom
tiac, has adopted her own daughter,
II years old. in probate court. The
! girl had been legally adopted some
! years ago by Mrs NJ. +. Gordon, now
! dead.
Mrs Mary Vandeveer, Of Muske.
gon, critically i'll at her home, was
not aware that her favorite son was
! dead in the next room He was
| buried without her knowledge, owing
/ to her weak condition.
The three-months' bride of Adolph
/ Martin, killed by the collapsing of a
wall at the Olds Motor works in
Lansing, was on her way to the bed
side of a sick brother in Texas and
was not informed of her husbands
| death.
Eugene Rivers, aged u, arrived
! home in Grand Rapids and ended a
! 200-mile journey which he made on
! foot from the Beulah home, at Boyne
| City, in eight days. He was sent TO
! the home for stealing his mothers
! jewelry
The Uniform Rank, Knights of Pyth.
! las, Of Eaton Rapids, will go after the
national drill prize at the coming en-
! campment. They are drilling under
| a professional instructor. and have
! complete new equipment and uniforms
! for 65 men.
Safe robbers blew open the $780,
! pound safe of Dain q Vermilya, coal
and lumber dealers of Flint with nj
| troglycerine. When they succeeded
in opening the strong box they found
no money, but carried away bank
book and a number of deposit slips.
Awakened early in the morning by
| a burglar alarm. Charles Raymond, of
Flint, found himself unable TO join in
the chase after the marauder because
! his only pair of trousers had been
taken by the latter. There was 50
in cash in the pockets of his trousers.
Two prairie schooners" filled with
members of the Benton Harbor
colony of Flying Rollers passed
through Muskegon on their way TO
Weare, Oceana county, where they
say they will establish branch
colony and enter the fruit raising in
dustry.
Frank Hiliker, aged 50 years, met
! instant death in Metamora, at the
residence OF Mrs Frank Barran. Mr..
Hilliker was shingling the house and
! slipped from scaffolding. falling
about 10 feet and breaking his neck.
Survived by widow and five boys, all
Of whom are living at home.
The first carload shipment of
grapes from Lawton will begin in
about a fortnight, and 1t is expected
that during the season $500 cars will
be sent to different markets. The
crop this year is bumper one and
the growers say that the shipments
will exceed those of last year by 500
cars.
Tired of the unsuccessful fight to
| force dry" members Of the Climax
council to attend the meetings, vii
/ lage President j. w. Wilson has sold
his farm and other property and left
town never to return. according to his
own statement Since being elected
last spring by the wet" voters, Mr..
Wilson has been trying to hold a
meeting of the council, but the bolt
ing" members could neither be in