Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-02-04
STATE NEWS sRrREs.

ColdWater, containing oV,UVV stdmps'
has been sold to a Chicago agency for
81 900. Some single stamps were sold
for as high as $40.
Taking advantage OF the mild
weather OF the last week, many TAR
mers are doing their spring plowing.
The oldest inhabitants cannot remem-
Der of a similar happening.
William Bloomfield. of Owosso. AL.
though 80 years old. Is recovering
from a stroke OF apoplexy which he
suffered recently. II was not thought
possible that he could survive.
Frederick Spicer. rs. one of the old
est residents OF Eaton county and
founder of the village OF Spicerville,
which was named after him, died sun
day afternoon, after a long illness.
O. B. Burrell, graduate M. A. c.,
who has been taking a course at Am
herst college, Massachusetts, has been
appointed agricultural inspector TO the
Philippines, and sails from Seattle
Feb. /.
William McLain, so years old, ap'
piled TO the county clerk Friday for
a license to marry 15-year-old Ocon-
to girl The license was refused. al
though the girls father had given MS
consent
Recca Patterson, a civil war veteran
OF Battle Creek, believes that the G.
Patterson, who was killed in the Chi
cago crib disaster is his son Charles,
and will take steps TO establish his
identity.
Mrs Kate Chapel has started suit
for $1,000 damages against a Muske-
gon furniture dealer, alleging trespass.
She says that the man took a COOK
stove containing her dinner out OF
her home
Twenty passengers were snowbound
on Grand Rapids-Muskegon interur-
ban car, between Grand Rapids and
Coopersville, for Is hours Saturday
ished condition.
Chase 8. Osborn, former railroad
commissioner OF Michigan, Is In
Washington to urge u. S. Forester
Clifford Pinchot to do his best TO es
tablish the forestry products labora'
tory In Michigan.
The three Oldest triplets IN Michi-
gan-Benjamin Champion, Miss EN-
ma Champion. OF st. Clair, and Mrs
Ellen Kemp. OF Saginaw. celebrated
In the latter place, the sixty-third an
niversary OF their birth.
George Clouse, the Oapac farmer
who threatened young boy with
death il he refused to pray and who
at the time was suffering from insan.
ity brought on by religion, has been
taken 10 the Pontiac asylum.
The last rails for the new Flint q
Saginaw electric railroad were laid
In Flint Monday afternoon. Officials
saw that with favorable weather cars
will be regularly operating between
Saginaw and Flint by March 1.
Adelbert Bills, a farmer. living neal
Knaggs. was bitten by a pet eat
1 few days ago The wound has giver
him so much pain that on the advice
/ OF his physicians he will go TO the
Pasteur institute at Ann Arbor.
II is estimated by the county audi
+ tors that the killing Of Gideon Brown
ing by Rev j. H. Carmichael will cost
the county about 5000 The Detroit
\ detectives. whose work resulted n
trailing the minister to Chicago, vii
be the largest single item OF ex
pense.
Scarlet fever In three ward schools
OF Battle Creek caused Health Officer
Thomas Zelinsky 70 take charge o
these buildings Sunday. They were
disinfected, but will not be closed un
less there are more cases OF the dis
ease. It is said that there are q
cases in the city.
Howard Burchneld, the Charlotte
youth who threw a pop bottle during
the Elks' carnival, a few years ago
which caused the death Of Leonard
Green, is in trouble again. At tina
time he was sentenced to ten year!
in Ionia but was paroled Now hi
is charged with highway robbery.
The state military department hal
issued orders for the officers OF thu
First. Second and Third regiments tc
assemble in Lansing February % Il
elect the field officers OF the regiments
for the next three years. The ONCE:
to be filed are those of colonel, lieu
tenant-colonel and three majors fol
each regiment.
The coroner's Jury, which has beer
investigating the accident in Saginaw
in which Fred ]. Gerlach a lineman
was electrocuted. brought in a verdic
holding the Valley Telephone Co. re
sponsible for the fatality. The yer
dict states that Gerlach met hi
death through coming in contact Will
the company's telephone wire which
had become detached in some man
ner through inferior construction. fall
ing TO the ground over a high tension
wire
Because. he says, he couldn't bea
to see his sons first and second wive
in a hair-pulling contest, at the HON,
OF the latter, Cornelius Nicholson
Grand Rapids. has sworn out a war
rant for his sons arrest on a bigam,
charge. Nicholson the eide. says hi
boy" Chester. "a, 10 years ago mar
ried Sylvia Carskadon, and that the,
had FIVE children, later becoming ser
arated. Chester believed his frst wifi
dead when he married Nina TomE
kins, 1S. Monday the first Mrs. Mich
olson, by her call, proved she WASH
dead
One poor. lone COW among William
McKinneys fine herd at Elm. bit
cornstalk, and as a result has a tin,
sore in its mouth. Now the place 4
under quarantine and veterinary sul
geons to the number Of half doxe,
have been scurrying back and fort
and over-eager newspapermen ar
sending out wild yarns about "'nothe
outbreak Of the hoof and mouth dis
ease"