Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-07-29
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

The Traverse City chair factory WAS
badly damaged by fire, the second
within eight months.
Big Rapids is trying 10 secure the
new branch pottery OF the Owen China
Co.. which is expected to employ
men.
Jail romance ended when former
Sheriff George Breer, of Pontiac, mar
ried Mrs. Allie Owen. former Jail ma
tron.
John Bradshaw, aged 80, OF Flint.
hurrying home from Colorado to die,
lost his race with death. He died on
the train
While using a telephone during the
storm, Mrs. Ira ]. Nixon, of Flint, was
knocked to the floor unconscious by a
bolt of electricity.
The annual convention of the Michi-
gan Hardware Dealers association
will be held In the Auditorium at
Saginaw August IL to Is.
James Bessey. of Big Rapids.
G.. r. q |. engineer, was stricken
with paralys J while working on his
engine and died six hours later.
Capt. John Q. Anderson, who head
ed the Saginaw company in the Span
ish war and afterward, is dead from
fever contracted In the Cuban service.
Levi Rogers. probably the oldest
man in the northern peninsula, is
dead. Rogers was 105 years of age
and came to Escanaba 60 years ago.
A broken coupling at sharp curve
resulted in the derailment of five cars
of a northbound Pere Marquette
freight train late Saturday night, two
miles from Vassar
Charlie Green, aged IL. and son Of
Pere Marquette engineer is dead OF
lockjaw, the result of injuries TO his
foot received while playing in the
Saginaw railroad yards.
The annual reunion of the Calhoun
County Veteran Battalion will be held
at Battle Creek, August IS. Congress
man Washington Gardner will act as
POSTMASTER at the campfire.
Grand Rapids business men active
in the anti-saloon movement complain
that they are being boycotted by wet
sympathizers and that unless the ban
Is raised they Will be ruined.
Fire which resulted from spon-
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/ stroyed a large barn filled with hay
and grain and a team of horses on the
Chaplin farm, near Schoolcraft.
Joseph B. Kemp of Ann Arbor, has
just received a medal of honor award
ed him by congress shortly after the
battle of the Wilderness In 1864, upon
the recommendation of Gen. Meade.
Jackson officials are endeavoring to
/ find where Charles Crowley, II, Sc
cured the whisky which nearly killed
him. He fell on the street writhing In
agony and nearly died in the hospital.
In the death of Levi Rivers, of
Cooks Mills, Schoolcraft county, the
state OF Michigan has lost its oldest
citizen. The deceased was 105 years
OF age. He came to the region more
than sixty years ago
The supreme court has failed to
hand down a decision setting aside
the Sanilac county local option cleo
ton because the county clerk failed
to sign the supervisors records in
time. The county will remain dry.
F. W. Schroeder, OF Traverse City,
laughed at a funny story told him
by companion Friday and his Jaw
was dislocated. II required the ef-
forts OF . physician and two strong
men to put the Jaw back whore it
belonged.
Mrs. Charles Cote. OF Muskegon.
had her right leg and four ribs
broken and sustained severe internal
injuries, and her mother, Mrs. Joseph
La Chappslle, was badly bruised and
cut, when they we're run down by an
automobile.
Wakefield, q village Of 1900, on the
Gogebic range, Is having built q high
school costing $4,000 In place OF the
one burned last spring. II will be
80x192 feet with IA school rooms, a
domestic science room. manual train
ing room, gymnasium and laboratory.
The Oldest living u. of NJ. graduate
has been found again. This time he
Is Rev. Theodore Romeyne Palmer. OF
National City, Cal. who graduated in
1847. He was Northumberland OF
the Thirteenth Michigan In the civil
war.
Sheriff Graham will sell the plant
of the Malta Vitae Pure Food Co., OF
Battle Creek. at a public sale Septem-
Der 2. The City National bank. OF
Battle Creek, Is said to have advanced
$4,000 to keep the institution In OPP
Grafton. and IL Is to satisfy the banks
claim that the sale will be held.
Charles II. Mains. former Battle
Creek attorney, who has been serving
12-year sentence In the federal
prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kas., for
having killed a man in Alaska, has
been transferred to the United States
dentention hospital at Washington. d.
C. Mains is said to be hopelessly in
sane.
When a runaway team demolished
the fence which encloses the city deer
park at Traverse City, the lone deer
kept there escaped, and Mayor Ger
main secured an automobile and gave
chase. After run Of nearly a mile
the animal was captured and the
mayor drove back to town with the
deer occupying the rear seat OF the
auto.
William Drumm, who disappeared
while agent of the Grand Trunk road
at Davisburg and was said to have
stolen cash and express orders, has
been located at Grand Rapids. He
has made his peace with the railroad
g. 4Al.