Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-09-16
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

Berrien county has the biggest and
best crop OF grapes and peaches this
season, In Its history. Railroads are
hard pressed 10 handle the fruit.
Four different attempts to set IRE
to the Pere Marquette railroad shops
In Ionia have been made by unknown
parties within the past ten days.
Gilbert A. Currie. member of the
legislature from Midland, who has
been seriously i'll Of typhoid fever. Is
now believed to be out OF danger.
Mrs. Ellen Havers, 92, who has
lived In Genesee county since 1S47,
Is dead at her home In Flint town.
ship. She is survived by two sons and
three daughters.
Marion Wells, woman OF 20, ar
rested In Ann Arbor for drunkenness.
was sentenced to Jackson, a dry"
town. by Justice Richie to get her
out of the way of temptation.
II. II. Ogden, who swindled many
farmers and creamery concerns in
Kalamazoo by opening a commission
house and failing TO pay for the goods
he sold, has been arrested in Milwau-
kee.
Saginaw saloon men resent the &C
ton of the council in extending the
closing hour from IL to II o'clock.
They declare the later hour makes
saloon practically an all-night re-
sort
w. ]. Walker, Lansing farmer. is
alleged, in tit of anger. threw an ak
at COW, nearly cutting off her leg,
and that she was allowed TO suffer
three weeks before the leg was ampu-
tated.
Edward Parker, convicted OF shoot
ing James Dugan of Lapeer, when the
latter interfered 70 protect Mrs. Du
gan from an assault by Parker, has
been sentenced to Marquette for 10
to 25 years.
Ben Peterson, assistant police chief
Of Muskegon, during nine different
city administrations, has resigned to
become truant officer and school de-
tectve. He will make a special fight
against child labor.
Burberry pickers have found the
work profitable this season. as the
berries have been plentiful and the
price has held up fairly well. At
the present time they are receiving
from 81 to $3.50 a bushel.
The federal grand jury has returned
an indictment OF eight counts, against
Cashier Larson and one of seven
counts against Assistant Cashier Bed.
dow Of the defunct ITonwood bank.
Beddow pleaded not guilty when ar.
raigned
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loonkeeper, went into his saloon on
Sunday to fix up his fires to last over
the day He was seen entering the
place and arrested. In the circuit
court he was declared to have viola
ted the Sunday law, and was fined
$40.
In Mason and that section of Ing
ham county, local option movement
has been started by the Michigan
Anti-Saloon league. and the workers,
because of the good showing already
made, are optimistic for the success
of the dry" movement, at the spring
election.
The business men OF Glengary.
small village, near Sherman, have
raised a 100000 bonus and big pot
there from southern Ohio Thirty
houses for the employees will be built
at once, and the factory will be in
operation early in the spring.
William Watson, a Buena Vista far
mer. who was arrested by deputy
sheriff on a charge of petty larceny,
asked permission TO change his clothes
before going to Jail. He climbed out
of rear window and the officer had
to chase him four miles across coun-
try before he was recaptured.
Charles Cole 15, bought a pair of
trousers at a Coldwater clothing store
for $2.3s. Later he exchanged them
FOR another pair and that in turn for
a third. Still dissatisfied, he asked
his money back For refusing to re-
fund, Nelson Myers, the clerk, has
been arrested on warrant sworn out
by the Cole boys mother. who de-
clares she will push the case to the
limit
Because he refused on entering the
high school TO sign pledge not to
join any fraternal society, Wallace
Hook. a young man of excellent char
acter faces suspension. but has re-
famed attorneys ana Will nBnt the
rule of the school board All pupils
enrolling in the high school were re-
quired to sign the pledge and the
court action will decide tho right Of
the board to enforce the rule.
Henry Seymour. who was killed by
train at Pippon. Ia. Wednesday, was
resident Of Galesburg, and In 1885
was sent to Jackson prison for wreck
ing a Michigan Central train near
Comstock. When his term was over
In 1899. Seymour was ordered dis
charged from the prison, but refused
to leave. declaring that he wished to
spend the remainder Of his life there.
He was finally forcibly elected from
the institution.
The fight Of the Civil war veterans
for their pension money has begun.
Judge Perkins having issued an in
junction TO restrain the oficials of the
Soldiers home from Withholding any
OF the pension money of the veterans
Commandant Wright had announced
that after Sept 4 the veterans In the