Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-04-22

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Ionia for two years for assaulting q
Flint policeman.
Fourteen thousand trout from the
state fish hatchery at Paris, have been
put into streams west of Standish.
After Illness of two weeks, Mrs.
Edward Weber, of Menominee, is dead
OF tuberculosis. This is the fifth death
from tuberculosis In the last five days.
The trustees OF the Masonic home
met In Grand Rapids Thursday and
agreed to expend 100000 in the erec-
ton OF an addition to the present
building.
Maurice Ostlund, a Mellen township
farmer. shot the largest wildcat ever
seen there. The animal measured
nearly six feet from the nose to the
tip of its tail.
The First National bank of Durand
has gone out of business and will be
replaced by the First Commercial Saw
ings bank, of which II. II. Simpson, of
Bad Axe, is the cashier.
c. E. Holmes, superintendent of
the State School for the Blind, in a
recent lecture declared that the Sun
day paper does more than any other
one thing to keep people from attend
ing church.
According to the calculations of
early prognosticators, fruit of all va
rieties gives promise of a good yield.
The trees and orchards, especially in
the famous peach belt, are in the pink
of condition.
Sleeping on the track, 1t is said
the result of partaking too freely of
strong drink, William Williamson, 40
was struck by Duluth, South Shore
& Atlantic train near Singleton, and
cut to pieces.
Mrs. Minnie Kiel, 20, of Montague,
has applied for a divorce from her hus-
band, alleging that he wanted her to
join his church and on her refusal to
do so left the home and has not sup
ported her since.
Judge Smith, of the Oakland-Lapeer
circuit, has asked Gov. Warner TO
designate judge to assist him. as he
is in ill-health and does not feel able
TO take charge of the several cases
which are pending.
Judge Wisner sentenced Charles j.
Riness in Flint to the Michigan re-
formatory at Ionia from TO IA years
for forgery. Riness is the man who
pretended that he was deaf and dumb
around the lumber camps lately.
Seven National Guard officers, from
Detroit, were in Lansing Thursday, to
present arguments why the state APP
preparation for the maintenance of ar
mories in large cities should be in /
creased from $500 to 1000 per COM
pany.
While returning from Muskegon on |
a Pere Marquette train, Harold Shaw, I
IA, of Big Rapids, sustained injuries |
that will disfgure him for life A
transom broke over his head and fall /
ing glass cut several severe gashes in /
his face
A washout, caused by the overflow
ing of Indian Mill creek, sent Grand |
Trunk freight No GA, from Grand
Haven, eastbound into the ditch one /
mile west OF Grand Rapids early Mon
day morning. Three men were killed,
and one was fatally injured.
A new system has been introduced
in the Branch county schools. In fu-
ture the eighth grade graduating
classes, instead of holding individual
graduating exercises, will hold a field
day, when all the graduates from all
parts of the county will be present
The young son of Philip Kasemeyer,
near Bay City, is in a serious condi-
ton as result Of having swallowed
a steel screw. The boy nearly choked
to death when the screw was stuck in
his throat for half an hour, and he
swallowed it just before the physician
arrived.
Two unknown youths seized Tommy
Yates, aged 10, OF Auburn, on a Bay
City street and poured carbon bisul-
phide over his head AS a result the
boy may become blind. His screams
attracted a number of men who gave
chase, but could not catch his as
sailants, who appeared to be about II
years old.
A Traverse City character, who, ii is
alleged, started on a chicken and DO
tato stealing trip through the sur
rounding country, is being sought by
the officers. 1t is said that a bulldog
at one farm tried TO prevent the theft
of some chickens and he promptly
stole the dog.
James Freelmane, one of the four
men arrested for the robbery of the
Hillsdale postoffice, was convicted of
being an accomplice TO the deal.
John Jankowak and Claud Schroeder
have been returned to Jackson prison
for breaking their paroles. The men
were sentenced from Saginaw some
time ago for the abandonment of chill
dren and larceny respectively.
Although the prisoner declared his
willingness to return without requsi-
ton papers, an officer who came to
Saginaw from Little Valley, N. Y,
after John ID. Allyn. accused of grand
larceny, declined to take his man
back with him and has returned to
New York state to go through the for