Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1911-03-09


morning.
Reps. Holcomb and Happier were
In Saginaw TO inspect the Michigan
Employment Institute for the Blind.
They placed the stamp of approval on
the institution
The young girls OF the Coldwater
high school graduating class OF 1911
have voted TO wear Bingham dresses
- the graduating exercises, made by
themselves.
A petition in federal court was filed
by Godfrey NJ. Hyams of New York
In an effort TO prevent the proposed
merger Of the Calumet & Hecla and
Osceola mining companies.
William Timlick, OF Caro-, aged 20,
mistook a gasoline can for one con-
tanning kerosene, poured the contents
of the can on the fire and was badly
burned about the face and hands.
Posses were organized by Sheriff
Evans at Cadillac to search for EN-
srson Sanford, A. a crippled mute.
He wandered from home Christmas
day toward Pine river swamps.
Memorial services were held in La
peer in the chapel at the Michigan
Home for the Feeble Minded for those
who died during the smallpox cpl
demic. The victims numbered Is.
Mrs. Melvina Beers, aged 10, was
found dead in bed on the upper floor
OF Jackson apartment house, of which
she is the owner 1t is believed the
woman died from natural causes.
Robert S. Acton, a Michigan Cen
tral freight conductor, was killed near
Colon while attempting to step from
a coal to fiat car. He missed his
footing and fell under the wheels.
For the second time the proposition
to bond the city Of Ludington tor $50
900 for street improvements was lost
at special election. But 80 votes
were lacking to pass the measure.
Edwin Stapleton. A., an official of
the Saginaw q Flint electric line and
prominent in railroad circles in Sag
NAV for years, died of acute bron-
chitis, leaving a widow and six chill
dren.
All the surveying and advance
work on the proposed Owosso-Sagi-
nav electric line has been completed
and the project, it is said is now in
concrete form. The line will tap a
rich farming country.
The first aeroplane exhibition for
the upper peninsula will be given by
Wright Bros, of Dayton. on the Chip
peWa county fair TO be held in Sault
Ste. Marie next fall, arrangements for
which have just been completed
kissing goodnight woman on
whom he had been calling. Louis
Knitel. of Alpena. aged 80. slipped at
the top of a flight of stairs and fell
TO the bottom his head striking a
stone. He died half an hour later.
Senator William Alden smith Rep.
Fordney, Rep. Nye of Minnesota, Viii
lis l.. Moore, head OF the weather bu.
reau in Washington. will speak at the
membership banquet to be given by
the Saginaw board Of trade March Il.
Clara Phillips Of Portland, has
asked for a legal separation from
Harry circuit, having learned that he
was previously married in June. 1908
He was arrested for bigamy i'm Kala
mazoo. but escaped from the county
Jail there.
Mrs McFadden, wife of a farmer
near Marshall, wrapped her 4-weeks-
old baby so thoroughly in blankets
when she drove to town that the baby
was smothered to death. She drove
to an undertaken and took the infant
home in a coffin.
The coroner's jury which spent two
days investigating the death of Mrs.
Martha Howard, a wealthy Kalama-
zoo negress. whose body was found
in the river, returned a verdict that
she had been killed and her body
thrown into the river.
Jefferson Vincent, So of Durand
who died recently leaves nine chill
dren and five brothers The com
bined ages of Vincent and the broth
ers is 459 years. lie was a farmer
all his life and a pioneer resident of
Shiawassee county.
Speaking on Conservatism of Mis-
fit Boys" at the roundup institute
Judge Charles B. Collingwood stated
that the present system OF reiorma-
tories is adding to the criminal class
instead Of reforming misfit boys as
they are supposed TO do
Every one Of the 1000 striking cor
set makers who walked out of the
hdidmALoo OoTSet 70. MOHudy HOTn-
Ing returned to work Wednesday. fol
lowing an adjustment OF difficulties
by which the employers agreed to re
store the old wage scale
Respondent because of neavy
~debr and the failure of his crops last
summer William Thomas, young
farmer living near Lake Odessa, end
f. ed his life. His young wife found
his body hanging from a rafter in
ythe barn He leaves a child.
Declaring that local option In Shia-
wsssee county has proved a failure
and confident the wet regime will be
restored at the next election, former
ssloonists and brewers are preparing
TO reap the harvest May 1, 1912. Sew
sral desirable store buildings in the