The Detroit times., 1911-06-21
WHERE LIFE is
WORTH LIVING

Chsirman Lodge, OF the council com
mittee ON charter aud city ieEisin-
ton, has called public hearing on
the municipal ownership resolutiCn
for Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock
The committee Will ask for sugges-
tions.~ and win consider The advisa-
bility OF calling special election
soon after Aug 4.
The suit OF George Williams Bates. n
Detroit lawyer, 40 have Attorney
John w. Revell removed as executor
OF the will OF tho formers sister.
Miss ocIavia Williams Bates was
begun. Tuesday In Baltimore Ac-
unduly influenced his sister when
the Will was made.
Judge Hubert, OF the Juvenile court.
sent "Joe- HognsI<i, aged six, and
Johnny, nine years old. TO home
provided for them by the Society for
the Prevention OF Cruelty TO Chill
dren. Thursday. The children were
taken away from their mother. POL
lock Annie" as IL was alleged she Is
not proper person TO care for them.
Gov. Osborn has written 20 SIR WiIfrId
Laurier, premier of Canada, inviting
him to come to Detroit sept ~. 1917,
as the guest or the manag ement OF
the Michigan State Fair association,
which Is also planning to entertain
invitation will be forwarded 10 Lon
don. Eng, where the premier is at
tending the coronation cere monies.
Robert White, 40 years old, and for 81
years a member OF the force OF the
United States engineers office. died
In his home. No. 8 Brewste.-st., on
Tuesday. Mr.. White came from Ken
lucky when a small boy. Al the time
or his death he was recorder or the
engineers office. He was Mason,
an Odd Fellow. Elk and Forester.
A party Of 20 from the Cumberland
headed by Mayor George c. Young,
reached Detroit on an automobile
tour. Tuesday afternoon, and called
on Mayor Thompson. The party has
visited iPittsburg and Cumbe rland
and on It's return VIII visit Column
bus. Canton. Wheeling and several
other cities. They came out OF their
way to visit Detroit, and are 80
pleased with the town that they will
stay several days.
The body OF August shanIxin, aged
about %, who died I'm the Wayne
county asylum, lies In the undertake
ing rooms OF w. III. Malburg, NJ. $50
Gratlot-ave., awaiting the location OF
called at the asylum and left one Of
Malburgs cards telling the asylum
authorities that In case Shankin died
10 have him buried and send the bill
to the nephew. Now the whereabouts
of the nephew are unknown. Shan
kin carried $1,000 life insurance.
with the general use of steam and
electricity nowadays, truck horses
are having comparatively easy time
OF H. Ii lis no longer a common sight
to see a team, or two teams, attach
ed to single wagon, loaded with
earth, struggling up an incline from
the depths OF cellar excavation.
The average contractor for sucn
work in the present day owns sta
tionary steam engine to draw the
loaded wagons from The base OF the
deep excavation to the top, as may
be witnessed just now at Farrar-st.
and Gratiot-ave., where "A steam
shovel and a gang of men are ex-
cavating for the new Goldberg block.
A cable is hitched 10 the tongue OF
the wagon and the steam engine does
the hauling. the horses merely walk
ing up the incline, as though pulling
Lan-eInpty- wagon he innovation Is
truly a boon TO the dirt wagon
horses