The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1912-11-21
MICHIGAN NEWS IN BRIEF

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shot In the ankle by Cecil Franklin
while hunting and the foot had to be
amputated.
The Saginaw Evening Press which
began publication last June, and was
financed by local capital. discontinued
publication.
Herbert A. Witt. 20, of Saginaw, was
accidentally killed In the Brooklyn
navy yard. He enlisted from Saginaw
two years ago.
The state tax commission has set
Nov. 29 for a general hearing OF the
assessments in Dickinson county. Inc
hearing also will include the mine
owners in the county.
Watcred oysters will no longer be
tolerated by the dairy and food depart
ment. Commissioner Dame has issued
an order to his inspectors to conns-
cate all watered stock.
Saginaw Is suffering from a milk
famine, according to President T.. A..
Stanton. of the Milk Dealers FRO
tective association There Is a short
age OF nearly SO per cent
The fight for the Lansing postofiice
continues. A. A. Nichols announces
himself as candidate. Several other
candidates, including p. s. Gray, city
clerk, also are in the field.
The Commercial club Of Pontiac Is
campaigning for bigger Pontiac
and 35 members succeeded In one DAY
In obtaining SO prominent business
men to join the board Of trade.
Lavita Inn, the first Battle Creek
home OF c. w. Post, was partially de-
stroy led by fire. The inn, used as an
electrical sJpply stoTeh 'ise, caught
fire from spontaneous combustion.
Lydia Blake, IS, of Plainwell. who
lived alone, was burned to death,
when a piece of her clothing caught
fire while she was preparing break
fast.
Deputy Sheriff Smith served eject
ment papers on Rev. DR.. John Hart
ley to yacate the Trinity church rec
tory in Marshall on an order based on
trespass.
The 3-year-old daughter Of Newton
ID. Turner, of Saginaw township was
burned to death when her clothing
caught fire from a stove. The mother
in attempting to extinguish the flames
was badly burned.
In an opinion to Prosecutor Lewis
II. Osterhaus by the attorney general,
that official was advised that for
wholesalers to sell an intoxicating
beverage under three gallon lots in
Holland is unlawful.
Progressive candidate for state repre-
sentative. in printing the ballots, may
result In throwing out all ballots from
Lake county. The case probably viii
60 to the supreme court.
Several hundred acres Of state land
and q number of city and village lots
were sold In Lansing at auction at the
state land commissioners office. Sew
eral hundred purchasers from all parts
Of the state we're present.
Probate Judge Clark e. Highly. OF
Grand Rapids, who has accepted the
state Craftsmanship of the Michigan
Cigarette League, will seek to have
new cigarette law passed at the next
session Of the legislature.
The o. der of Royal Guard. which
recently purchased the Stone theater
in Flint for $4,000, Is planning to
fight the state tax commission, claim
ing that the building is assessed $7O"c
more than was paid for 1t.
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date for register Of deeds, on the Pro-
gressive ticket, defeated by Joseph
Walton, of Caro-, by 81 votes, has hled
application for recount in Indian
Field township. charging fraud.
Prominent Saginaw business men
not only were victims of forger, but
they were SO pleased with him that
they entertained him at dinner. The
stranger gave the name OF Nichols, OF
Koch & Nichols, OF Ann Arbor.
Miss Nina Bushnell, principal OF
Walker school, was working on some
arts and crafts pieces, when a splinter
snapped from one Of the pieces or
wood, striking her in the right eye.
She may lose the sight Of the eye.
Houghton county's newly elected
treasurer William White, Jr., was in
stantly killed in Calumet when he
slipped on the steps and fell. break
ing his neck. White was paralytic
Belline Baelar. Is, working girl.
of Saginaw, took poison and died in
the arms of her mother. A tear-stained
note on table in the girls room in
dictated that love affair caused the
girl to end her life.
Grand Traverse grangers will have
a candidate for master Of the state
grange at the annual meeting-E. j.
McMullen, one of the most prominent
farmers and grange workers in that
part Of the state.
Friday was the first regular payday
for three sugar factories in Bay City
and farmers received checks for to-
tai of S425,000 for beets delivered dur
ing october. The amount Is about
500, 900 short Of former seasons.
The state railroad commission has
act Nov. 81 as the date for the ad-
iourned meeting for the purpose OF
h..r,pS a discussion on demurrage