The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1912-04-12
MICHIGAN NEWS IN BRIEF

Ine Michigan HARDWOOD assocla-
ton will hold convention in Detroit
April 10.
Preliminary construction work on
| the new Port Huron & Northern rail
way will be started next week.
The best figures obtainable show
majority OF 26 against the good roads
proposition in Washtenaw county.
The trial of NJ. ]. DAILY. Chicago.
charged with bribery in connection
with the prison scandal. was started
in Jackson Monday.
Maj +. A. Grabill, editor OF the
Greenville Independent, died at his
home in Greenvile. He earned his
title during the civil war
The proposition TO bond Newaygo
county for $4,000 to build a jail and
| sheriff's residence at White Cloud,
the county seat, was defeated.
Mrs. John Strong, aged rs, wife of
former Lieut.-Gov. Strong, died sud-
denly in. the family home, South Rock
wood. Heart disease was the cause.
| II. y. Breckheimer OF Menominee
has been appointed general passenger
and freight agent of the Wisconsin &
Michigan railroad, to succeed J. c..
| Fitzgerald.
Y. w. G. A. circle has leased the
Popst hotel at Traverse City and will
conduct ii the same as in larger cit
les. Last year Y. NJ. &. A. move
ment died.
According to the latest reports, 1t
is thought the good roads proposition
carried in Calhoun county. 1t is
planned TO commence work on the
roads at once.
Miss Emma Olmstead, 35, for sew
eral years an instructor in the State
Normal, in Ypsilanti, died after a
short illness in the university hospi-
tai at Ann Arbor.
The charter commission OF Battle
| Creek will recommend that the city
adopt the commission form of govern
ment. ExMayor Bailey is leading
the fight for the commission.
Judge Cross decided that the
charges against Sheriff Andre and his
two deputies, recently indicted for
conspiracy against Ottawa county,
Two telephone wires broke fall OF
30 feet for Charles Dearson, a roof
worker at Cadillac. when ladder
slipped from the top of the McKin-
non house. He escaped uninjured.
The wheels OF the Bear River Pa
per 4 Bag Company turned for the
first. time i'm IL months and 100 went
to work This is the first successful
start the company has had in four
years.
With approximately one million
fresh eggs aboard, three Ohio river
packers locked at the Monongahela
wharf in Pittsburg and prices dropped
10 II cents a dozen within half an
hour.
Representatives of six high schools
took part in an oratorical contest at
Marshall. Harvey DANES, OF Jackson,
won first in orations and Miss Sun
shine Reed, Albion first in declama-
tons.
Although the voters of Battle Creek
refused to approve OF a bond issue
for $4,000 to erect a new jail the adj
ministration forces say they will ex-
pend the 100000 limit allowed the
| councll 10 mat END.
The yards of the Pere Marquette. in
Traverse City, is the busiest place
north of Grand Rapids since the road
went into the hands of receivers.
Every man is working overtime to
straighten up matters.
After having ridden more than L.
000,000 miles on the same run. J. ID.
Smith, conductor for 81 years, and
the Oldest employee in point Of sen.
vice on the Boston and Albany rail
road, has retired. Smith is 20.
A decision is expected in the Ma.
rinette "squattertown" case on April
81. In this action the Menominee
River Lumber Co. endeavors to dispos
sess "squatters" who have occupied
land on the bay shore for score OF
years.
One OF the largest independent con
Germs in the coke region OF western
Pennsylvania has announced its in
tention of installing bath tubs and
shower baths in all the houses occu
pied by employees. This is said 10 be
an innovation in the coke fields.
DR.. Charles f. Baker. OF NJ. A. G..
has accepted the position OF director
in the Massachusetts Agricultural col
lege. He has acted as professor oil
bacteriology
While cleaning clothing with gaso
line, Fred h. Wenzel, tailor of Boynt
City, was nearly burned to deatf
when the fumes reached the furnace
room and ignited. Wenzel was
caught in the basement and had Il
run through flames to get out III
may lose his sight
Instead OF being tried for cruelty
to animals as intended. Stephen Blais
dell, a prosperous farmer near Cad
lilac. aged 80, will be examined al
TO his sanity. Blaisdell was arrested
and bound over to the circuit cour
when the sheriff found half of Blais
dell's flock of sheep starving, will
several frozen to death.
Branding as "frightful' the higl
percentage OF mortality in infants
under year OF age, Luther J.
Wright. state superintendent OF pub