The Clio messenger., 1912-05-17
MICHIGAN NEWS IN BRIEF

| for the building of 24-room school.
The Hancock school board is pre-
| pairing to submit proposition to
raise 100000 for a new high school.
The monthly crop report issued by
the secrtary of state shows that the
severe winter injured the peach crop.
| over 1000 bushels of potatoes were
destroyed in a fire which burned the
$4,000 warehouse of Frank Proctor at
Hersey.
William A. Foss will be president
1 or the new First State and Savings
bank OF Gladstone, being organized
with capital stock of 100000.
| John w. Bailey, formerly mayor Of
Battle Creek, announced that under
no circumstances would he be the
Democratic candidate for governor.
Mrs, Agnes A. King, so. OF Grand
Rapids, mother of Paul H. King, Sec
retary of the Republican state CEN
| tral committee, is dead OF heart dis
ease.
Jacob Ehler, a wealthy shoe mer-
chant of Hancock, will be placed on
trial at the May term of the circuit
court for shooting Ernest Hendrick-
| son.
Eaton, Cass, Bay, Muskegon, Pres.
que Isle, Tuscola, Jackson and ber-
rien counties elected uninstructed del
egations to the Democratic state con-
vention
Although Frank Brown of South
Haven just returned from Germany
with fortune of $4,000 left to his
wife, he announces he will continue to
sail on the lakes.
The newly organized Michigan AS
sociation OF Agriculture and Com
merce held directors meeting in
Lansing and selected that city as per
manent headquarters.
| Out of so jury cases on the calen.
dar for the May term of circuit court
which convened in Marshall less than
ten will be tried, the other being con-
tinued or withdrawn.
Thousands of acres of apples, cher
| ries, pears, plums and other fruit are
being planted on lands being cleared
! by the Ward estate and other big
| lumber firms in Arenac county.
Flint citizens have started a move
ment to have Robert McComb, SEN
|
the killing of John Irwin, pardoned.
McComb killed Irwin in 1907.
Without a dissenting vote, the Dem
ocrats or Calhoun county adopted a
resolution in convention in Marshall
whereby the 20 county delegates vel
| go to the state convention uninstruct-
| ed
Ludington's city council has author
lied the installation at the water
works pumping station of automatic
machinery for administering hypo-
| chloride treatment to the water sup,
| ply.
A. f. Spafford former postmaster
at Raby, Chippewa county, was SEN
fenced TO two years in Leavenworth
prison for embezzling 5000 Of U. s.
funds while in the governments en-
ploy.
The applicants who wrote the re-
cent teachers examination in Mar
shall made the best showing ever
| made in the county. Out of an en-
rollment of "a there were rs certi-
| iicates issued.
]. Edward Johnson, who defaulted
| $4,000 from the Michigan Trust Co.
was sentenced to not less than three
| Jears and not more than 10 years in
| Ionia reformatory. Bucketshops caus-
ed his downfall
Under the auspices of the depart
ment Of music of Hastings city
schools, the pupils of the grades will
hold a May day festival and filed day
at the fair grounds some time during
the next three weeks.
That neither early adjournment nor
a recess of congress during the ma
tional convention periods is among
the probabilities, was made clear in
the senate at the beginning of the dis
cussion of the metal tariff bill.
William Lewis, 73, died, making
the third Owosso pioneer OF that
name to die in two weeks. William
| William S Lewis dropped dead of
heart failure. All were related.
The Mason County Normal school
will graduate class of IL students
May 81. The exercises will be held
in the First Methodist church, where
President Jones of Ypsilanti will de-
liver the commencement address.
A barn-painting campaign is being
started by the Western Michigan De
velopment bureau. For three years
this organization has been conducting
a Remain in Michigan" campaign,
and it is proposed to broaden out and
urge those who are remaining here
to fix up little.
John A. Cimmerer was reelected
president of the Saginaw Board OF
| Commerce at its annual meeting
Ezra Root of Cleveland, O., former
resident of Saginaw, was present at
the meeting and his motion that the
board mark its fiftieth anniversary,
June 3, 1918, with fit celebration
was carried.
The low death rate of children be-
low years of age at the Blodgett
home, Grand Rapids, places that in
stitution far above others of its kind
throughout the world, according to
DR.. Thomas b. Cooley, Detroit physi-
clan, who spoke before the Kent
M@Is IL