The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1913-10-03
MICHIGAN NEWS IN BRIEF

VII iiuioh pOpuidtlOll is SO,UUU,
according to the city directory. This
shows an increase of 500 in the last
year.
The state convention of the grand
Star will be held at Saginaw October
z, s and 3.
Members of the Western Michigan
Press club held their annual conven-
ton at Traverse City with 25 news.
papers represented
Mrs. Joseph Stratton, of Litchfield,
succumbed to burns received when a
kerosene lamp exploded Thursday
evening in her home.
The Hillsdale Mutual Fire Insur.
ance Co. has raised it's rate from $3.50
to $3.50 because of the heavy losses
sustained during the last year.
James X. Bogart, 50. formerly OF
the board of public works of Jackson,
and later in the government service
in Panama, is dead at Mt. Vernon
N. Y.
Joseph j. Kennedy, president of law
class, at Ann Arhor, has accepted o
position as instructor with the law
department of the University of De
troit.
Ralph L. Sheldon and William
Hall, of Battle Creek. were among the
1000 persons who received tracts OF
land in the drawings at Glasgow,
Mont.
An ordinance has been passed il
Flint prohibiting property owners
from stringing wires to serve as q
fence between the sidewalk and the
street.
In an interview at Marquette, Gov
ernor Ferris indicated that a special
cause of attacks made upon the blue
sky law.
improvements to the extent of $780,
600 are to be made in Battle Creeks
Grand Trunk yards in the spring of
1914, including new round house
to cost 100000.
The oat crop in upper Michigan has
proved satisfactory one. From 60
to 20 bushels to the acre is the re-
ported average yield in Luce county,
where the farmers have harvested the
largest crop on record.
Professor H. w. Reynolds, former
professor of the mechanical engineer
ing department Of M. A. c., has been
appointed head of the mechanical en-
cheering department of the Univer-
sity of The Philippines at Manila.
A chance in the proprietorship of
the Hotel Maumee, at Adrian, is an
nounced. +. T. Reed, who has been
associated with James M. Carey in
conducting the hostelry will retire,
having disposed of his interest to Mr..
Carey.
An auto owned and driven by Will
liam Beardsley, of Perrinton, turned
over near Ithaca, seriously injuring
William O'Connell, also of Pennington
His shoulder was crushed and he sus-
tanned other injuries. Beardsley was
not hurt
in Grand Rapids, former Republican
national committeeman, burned Tues
day night, causing a damage of $780,
900, in addition to the loss of valuable
paintings. The cause of the fire is
unknown.
Delegates from the various Build
ers & Traders exchanges of the state
will meet in Grand Rapids November
10 and IL, to consider the formation
Of a state organization to be known
as the Associated Builders Exchanges
of Michigan.
Plans are being made for the cele-
oration of the golden anniversary of
the Epworth Methodist Episcopal
at Saginaw, October 1918.
Rev. j. NJ. Gordon, Detroit, now super
anuated, through whose efforts the
church was organized, will be present
Because Pearl MODS, IL years of
age, and her 9-year-old brother, of
Saginaw, were carried seven miles
beyond Linwood, on the ID. & M. road,
two years ago, and compelled to walk
llOl11e III SHOW StOTUl, bay county
circuit court jury awarded them $3.50
damages.
Edmund Calkins, 70, who was a
of the soldier guard of hon.
Or at the funeral of Abraham Lincoln,
Is dead at his home in Clayton town
ship, Genesee county, where he had
lived ~ years. He was member
Of the Michigan Pioneer and Histori-
,al society.
Nearly 1000 Knights Templar of
western Michigan gathered in Benton
Iarbor and St Joseph for a field meet.
Right Eminent Grand Commander
Charles Hiscock. of Ann Arbor, and
Right Eminent Deputy Grand Com
nander Gordon Campbell, of Calumet.
eviewed the competitive drills.
So many electric signs have been
erected in the business district, of
Battle Creek, that fire officials find 1t
would be impossible to erect ladders
or second and thiry-story window