The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1913-07-18
MIChiGAR NEWS m BRIEF

Ginseng Growers association will be
held at Eaton Rapids, July 80 and
3lst.
Sam Fry, of Leroy township, Cal
houn county, destroyed 100 rattle
snakes eggs which he found in hol.
low tree.
The swapping of an air hose caused
wreck on the Grand Trunk road at
SCOTS. Thirteen freight cars were
demolished.
Sixty business men from Cass City.
accompanied by band, were the first
passengers over the new Detroit Il
Huron railroad.
Perry f. Powers, publishers of the
Cadillac Evening News. purchased the
Daily Globe, the city's only other daily
paper. The Globe suspended publica'
ton.
Kalamazoo machine shop owners
have decided to grant the wage in.
crease of 25 cents day demanded
by the molders. and as result therl
will be no strike.
James B. Daggert, of Allegan. who
had just returned from the Gettys-
burg reunion, was drowned in Kala'
mazoo river when he attempted to re-
cover his wife's fishing pole.
The Detroit, Monroe & Toledo cleo
trio line hoe hli-had on oil NIGHT
service. Express and freight cars will
only run from s p. IN. till a. m, -leav-
ing the line clear during the day.
Deputy State Fire Inspector A. f.
Maynard, who inspected the motion
picture theatres in Kalamazoo, an
nounced that the picture houses are
in the best shape OF any in the state.
Frank NJ. Maynard. farmer of
Blackman township, Jackson county,
and for a number of years active in
the Michigan State Fair association,
is dead after a long illness. He was
65.
Judge North, on petition of the De-
troit Trust Co., receiver, affirmed the
sale of the New Process Steel Co.'S
plant at Marshall to II. A. Mills, OF
Marshall. The consideration was $780,
500.
Prosecuting Attorney Doty, of Pom
tiac, has warned proprietors OF ice
cream parlors, restaurants and other
business places that they must not
discriminate against colored trade.
Members of the negro population have
complained
Travelling men have decided to walk
in Ann Arbor. The local organization
which has a membership of about so,
has taken action to boycott local taxi
and cab drivers. Alleged exorbitant
prices is given as the reason.
The business men of Olivet have
asked the state railroad commission
to intercede for them in their trouble
with the Michigan State Telephone
company. They allege the company
was charging local subscribers more
than those in Bellevue.
William Keipper, aged 49, of Central
Lake, accidentally shot and killed
himself while going to work. The
shotgun he was carrying caught in a
fence and discharged blowing off his
head. His. brother was with him at
the time of the accident.
The Owosso truck plant OF the Gen.
eral Motors will be moved to Pontiac
at once. The factory at one time en-
ployed $50 men. The building was
donated by the city. The company
says that 1t will replace the local plant
with an auto parts factory.
DR. Wilbert B Hinsdale, dean Of
homeopathic department in university,
and retiring national president of Am.
ercan Institute of Homeopathy, has
been elected member OF the board of
trustees of the institute at its sixty.
ninth annual convention, now being
held in Denver. DR.. Claude A. Bur
rett, also faculty member here, has
been elected secretary of the college
alliance of the institute.
Paderwski, the worlds most famous
pianist, will open the pre-festival SER
les of musical concerts in Ann Arbor
October %, according to the announce
ment given out by the University
School of Music. December 9. the
Philadelphia orchestra will be the at
traction. The fourth concert will be
by the Choral Tewksbury and Marion
Green. Carl Flesch, one of the great
est American violinists, will give the
last concert.
His clothing in flames as the result
OF an explosion in an automobile he
was driving, Robert Leisaw, an en-
ploye of local garage, and brother
Of Billy Leisaw, of indianapolis motor
speedway fame, rushed into a Battle
Creek moving picture theatre and
started small panic when he tore
down several curtains to wrap around
himself TO extinguish the flames. No
one was injured in the panic. Leisaw
was painfully burned and Is in a ser.
ious condition.
George Brink, farmer near De.
witt, Clinton county. was fatally in