The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1913-11-14
MICHIGAN NEWS IN BRIEF


has inaugurated a system of medical
school inspection.
Laying the stone on Petoskey's new
100000 postoffice and government
building has begun.
1t is reported oil has been struck
on the George Shook farm near Cam
den. Drilling has commenced.
An eye test for the pupils of the
Tecumseh public schools has been in
troduced by Superintendent Reed.
The government has begun trans
forming the lighthouse reserve at
Port Huron into a public playground.
The Grand Haven Poultry associa-
ton is figuring on one of the largest
shows in Western Michigan for Dec.
1919.
The supervisors have arranged the
legislative districts in Genesee, max
ing Flint the second and the rest OF the
county the first.
Delophus Labeau, SO, of Menominee
met death when grain stored in the
garnet of his home broke through and
suffocated him.
The annual convention of the Retail
Implement and Vehicle. Dealers con-
vention will be held in Grand Rapids
November 1920
Frank Doves, wanter in Jackson on
an embezzlement charge, was found in
Kalamazoo hiding under mattress
and nearly suffocated.
The new $4,000 Church of the
Swedish mission at Cadillac, one of
the Oldest church organizations in that
part of the state, was dedicated Sum
day.
Special Officer Summerfield, of the
the valley, was chased from the mine
by coal thieves armed with pitch.
forks.
Eban Rees, IS, was caught under
falling slate at Robert Gage mine, No.
5, at Auburn and SO badly injured he
died in few hours in Bay City
hospital
The eighteenth semi-annual meeting
of the Michigan Whist association
will be held at Charlotte November
1890. Play will be held in the Ma
sonic temple.
At meeting of the executive board
of the Michigan Association of Elks
at Grand Rapids, it was decided to
hold the next state convention in
Petoskey, June 1927.
Deputy Game Warden w. c. Kidder
arrested 2 band of Indian trappers in
Missaukee county for violation of the
state game laws. About 200 muskrats
were raken from them.
Kalamazoo has instructed Engineer
George S. Pierson to devise a sys-
tenn whereby part of the heat for the
new lighting plant can be developed
from burning garbage.
State Treasurer Hearers monthly
report shows balance OF $S49,4S5 in
the general fund. For the last month
the receipts of the fund were $165,S23,
and the disbursements $610,466.
Fifteen were injured, one thought
fatally, when a northbound Grand
Rapids & Indiana passenger train
went into the ditch at South Board
man, north of Cadillac, Friday after
noon.
Warden Simpson, of Jackson pris-
on, broke both bones of his right leg
Friday, when he stepped from plat
form near the binder Irvine warehouse
while showing some visitors through
the penitentiary.
Deputy Fire Marshal Marquard has
ordered three moving picture houses
closed until the buildings have been
remodeled to conform with the law.
One is in Paw Paw, another in Law
renee and the third in Hartford.
Alfred Kenard, aged %, farm
hand, near Oxford was instantly killed
when his head became caught
between a hayrack and a tree when
his team ran away. The body was
sent to his parents In Vassar.
A machine gun may be added to
the equipment or the Grand RAPIDS
battalion of the M. N. G., and a reso-
luton has been passed by the board
of control making application for the
mastering in of machine gun COM
pany.
Battle Creek has been awarded the
1914 convention Of the Michigan State
Retail Lumber Dealers association,
the dates to be Feb. 2, 3 and 4. In
addition to the Michigan Travelling
Lumber, Sash and Door Statesmen will
meet there.
All records for the number of deer
hunters in the upper peninsula have
been broken this fall. More than
LOO have already crossed the straits.
To-, 81 he Dox