The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1913-06-20
MICHIGAN NEWS IN BRIEF.

injured in rear end collision be-
tween two Detroit local cars.
The New Church o! Christ, in Ann
.Arbor, is completed md services
were held Sunday. The formal open
ing will occur Sunday, June 20.
Plans for Battle Creeks home-com
ing, August 10, the biggest event OF
its kind ever attempted by a city OF
this size in Michigan, have been per
fected.
George Ferguson, Of Scottdale, Pa,
is the first student 10 enter the en-
balming course which is TO be offered
al the L. of NJ. this summer for the
frs; time.
Eugene A. WelcE, Of Kalamazoo, was
elected grand counselor Of the United
Commercial Travellers Of Michigan,
and Saginaw was chosen as the 1914
convention city.
Levi Dorm, 2S, farmer near Lin
wood, was taken with an epleptic fiji
while drawing pail OF water and
fell into the well and was drowned.
He lived alone on 20-acre farm.
An effort is being made TO raise ST.
600 TO insure the immediate opening
of the lnghaf county tuberculosis san
tarium. The building is completed, but
money is needed 10 furnish the rooms.
Under the commission form of gov
eminent, Battle Greek will lay nearly
/ a mile of brick pavement this summer,
| though the general trend of the COM
missions plans has been toward
economy.
! Believing that the cries for help OF
! Roy Sovey, 16, of Pontiac, were made
to create excitement, the many pleas
ure seekers on Cass lake paid no at
! tention 10 the struggling youth and
he drowned.
| Grand Haven is suffering from a
water famine caused by leak in the
/ syphon which carried the water from
Leggat hill to the city mains. Con-
sumers have been asked not to use
! water on their lawns.
The city of Saginaw has decided
! to buy an asphalt plant and will spend
1850 for the Improvement. Although
! the city charter prohibits the city from
laying its own pavement, ii is expect
ed the charter will be amended.
A J. Straight, So, employed on the
! farm of A. J. White, south of Traverse
| City, was killed when team which
he was driving ran away and threw
! him off water tank wagon. He was
thrown against an embankment and
the wheels passed over his chest.
II. F. Wallace Post, G. A. r., adopt
ed a resolution calling TO the attention
OF State Senator William A. Rosen-
krans the proposition that monu-
ment be erected TO mark the last
resting place of the late Gov Andrew
Parsons, whose home was in this city.
Although given $4,000 for a new
building by Prof. l. l.. Stone, presi-
dent of the Duplex Printing Press
Co., the Young Women's Christian as
sociation of Battle Creek, has decided
to campaign for $4,000 with which
TO buy a site and furnish equipment
for the structure.
The Upper Peninsula Dental society
has awarded the 1914 convention TO
Escanaba for next June. Oficers
were elected as follows: President,
Or. II. f. Fox, lronwcod; vice-presi-
dent, DR.. G. P. Richie, Sault Ste.
Marie; secretary-treasurer, DR.. A.
Cotton, Escanaba.
Mrs. F. n. Waugh, 20, pioneer OF
Shiawassee county, was instantly kill.
ed by Grand Trunk freight train as
she attempted to cross the tracks. She
is survived by husband, 81 years old,
and one son. Mr.. and Mrs. Waugh re-
Gently celebrated the golden snniver.
sary of their marriage.
The state FIRE marshal's Office has
been threatened with lawsuits from
many parts OF the state as result
OF the state attempting to enforce
property owners to comply with the
law relative to buildings and property
considered as fire menaces. The con-
stitutionality of the act is attacked.
Good Roads Commissioner w. NJ.
Bryant, OF Kalamazoo, has received an
invitation from State Highway Com
missioner Frank Rodgers to take part
in the good roads tour of the state now
being planned. The party will start
from st. Joseph July z, and will COW
er nearly the entire lower peninsula
before August l.
The state railroad commission has
suspended the new tafiff that was to
have gone. into effect on the Michigan
Central and Pere Marquette roads
till July 80. The roads had planned
to raise the rate for hauling coal from
the mines in Bay and Saginaw coun.
ties 10 cents ton. The coal com.
panies petitioned the railroad commits.
sion to prohibit the new rate until
tn commission could investigate.
DR.. George r. Pray has rendered his
resignation as prison physician TO take
effect July 1. due to the growth OF