The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1913-04-18
MICHIGAN NEWS IN BRIEF

of Midland county voted TO purchase
the site in Jerome township for state
tubercular sanitarium.
The state board of examiners of
BARRIERS has paid over 10 State Treas
urer Haaser $4,000, which constitutes
fees collected during the last six
months.
Mrs. Noah Bryant. II, of kalamazoo.
is dead. Her husband started the
paper industry in Michigan and was
FOR years head of the Bryant Paper
company.
State progressive headquarters will
be removed from Owosso to Detroit
soon, and Secretary Charles +. Hoff-
man, whose home is in Owosso, will
move to Detroit.
Work will begin shortly on the
Genesee county roads. according to
the plan voted last year. Gravel has
been hauled from Linden for 10 miles
north toward Flint
The three-year-old son Of Mrs
Joseph Wallace. of Calumet, died from
burns received when its clothing
caught fire as ii sat in high chair
near the kitchen range.
Frank Blucher As years of age. en-
ployed in the No. mine, near ST.
Charles, was run over and killed by a
Michigan Central train. Butchers
body was ground to bits.
Farmers of Genesee county are cry
ing for help and as a result Ward II.
Parker, the agricultural expert recently
hired to teach scientific farming, has
opened an employment bureau in his
Office here.
Acknowledgement Grant Fellows has
decided that Kalamazoo must defend
the civil suits brought as result of
the visit of the tax commission, which
body boosted valuations more than so
per cent on the average.
Approximately $4,000 has been spent
by the Battle Creek board of educa-
ton in increases of salaries for teach
grade teacher who had not reached the
limit of $700 was raised. in proportion
to efficiency.
At a caucus of the democrat delega
gresham Doremus. of Detroi,. was
selected as the Michigan meriber of
the congressional national committee.
Mr. Doremus succeeds former Con-
gresham Sweet.
Owosso lodge OF Eagles decided t.
erect a new $4,000 home. This lodge
was the first in the state TO own its
own home. The residence now occu-
pied by the lodge is too small to accom-.
modate the 600 menbers. The new
home will be two-story brick.
The state board OF health has
elected officers for the ensuing year.
Dr. Victor Vaughan. Of Ann Arbor, has
been elected president and DR.. T. NJ.
Koon. of Grand Rapids. vice.president..
May 2. 10 and IL there will he state
embalmers' examination held at Ann
Arbor.
After many years of planning, the
citizens OF Almont believe they are
at last to be successful and secure an
electric line from Romeo TO their vii.
in line, If the Almont people secure
the right of way. The distance be-
tween the two towns is nine miles.
Secretary f. c. Hobart, of the Eaton
county Y. NJ. c. A, is completing ar
rangements for another agricultural
contest among the boys and girls OF
the county. The teachers OF all dis
trict schools have been interested in
the movement, and the prospects are
the exhibit will be the largest in
years.
Eighteen residents OF Addison town
s. ip, Oakland county, have petitioned
the circuit court to set aside taxes on
their property levied for weed cutting
ny the highway commissioner They
contend that an opinion from the
encouragement says the expense of
weed cutting cannot be assessed to
farm property.
The past winters cut OF timber in
Ontonagon county. the center of the
logging operations in the upper pen.
insula, is estimated at $50 100000 feet.
This cut is believed the largest ever
recorded in any one season in the
district, and is evidence that lumber
ing is still an important industry in
Michigan's north country.
The trout fishing season in upper
Michigan promises to be exceptionally
brief this year Farmers report five
10 eight feet of snow in the woods in
many places. and say the amount at
this time of the spring Is the greatest
they have ever seen. Many OF the riv-
er and creeks are. certain 10 over
flow, and 1t is probably will be well
along In the summer before fishermen
will be able TO whip the streams with
much hope of success.
The Boy Scouts OF America In
Greenville have built club house and
workshop. The cost will be about $500.
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