Alma record., 1913-07-17
MICHIGAN NEWS BRIEFS

The women of Lansing want q DO
nce officer of their own sex.
The summer meeting of the State
Ginseng Growers association will be
held at Eaton Rapids July 20 and 81
Congressman j. NJ. @ Smith intro
duoed In congress a bill asking for
$4,000 appropriation to be used In
the erection of an addition to the Kal-
amazoo postoffice.
Because of the dry weather there
was only half crop Of peas ON the
prison farm at Jackson. The harvest
Ing and canning of 100 acres Of peas
was completed Saturday.
Mrs. Margaret A. Bell, "a years old,
of Flint, who says she was wooed and
won in one day last October by John
w. Bell, of the same age, Of Willow
Springs, Mo-, has begun suit for di.
vorce.
Cyrus II. Paup and Miss Elizabeth
Mart, of Rapid City, were married IN
Athens. Both are Indians, the groom
being a member of the Pottawatomie
tribe and graduate of the Mt Pleas
ant Indian school.
Saginaw will have three conventions
soon. The electrical workers of Mich
igan will hold their state convention
August to IL and the state black
smiths August 25 and 26. The Michi-
gan jewelers. July 16 and II.
Rushing into q Battle Creek NOV
Ing picture theater with his clothes
blazing as result of the explosion of
some gasoline In an auto he had been
driving. Robert Leisaw created small
panic He was badly burned.
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.
The business men Of Olivet have
asked the state railroad commission
TO tntercede for them in their trouble
with the Michigan State Telephone
company. They allege the company
was charging local subscribers more
than those in Bellevue.
VERONA Scheski, of Jackson, two
and one-half years old, is dying from
drinking poison which the parents
had left on a window sill. The child
had drunk a couple Of swallows OF
Il before the mother noticed a., The
family lived at 63S Page stree 90
Separated for 83 years, Edward
wesson, of Granger, Ia, and his broth
or, H. S. Wesson, of Ocala, Fla, met
It Flint, where they came to visit their
brothers, Charles and George Wes-
son. Neither of the long separated
brothers knew the other was coming.
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The first new Michigan wheat was
delivered to the Valley City Milling
company of Grand Rapids. Monday
afternoon by Growers Hendershott. 1t
was cut ten days ago and was
threshed Monday morning He will
have 200 bushels which shows q test
Of 62 pounds to the bushel.
James Guile, an aged farmer resid-
ing near Rives Junction, was bound
and gagged by two young men, who
stole $4,000 In cash from his house.
Descriptions of the two young men,
who boarded an early car at Rives
Junction, have been furnished the po-
hce and a search is being made for
the suspects.
IL am going to write to the authori-
ties at Washington and tell them TO
cut off my pension Immediately. Every
time / get my money / spend 1t for
liquor and it does me no good If
they cut me off the pension list,
would keep SOBER" so said John Nc
Dermott, at Port Huron, veteran of
the Civil war when arraigned for
drunkenness. The judge released him
ON suspended sentence.
The hearing Of the final account in
the estate of Charles Pratt Brown, de-
ceased, has been adjourned till Sept.
IL. Brown left an estate of $4,000
but no immediate heir. He bequeathed
$50 900 for a public hospital at Mar
shall and $4,000 for a public hospital
at Barre, VT, which declined to ac-
eept the gift A local association has
been formed at Marshall to take the
entire amount to be used In the con-
struotion Of local hospital. Mrs.
Laura Easton, of Barre, VT, sister of
the mother of Mr.. Brown, will insti-
tuts proceedings to set the will aside
on the grounds that the association
did not exist when the will was made.
Sitting helplessly m an automobile
and seeing her husband killed ON an
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