The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1913-10-31


Corunna.
A harvest festival and Homecoming
will be celebrated in Boyne City, No
vember 4.
Kalamazoo county Will no longer
pay for deputy sheri1s at the county
fair and grand circuit races.
Rev. c. L. Blanchard. of New York.
has accepted a call to the First Pres
byterian church of Marshall.
Asleep on the Northwestern track
near Beaver. Elzear David, woods.
man, was struck by a passenger train
and killed.
Mrs. Esther Renham. OF Detroit,
president OF the Michigan Child Wei
fare league, organized Saginaw
branch OF the society.
The Saginaw charter commission
decided to ask the circuit court for
writ of mandamus compelling the COM
mon council to call an election on the
new charter.
Grand Traverse supervisors have
appropriated $500 for development
work for 1914. Eleven western Michi-
gan counties have now made appro-
priations.
One hundred citizens or Birch Run
have petitioned the board OF supervi-
| sors to allow them to incorporate their
village and rs have petitioned against
the proposition.
The board OF supervisors OF Hillsdale
county voted to submit to the voters
OF the county at the spring election
the question OF adopting the county
good roads system.
The board OF supervisors OF st. Clair
county are planning to put county
prisoners on the roads and pay the
earnings OF the men thus gained to
their wives and families.
Three infant children Of Gus Harry.
of Mass City. Ontonagon county. were
burned to death In a fire that destroy
ed the home. The children we're un-
der five years of age.
Fifty state experts took fire survey
OF Grand Rapids and out or 604 build.
igs inspected l64 defects were found.
In several instances fire insurance
policies have been revoked.
Andrew Miller, so, of Kalamazoo, an
employe of the Michigan Central, was
killed while walking home on the
tracks. An umbrella he carried hid
the train from his view.
The proposition to replace the con-
demned Broadway iron bridge in
Hastings with cement structure cost
ing $4,000 was voted down at a spe-
cial election by a vote of 100 to So.
The police and newspapers of Hills
dale have been asked to aid in the
search for Daniel Brown by his wife,
who states he disappeared Sept %,
and has not been seen or heard Of
since.
Mayor A. b. Connable OF Kalamazoo
has sent out invitations to every mayor
In Michigan to attend the annual con.
vention OF the Michigan Association
for the Prevention and Relief OF Tuber.
culosis.
government operator on the Pa.
cific coats, near Seattle, received a
wireless message from Ann Arbor,
sent by Prof. II. S. S. Sheppard, Of the
Michigan station. The distance is
1000 miles.
Nathaniel Stoddard, thirty-third de-
gree Mason, and one OF Reed City's
j first business men, died of an apopletic
stroke. He helped establish Aloha
! temple OF the Mystic Shrine at Homo
lulu in 1900.
Far Tsan Sung, director OF the Chi
nese mint, is guest at the home OF
Rev. Eugene Yeager, of Oxford who
was acquainted with him when he was
a student at Delaware, o., University
The Chinese official is to be in this
country on tour OF inspection OF
United States minis, and will come
here from Chicago.
I Two or the national officers OF the
q. A. r.. will reside in Albion, as the
result or the appointment just made
by Commander in Chief Washington
Gardner, who has named Levi s
Warren, local pension attorney and
commander OF the local &. A. X. post
as national inspectorgeneral, an Of
fficer next In importance to the com.
manderin-chief.
The state Industrial accident board
refuses to reopen cases to allow the
taking OF expert testimony where a
case OF compensation has once been
settled by arbitration. Protection OF
widows and dependents who are too
poor to pay legal expenses OF fighting
cases in other than places designated
by the state board is the chief conten-
ton made by the board.
Governor Ferris has appointed the
following delegates to attend the third
annual convention at st. Louis, Mo-, OF
the National League OF Compulsory
Education Officials to be held Nov. II.
%: Templeton +. Twigg, Detroit; B.