The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1913-01-03
MICHIGAN NEWS IN BRIEF

hab Resigned, tue RESIGNATION 10 tAAe
effect Jan. Is.
Oscar Myer, OF Muskegon. has en-
tered the field as a candidate for ap.
pointment to the state board OF bar
bers' examiners
ID. G.. f. Warner, representative
elect from frankfort, has. issued his
formal announcement of candidacy for
speaker OF the house.
The debate between the Ann Arbor
High and the Detroit Eastern High
teams was decided In favor OF the Ann
Arbor team, two to one.
The Saginaw board OF trade has ar
ranged to give weekly dinners Thurs
days. at which matters of commercial
Importance will be discussed.
The annual report of the city mar
ket shows that the total value of
fruits and produce marketed in Grand
Rapids this year was $25S.
Carl Drew, of Mason. was seriously
burned when his clothes caught fire
playing Santa Claus at school.
The underground workers OF the
Breitung mines have received n sat
isfactory answer to their petition for
six shifts pay for five shifts work.
Directors OF the Saginaw board OF
trade banquetted the mayor. treasurer
and aldermen-elect for the purpose OF
securing cooperation OF city officials.
John Van Arman. Of Marshall. "a.
is dead of heart failure. lie served
through the civil war and was at one
time commaDderd OF the Marshall
post.
Flint's city council decided TO open
a municipal skating rink in Thread
Lake park A signal will be placed on
the city hall to indicate when skating
is good.
Roy Cary. of Marshall township,
cashed check for Sc with County
Treasurer Barnes, the largest sparrow
order cashed this season. The young
man trapped 300 birds.
Jonas A. Griffin, who died in the
soldiers home in Grand Rapids, and
was buried in Port Huron, had state
wide reputation as hunter and trap
per.
Because it's "demoralizing prac-
tice," Sheriff-elect Chapman, of Kali
amazoo county, says he won't allow
children to visit their parents locked
in Jail.
Claude S. Carney, of Kalamazoo,
democrat candidate for congress, says
he will file papers protesting the cleo
ton of Congressman J. M. c. Smith
within the next few days.
Anna. Mary and Helen Bardon, of
Saginaw, blind from birth, saw for
the first time Christmas when catar-
acts were removed from their eyes
In a successful operation.
Christmas day was big event in
the lives of the sixty or more Masons
and Masons' wives in the Michigan
Masonic home, in Alma. The local
ledge entertained the old people.
Miss Ala Tobias, has had charge
of the engineering library of the uni
versity of Michigan for the last
seven years, has accepted position
in the state library at Lansing.
Lewis Johnson, alias C. l.. West,
Charles Wilson, William Grimsley and
Fisher, was arrested in Kalamazoo on
a charge of forgery, having passed
several worthless checks on local mer-
chants.
Z. B. Tyrrell, secretary of Detroit
real estate board, has written to Sec
rotary Carton of the public domain
commission, that the board has in
dorsed his proposal to license all real
estate dealers.
Dissatisfaction with the electric
lighting service given the city of Al
bion by the Commonwealth Power
Co., has caused citizens committee,
appointed by the mayor, to look about
for site for a municipality owned
lighting plant
Willis B. Perkins. Jr., OF Grand
Rapids was the winner in the college
oratorical contest and will represent
Olivet at the state contest to be held
early in March. He is the son of Judge
Perkins of Grand Rapids. John E. Mar
tin, of Pontiac, was second.
Chalmers s. Miller and John Pen
ne, charged with attacking Eva Woods
a Holton, Muskegon county girl, but
later released, we're re-arrested, the
new case being brought on the alle-
CATION that both have contributed to
the delinquency Of the young woman.
The Saginaw Manufacturers asso-
citation has been organized for the mu-
tual benefit of the individual concerns.
The officers elected are: President,
w. J. Wickes; vice president, Arnold
Boutell; secretary and treasurer, M.
d. Brooks; directors, w. II. Wallace,
u. A. Robertson, Arnold Boutell. Fred
Buck, Fred Carlisle, c. w. Mcclure
and w. J. Wickes