The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1913-11-28
MICHIGAN NEWS IN BRIEF


There will be started among the
students of the engineering depart
ment of the u. of M. next Saturday,
class in aeronautics.
Joseph Biskner, one OF the oldest
French residents of Arenac county,
has been adjudged insane and COM
mitted to the Traverse City asylum.
Fire destroyed the boiler plant of
Percy e. Sons. The building was
formerly the old Waldorf paper mill.
The loss is estimated at $4,000.
County school commissioners have
closed the Redner district school, near
Boon, until the directors of that
school cleaned up the building and the
premises.
Battle Creek board of education an
nounces that not only will the tango
be forbidden In the local schools, but
dancing of any kind will hereafter be
tabooed.
All the officers Of the Michigan Ma
tional Guard will meet in Lansing,
January IL and Is. for . school OF in
struction. Lectures will be given by
officers of the regular army.
Jud Weeman won q suit at Monroe
for $50, 900 against the village of
Milan. Weeman was injured when he
was thrown from a motor car because
of a bad spot In the highway.
The third accident In as many
weeks on the Pere Marquette at
Almont took place when the boiler of
an engine on local passenger train
blew up. No one was injured.
Charles S. Raby, Of Bay City, form.
erly of Saginaw, has commenced suit
for $4,000 against the Saginaw Pow
er Co. for injuries received in 1912,
due to an alleged defective wire.
Since the government dredge has
been working near Cheboyganing
creek, half way to Bay City, great
quantities of clans have been thrown
up and many pearls found. The creek
bank is lined with hunters.
Charles Ferry, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Albert E. Ferry, of Owosso, has been
called to professorship in the Bliss
electrical school at Washington. He
will teach drafting and engineering.
Ferry graduated from the Bliss school
last June.
Five ministers and 25 mothers pre-
sented petition signed by 100 tax
payers, to the board Of education, of
Grand Rapids, demanding that all dan
cling at social centers work be stop
ped, on the ground it had an immoral
effect on young people.
Jimmy" Raynsford, of Detroit, rs
engineers, was elected captain of the
1914 Michigan football team at a meet
ing of the m" men Monday, at which
the letters were awarded for 1913.
Varsity insignia were given 10 players
while 20 reserves received letters.
After three years Of elaboration
the Saginaw council has denied the
Pere Marquette the right to cross four
streets and the city attorney has been
road, because of street which was
made into a ditch and tracks laid
without right.
There are 1881 lots in Michigan
that will be taken over by the state
for delinquent taxes this year. In the
following counties no delinquent taxes
were returned: Calhoun, Cass. Clin-
ton, Hillsdale, Jackson, Macomb, Mon
roe, Oakland, Oceana, Osceola, St.
Joseph and Van Buren,.
F. c. Larsen's department store and
stock at Manistee were burned, with
loss of 100000, $4,000 insurance.
Defective wiring is supposed to have
been the cause. An iron radiator
burst and was thrown over the heads
of the crowd across the street through
a window of piano store.
! In less than two weeks the town
ship treasurers will begin the collec-
ton of December taxes. At the close
of business Saturday there was less
than 100000 in the treasury, but
when the state taxes aggregating S.
! $50, SPOTS are paid, the state will
again be on sound financial basis.
Samuel ]. Lewis, of Kalamazoo, was
elected president of the Southwestern
Michigan Dentists association in con-
vention at Battle Creek. DR.. B. r.
| Parrish of Battle Creek, vice-presi-
dent, and DR.. r. A. Bowie, Three Riv-
ers, secretary-treasurer. The 1914
convention will be held in Kalamazoo.
A message written with death near
| by Chris Keenan,, United States
marshal and custodian of the barge
Plymouth, who lost his life with six
others in the storm of November 8,
was found in Bottle five miles from
Pentwater. II was addressed to his
wife and children. Keenan's body was
washed ashore near Manistee.
At the request of Rep. Gilbert A..
Currie, Att. Gen. Fellows petitioned
the supreme court for an order COM
Polling the board of supervisors OF
Midland county to show cause why a