The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1913-10-24
MICHIGAN NEWS IN BRIEF


Evangelist Walter Russell. Chicago,
will conduct union revival meetings at
the M. E. church in Hillsdale for three
weeks, commencing November 2.
Muskegon ministers will no longer
officiate at Sunday funerals except in
extreme cases, the result Of action Ia
ken by the Muskegon pastors confer
ence.
John Henderson, 80, died from in
juries which he received in the Wes-
ton-Mott plant in Flint, when coun-
ter shaft fell and struck him on the
head, causing conclusion OF the brain.
Under the direction of Dr. George
Newman, the new secretary OF the
Michigan historical commission, it is
announced that an information bureau
will be made one of the principal de-
partments.
The autumn meeting of the Port
Huron District Ministerial association
of Methodist Episcopal churches will
be held at Armada November 3, and
5. Rev. w. ]. Balmer will be chair
man of the meeting.
Benjamin McComb, principal of the
Kingston schools, has been chosen
county commissioner of schools by the
board of supervisors, of Tuscola coun-
ty to succeed Fl. p. Bush, who resigned
to engage in banking.
The Michigan Presbyterian synod
closed at Adrian with business ses-
sion. Next years conference will be
held in Battle Creek. The closing
lecture was delivered by DR.. Marquis
on Denominations Colleges"
October 20 has been set as the day
of civic celebration by the mayor
board of trade and city officials of st.
Louis in honor of the new $4,000
pavement, the boulevard system of
lighting and the installation of sani-
tary drinking fountains.
While the Michigan Central Rail-
road Co. has been laying off men at
its Jackson and Michigan City shops,
it is gradually increasing the force
at the shops at Marshall so that now
double the number of mechanics are
on the pay roll than a year ago.
Gov. Ferris has issued a parole to
Charles c. Kimbrough, official barber
of Marquette prison, who is serving
sentence for larceny. Kimbrough was
sent from Detroit, January Is, 1913,
to serve two and half to five years.
He has been a trusty for some time.
In appreciation of his Dominic of
Harlem" book that deals with peo-
pie and conditions among the Hollan-
ders and their descendants in western
Michigan, the Knickerbocker society,
of Grand Rapids, has elected Arnold
Mulder, the author, an honorary mem
Der.
Delta county has closed a long ex-
pertinent with public ownership Of
hospital, by the sale of the institution
to a Catholic sisterhood that has
agreed to erect a building that will
represent an expenditure of $4,000
and to give the city of Escanaba and
the county hospital that will rank
with the best in the upper PENN
sula.
Gov. Ferris urged the people of the
state to stand behind all efforts to-
ward strict enforcement of the pure
food laws of the state, and declared
that the death of many young babies
was not due so much to the will of
God as to rotten and impure milk, in
his address at the dedicatory exer-
cises of Wexford county's new court
house.
AS has been the case in all other
districts of the upper peninsula where
the Michigan state tax commission
has had field men at work, the assess
ed valuation of Baraga county has
been given a decided increase. The
board of review appraised the proper
ty at S3,574,7'5, but the state tax COM
mission has lifted the figures to ST.
071,S00. Much the biggest part of the
increase has fallen on the timber
lands.
1t has been discovered that forgers
have been plying their calling within
the walls of the Marquette peniten-
tiary. A thorough checking over of
the script" used in the prison showed
that three nimble-witted convicts had
beaten the game some $40 by raising
smaller denominations to 81 and IS.
The men concerned in this operation
i'm high finance are known. The bad
bills have been redeemed with good
ones, and no convict is the loser.
The attorney-general's department
rules that state institutions and state
departments do not come under the
operation of the state labor laws.
State Labor Commissioner Cunning
ham recently censured the Pontiac
asylum because il worked its women
employees more than 81 hours q week.
The superintendent did not think the
labor commissioner was right in his
contention and asked for an opinion.
The state is not included In any law
unless particularly mentioned in the