The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1913-07-04
MICHIGAN NEWS IN BRIEF


school of his Big Rapids institute
under the workmen's compensation
law.
State Bacteriologist NJ l.. Holm ia
vors law placing more r.gid Iestric-
tons on the sale of bichlor.ae IF mer-
curry.
Grand river claimed its first victim
of the season when Jimmie Brown,
eight years DID, was drowned while
swimming at Ionia.
Peter Nicholson, the janitor who
wac severely injured in the Brny Inn
explosion at Manistee, died as re-
suit OF his injuries
Robert Kroonsman has worked his
way through Hope college by writing
poetry. His poems have recently been
published in book form.
While asleep in a rocking chair on
the porch of his home, Peter Noel, OF
Port Huron, was struck by lightning
and Killed. He was ~ years old.
What is believed to be the tooth of
a prehistoric animal known as din
osaur, was found by workmen near
Marshall. The tooth is five inches
square.
l.. S. Parmalee has been named by
the school board as principal OF the
high school at Flint, in place of c. G.
Wade, who resigned to take similar
pest at Superior, Wis.
M. e. McMartin, for 10 years audi
tor OF the X. X. & S. railroad, has
been elected auditor of Kalamazoo, to
take the place recently made vacant
by the resignation of Albert Sikkenga.
The Eaton county Y. M. C. a. camp
for boys, which in previous years has
been held in June, will be held this
summer from August to IA, on Grand
river, three miles south of Damon.
dale.
One of the biggest land transfers
in northern Michigan in years was ef-
fected when Charles E. Khuel and
K. L. Beach, of Saginaw, bought from
the Whittier-Palmer Co., $4,000 acres
in Gladwin county.
The city commission of Port Huron
has elected Fred J. Dixon, commits
sioner Of finance and public accounts,
major, to succeed John J. Bell, VINO
resigned to become collector of GUS
toms of this port.
On July there will be dedicated
in Jackson a fountain erected 10 the
memory of the wives OF civil war
soldiers. The fountain was erected
by General Wilmington circle, an or
ganization OF old soldiers and their
wives.
Emil Kibbey. 81, and employed by
a sanitaripm, at Battle Creek, was ia
tally hurt, when run down by engine
shoulder, elbow and nose were frac-
tured, and re was injured int.sfnaily.
Kibbey was deaf
Muskegon was selected as the next
meeting place for the annual conven-
ton of the Michigan State Music
Teachers association. With total
registration of rs delegates and a
local attendance OF more than 300
members, the state association will
closed its annual meeting at Lansing.
Owing to the inability of the spe-
cial bond committee to dispose OF any
of the 100000 worth of Ottawa coun-
ty bonds, the supervisors have passed
a resolution providing for the resub
mission of the proposition to the peo-
pie in hope they will rescind the &C
ton taken at the election in 1911,
when 100000 was voted for repairing
the roads in the county.
Howard Frick. 20 years old, night
employee of the Flint Power syndicate,
and an expert swimmer, went from his
work to take a swim in the Flint riv-
er and two minutes after he plunged
into the water was drowned. His body
was not recovered for half hour
and then a pulmotor that was rushed
to the scene was operated for an
hour in vain attempt TO save his
life.
Acknowledgement Fellows, in an
opinion rendered recently holds that
the owner of a motor car may be
held liable for an accident resulting
from the non-use of lights while the
machine is standing on a curb. The
law does not specifically state how
machines shall be lighted when not in
motion, but as a result of Fellows
ruling 1t is expected that motorists
will keep both head and tail lights
burning when at the curb.
Florence Richardson, aged seven,
daughter OF Joseph Richardson, of
Hiawatha township, Schoolcraft coun-
ty, was crushed TO death in the mech
anism of traction engine piloted by
her father The child had sought TO
ride on the tool box of the machine
and her dress became caught in the
cleats fthe wheels She was drawn
into the small space between the
wheels and the tool box Her spine,