The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1913-03-28
MICHIGAN NEWS IN BRIEF

measles.
Dr. V. C. Vaughn. dean OF the med
ical department, told his class in hy-
giene that three 10 five cups OF either
one.
The proposition to establish GEN.
trail Michigan fair at Lansing will
probably be abandoned. Local mer-
chants did not subscribe to the propo-
sition as expected.
Reservation of hotel quarters is
now being made for the twenty-seyenth
annual convention OF the Michigan
Bankers association which will take
place in Lansing, June 1917.
Peter J. Bilitzke. convicted in the
circuit court OF Cheboygan county on
charge of offering brlbe to the
prosecuting attorney. has been given a
new trial by the supreme court.
At the same time the body of Ira
F. Simpson, the 76-year-old man who
killed himself, in Saginaw, was found,
the funeral of his sister-in-law, Mrs.
A. II. Simpson, was being held.
Allegan city is anxious TO secure an
electric railroad connection with the
outside and there was great disappoint-
ment when the Kalamazoo Grand Rap
ids line decided to leave the city out.
A monument and marker will be
placed on the trail of FIR. Marquette
through the Arlington Park, according
to the decision of Petosega chapter.
Daughters of the American Revolution.
Hundreds of people are leaving the
Michigan copper country weekly and
seeking jobs in Detroit factories Re-
peated rumors of strike among the
employees of the mines is given as the
cause.
The supreme court reversed the de-
cision of the Saginaw circuit court
granting a verdict of $500 TO Mrs.
Elizabeth Reimeurs in her suit against
the Saginaw-Bay City railway company
for alleged injuries.
Alpena's drinking water is safe for
all drinking purposes, according to a
report from the state bacteriologist. A
chlorinating system was installed a
month ago and TO this is credited the
present pure water.
b. G. Applebly, member of the per-
manent camp site commission. has re-
ceived a letter from Gen. p l.. Alb
hey, of kalamazoo, stating that the
military board favors the Hanson
camp site at Grayling.
An appropriation of $4,000 is want
ed from Michigan towards the centen-
NAL fund, to which Ohio, New York,
Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Wis
consin already have contributed to the
Perry centennial at Pnt-In-Bay.
Frank Steel, Detroit boy, aged 10,
who was arrested in a saloon at Grand
Rapids. offered a job by Judge Hess
when he appeared before him. The
youth, who stated he was looking for
job on the boats, accepted the courts
offer.
Mysterious circumstances attend the
finding of an unidentified mans corpse
in the fnme of the Grain Products Co.
mill. While the man has evidently been
dead several months, the body was not
in the f1ume a month ago, when it was
cleaned.
Henry r. Sullivan, OF Detroit, chair
man of the legislative committee of
the Michigan State Osteopathic associ-
ing against the passage of the Odell
sterilization bill, now pending in the
house OF representatives.
The Standard Oil Co, 1t is said is
making preparations to build pipe
line from the Lima, o., fields TO con-
meet with the Imperial Oil works at
Sarnia. At present it is necessary TO
ship the oil in boats In the summer
and store it for winter consumption.
Dan Bester, Harbor Springs lum-
Der jack, was arrested, charged with
workman. 1t is alleged Bester dared
Cooley to climb from a load OF logs,
and as the latter did so Bester hit him
over the head with cant hook.
William Barnes, OF Lansing, awaiting
a decision of the supreme court in a
case in which he was convicted on a
charge OF killing a little girl with an
automobile. confessed to the police
that he was one OF party OF three
young men who pulled several fire
alarm boxes, causing the fire depart
ment to make four unnecessary runs.
A fourth division Of the second bat
talon Of the Michigan naval brigade
will be mustered in at Marquette II
that city complies with certain condi-
lions which were outlined at session
OF the state naval board. A member
ship OF so men must be secured by