The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1913-11-07
MICHIGAN NEWS IN BRIEF

The new Ingham county sanatorium
for tuberculosis patients was opened
at Mason Monday.
The board of supervisors. of Che
boygan county, has appropriated ST.
600 for a county park.
Harvey A. Penny, of Saginaw, has
been appointed state auditor of the
grand lodge, !. o. o. F..
Cornelius Holksema, of Muskegon,
ex-afderman and pioneer of the coun-
ty, is dead at the age of 81.
The sum OF $4,000 was voted blythe
Wexford county supervisors for the
building or state reward roads in 1914.
The supervisors have arranged the
legislative districts In Genesee, max.
ing Flint the second and the rest OF the
county the first.
The annual convention of the Retail
Implement and Vehicle Dealers con-
vention will be held In Grand Rapids
November 1920.
A Port Huron real estate man has
donated six acres of land for chill
dren's playground in the southern
section of the city.
The new $4,000 Church OF the
! Swedish mission at Cadillac, one of
the oldest church organizations In that
part of the state, was dedicated Sun
day.
At a meeting of the executive board
of the Michigan Association of Elks
at Grand Rapids, it was decided to
hold the next state convention in
Petoskey, June 1927.
Deputy Game Warden w. C. Kidder
arrested band of Indian trappers in
Missaukee county for violation of the
state game laws. About 200 muskrats
were taken from them.
At the spring election Tuscola coun.
ty will, for the second time. vote on
the proposition Of bonding in the sum
Of 100000 for the purpose of build
ing a new court house.
The supervisors OF Genesee county
have voted to cut down the force of
deputy sherifrs. Next year the sheriff
will have only three deputies, losing
six out in the county.
Kalamazoo has instructed Engineer
George s. Pierson to devise sys-
tenn whereby part of the heat for the
new lighting plant can be developed
from burning garbage.
The heirs of the estate of the late
David Shafter, of Caro-, will receive
over quarter million dollars. This
is the second administration of funds
and comprises s258,374.44.
AS Michigan is not situated in the
corn belt and is not hog state, 1t
will get none of the $4,000 appropri-
ated by the federal government to
study and combat hog cholera.
State Treasurer Haarer's monthly
report shows balance of $84s.4s5 in
the general fund. For the last month
the receipts of the fund were $165,823,
and the disbursements $610,466.
Wesley Wells, AZ, son OF A. B. Wells,
/
Menomines millionaire lumberman,
was killed Friday at White Fish, Mont,
when his automobile was struck by q
train.
Acknowledgement Fellows holds in
an opinion that a soldier or sailor is
not exempt from taxation under the
law applying to soldiers and sailos Is
he removes from his homestead and
rents the same. III other words, he
must occupy the property to be
exempt.
Frank Smith, 81 years old, OF
Byron Centre, was killed at the Grand
Rapids & Indiana shops at Grand Rap
ids, when he fell from an engine to
the cement floor and piece of iron
weighing $50 pounds fell on him.
Smith was to have been married
Thanksgiving day to Miss Bessie
volter, of Byron Centre.
The Seventh Day Adventist taber.
nacle at Battle Creek, which has been
without pastor since June, though
one of the largest churches in Mich.
gan, has at last found leader. Elder
w. A. Westworth Of Pittsburg accept
ed a call to the church succeeding
Elder A. j. Clark who resigned to
accept the presidency of the Illinois
Adventist conference.
George s. Brown, of Owosso, newly
appointed president of the state board
of examiners of BARRIERS, has begun in
Flint what he says will be state
wide canvass of barber shops, schools
and colleges of Michigan for two pur-
poses, to see that every barber in the
state is properly registered and
licensed and to spread the gospel of
sanitations and cleanliness among the
members of the trade.
The state railroad commission has
issued an order requiring railroads
operating in Michigan to file tariffs
setting forth the rate charged for
chair car privileges in addition to the
regular fare. The Pere Marquette
some time ago increased its chair car
rate from rs to so cents on the De-