The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1913-09-26
MICHIGAN NEWS IN BRIEF


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large barn on the HUFF Lamont
farm near Charlotte. burned with two
years crops. Loss, $4,000.
Albion college has begun It's fifty
third year with 40 0students. Many
more students are yet to enter.
A SSso.0e0 hotel and bath-house will
will bs erected in Benton Harbor by
Sir James Winton, of the British Sc
cret service.
A special election on Monroe's new
charter. which provides for commits
sion form of government, will be held
October ~.
Sherman Cummings, Ga, for many
years county poor superintendent. was
killed ON the Michigan Central tracks
at Kalamazoo.
The village of Mesick has accepted
bid from Traverse City company
to install a water works system at
cost of $500.
Ross Freeman, OF Centerville, was
hit by q G. r. & I. train and killed
while walking on the tracks. He has
wife in Indiana.
John +. Wilkinson has been appoint
ed secretary of the Alpena Chamber
of Commerce in place OF George p.
Chambers resigned.
ST. Johns Evangelist Lutheran
church at Saginaw has announced
plans for a $4,000 parish house and
school to be constructed next year.
E. B. Gregory, publisher of the
Jonssville Independent, has purchased
the Jonesvihe Gazette from Henry
Acksriy, and the papers will be
merged.
Relatives of Miss Edith Barhite,
who was killed by a Detroit 4 Mack
mac engine I'm Turner. were given a.
759 damages by circuit court jury
at Stand1sh.
l. G Gokey. clerk at the tunnel i'm
migration office, at Port Huron, has
been promoted to an immigration in
spector. He will have his headquar-
ters at International Falls, MINI.
The new Arthur Hill trade school
given TO the city Of Saginaw by the
late Arthur Hill, has been thrown
open for enrolment of students. This
is one of the finest schools in the
state.
Fire at the Hess Spring G. Axle
companys plant at Pontiac, Sunday,
did damage estimated at $4,000. The
fire started in the roof of the axle
building from sparks from a passing
engine.
Mrs. E. f. Rouse, of st. Joseph, was
seriously injured and her 6-year-old
daughter suffered scalp wounds when
an automobile delivery wagon, driven
by Mr.. Rouse, was struck by a Pere
Marquette engine.
Gov. Ferris has appointed Frank r.
Pancoast. of Hastings, and Peter
Scholler, of Hancock, members of the
board of examiners in optometry for
the term beginning November /, 1913,
and ending October 81, 1918.
H. p. Bush. for IL years commits
sioner of schools of Tuscola county,
will tender his resignation to the
board of supervisors in October. Mr..
Bush will become assistant to Cashier
]. M. Ealy, of the State Savings bank
Of Caro-.
Walter Dilley, sc, for 80 years an
engineer on the Michigan Central rail.
road, is dead at his home in Kalama-
zoo. He is believed to have been one
of the oldest engineers on the road in
point of service. He was born in
Jackson.
Daniel Torpey, driver on a steamer.
and Clyde II. Pritchard. assistant en-
gineer. were hurt when the fire wagon
before the delegates to the meeting
of the League OF Michigan Municipali-
ties at Lansing.
Plans were made Friday for the first
school fair and farm exhibit in the
state to be held at Riverside park at
Saginaw, October ga, under the aus
pices of the county school and farm
bureau. The county school exhibits at
Detroit state fair will be shown, and
there will be displays from Saginaw
county schools and farmers.
1t is believed an attempt at wreck
ing a bank when at the Ann Arbor
depot at Mesick. package of nitro
glycerine was stopped and opened by
authorities. II was billed to Wizard
and Wiseland, Harland. Mich" Sher-
iff Chamberlain believes the men to
whom the explosive was billed are
the ones who recently blew the bank
at Harrietta in the same neighbor-
hood.
The Detroit, Bay City & Western
railroad. owner by Handy Bros, Of
BAY City. has made application to
the railroad commission for authority
TO issue $4,000 in bonds, the proceeds
from the sae OF which are 10 be used
In the construction of an extension
line from Wilmot. in Tuscola county,
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