The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1913-07-25
MICHIGAN NEWS IN BRIEF

ron and Lennon schools.
The first step for free municipal
amusements at Grand Rapids, will be
taken August ], when moving picture
shows will be staged in the parks.
Plans for homecoming day were
and August Z will be observed as a
holiday by everybody in Ann Arbor.
Rev. II. w. Chamberlain, OF Davis
burg, Oakland county, has accepted .
terrain charges at Elk Rapids and
Yuba.
w. X. Caldwell, a Detroit contrac'
tor. has secured the contract for the
new paving job at Ithaca. His bid
was s35,7S4. Work will begin at once
and be completed this fall.
The athletic field property, which
was given TO the Saginaw school by
the high school alumni association,
has been sold for unpaid taxes. The
taxes amounted to about $500
James W. Wightman, who for the
last rs years has prscticed law in Te-
cumseh, will retire on account of fail
ing health. He is the senior member
OF the law firm of WIghtman & Rath.
bun.
Petitions are being circulated seek
ing TO have the incorporation of the
village Of Greenville set aside. Elk
cessive taxes is the reason advanced
for the action. Business men oppose
the movement.
Grant Gardner, Of Lansing, a brake
man on the Lake Shore railroad. lost
a portion OF his right hand and was
otherwise seriously injured when he
was caught between the bumpers OF
two freight cars.
The Piers ana Resort Co., OF Mon
roe, has purchased the steamer r. B.
Hayes, now plying on the Saginaw
river, and will put her into freight
and passenger service between Tole-
do and Monroe.
Grasping a wire carrying 1900 volts
and suffering no injury beyond being
thrown to the ground, was the exper'
fence of William Spence, II years old
at Muskegon. The wire had been left
unguarded by linemen.
To save the life of his six-year-old
daughter, Rev. II. c. Schaapj of ALE
gan, submitted TO an operation OF
TRANSMISSION OF blood. The g.rl had
been suffering from hemorrhages OF
the nose for three days.
During a severe storm lightning put
many telephones out of commission at
Alpena and caused much other light
damage. DR.. Otto Bertram, while talk
ing over a telephone. sustained a
shock and was rendered uncon-
scious.
The city OF Battle Creek will be un-
able to get an auxiliary water supply
| from Verona wells until the Common
wealth Power Co. can get linemen.
Owing to the long droughts, Goguac
lake, the city's only other source OF
supply, is very low.
The state railroad commission has
been petitioned by the Western Elk
press Co. for permission to raise it's
rates. Since the railroad commission
reduced the rates of express compan-
les, the Western claims that it has
been operating in Michigan at a loss.
Mrs. Mary J. Welsh, of Cambria,
eight miles from Hillsdale, is able to
see again, after being totally blind
for 25 years, and having poor eye
sight for 80 years. after an operation
in a Chicago hospital, where she was
sent by the people of the Cambria
Methodist church, OF which she is a
member.
Caught between two sections OF a
! freight train, which was about to
back off the inside track at the Twin
Lake Pere Marquette station, IL
miles northeast of Muskegon. to en-.
able passengers to board the north.
bound train, Mrs. Charles l.. Buzzell,
of Twin Lake, was run over by the
freight and killed.
Fifteen meetings were held during
the Kalkaska county alfalfa campaign
The speakers were John i. Gibson,
secretary OF the Western Michigan
Development bureau; M. M. Burnham,
father OF alfalfa growing in Emmett
county, and c. p. Reed, representa-.
tive OF the department OF agriculture
OF the federal government.
A. II. Pickett, chief clerk at Jack.
son prison, rendered his resignation
to Warden Simpson to take effect Sep
TENDER 20. Pickett has been en-.
ployed at the prison for the last 20
years, having held the positions OF
private secretary to the warden and
purchasing agent. He was appointed
chief clerk by Warden Simpson.
Announcement was made at the
board Of trade that the American Cash
Register Manufacturing company, OF
Columbus, o., will locate In Saginaw
Plans have been prepared for a new
building and contracts will be let with.
In the next few days. The company
is capitalized at 100000 and will EN-.
ploy $50 men. October Is the date
set for starting work on the plant
w. l.. Dillon, OF Fort Wayne, Ind
has been awarded the contract for in.