The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1913-02-14
STATE BRIEFS.


ton OF the new $4,000 high school at
Alma.
Workmen in Sheridan township,
Calhoun county, struck a five-foot
vein of coal at depth of ~ feet.
Kalamazoo will provide the thous.
ands Of school children safe place TO
skate. 1t has been decided to Hood over
big field.
Three of Allegans oldti citizens,
Mrs. Matilda Ann Griffin, 81, John
Richardson and Mrs. f. M Johnson,
are dead.
William Givens, 10, OF Standard, &C.
cidentally killed himself while hunt
ing, the charge from his gun enter
ing his left side
Nicholas Colando was sentenced at
Jackson to Ionia reformatory for from
six months TO 10 years for abusing an
S-year-old girl.
Douglas b. Roben, of Big Rapids, is
one Of the nine men to whom commits
sions for lieutenants i'm the marine
corps will be issued.
The Michigan State Dairymen's as.
sociation and the state ice cream mat
ufacturtrs will hold their annual con.
yention in Saginaw this week
Physicians. dentists and specialists,
of Port Huron, have offered to make
examinations of school children and to
report ailments 10 the parents.
Mrs. Andrew Faher, of Austria, ar
rived in Grand Rapids just as her
husband, from whom she had been
separated for two years, was dying.
The Ludington, Wells & Van Schach
Lumber Co., of Menominee, has sold
$4,000 acres of timber land in the
south to a Kansas City firm for 49,
100000.
Mrs. Louis Wedemeyer OF Wetmore
has been convicted on charge of hav-
ing venison in her possession. She is
the first woman convicted of violating
the game laws.
The Hotel Harris, owned by the
Menominee River Brewing company.
blacksmith shop and store house of
Michael Harris were destroyed by fire
at Harris, Menominee county
Former Prosecutor Jesse NJ Hodge
is circulating a ptition asking for the
submitting at the spring election Of
the question Of commission form Of
government for Marshall.
Fire which started from an over.
heated stove pipe destroyed large
amount of clothing and equipment Of
the Michigan national guard, In Al
pena. The armory was but slightly
damaged.
At the meeting of the Leelanau
County Teachers association, in SUIT
ton Bay, President Jones, of the Ypsi-
lanti Normal and Miss Louise Wilson,
of Mt. Pleasant Normal, were the state
speakers.
A meeting of commercial clubs and
business mems associations will be
held soon in Kalamazoo, to consider
an exhibit for the Panama exposition
in San Francisco. A move will be
started to have Michigan erect a state
building.
The convention of the Michigan
State Dairymen's association. in Sag
NAV. adopted a resolution condemning
the proposed measure before the state
legislature to substitute the use Of but.
ter in state institutions with oleomar.
garine.
Dean II. M. Bates, OF the U. OF NJ,
has received word from President Taft
that he will accept an invitation to
speak before the joint meetings OF the
American Bar association and the AS.
sociation OF American Law Schools In
Montreal, Sept. 1.
Mrs. Jennie Hunter. of Detroit, Is
not entitled to compensation for the
death of her son, who was killed when
kicked by a contractors horse. be
cause Mrs. Hunter is not dependent
according to a ruling OF the industrial
accident board.