The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1913-08-22
MICHIGAN NEWS IN BRIEF


Martin, Benjamin Fox, a farmer, Of
Allegan county. was instantly killed
Workers on the state prison clay
pit farm at Jackson, have uncovered
15-foot layer of fine quality fire.
clay.
BY majority of "a votes, the prop
osition to bond Hastings for $4,000
for improving the streets, was de-
feated.
Trislo Charbeneau. OF Anchorville,
was killed by lightning when he went
upstairs to put down window during
heavy storn,.
Az ordinance to be introduced in
council at Saginaw is designed to bar
freak automobile horns and to require
lights on bicycles.
A little fire caused considerable in
convenience at Richmond burning a
cable and throwing 800 telephone lines
out of commission.
The annual reunion of the Twenty
second Michigan infantry, Veterans of
the Civil war, will be held at Rich
mond, August 27-2S.
The sixth annual Northern District
fair will be held at Cadillac, Septem-
Der 16 to 10. Balloon ascensions and
aeroplane flights will be features.
The little girl was attending a San
day school picnic at the Island and
tumbled into the river at point
where the water was 10 feet deep.
The 1914 auto license plates will
have red letters on white back
ground. An order for them has been
placed by Secretary of State Martin
dale.
A Pere Marquette passenger train
with 275 passengers aboard ran into
ditch near Croswell when a truck
on the tender broke. No one was
hurt.
John Rose, of Sturgis, has appealed
to the police for protection from
blackhanders from whom he says he
has received a number of threaten
ing letters.
According to reports, the present
steam suburban service of the Grand
Rapids & Indiana railroad centering
about Petoskey, will be replaced next
summer by gasoline.
The sixth annual fair, conducted by
newspaper men of Cadillac, headed by
Perry F. Powers, will be held in Cadil-
lac, September 1919. A long list Of
attractions is announced.
For the fourth time this year paw
ing operations have been stopped in
Saginaw, because no curbing stone can
be secured from Sandusky, Mich.
where there Is strike.
Mayor F. w. Green has asked the
city council at Ionia to call a special
election to vote on the question of
bonding for $1,000 to buy the fair
grounds for city park.
Steering his motor car with one
nand, while he carried bucket in
the others, cost the life of
Harvey Emmons, 33, of Bowling, the
machine turning turtle in ditch.
Between 1900 and 1900 Free Meth
odists, housed in approximately 300
tents, are on the camp grounds at
Manton, for the annual conference of
the organization, with Bishop Prince
presiding.
DR.. Carl Z. Parrey, who recently re-
signed as instructor of political econ
omy and sociology at the u. of NJ.
has been made assistant professor of
political economy in the Ohio State
university.
The state health special, which has
been touring the western part of the
lower peninsula, turned to the south
and began the trip down to Bay City,
Saginaw and Detroit. 1t is estimated
the trip to the straits.
Burr b. Lincoln, inspector Of weights
and measures with the state public
health special, made the statement
that 20 per cent of the weights and
measures used by Michigan merchants
are not correct. He intimated that
legal action would be taken soon.
Prof. Sheldon B. Foote, for the last
year head of the organ department OF
the Albion college conservatory of mu-
sic, has resigned his position to ac-
cept the dictatorship of the conserva-
tory of music at the university of
South Dakota. His successor has not
been chosen.
The City Clerks association of
Michigan elected the following Off
GERS: Dean Thompson, Ludington.
president; c. l.. Grosbeck, Pontiac,
first vice president; II. s. Pain, Esca-
naba, second vice president; W. r.
Noyes. Albion, secretary-treasurer
Detroit was chosen as the 1914 con-
vention city.
The contract for erecting the new
contagious disease hospital, for which
the city of Ann Arbor voted $4,000,
has been let to Fred c. Weinberg, To-
cal contractor, for s22,369. The bal
ance of nearly $4,000 VIII be used for
painting, glazing and wiring. Work
has already been started on the exca-
al.