The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1915-11-06
MICHIGAN
BREvITIES

people Will vote on the proposition at
Turner December 8.
Charlotte.--Ancil Champlin, Civil
war veteran and pioneer of this city,
is dead after lingering illness. Ed.
son Champlin, Eaton township farmer.
Is q son.
Eaton Rapids.--In order to get the
bean crop threshed, the farmers In
this section ara putting in lot Of
overtime. In several cases clerks and
business men have gone into the rural
districts to help.
Grand Rapids. Messer, aged
sixteen, was killed when he fell rs
feet from a chestnut tree at Barry
Vile. near Hastings. He had climbed
the tree to shake down chestnuts and
the limb broke. He died two hours
later.
Kalamazoo. - News was received
here that Prof. James T. Stanley. un-
til last year a member Of the faculty
OF Kalamazoo college. had gone In.
sane and was confined in an infirmary
at Rochester. N. Y. where he mas
been attending school,
Corunna.-Shiawasse county super
visors decided to wait until the Janu-
airy session before submitting to pop
ular vote the question of bonding the
county for 100000 for highway con-
struction. Meanwhile. program Of
road construction will be formulated.
kalamazoo.--When big black bear
broke out of barn. where It was tenn
porarily confined by its owner. Kala-
mazoo saw it's first bear hunt in many
| years. The bear climbed to the top
OF a shed. where It was discovered by
a number of boys and captured
| Eaton Rapids. - Jacob Bahney.
Eaton county's oldest citizen. cele-
brated his ninety-eighth birthday an.
niversary at his farm home four miles
southwest of this city. Mr.. Bahney
takes special pride in the fact that he
has never missed voting since he be-
came twenty-one years Or age.
| Charlevoix.-Rt. Rev. Bishop Coad-
tutor Gallagher of Grand Rapids ar
rived here Sunday afternoon from Pc
toskey accompanied by number OF
prominent Petoskey Catholics in au.
tomobiles The bishop confirmed a
large class at St. Mary's church. re-
turning to Petoskey in the evening.
Authorization will hold special
election November 8, on its proposed
new city charter, which provides for
the city manager form of government,
and another December IA, when the
question of bonding the city for $10..
900 additional toward the erection of
the new municipal water plant will be
settled.
Belding-Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Eddy, lifelong residents of Ionia and
Kent counties, concluded their SO
years of married life with celebra.
ton. Mr.. Eddy was the proprietor of
general store at Grattan for more
than quarter of a century, leaving
there % years ago to come to Beld-
ing.
Lansing.-Attorney General Fellowr
gave an opinion in which he held that,
under the terms of the Covert bill,
that where property In township is
assessed for the construction of a
| road, that villages in the township
shall pay a portion of the tax. 1t is
also the opinion of the attorney gen
eral that Michigan is not responsible
for the care of child legally adopted
in the state of Wisconsin.
Grand Rapids. Hackley Skinner
county farm expert, resigned. 1t ia
probable the board of supervisors will
now reconsider their present action
rejecting the county farm bureaus re.
quest for $4,000 appropriation. The
supervisors Friday voted $4,000 to
purchase the old Kent county fair
grounds as a site for county work.
house.
Battle Creek.-Local motorists and
good roads enthusiasts made the Bat
tie Cheek chamber of commerce
rooms ring with applause upon learn
ing that the county board .of super.
visors had put through the road com.
missions report allowing $4,000 for
road maintenance and $4,000 for equip
ment. This will mean the biggest
year for good roads In Calhoun coun.
tvs history.
Hillsdale. - These officers were
elected by the Twenty-seventh Michi'
gan regiment in session here: Presi'
dent, d. L. Reynolds. Rockford: vice.
president. Michael Mulloy, Grand Rap.
| ids: second vice-president. Samuel
Davis, Belding; secretary-treasurer
John Van Horn. Portland; Mr.. Van
Horn was reelected. The reunion
brought about 100 veterans to the city,
| Muskegon.-When Henry Lyman
sixty-nine years old, the golden rule
resident OF Twin Lake, near her6, dies
his body will be wrapped in linen
shroud and placed in sepulchre
"Our Lord" Lyman declares, was moi
buried in the ground, and my body
shall not be-" Lyman has butt lit
tie brick sepulchre on wooded hill
side in secluded portion Of his 50
acre farm.
Ypsilanti. OfIicils here received 4
ruling from Attorney General Gram
Fellows stating that convictions fol
violations OF the automobile speed
laws under the city ordinance need