The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1915-08-14
MICHIGAN
BREVITIES

Port Huron.-Falling on q log IN
Sarina bay, George MacAdams, aged
fifteen, was drowned. while his two
companions stood on shore. poweriess
to assist him.
Port Huron.-Carl Stein Of Wadham
won the free trip to the state fair from
st. Clair county. He had the highest
average Of any student who entered
the contest.
Standish.-Alonzo Freeland, resi-
dent of Au Ores. this county. has been
adjudged insane by a commission OF
doctors appointed by Judge Dunn and
sent to the state asylum at Traverse
City.
Kalamazoo.-Struck in the face by
the broken end Of high tension wire.
Motorman Walter Byce was instantly
kelled on q work car at Monteith. His
family is believed to be In Saginaw
from which city he recently came.
Reed City.-The grim reaper has
claimed three men who came here
when this section was wilderness:
James Sims, aged sixty-eight; Walter
Coolidge. aged fifty-eight. and Eric
Johnson.
Muskegon.--M Carl Wisman OF
Montague. mistaking dose Of poison
for medicine, narrowly escaped death.
A physician worked over the woman
for several hours before she was out
of danger.
Muskegon.-The body of Cornelius
DeBoer. the nine-year-old lad who dis
appeared Friday when playing on the
Goodrich wharf, was churned up by
the screw of the Goodrich steamer
Alabama as 1t came into port.
Owosso.-Thrown from his horse
when the animal stumbled while ford
ing the Shiawassee river, Louis b.
Allison, chairman of the Democratic
county committee. narrowly escaped
drowning.
ochester-Identifica has been
made Of the body of the man who was
killed while lying on the tracks of the
Romeon division of the D. U. R., his
name being Charles Hourtienne.
known generally as Charles Meitz.
Mrs. August Grutter of Detroit is a
sister of the victim His father and
brother reside at Millington.
Battle Creek.-Calhoun county's corn
crop is better than in 1914. despite ad-
verse weather conditions, according
to E. H. Puffer, road commissioner
and experienced farmer. who has COM
pleted complete tour Of the county.
Oats never looked better, he says.
Wheat is already being threshed. Clo-
yer was cut too green this year.
Owosso.-Application has been made
in Clinton county for the establishing
of the Maple river drain to traverse
Gratiot, Clinton and Ionia counties
and affect Shiawassee and Montcalm
counties. The outlet will be in Shia-
wassee county. The various Maple
river drains have been the cause of
much litigation, but it is believed the
dredging OF Maple river will eliminate
many Of these.
Corunna.-The burning OF the Shia-
wasseetown plant Of the Consumers
Power company removes the last land
mark In what was at one time the
most fiourishing village in Shiawasseo
county and the home Of the state CAPT.
toll for three days. The plant was
built In. 1865 as a grist mill. Business
men made an effort to have the state
capitol located there and succeeded.
It was at Shiawasseetown three days,
after being removed from Detroit.
Later 1t was decided to locate 1t at
Lansing. then a wilderness.
Lawton.-Deo Warner, aged nine
teen years, graduate. of Lawton
High school, was drowned while fish
ing in Gravel lake, near here. He was
with Dec Campbell, another Lawton
boy. The latter saved himself. 1t is
believed that in standing to change
positions in the boat 1t was over.
turned. Warner sank Immediately
but Campbell was able to reach the
boat. The body was recovered in a
few minutes and respiratory treat.
was 6iNCn iOI tWO nOuTb, Uut
without success. Warner was the son
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Jay Warner Of Law.
ton.
Fenton-Members OF the One Hun.
dred and Twenty-eighth regiment Ohio
Volunteer Infantry association, who
now reside in many states, will hold
reunion at Sandusky, O., August 10
L. w. Bailey of Fenton is secretary
and treasurer of the association. In
his appeal for good attendance, Sec
rotary Bailey says the members now
living are so few that It is difficult to
get enough together to make It enjoy
able and urges all to come that they
may have at least one more meeting
with good attendance" The officers
elected at the meeting in Detroit last
year. are: President. H. c. Strong
Sandusky. o.; first vice-president
Chas. Hall. Chardon, O.; second vice
president. j. G. Hanna, Hiawatha
Kan; third vice-president, ]. d. Tay
lor, Toledo, o.; secretary and treas
urer l. w. Bailey. Fenton, Mich.
chaplain. )P. Schott, Petroleum, Ind.
surgeon. DIR. b. H. Young, wakeman
o.; quaftermaster. w. w. Parsons
Chicago. Ohio.