The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1915-02-20

eral ministers conference Of this city
win make an attempt to obtain BILLY"
Sunday to conduct . revival hare.
Hillsdale.- DIR. d. B. Martin. pas-
| tor Of the College church for eight
years, will resign his passionate the
last Sunday in May.
F1int.-City oficials are making an
effort to obtain quarters In the city
hall for branch Of the state en-
ployment bureau. to be opened here II
suitable quarters can be found.
Grand Rapids.-Fra w. Squier.
lumberman and banker, died In
q hospital here. He was president OF
the state banks at Grant and White
Cloud, and has large holdings OF lum-
Der in Michigan and western states.
Lansing. Attorney General Fellows
has ruled that In cases where only one
nominating petition IL fled for .
given ONCE. primary election still
is required. The ruling was made on
q case from Gratiot county, where
only one candidate for school commits
sioner fled a petition.
East Lansing. Michigan ranks sec
ond In the United States as potato
producer. according to bulletin As
sued by the horticultural department
of the M. A. c.. The bulletin says
many farmers would obtain larger
yields II they reduced their acreage
and gave more attention to the smaller
plots.
Detroit.-Martha Polaski, maid at
the Hotel Statler. was instantly killed
at the hotel when freight elevator
struck her on the head. Miss Polaski
Is between twenty and twenty-five
years old and came to Detroit either
from Cleveland or Buffalo, where
Statler has hotels. The hotel an
agement 1 now trying to find her rela-
tives in the cities named.
Muskegon.-George Penny, who
pleaded guilty to burglarizing the Bles
Bros store here, was sentenced from
eighteen months to fifteen years at
Jackson. The Judge recommended q
sentence of two and one-half years.
Earl Munger, Penny's alleged accom-
plice. was sentenced to serve from one
to fourteen years at Jackson, with a
recommendation of two years.
Hesperia.-This town, the scene Of
the first grangers' and teachers insti-
tute ever held in the United States.
will see the twenty-secopd annual
gathering of this kind February 25-27.-
when nearly two thousand farmers
and their families from this district
will attend. The association was or
ganized February "a. 1893. The first
speaker was Woodbridge N. Ferris,
now governor.
Flint.-Tomasco Maggie, the victim
Of a shotgun murder here. was identi-
ned as a Sicilian who had been picked
up several times in Detroit as sus-
pect in black hand" cases. but al
ways had been able to elude prosecu-
ton. The Identification Of Maggio's
body was made by Detective Rogers
Of the Detroit detective bureau. Rog-
gers stated that Maggie finally was
driven out of Detroit by the author
tiles. He also said the murder Of
Maggie undoubtedly was the work of
Sicilians, who now are in Detroit.
Marlette. While the household was
still in mourning for the death
Of the father Of Mrs. James Hes.
who was buried recently. the two
Hes children, aged i've and seven. re-
spectively. were instantly killed by an
explosion of gasoline In q shed at their
home. IL miles southeast Of Marlette.
The boys are supposed to have been
playing with matches. They wer4
alone 1t the time and AFTER the explo-
sion Of the gasoline tsnk were 20 bad
ly burned that II was impossible to tell
what had caused the accident
Lansing. - II the requests made
upon the Michigan railroad COM
mission for figures are any criterion.
there IL going to be much discussion
at the coming Joint hearings Of the
senate and house railroad committee
on the proposed increase In passenger
rates. For week or more letters
have come from all over the state ask
ing for figures on some certain ran
road with q view to either opposing
or supporting the demands for Z high
er rate In addition the ONCE Of the
chief statistician Of the commission
has been thronged.
to the contrary Jefne Bailey, for
Is years an engineer ON the Mitchell
Brothers logging roads, never missed