The L'Anse sentinel., 1915-09-11
Michigan
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| Saginaw.-Federa quarantine on
Saginaw county live stock. because OF
fear OF the hoofand-mouth disease In
lection was lifted.
Ypsilanti.-Joe Perry, negro. son OF
John Perry. city pound master, was
arraigned In the Justice court on Q
charge Of pandering. Perry asked for
an examination which was set for
September 20.
Fife Lake.-Fears that firebug 10
operating in this village have been
aroused by recent fires In the public
school. Dent Blues grocery and In q
building adjoining the J. 8. Hodges
hardware store.
Grand Rapids-Deputy State Dairy
and Food Commissioner w. J. Nickel
has threatened with arrest every milk
dealer operating around Grand Rap
ids who has not taken out state II
cense.
Kalamazoo.-Mrs. Mary Van Awken.
aged eighty-two, q childhood play
mate of President James A. Garfield.
died at her home in Oshtemo town
ship. During her early life her family
we're neighbors of the Garfields.
Hillsdale.--Neil H. Harring, son of
Mack Harring. Osseo postmaster. It
has been learned, was one Of the gov
ernment's wireless operators at Gal
weston during the recent hurricane.
He remained on duty continuously for
go hours.
Traverse City.-In conjunction with
the agricultural department of the
Grand Rapids & Indiana railway COM
pany, arrangements have been made
for series of soil lectures and DEM
onstrations by Professors Bell and
Henceroth of Chicago as follows: No
vember Is, Howard City; November
16. Big Rapids; November II. Man
ton; November 1S, Traverse City and
November 10, Mancelona.
Eaton Rapids.-L. L. Harsh OF
Union City has been elected presi-
dent of the State Improved Black
Top Merino Sheep Breeders associa-
tion for the twenty-fourth consecutive
year. o. M. Robertson of Eaton Rap
ids has been elected secretary-treas-
urer for the twentieth consecutive
year. The next meeting will be held
in Munith, August, 1916.
Lansing. - The regular monthly
meeting of the board OF control OF the
Industrial home for boys was held
here but nothing from Governor Fer.
ris was forthcoming, so that no
changes in the methods of the school.
as outlined by the governor. viii be
placed before the board for some
time. Wednesday. September 20. was
fixed as the date of the next regular
meeting.
Alma.-News leaked out Friday Of
the marriage of Miss Marcella Adams
of this city. former Flint and Alma
schoolteacher, to Merrill Stuckey Of
Alma. the marriage having taken place
at Belding. Stuckey. now a member
of the post ofice force here. is for
mer Cadillac business man.
ALI ATpOT.-SdTIio uuu Aouio Do
wilson. Joint owners of q 2S0-acre
Pittsfield farm, have fled claim
against the city of Ann Arbor for $6-
600, alleging that because of the water
tests conducted on the Steere farm
adjoining their land, their wells have
dried up and their crops perished.
Lansing. g.-Hiram w. Rikerd, vice
president OF the Rikerd Lumber COM
pany and one of the best-known lum-
Der dealers In the state. was acquitted
Of q criminal charge In municipal
court. Rickerd was accused OF selling
lumber to tho city while member
of the police and fire commission. The
charter Of the city states that no ON.
cial Of the city shall contract with the
city during his tenure Of ONCE.
Ann Arbor.-Mrs. Fred Osborne has
fled the largest individual claim
against the city of all the farmers in
Pittsdeld township who allege they
have been injured through the test
pumping the city has been doing on
the Steere farm. purchased q year ago
AZ possible supply OF water for the
city. Mrs. Osborne asks 1000. Tho
water tests, she alleges, have taken
all the surface water from her farm.
She farms by irrigation and the wells
ON her land have been drained, she
claims, BY these tests. Mrs. Osborne
asked an Injunction some time ago to
restrain the city from making these
tests. This case II now pending In
the supreme court.
6ault Ste. Marie.-Bnforts are being
made to bring to the attention OF the
Carnegie hero fund commission the
case Of thirteen-year-old william Bell.
Jr.. who saved his mother from drown
ing In st. Mary's river. Young Bell.
who II . member Of the local Boy
Scout organisation. dove into deep va
ter with all his clothes on. swan with
his mother TO shore and applied arti-
ncial respiration until help arrived.
Kalamazoo. Samuel Meyer. aged
sevsnteeen. sat down on . railroad
bridge to play . mouth organ. All
| train knocked him on the bridge and
he died in . hospital.