The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1916-04-07
MICHIGAN NEWS
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to All Glasses Of Readers.
Alonzo A. Van Inwegan, of Saginaw,
aged seventy-two, veteran or
the civil war, died of heart disease.
Word was received az Port Huron
from William II. Taft that he
will speak at Port Huron on the eve
ming Of April 20.
Mrs. Francis Faro, widow OF Ka;a-
mazoo, died of grief over the death Of
her husband. two days before. A double
funeral was held.
Damage of about $4,000 was caus-
ed by a fire in the five-story brick
building of the Criswell Furniture
company at Grand Rapids.
Gordon A. Dimoc, wellknown life
insurance man Of Michigan, dropped
dead in his Office. He was also active
in political and civic work.
On the opening day of the supreme
court, Tuesday, April 4, there will be
presented to the state an oil painting
of the late Justice Aaron V. McAlvay.
The Michigan Central Wolverine
flyer eastbound going at high speed
went into the ditch two miles east of
kalamazoo" Three persons were
slightly hurt.
Miss Ellen M. OBrien, Ann Arbor,
and daughter of the late Mr.. and Mrs.
O'Brien of Webster, died at her home.
For several years she has been active
In charitable work.
An early morning fire hit Athens
in the heart of it's business district,
which kept the townspeople fighting
flames for several hours. The total
loss Is about $4,000.
A. r. Anderson, Flint mechanic, fell
fifteen feet on a cement floor while
doing construction work at the drop
forge plant Of the Buick Motor COM
pany. He may recover.
Miss Florence WEIGH, of Benton
Harbor, for three years matron
Of Mercy hospital, has resigned. Miss
Kathless McGarry, of West Virginia,
will succeed Miss WEIGH.
VIM. j. Messenger, "a, OF Coldwater,
killed himself at his home. He had
been In excellent spirits a few min
utes before he took his life and no
motive is given for his act.
For the first time in the history
Of its vast numbering opera
tions at Cheboygan, not a log will
be loated down the inland route to
that city for Cheboygan mills.
Playing near his home at Hillsdale,
orin Russell Parks, son of Mrs.
Greek, and student of the Paul Re-
we're school, gashed his throat when
he ran into a barbed wire fence
Robt. Schomberger, who owns Ben
jamin Foster livery barn in Brown
City, which was destroyed by fire
March 2, was released on $4,000 bail
furnished by a Brown City banker.
Business men of Gaylord and lie
troit are interesting themselves
in the establishment of a fox farm
near Gaylord. 1t is stated that com.
pany with a capital of 100000 is to
be formed
The Muskegon police made clean
up of local rooming houses having an
unsavory reputation and ordered the
proprietors in these houses to get rid
of certain women employed or lodg-
ing there.
Leo Guy, of Hudson, at Adrian
was awarded $4,000, the largest
judgment ever given in a curcuit
court there, from Cincinnati North
ern railroad, by a jury for persona
injuries received.
Misses Inez and Gladys, daughters
of William Hartley, Kawkawlin far
mer, had narrow escape from
drowning when their horse slipped
and went over the roadside into the
Kawkawlin river, and was drowned.
j. E. Harrington, Deerfeld, was in
Monroe county Jail on a charge of
practicing medicine in LaSalle town
ship, without being properly qualified
in ACCORDANCE with the Michigan
statutes. The complaint was made by
August Nobel.
Word has been received that Mrs.
George Tebo, widow of Captain
George Tebo, died in Chicago. Cap
tain and Mrs. Tebo were former resi-
dents of Port Huron. The captain for
years was one Of the best-known ma
rine men along the lakes.
Junior Lieutenant Ormand G.. Pail
throp, who committed suicide on the
cruiser Saratoga, was a resident Of
Petoskey. He was a graduate from
the high school there and obtained his
appointment to Annapolis from there.
Judge c. S. Pailthrop was his father.
c. E. Churchill, 20 years connected
with Petoskey newspapers and for 16
years owner and manager of the Pc
toskey Evening News and Reporter.
Petoskey Independent Record and
Churchill Printery, dropped dead. He
had been i'll four years. He was a
Mason, Maccabee, Odd Fellow, Elk
and secretary of Durand lodge F. &
A. NJ, No 344, for II years.
Burr II. Lincoln, state sealer of
weights and measures, has ruled that
"non-wigglewaggle" scales only can
be used in Michigan hereafter and has
notified the companies manufacturer