The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1916-05-05

Edmund Staield, pioneer farmer. S3,
years old, died at his home one mile
east of Hillsdale.
Hiram Griffin, aged seventy-nine,
twenty-five years a resident of Eaton
Rapids, died after an extended illness.
Free Methodists of East Michigan
held two-day holiness convention in
Bay City. About thirty ministers were
in attendance.
Charles r Wilkinson, sixty years
OF age, of Perry, is dead. He was
widely known as dealer in high grade
Holstein cattle.
Justice c. e. Hughes of the u. S.
supreme court, was Endorsed for
president by the Saginaw County Re-
publican convention.
Eaton Rapids fruit growers, now in
the midst of their spring spraying OPP
erations, are elated over the prospects
for heavy apple crop this year.
Every child of Milford that was in
attendance at the Presbyterian Sunday
school services Easter was presented
with potted plant by George An
drews.
l. r. Kinds, Muskegon ex-alderman,
prominent local resident for half
century, was stricken with paralysis.
Little hope is held out for his re-
covery.
Through interurban cars on the
line between Grand Rapids and
Muskegon were increased from two
runs daily to six, beginning Sunday,
April 30.
While moving a piano from the
Keefer house at Hillsdale, George
Gordon was caught between the piano
and the railing and one leg was
crushed.
Maurice Atwood, of Ottawa county,
convicted of aiding an illegal opera
ton on his wife in January, 1913, who
appealed to the supreme court, was
sentenced to fif.ceE years in Iona re-
formatory.
Mrs. Grace Brewster. of Vassar, was
arrested for assault lnd battery on
Mary Shaver, a fourt NN-year-old girl
She pleaded guilty ant Justice Lyons
sentenced her to the county jail for
ninety days.
James A Griggs, former county
treasurer, Saginaw county, will make
full restitution for the interest he col
lected from the Commercial National
Bank by depositing state funds in a
special account
Michael Teachout, q, employed
at a Bay City garage, will lose the
sight of one eye and that Of the other
will be impaired. He was working
on a tire tube filled with hot rosin
when it exploded.
The Reverend John e. Kuizenga, Of
Holland, professors Of practical the
ology at Western Theological semi.
nary, has declined the offer from Rut-
gers college to occupy the chair of
philosophy of religion at that insti-
tuition.
The freighter Glen Lyon, with
a grain cargo, was the first boat to
reach the 500 from the head of the
lakes. 1t reports the upper river full
of boats upbound and the downbound
fleet coming along slowly on account
OF the fog
Margaret Angus, divorced from J. n.
Angus, an Owosso contractor, brought
suit for $4,000 damages against Hat
tie Kent Angus, to whom her divorced
husband was married two months
ago, and who was named in her d.
vorce suit.
o. III. Co. Co.,.
hours in and around Romeo for
Miss Sadie Dickerson, a patient at the
Romeo sanatorium, who had escaped,
seekers found her dead body in
a pond one and one-half miles south
Of the village
One two-year-old child is already
dead at Ironwood and another of four
years is horribly burned as the result
Of family row in the home of An
ton Gulan who, it is charged by the
police, while intoxicated, hurled Q
dish of hot water ut his wife
Mrs. Carl Salwin, taken into Gus.
tody by Grand Rapids officers after
he shooting of her husband, was re.
leased. The shooting took place after
drinking companion confessed to
Salwin that he was the parent of Mrs.
Salwin's four-months-old child
Lewis p. Coumans, Bay City attor- |
ney appointed Judge of the eigh-
teenth judicial district by Governor
Ferris to fill the vacancy caused by |
the death Of Judge G. l.. Collins, is |
president OF the Bay County Bar as
ISOLATION and a self-made lawyer.
Predicting to Menominee hearers
that the end Of the world Is at hand |
and using tho book Of John as proof,
was the startling Easter statement
made by the Rev. J. e. Curzon, an
Episcopal priest, during his sermon.
Declaring that a mighty configration
is In sight, he called on his congrega.
ton to prepare for judgment day.
Stung no doubt by the sprihe
wanderlust, Peter Miller, aged ten;
George Campbell, aged ten, and Floyd
Simpson, aged fourteen, inmates OF
the Michigan School for the Blind.