The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1916-07-14
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| Two lnOuSdHu DIT iona CnautduQud
heard the address of Maude Balling.
ton Booth, OF New York.
Ravenna will vote on becoming an
incorporated village at a special cleo
ton at the August primary. August
20.
William Marion, TO- resident of Mon,
roe county for more than sixty years,
died at his hone IN Frenchtown of
! heart disease.
In trying to save his nineteen year
old son, Charles Youtzy, jumped into
the Grand River in Jackson. Both
were drowned.
Michigan had $12,57S, 2SO.O3 on hand
In all funds at the close OF business
Friday, according to the monthly re-
port of State Treasurer Haarer
Hemorrhage septicIma plague which
killed several cattle in the lowland
pastures OF Michigan a year ago, has
made its appearance again.
The summer schooly enrolment at
| the Michigan State normal is a
record-breaker. Thursday, June 20, it
was 1872, while one year ago it was
1,471.
Capitol circles at Lansing re-
ceived a distinct shock in the an.
nouncement Of the death of Charles
c. Hopkins, clerk of the supreme
court.
The bodies of two men who were
evidently twins, so alike were they in
appearance and dress, were found
floating in the river at Detroit within
half hour.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick Andrews
! Bush, prominent socially at Howell,
announce engagement of their eldest
daughter, Miss Winnifred Irene, to Dr..
Ernest Allen Ross of Hanover.
While bringing a COW to the market
at Hillsdale, Alvin Houtz, a far
mer living near Reading, was pulled
off the wagon seat by the animal and
fell beneath the wagon and was
killed
Shot down in cold blood on a Ponti-
&C street 2 hours after petty quarrel
with Bulgarians whose names have
not been learned Elec Pecrakes, a
Greek, is dead from five bullet
wounds
Henry Spaulding a Mason veteran,
has been appointed assistant adjutant
general Of the department of Mich
gan, G. A. r., and has established
headquarters in his Office in the CAPT
toll at Lansing.
Timothy T. Titus died in Sandstone
township, Jackson county, at the age
Of 90. He had been a resident Of the
county eighty.three years, and died on
the farm that had been his home that
long period of time.
Careless use or disregard OF
kerosene, gasoline and dynamite and
fires caused the death Of five persons
and injured eleven others during
state fire marshal,
1t is said at least three Ann Ar
Dor men have been rejected by the
medical examiners Of Company |, and
these men will return to the city soon.
The men are: Chester Rowland, Jack
Kilbourn and Harry Smith.
Gust Erickson, Cadillac resident an
foreman Murphy-Diggins Lumber com.
pany. was drowned and Milert Gustaf
son narrowly escaped a similar fate
when Erickson reached for an oar he
had lost, and upset the boat.
The first drowning OF the 1916 swim.
ming season occurred in the Cedar
river at Potter park at Lansing, when
Joseph Barss, fourteen-y son Of
George Barss, was caught in a swirl
of the muddy waters and drowned
With the Thirty-first and Thirty.sec.
| ond regiments mustered into the
| United States service, indications are
that both will be dispatched to the
Mexican border together, so far as
transportation facilities will permit i
In what Is said to have been a
fit OF insanity Private Thomas Will
| liams Of Company G., Houghton, Thir-
| ty-third resiment, made two attempts
! to cut his throat with bayonet and
! is now confined in the field hospital
| The first triple wedding that
was ever held in Bedding was sol.
I emnized when three sisters, Fanny /
| NJ, Francis f. and Pearl Edna De-
vault, became the brides of Myron ]. |.
Virgins, William E. Sewer and Guy
| Hubbard respectively.
]. Wallace Bingham, husband of
Kalamazoo, secured a divorce from his
wife, when he testified that she was
too fond Of beer to suit him. She left /
him some time ago and returned TO
the home Of her parents in Ann Ar
bor charging non-support.
Swamped by the high waves on
Cass Lake. near Pontiac, the steel
boat. in which NJ. J. Farrell, of De.
troit, twenty-eight years old, and his
fancee. Miss Cecil Hubby Of Pontiac,
were riding with Miss Mary Bocock,
of Detroit, upset. Farrell was drown
| ed.
! Owing to a dense fog the steam.
er Charles w. Hutchinson with car
go OF $4,000 bushels OF wheat from
Il, AL