The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1916-06-30
MICHIGAN NEWS
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VERNE State Readers.
News Of All Kinds Gathered From
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to All Classes of Readers.


Perry Van Wormer, 70, a resident
OF Vassar fifty years, is dead.
Col. VIM. p. Preston, for seventeen
terms mayor of Mackinac Island, died
at his home.
Mrs. Joe Marshall, pioneer
resident of Millikin, was killed by
Pere Marquette train.
]. st. Mary, 40 years proprietor OF
the Star Clothing house and Caro- s
oldest business man, is dead.
julius w. Iffel was elected pres
ident of the Michigan Elks associa
ton at the state convention at the
500. e., -..r~.-
. Kenneth, son Of H. Wilcox, resid
ing east of Hastings, was seriously
scalded when he fell into a pail OF
boiling water.
w. M. Ostand, 70. Ypsilanti, twenty.
one years Michigan newspaper man
and formerly professor in Olivet and
Albion college, is dead.
Cold, wet weather has caused dam.
age to the melon crop in Michigan.
1t is pointed out that the crop will
be about half of normal,
Thomas Fisher, a quarry man of
Grindstone City, who had been work
ing at Harbor Beach, was killed on
the railroad trestle at Port Austin.
Peter Anderson, aged % years, and
Richard Northey, thirty-one, married,
of Atlantic mine, were drowned in
Lake Eva, ten miles south of Hougb-
ton.
John n. Bush, 90, veteran Republi-
can campaigner and pioneer contrac.
tor Of Lansing, died at his home. He
had been a resident of Lansing since
1S47
Burr l. Davis, aged q, was killed
and his sister Winifred and Miss Fay
A. Young, a. domestic science teacher,
were injured, in an automobile acct
dent near Battle Creek.
Tiemmen Schepel, 10 years of age,
of Holland is a year older than
his grandmother. Schepels grandfath-
er, who is seventy-fve years old, re-
Gently married a girl of eighteen.
Mrs. Eva Prince, Mason medal win.
ccr. has requested of the Carnegie
hero fund managers that the $1,000 in
cash that goes with the medal, be de-
voted to the purchase of a home for
herself in Mason.
Two weeks ago Edward j. Manglus,
formerly OF Elmira, employe Of a Lam
sing five-and-ten cent store let a heavy
iron door drop on his right foot crush
ing the big toe badly The injury
caused his death.
At its late meeting the general sy-
nod of the Reformed Church in Amer
lea unanimously accepted as a gift
Central college at Pella, Ia, a $110,-
900 institution, from the Northern
Baptist convention.
The body Of Earl Williams, the
fourteen-year-old Alpena school boy
who came to his death by electrocu.
ton. the third victim from this caus Z
near Alpena, was carried to the grave
by Alpena boy scouts.
Soloman Wilhelm, Bay City resident
and several times an alderman, civ
il war veteran and manager of 10
cal storage company, was taken with
acute indigestion and died before a
doctor could reach him.
That the ranks Of the G.. A. r. in
Michigan are rapidly being thinned by
death, is shown by the annual report
of Asst. Adjt. Gen. Henry Spaulding
in which the deaths of 573 veterans
are recorded for last year.
A romance which started several
years ago with students at Hope col.
lege eliminated this week in the
marriage Of Rev. Alexander Van
Bronkhurst, of Jacksonville, and Miss
Helena De Maagd, of Coopersville.
With s21,O0O,0O assets the knights
of the Maccabees are in the best fl
nancial condition in their history, &C
cording to a report made at the state
! convention by George S. Love
lace. great commander Of the order
Earl Muzzy, a fourteen-year-old lad
of Owosso, found a loaded 92-cati
bre revolver belonging to his father
William MuZZy, and in playing wild
West" with his brother, Charles, elev
en- years old, shot the younger boy
through the thigh.
The home of Mrs. II. w. Martin,
who resides at Royal Oak, was
the scene of a pretty triple wedding.
The principals were the three brothers
OF Mrs. Martin, Bert M. Smith and
Miss Grace M. Borst, George E
Smith and Miss Pearl Austin, and
Floyd G.. Smith and Miss Elsie Smith
Mr.. and Mrs. John Vrieling. pioneer
residents of Overisel, and Mr.
and Mrs II. J. Kollen, Of Holland ST
simultaneously celebrated the fifty-fiftf
anniversary of their marriage. They
were married in a double ceremony
by the same minister in 1861. Fol
forty-seven years they lived on ad
ioining farms in Overisel.
Owing to difficulties at Jackson in the
handling of blind pig cases in which
women, with children, are the often
ders, the sheriff's department has hi