Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1916-05-11
MICHIGAN NEWS
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VERNE State Readers.

News OF All Kinds Gathered From
Various Points In the State and Sc
Reduced In Size That 1t VIII Appeal
to All Glasses Of Readers.
Michigan has a check from the
Pere Marquette railroad for 1925, 200
In payment of state taxes.
After over as years in business in
Manistee, James Henderson has re-
tired on account of i'll health.
Thrown from his rapidly moving
motorcycle, George Durkee, Of Jack
son suffered a fractured skull.
A woman tramp startled Hillsdale
people by taking up her headquarters
on railroad property near the western
city limits.
About 80 chicks burned when q
brooder building at the chicken ranch
Of Harm vos. east OF Grandvills, war
destroyed by fire.
Geo Klecker, aged 92, one OF Living
stone countys pioneers, died At the
home OF his son, Charles. on the lat
ter's farm near Oak Grove village.
John Dykema. Grand Rapids, about
2 o'clock in the morning sat up In bed
awakened his wife, then dropped back
dead. Heart disease was the cause.
Governor Ferris announces that he
has appointed Hugh y. Nichols coun-
~ agent for Shiawassee and George
n. Deadly as county agent for Huron.
A blaze at Grand Rapids did about
$50, 900 damage TO the Woolworth Five
and Ten Cent store, United Cigar
store and Dick Brink Clothing com
pany.
Mrs Clara Frisbie, of Chelsea, sew
enty years of age, an inmate OF the
old peoples home committed suicide
by hanging herself To the bedpost In
her room.
Returns Of Mackinac county show
that the $4,000 bond issue for good
roads was carried by large majority
This makes a total issue OF $4,000
fer GOOD roads
Watts s. Humphrey. OF Saginaw
and seventy-two years OF age. Michi
gan lawyer widely known. for years
head of the state bar association, is
dead OF arterial sclerosis.
Arrangements for organizing the
entire state county by county between
now and September ] we're made at a
meeting of the executive committee OF
the Michigan Anti-Saloon league.
Marquette may lose its unit OF the
naval brigade. The term OF enlistment
has expired and many of the mem
bers have moved away from Mar
quette. making il doubtful IL the d.
vision can be recognized to its need
ed strength.
The coroners jury on the shoot.
ing at the Manley farm near Mendon,
in which b. F. Msnley. Richard Chal.
ney, James H. Chalney and w. n
Marshall were the principals, and
Richard Chslney was killed, brought
in a verdict OF wilful murder.
Mrs. NJ D. Olds and her three
daughters, Florence, Blanche and
Gertrude, OF Cheboygsn, Mich, were
among the passengers picked UP from
lifeboats by the British destroyer
when the Japanese steamship Chiyo
Maru grounded of Hong Kong.
An attempt was made at Battle
Greek TO wreck the eastbound Pull.
man train on the Michigan Central,
due in Battle Creek at 1926 D. m, by
piling three big ties across the tracks
near the Advance Rumely plant. The
ties were knocked aside by the en-
CINE.
Rose Joyihik. aged 16. pretty and
ambitious. of Ludington. tired OF the
humdrum life of her town and Joined
a vaudeville act that was playing at a
local theater in that city. The young
lady was traced to Benton Harbor
where she was arrested and taken
home
Phoebe and Elsie Shawl, Flint
tots. aged three years and eighteen.
months. respectively. were burned TO
death when fire, believed 10 have Oh ig-
mated from an exploding oil stove
DESTROYED the small tar paper home of
their parents. MIR. and Mrs. William
Shawl
BY the death of Mrs. Margaret Den
ninger, Of near Monroe. widow OF
Charles Denninger. Monroe county
loses one OF its oldest residents. She
was eighty years old and with her
husband had lived sixty years in one
of the picturesque log cabins of Mon
roe county
In a movement to get an
armory for the Muskegon Rifles of the
NJ y. G., the local Chamber of Com
merce has seeded to make an active
campaign to raise $4,000 to meet
$50 900 to be furnished by the state
for a combined armory and conven-
ton hall building.
The state commission authorized to
make a survey Of the existing system
of relief for the poor in Nichigan or
ganized in the office OF the state
board of charities and corrections by
electing Benjamin p. Merriok of
Grand Rarids chairman and Mari T.
Murray, OF the board OF charities and
secretary.
Governor Carlson OF Colorado, IL
is reported. has pardoned Sher-
man w. Morris, alias Frank Sher.
cliffe, who was serving 25-year sen
tence in that state for numbering John