Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1916-03-16


man farmer OF I-asalle township and
veteran of the civil war. died OF old
age
Charles +. Young. resident Of Grand
Rapids, president OF the Citizens Tele-
phone company. died i'm Chicago OF
pIeurisy
j. George Buckley. aged 81. an
undertaken at Grand Rapids for TWEEN.
ty-hve years. was found dead in bed
by his wife.
Kalamazoo commissioners awarded
contracts for the construction OF $780,
343 worth of highways during the
coming summer.
With Ave inches of her shin bone
grated into her spine, Mary Masjgo.
five years old, was released from
hospital at Grand Rapids az cured.
Jaekson's April election will decide
on bonding propositions which total
s266.000 and call for a new hospital
and several pavements and sewers.
The son of William Morgan. OF
South Lyon, died at Harper hospital,
Detroit following an operation after
he had been accidentally shot by
playmate.
When Roy Schram's farm home
on Mullet lake. Cheboygan county.
burned to the ground. two sons. aged
five and seven years. respectively
persisted
Over seventy-tve persons. several
women. were taken in custody by De-
troit police in a raid which practical
~ cleared two small hotels OF their
occupants.
John Leisenrins. pioneer Eaton Rap
ids contractor, was brought back for
burial from Onondaga. where he died
at the home of his daughter Mrs lie
want Swift
Dr. J Q. Sweetland. AGED 81, prom
inent Constantine physician. was Kill
ed while returning from Elkhart, Ind.
in a runabout. three miles west OF
Constantine.
John S. Edwards. "A Flint capitalist.
vice president OF the Hersey BanFing
company ~ Hcrsey, and DIRE. tor OF
the First State bank at Evart. IS dead
at his home.
occupants. The raid is the opening
gun of a crusade 10 clear Detroit Of
band OF alleged gunner from the east.
who. It Is claimed. have made this city
their headquarters fer several weeks.
Diphtheria discoy cred at Reed
City in the family Of mr. Durham
caused the marriage OF their eldest
daughter, Georgia. TO j. Russell. OF
Detroit. to be postponed for one week.
Paul Mastij. OF Norway. Mich. a
native OF Galicia. aged thirty-five
years, is dead at the Swift hospital.
after having been an inmate of that
Institution for nearly a decade with
broken back.
Mrs. l.. Duchsrme, Bay City moth
er, heroically rescued her three
year-old daughter. when her home
caught fire, by crawling through the
smoke-filled house and cropping her
way TO the child.
Christopher Krahset. OF Milwaukee,
in Saginaw county. committed suicide
by placing the muzzle Of shotgun at
his head and firing the shot which car
ried the top OF his head away by
pressing the trigger with a stick.
During February, 4 Flint factories.
the Buick Weston-Mott. Chevrolet and
Mason Motor companies. paid out in
wages s1,02S, 709.S6 The payroll for
the first half of the month was 1922
S0S46. and for the second half. $685.
5Ol.46.
Frank Molmar. Detroit confidence
man who ieeced Frank Farkas. Mus
kegon Heights butcher, out of $1,000
on a confidence game. was sentenced
to serve from two to five years at the
Jackson state prison by Judge James
Sullivan
Mark and Angilo Paivorora, three
year-old twins. living in Bessemer,
left playing by themselves, found
bottle OF bug poison. Each took
swallow with result that both died
within a few hours. in terrible con
vulsions
Because state witnesses, the four
teen-year-old daughters of Alex Stark,
contradicted their stories told at the
examination OF Nelson Darling Judge
Smith directed a verdict in favor OF
Darling, prominent farmer. who was
freed at Hastings.
4 can Of currants put up l6 years
ago was unearthered by Lester
Brlndley, while excavatihg ~ the cei-
lar of his old homestead in Allegan
county. The fruit had been put up by
his mother and was in excellent state
OF preservation.
While the engineering buildings OF
the Michigan Agricultural college
were smoldering. fire RACED the East
Lansing high school. The estimated
loss sustained by Michigan Agricul-
tural college is 5000. 600; that OF the
high school $4,000.
James G. Blair. railv1y mail clerk.
iivins at Hilsaalc. vas granted d di-
vorce from Edna S Blair on the
Ground OF cruelty Mrs Biair is one OF
the most prominent sunragi Us o. the
state. and &c s. charged she wholly
neglected her duties Of wife.
The last echo Of the Albion National
bank crash several years ago
CURED when depositors received q q
'ourth and final dividend from Receiver
c. Korbly Of Washington. umoun.i7n
to 81 per cent other dividends
amount 70 30 cents cp the dollar