The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1916-03-24

ly killed when he was thrown by run
away horses in front Of his home near
/ Pentecost.
Ro-emary German, of Kalamazoo,
the little 4-year-old daughter of Mrs
Ida German. is dead as a rusult OF
eating strychnine tablets.
bankruptcies, all boys, were born at
Iron Mountain to Mr. and Mrs.
Fred Perkins but all passed away
within few hours after birth.
Police are seeking a tall, thin safe
blower, who broke into the Mitchell
billiard rooms at Battle Creek blew
the safe and escaped with $452.
Brant Bennett Battle Creek express
agent for the C. w. Post interests,
was appointed secretary of the Cham
Der of commerce of Battle Creek.
George Cook, a Hastings farmer,
accidentally chopped of toe ON his
right foot. Cook walked three-quar-
tiers of mile and summoned aid.
Albion faculty awarded valedictory
and saluatOry senior class honors to
Miss Ethel Bedient and Miss Esther
M. Barney, respectively, both Of AL.
bion.
The Tri-Mountaip Stamp Mill, To-
Gated at Calumet, Of Copper Range
Consolidated Mining company at Bea-
cons Hill, Houghton county, burned
with a loss Of 100000.
AS mysteriously as he disappeared
from Grand Rapids. a week ago,
f. Taylor Peck, manager of the Cody
hotel, returned from NewYork. He
says his mind has been blank.
The family of John Vanderveen,
very we'll known Osceola county
farmer, owe their lives to their pet
cat, whose meowing awakened Van
derveen when the house caught fire.
A Pere Marquette passenger train
was derailed miles west of Midland.
Two hundred passengers, although
badly shaken up, were uninjured.
Spreading rails caused the accident.
The st. Ignace Land & Develop
ment company of two states. whose
transactions caused great criticism
notified the secretary Of state that it
wanted to be dissolved as a Michigan
corporation.
About a week ago word was re-
"Reide Andrews" of Port Huron, had
been killed In action somewhere in
France" Andrews turns out to be
Harold Thibodeau.
Mrs. Henry Plassa, of Detroit, and
the wife of Henry Plassa, a former
city assessor, died in a local hospital
following an operation. Mrs. Plassa
was the great great granddaughter OF
Martha Washington.
The death OF Miss Emily Lad
riere, Of Grand Rapids, whose clev-
er writings under the head Of
"Frivolles Fancies" in the Grand Rap
ids Press were enjoyed by thousands
of readers, makes the fourth death on
the Press staff in seven months
Rev. w. c. McAllister. of Bay City,
pastor of the Woodside Avenue
Methodist church, has resigned his
charge and will earn his living by
working at the Industrial works,
which is manufacturing war NUM-
tions.
A. c. Mccall Of Flint, former sheriff
and former mayor, who retired as
chief Of police two years ago after six
years in the police department died
suddenly while attending a perform
ance at the Orpheum motion picture
theater.
Al. White and Minnie Decker, who
eloped from Battle Creek and were
married March 5. were arrested at
Walkerville and brought back or
charges of misrepresenting their ages,
which they gave as twenty and eigh-
teen years.
Although he had led his boy TO
school at Flint. with a rope, Peter
La ROGUE couldn't keep him there,
he told Justice Torrey in police court
when being tried under the truancy
law. He also tried to pay the boy to
attend school,
For the first time in over thirty
years the ballot at Lansing this
year will not contain the name of
Gottlieb Berner as a candidate for
constable, owing to stroke of pa
ralysis, During thirty years he never
made an arrest.
jeremiah Colt aged 81, civil war
veteran and resident of Shiawassee
county since he was nine years old,
choked on a piece Of meat at his home
south of Owosso and died Of heart
failure He was the last Of family of
ten brothers and sisters.
Word has been received by Kala-
mazoo friends Of the escape of Mr..
and Mrs l.. B. Fritts, former Kalama-
zoo residents, from Chihuahua, Mex
leo. Mr.. Fritts, a former school
teacher here, has been in the Congre-
gational missionary in Mexico.
The sale Of the d. d. Aitken farm
near Flint, Mich, Of 125 acres at the
north city limits to a local real estate
firm Is announced. The Aitken farm,
which contained a model dairy, was
noted throughout the state. The pur-