The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1916-10-06
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ord at Marshall.
An unidentified man while at Pom
tiac ended his life in the WOODWARD
Annex by drinking carbolic acid.
Mrs. Peter Thater had her right arm
broken, when her automobile turned
over four miles south of Marshall.
Leon Novak. a Bay City lad. aget
eighteen, was sentenced to from one
to fifteen years in Jackson by Judge
Davis.
Half of Saginaw's platform scales
have been found to be incorrect by
the inspector of weights. In a ma
jority of cases they weighed short.
Mason Booster club plans a home
coming October and s. The Ingham
County Soldiers and Sailors associa
ton will hold its annual reunion Oc
tober S.
The Michigan Christian Teachers
institute will again be held in the La
Grave Avenue Christian Reformed
church, Grand Rapids. October 5
and 6.
Mrs. H. c. Ford, forty-eight years
old. of Chauncey, died of injuries re-
ceived in runaway accident. Her
horse became frightened at a passing
automobile.
Charley Thompson, old Charlotte
resident, who had contract for sprink-
ling the city streets in the days when
the work was done by private individ-
uals, is dead.
Clarence Machtrieb, Hudson, was
shot through the heart at home while
cleaning gun, which only few
hours before he had used to shoot
squirrels. He died instantly.
The police of Chicago have been
watching all trains for the arrival of
a man and woman who beat William
Ford of Paw Paw, Mich, and robbed
him of 81 near Benton Harbor
Harry Conley, of Marshall, started
for Battle Creek early in the morning.
He went to sleep and awoke when
his machine tried to climb a tree. He
was unhurt but the car was a wreck.
Sheriff Berry at Grand Rapids
has been unable to find any rel
atives of Earl Golden, who was killed
in Saginaw last week. His parents
were thought to be Grand Rapids resi-.
dents.
Barns on the c. L. Lamb farm,
west of Charlotte burned few min
utes after boys, hunting doves. fired
a couple of shots toward the peak of
one of them. The loss is estimated at
about $4,000.
II should not be one bit surprised
to see beans retail at $40 a bushel
before the winter is over. They are
now between $3.50 and So a
bushel RETAIL" says State Market Di.
rector Mcbride.
The advantages of locating the U. s.
new armor plant in Benton Harbor or
st. Joseph are put forward in circu-
lars now being sent out jointly by
those cities to the leading newspapers
Of the middle west.
A car driven by George Dungle, of
Battle Creek, turned turtle mile east
Of Marshall. George Urine had his
shoulder broken, Clay Van Zant of
Battle Creek, has three ribs broken
md the car was damaged.
Carry c. Rice, As, of Holland, was
killed and Lewis Davis. aged twenty.
.wo years, was probably fatally in
ured when a carload of lumber on
which they were working, left the
.ails at the Limbert Furniture fac
DRY and capsized.
At the request Of the father,
Pontiac man. of one of the girls, the
charge preferred against
roach Sharon and Irwin Foote, ac-
used of taking two young Pontiac
iris to Detroit and Utica for immoral
was withdrawn in circuit
curt.
The double funeral at Muskegon
# George d. Smith and Leigh B.
smith, father and son, was held at
It.. Paups Episcopal church. The two
men, prominent in Masonic circles
through the middle west for quarter
f century, died within forty-eight
ours of each other.
Number 1885," man who was
nee of Marquette, Michigan prison,
nd more recently one of the worlds
own and cutters. will start work at
he Ford Motor company at SIS day.
lie will De one of more than 500 ex-
onvicts who have been given work.
Frank Miller, a Pontiac workman,
led in the City hospital of reritoni- |
Is, resulting, according to physicians,
rom internal injuries caused by a
last Of compressed air injected into |
i'm during a friendly scuffle at the |
wilson foundry Plant, where ne was
mp'oyed.
w. M. Aiken, 6 years connected with
he Ann Arbor high school, and for
he last three years its principal, has
endered his resignation to take eff
ect November /. He has accepted a
osition as a professor In the depart.
lent of education in an Ohio institu-
ion. The school board persuaded him
D accept a leave of absence for one
ear
Sheriff Franz of Berrien county
avs that he is in possession of evi.
ence which fixes the guilt of firing
ne two mysterious gun shots which
ound marks in the arm of ten year
Id Stanley Harold and the thiph NJ