The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1916-09-29

rescue n time to save him.
In an automobile accident south of
Hillsdale. Harley Jacks of Vendocla,
o., has a fractured rib, which it is
believed punctured lung.
George ID. Paul. one of Monroe's
best known residents, died at his
home, when within two days of CON-
pleting his ninety-third year.
Because of high cost of print paper
newspapers in Barry county have de-
cided to raise the rates from 81 to
$3.50 year after November /.
BY a matrimonial lad" Mrs. Anna
Johnson, fifty-eighJ years old, of May
field, N. Y, became the bride of James
Allen, aged sixty-four, at Grand Rap
ids.
Nine stores, ten houses and score
of sheds and small buildings were de-
stroyed by fire originating in a
blacksmith shop on the main street
at Erie.
Mrs. w. Walker, Morenci. committed
suicide by shooting her self through
the head with revolver. The cause
is unknown. She leaves a husband
and three children.
| Pere Marquette trainmen hurt in the
wreck at Otla are at their homes
in Grand Rapids, and with the ex-
| ception OF Roy Wantz, engineer, are
| all able to be up.
William A. Seegmiller, of Owosso
| has been selected to act as tenn
| porary chairman of the Democratic
state convention to be held at Mt.
Clemens, October 8.
AS a result of discussion on health
conditions in Ann Arbor, the city will
petition the legislature for the right
to control the watershed of the Huron
river for sanitary protection.
Campaign for $4,000 bonus which
Port Huron agreed to give the Handy
Brothers railroad, was opened in that
city and it was announced that most
of the amount had been subscribed.
A climax to many disputes in the
city council of Benton Harbor
came when Mayor Sutherland over
rode the action of the council and
ousted w. S. Young as inspector of
bridges.
Davis Gripman of Coldwater,
sixty-five years old, died suddenly at
the fair grounds at Marshall of appo-
plexy. He drove Lucy Ethridge in the
2:40 trot in the Short Ship circuit
races at the fair.
A large area of Michigan was Wis
tied by heavy frost which ruined
many thousands of dollars worth of
produce and fruit. Beans and potatoes
were especially affected in Kent and
adjoining counties.
Joe Ecklekamp, Spring Lake hunter,
received charge of bird shot
full in the face from an unknown
hunter shortly after he had started
with party of friends on the first
duck hunt of the season.
That troops at Camp Ferris will
be on their way south before the end
Of the month is the belief, after
receipt of telegram from the war
department. inquiring whether troops
here are ready for field service.
Fire damaged the Majestic theater
at Kalamazoo causing loss es-
timated anywhere from $4,000 to
$4,000. Hundreds of dollars worth of
costumes worn during the "style
show" on this week were destroyed.
DR.. Harlem s. Smith, a Schoolcraft
physician, died at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. Charles d. Allen of
arterio sclerosis, after an illness OF
five weeks. DR.. Smith had been a ply.
stefan in Schoolcraft for the last thir.
ty-four years.
Nickoll Kotari, 81, a miner, received
injuries which caused death in fall
into the shaft of the Empire mine at
Negaunee and Samuel Haines, mine
captain. was severely injured when
struck by large piece of ore while
trying to rescue Kotari.
Miss Bulah Loche, 1S, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. James Loche, Birming.
a broken windshield when the auto |
mobile which her mother was driving |
was run into by a car bearing a H. |
cense number 2322O2 Ills.
Mrs. Jane Gunsolly, pioneer of Man
istee, and the good sister" of the |
81 eat fire Of 1871 in which Manistee |
was reduced to ashes, died at the age |
of seventy-three years. At the time
Of the fire, Mrs Gunsolly's home was
converted into a hospital.
when his horse at Muskegon ran
away because an automobile driven |
by Willard G. Turner, Jr, had bump
ed into the rear wheel of his buggy,
Bernard H. Smith, junior member Of
Smith & Son. grocery firm at Mus
kegon died half an hour after the acct
dent.
Although only the day before Judge |
Stevens decided that proposed extern
sions OF the Grand Trunk tracks |
across certain streets in Flint would |
be nuisance" and menace" the
city council, in a session lasting until
nearly 1 o'clock in the morning, grant.
ed the railway company permission
to build the tracks.
G. o. Tyrell, a real estate dealer
In Battle Creek, wanted In YoIkville
for the alleged theft Of about $500
worth Of brass copper from the plant
Of the A. Price Cereal Food COMPANY
and In Kalamazoo for the allege
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