The true northerner., 1916-05-12
MICHIGAN NEWS
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VERNE State Readers.
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TO All Classes OF Readers.
The Pere Marquette depot was de-
troyed by an early morning fire at
Alto.
A. SOuter was elected chairman OF
the state pardon board at the annual
meeting held in the executive office.
Four Manistee poolroom proprietors
were fined on school complaint on
charges of permitting students to fire.
Quent their halls.
A Kalamazoo coroner's Jury brought
in verdict that George Foster. who
fell from | window in the McNair
block, committed suicide.
Petitions are being circulated ask
| ing that at November election Kalama-
zoo De given home rule in deciding
| the liquor question, it is said.
The body Of John Jenson, aged 2S,
of Manistee, was found at the Pere
Marquette car ferry slip and identi.
| fed by his father Jens Jenson.
The will of DR.. ]. B. Angel, presi-
dent emeritus of Michigan university,
filed for probate disposes of an es-
tate of $4,000, all personal property
to his family.
The corner stone of Albion's Greek
church was laid in the presence of
several hundred people. Rev. l. Sal
ko, of Detroit, who will be its pastor,
was in charge.
j. Kingry, of Saginaw, was instantly
killed by a Pere Marquette train at
the Gratiot avenue crossing. He was
brother-in-law of Congressman Jo-
seph w. Fordney.
George Earle. Cooper, was sick for
| weeks and unable to do any farm
Vark. About 80 neighbors called on
SAa plowed his fields, sowed the oats
50 put in his corn.
A small dog from Ypsilanti, run
ming behind party Of motorists pick
ed up the license plate from their car
when it fell off. The dog carried the
plate around until noticed.
Judge Tucker decided that Mayor
Eugene Betz is entitled to three votes
reserved during the recount of Mon
roe ballots, which re-elects him by
two votes over Charles Hoyt
Earl Shippey died in a Muskegon
hospital, the result Of the shortage Of
! houses in Muskegon. Shippey was
forced to live in a tent and contracted
pneumonia, which proved fatal.
Mrs. Estelle Agans and Mary Trapp,
Chicago, were painfully injured near
Marquette when an automobile driven
! by Donald Begole, son of Mayor Be-
COLE, capsized in country road.
Three serious auto accidents, two
reckless, occurred in Flint within
twenty-four hours. The drivers fgur-
ing in two of them raced away, leav-
ing their victims, in one case a child,
! lying on the street.
The burning of the Hotel Wisteria,
the finest hotel at Fouch, Mich,
makes the fourth summer resort hotel
to be destroyed by fire in two years.
The Wisteria was a 20-room structure,
owned by a Chicago syndicate.
Beginning May 1, the Grand Rap
ids. Grand Haven & Muskegon Electric
railway put on six limited cars be-
tween Muskegon and Grand Rapids,
reducing the time consumed in max
ing the trip almost 20 minutes.
Enrolment of Michigan University
for the academic year 1916-1917 shows
an increase of 357 students over any
previous year, according to figures
given out here by Registrar Arthur G..
Hall through the university catalogue.
The new enrolment is 1914
Roy M. Johnson, until recently liv-
the Review and Herald and Pilgrim
publishing plants, had dreams of
wealth and left home to make them
come true. Word was received that
Johnson has recently realized $780,
600 in Oklahoma oil investments.
The Carnegie hero fund commission
at Pittsburgh, recognized fifty-two acts
of heroism in various parts of tll
country; two of them in Michigan.
The Michigan people are Mrs. Eva
E. Prince, OF Mason, and Frederick
Hellenga, deceased, of Three Oaks.
Michigan mine owners, manufac-
turers, agriculturists, merchants, ves-
sci owners and other business men
who employ from a modest squad to
thousands of workers, are facing a
labor famine. The labor shortage is
said to be she most serious in the
history of the state.
The force Of mail carriers for the
city of Muskegon numbering 20 men,
will be more than doubled by July 1,
is the prospect as the result of stats
tics just obtained. They show an in
crease in the weight of mail coming
into Muskegon of nearly 30 per cent.
When word reached him that his
mother was critically i'll, Walter Hud-
son quit his job in Albuquerque, n.
NJ, and fastened to Cadillac, only to
learn she had been buried several
days. While he was grieving over this
news officers arrested him for desert
ing the United States army at Fort
Bliss two years ago.
Grand Rapids society matrons, who
entertained Arthur Warren Waite last
Christmas when he was in Grand Rap