The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1916-06-09
THE Manistique Handle factory was
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An unidentified foreigner at Flint
was killed in the collapse of trench.
His neck was broken.
Fire early in the morning at
Grand Rapids, partially destroyed the
Grand Rapids Union high school.
A bandit who entered the Farmers
National Bank of Richland, was
frightened away and escaped in an
auto.
DR.. A. C. Sheldon, 35 years a den
tist of Three Rivers, was found dead
in bed. Apoplexy is believed the
cause.
Herman Smith, aged nineteen, at
Grand Rapids, lost his life while
trying to rescue Alton Simpson from
drowning.
Charles Rexford, aged rs, pioneer of
Ypsilanti, is dead. He was senior
member of the S. X. Rexford's Sons
firm there.
Dora, 6, daughter of VIM. YAK, OF
Bay City, mistook strychnine tab
lets for candies, ate some and died an
hour later.
Mrs. Wallace Chamberlain, sixteen
years old, a Bay City wife, who
took poison with suicidal intent, is
out of danger.
Will Higgins, aged %, living near
Sand Lake, was kicked in the back
of the head by horse and his condi-
ton is critical.
Mrs. Anna May, residing north Of
Flint drank two ounces of poison
She was rushed to a hospital and
pumped out and may live
Kalamazoo opened a public market.
Farmers and truck growers have been
granted the use of a street where they
may sell anything they grow.
The village of Lyons in Ionia county
is anxious to get rid of it's Jail
and the clerk has been authorized to
advertise for bids. Lyons is dry.
Charles Pease, aged forty-eight
laborer, East Douglass, Mass, fell off
a northbound train and had both legs
cut off below the knees, at Monroe.
Friends of Jas. Hazard, Colon, are
unable to find any trace of him. Haz-
gard drove his automobile to Vicks-
burg, that was the last seen of him.
West Branch is to have a Fourth
Of July celebration, with parade, fire.
works, creased pig and everything
else that goes to make up a glorious
Fourth.
The police of Kalamazoo are re-
ceiving complaints from numerous
cottage owners at surrounding lakes
that Htheir cottages have been broken
into recently and much damage done
A body found off the Atlantic City,
~ j., coast was identified as Mrs
Gertrude Mckay, aged fifty-five, of
Detroit Authorities say the visitor
committed suicide on becoming des.
pondent over her inability to get work
The Reverend Seth Reed Of Flint,
the grand old man Of Michigan Meth
odism," celebrated his ninety-third
birthday June 2. A reception for the
venerable clergyman took place at his
home.
While Chas. Piedmont and family
were asleep at their Flint store
dynamite bomb blew out the front Of
his grocery store, wrecking the in
terror of the building. The Piedmonts
escaped injury.
Mrs. d. S. Fotheringham, Of Bay
City, the wife af the cashier Of the
Farmers State bank, died at Mercy
hospital after an operation. Mrs Foth-
eringham was born at STAFFORD, Ont,
forty-three years ago.
Jno. l. Gibson, located at Marquette,
secretary of the Western Michigan
Development bureau, has been elected
secretary and manager of the Upper
Peninsular Development bureau at
salary Of So 900 year.
Rev. N. L. Otis, preacher of Bloom
er township, Montcalm county, is
dead. after an active career. He was
chaplain of the Eighth Michigan cav
airy during the civil war and for many
years a justice Of the peace.
Maccabee bodies, the Ladies of
the Modern Maccabees, The Macca-
bees of the World and the Woman's
Benefit association, will erect memo
rial to the memory of the late Major
n. S. Boynton in Port Huron.
Mrs. J. Kruger, died at Sand Lake,
supposedly of heart disease. She and
her husband were motoring from Spar
ia to Millbrook She was carried from
the car into nearby residence and
died before a physician could be sum-
moned.
Reverend FIR. A. c. Coignard, Bay
City priest, curate at ST. Joseph's
church, received word of the death OF
MS brother, Lieutenant Emil Co1gnaro
of the French army, on the field Of
battle in one of the bloody Verdun
charges.
Although aged Sc, G. A. Rath, civil
war veteran and the man who as pro-