The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1916-12-02
State
Happenings

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Bay City.-Alfred Rees, chauffeur
for William ID. Gordon, who was
burned by the explosion of a can OF
gasoline October 81, Is dead of his In
juries. A wife and three children sur
vive.
Monroe.-John, the four-year-old
son of Anthony Zeigler, was almost
instantly killed here when he was
struck by the east-bound passenger
train on the Adrian division of the
Lake Shore railroad.
Grand Rapids.-Miss Laura Bonynge
Wlshart, daughter of Rev. and Mrs. A.
w. Wishart, of Fountain Street Bap-
list church, was married to Lieut.. Gill
bert Smith Brownell, Seventeenth
United States infantry.
Adrlan.-While Roscoe Patterson
of Addison was teaching Herman
Flick to drive Patterson's automobile
in Fisk's yard, the wrong foot lever
was accidentally used, driving the car
into the corner of Fisk's porch, on
which little Arnold Fisk, aged two
years and three months, was sitting.
The child was instantly killed. He
had insisted on sitting on the porch SO
he could watch daddy"
Grand Rapids.-Raymond c. Neu-
becker, twenty-six years old, was
killed instantly and four others were
injured when the automobile driven
by Neubecker was crowded over a ten
foot embankment, eight miles east of
Grand Rapids, when an approaching
autoist failed to dim his lights. Miss
Jennie Curran, twenty years old,
of Miss Curran, and two brothers were
injured.
Alma.-Silas Moody, former men,
Der of the state legislature, and a
pioneer citizen of Gratiot county, is
dead at his home near here at the age
of seventy-seven. Moody was MEM
Der of the state legislature in 1892
and the father of the bill providing
for the testing of Illuminating oils.
For % years he was an official Of the
Gratiot Agricultural society and for
80 years continuously a Sunday school
superintendent.
Mt. Clemens.-Guilty of murder in
the second degree was the plea of Mrs.
Emil Petit when arraigned before
Judge Tucker In the circuit court and
a crowded courtroom was sorely disap-
pointed at the failure of the trial to
proceed as per schedule. Mrs. Petit,
a victim of unreasoning jealousy, shot
and killed her husband, Roy Petit,
on North Walnut street on the morn
ing Of August II. He was night clerk
ut the Medea hotel.
Marshall.-Fear that infantile paraly-
sis might become epidemic among local
school children was expressed after
health authorities determined Miss
Laura Greenfield, teacher, is vic
tim. Frances Leach, also teacher,
was quarantined when she showed
symptoms. Daily examinations of all
the children taught by the two strick-
en- teachers will be made. This Is the
first case of infantile paralysis that
has been reported here.
Grand Rapids.-Michiga State Hor-
ticultural society will hold its forty
sixth annual meeting here December 8
to Z. Horticultural machinery, spray
material and other accessories will be
exhibited. b. G. Case, Sodus N. Y;
G. Z. Bassett, Washington, d. c.; Prof.
Aubrey Tealdi. University of Michi-
gan, Ann Arbor; Prof. III. Eusatee,
Michigan Agricultural college Ian
sing; George Friday, Coloma Leon J.
Baker, Traverse City Eugene Hart,
Middleport, n. Y; George Low, Ban
gor; c. F. Schneider, Grand Rapids;
A. j. Rogers, Jr.. Beulah; Prof. II. III.
Petit, Michigan Agricultural college,
Lansing, and J. II. Carmody, Lansing,
will speak. Mrs. Alta L. Ludwick and
Miss Letitia Foster, Cloverdale, will
tell their experiences In the fruit busi-
ness.
Holland.-Henry Geerlings, former
mayor of Holland. and president of the
Ottawa County Sunday School asso-
citation, was elected president of the
Michigan Sunday School association
and Detroit was selected as the next
convention city. Other officers elected
are: Vice presidents, w. b. Phillip,
Battle Greek; Rev. e. e. Branch,
Ionia; J. II. Nisbet. Twining; S. II.
Meyers. Flint; George G. Higbee, Mar
quette; r. s. Taylor. Pickford. Men,
bers Of the executive committee, two
years, to fill vacancy of Eugene @. Fos-
ter of Detroit, james Schermerhorn,
Detroit; three years, w. NJ. G. Reed,
Jackson; Rev. James Gleason, Boyne
City; Rev. d. Fl. Glass, Bay City; II.
s. Campbell, Port Huron: John Griggs,
Calumet :. L. N. Fuller, Farwell. The
Offices of secretary and treasurer, now
held respectively by F. s. Goodrich and
u. X. Mohr. are filed by the executive
board.
Iron Mountain.-Three persons of
Homestead, WIS.,, narrowly escaped
death near the outskirts of this city
when the team and wagon In which
they were riding was struck by the
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