The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1916-03-24
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10 All NldS6cS OF hSducTas
Muskegon County Cleaners at their
quarterly session, adopted resolutions
in favor of statewide prohibition.
l.. F. Hake, travelling man living in
Grand Rapids, claims to be the first
person in the state to cast vote by
mail.
Mrs. Sarah Witherell, a Michigan
pioneer, is dead at the age Of eighty
years. For seventy years she had re-
sided in Hudson.
Second Lieut.. f. B. Curtis, Company
sc, Pythian uniformed rank, has been
appointed aid to Brigadier-General
Rays, with rank of major.
With double the cases of scarlet
fever in Michigan now as at this time
last year, state health officials are be-
ginning to fear a general epidemic.
The seniors of the state Normal
College at Ypsilanti has won the
thirteenth annual senior-junior girls
indoor meet by score of $50 2-3 to
744 IL.
The 500 railroad will construct a
new s1,5O0,00O concrete ore dock as
soon as weather conditions permit.
The new docks will have $50 ore peck
cts. rs on a side.
After removing his lodge pin, while
at Grand Rapids, C. S. Coburn,
Berlin, Mich, real estate dealer, end
ed his life In his room at local hotel
early in the morning.
Stanley O'Mara. residing south Of
500, has been arrested by Sheriff
Bone and Deputy Sayors. on suspicion
Of having drowned his two young sons
In a well February 10.
The Albion city police force d.
rected by City Manager Remley, raid
ed the Commercial hotel, arresting
four men and two boys and confiscat-
ing several gallons Of liquor.
Aaron Strimbeck. aged 70, of Ply
mouth, Ind, civil war veteran. who
came to Hastings one week ago to
visit his brother whom he had not
seen for ten years, is dead.
Heirs of the late John Torrent,
OF Muskegon, one of the earliest
western Michigan lumbermen, who
died leaving an estate of 100000,
have begun proceedings to set aside
his will.
George Serr, prominent farmer of
near Corunna and former super
visor of Venice township, waived ex-
animation when arraigned on the
charge of selling diseased meat to
Corunna markets.
Charles Walton, a Pontiac man,
injured in the Grand Trunk yards,
died at his home. The body was TAX
en- to Port Huron, his former home,
by relatives. He is the third railroad
victim in his family.
John E. Peck, 70, one of the pioneer
business men of Grand Rapids and
president of the Peck Drug company,
one of the largest drug firms in the
state, died at the home of his daugh-
ter in New York city
Jacob Steffes, active politician and
postmaster of Lake Linden and form
er city clerk and justice of the peace,
charged with embezzlement and forg
cries aggregating $1,000 while clerk,
declares be is being made "the goat"
Enough pledges by Charlotte people
have been obtained to insure the
condensary to be built by the Dry
Milk company of New York. Sparta
and Ionia stood ready to take up with
the proposition in the event Charlotte
failed
A petition by Stephensonites to
use the high school building In which
to organize a commercial club was so
worded by practical joker that, after
all the taxpayers in town signed, it
asked permission to meet in the
belfry.
Auditors employed by the county
to 20 over Saginaw county treas
urer's books announce that during the
last twenty years interest collected by
the incumbents and retained by them
from money placed in special funds
had amounted to $39,SS5.37.
John Leaders, Muskegon, who was
speeding to the bedside of his son-in-
law, ]. d. 10Y, of Oak Park, ILL.,, lost
his race with death. Upon arriving
at his destination, Leaders learned
that his wifes brother. Michael Muir
ach, of Wilno. Ont, had died.
Through an uncle's estate in Cali
fornia, Mrs. S. w. Cogsan, wife of a
local florist, received $4,000, and her
sister, Miss Belle Stewart, $4,000,
and their brothers, Joseph G. and
Glen r. Stewart, members of the firm
of Stewart & Sons, $4,000 each.
Grand Rapids officials who are "join.
ers" for political purposes were given
a scare following a raid of the club
rooms of the Ancient Order of Aaks,
where "blind tiger" was found in
full operation, and on the membership
of the order the names of about every
public Office holder in the city.
The authorities Of Grand Rapids
have stationed guard around the lit.