The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1916-12-08
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NEW|S BRIEES

Reed Shirley, of Lansing, and Her
bert Walther, of Roscommon, both re
ceived a charge of buckshot in the
knees while hunting.
At Romeo neighbors broke into the
home of Mrs. Betsy Westbrook, aged
ninety, and found her deaa on the
floor of an upstairs room.
| j. w. McShea dropped dead OF
heart failure at the home of one of his
neighbors. Mr.. McShea had been a res.
ident of Boyne City since 1871.
The report that the Crosby Trans
portation company has sold three of
its steamers to an eastern syndicate is
credited by agents of the company at
Port Huron.
Mrs. Myra Gibbs, a nurse at Eaton
Rapids for many years, died at the
University Of Michigan hospital in
Ann Arbor, where she underwent sur
gical operation.
According to an estimate made pub
| lie by directory publishers, Flint now
has a population of more than $4,000
people. a gain of nearly 10000 people
over last year.
After remaining away from st. Jo-
seph for more than three months, Mrs.
Fred Butrick, charged with bootleg
ging, who forfeited $500 bail, has re-
turned to face prosecution.
Edward A. Weber, foreman at
the Central Paper company plant at
Muskegon, was hurt when Frank En-
gel, another employee, fell fifteen feet
from ladder upon Weber.
DR.. George L. Lefevre, Muskegon
physician and president of the state
board of medical examiners, received
several broken ribs, when his auto
mobile skidded into a ditch
Milk producers of Calhoun county
have won their fight for 1925 per hun.
dred pounds of milk, which means
that the public will hereafter pay nine
cents quart instead of 03ht.
The public whipping post as pun
ishment for persons who violate their
marriage vows was advocated by Rev.
w. H. w. Boyle in a sermon on "the
safeguards of the modern home"
With the arrival at Jackson prison of
James Walton, the Burroughs pay car
robber, there had come from Detroit
in the last eight days twenty-one con-
victs on sentences ranging from nine
months to life.
Tired of life, Charles H. Hodges,
aged 81. of Cadillac, living at the
Nf h o f,,r
ers of the gas stove and went to bed.
When the daughter came home the
old man was dead.
Mistaking gasoline for kerosene and
pouring 1t on fire, Mrs. John Lid
beck, residing on a farm at Home
stead, Wis, a few miles from Iron
Mountain, received burns from which
she died few hours later.
Mark R. Bacon, congressman-elect
from the Second congressional dis
,trict, spent S437.40 for campaign pur-
poses, according to his report of ex-
penses filed in the county clerks Of
flee. All his expenditures were for
printed advertisements.
A veteran of the civil war, James /.
Mather, seventy-five years old, drop
ped dead at his home at Muskegon
while talking to DR.. J. F. Denslow, his
physician. For nearly a quarter of a
century Mr.. Mather was engaged in
the abstract business at Joliet. Ill.
Kalamazoo officials. business men
and private citizens, at a meeting
called by Mayor Balch, took steps to
relieve the poor of the city from aay
suffering from the present high prices
of coal and also provided for thor
ough probe of the fuel shortage at
Kalamazoo.
At the high school auditorium a
bronze tablet was presented to the
women of the Oakland County Hos
pital association, in commemoration
OF their work in building the hospital,
which they gave outright to the city
a year and half ago, when it was
appraised at $4,000.
According to statements of mem.
bers of the state board of health, the
board, in its tuberculosis survey
throughout Michigan, has examined
more persons for tuberculosis in one
campaign than any other
organization has ever done before in
the history of the world.
A sentence of eighteen months to |
five years in Jackson penitentiary, |
with recommendation that he be re. |
leased at the expiration of two and |
one half years, was imposed on Harry |
F. Irvine by Circuit Judge Nelson
Sharpe at Kalamazoo of which place
Irving was formerly municipal clerk. |
Finley McLaren, chief engineer of |
the Pere Marquette line, and an en-
gineer on the lakes for the last thirty.
five years, is at his home at Luding-
ton recovering from two broken ribs
and painful injuries sustained when |
he fell down shaft from the deck of |
carferry No. Is, striking the side of
the opening.
In the recent election in Arenac
county the vote on sheriff was found |
On first returns to be a tie between
Sheriff Glasure on the Republican
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