The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1916-03-31
MICHIGAN NEWS
ITEMS IN BRIEF
Paragraphs Of interest to VOL
VERNE State Readers.
News of All Kinds Gathered From
Various Points In the State and So
Reduced In Size That Ii viii Appeal
to All Classes of Readers.


About $3.50 miles of good roads will
be built in Michigan during the year.
Elkton, near Bad Axe, came very
near losing portion OF its business
section by fire.
A military company to be known
as the Reading guards, has been
formed in that city.
The beautiful Methodist church at
Marion was destroyed by fire. The
loss, $1,000, is fully covered by in
surance.
A pulmotor used at Bay City saw
ed the infant son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
George Schneider, who was born ap-
parently dead
Services for Dr. Edward j. Walton.
aged eighty years, at Richmond, after
a lingering illness, were held under
Masonic auspices.
VIM. English, aged 50, of Caldwell,
died at the home of his son, DR.. ALI
English, at Saginaw. He was resi-
dent Of Saginaw sixty years.
With about $4,000 in deposits, and
OWlA6 SGVJVOVp tAC i1dhh VI w OA-
ford, owned by Edward F. Conine and
his mother Johanna Conine, closed its
doors.
Thirty-six cans of $4,000 speckled
trout were received at West Branch
from the state hatcheries at Grayling
for distribution in the streams in the
vicinity.
Ray Chambers, who formerly was
at Charlotte rural letter carrier, is
dead at Denver, Col, where he had
been for several months with tuber-
culosis
John Simon, who had been
resident Of Saginaw since his birth
in 1856, died suddenly from heart dis
ease at his farm houme in Spaulding
township.
T. E. Hook, principal of the South
Haven high school for about two
years, has been elected superinten.
dent Of schools to succeed Donald p.
McAlpine.
Eugene Pizzi Italian miner, employ
ed at Houghton, was killed in a quar-
rel at his boarding house. Sebatoni
Stefani, another miner, was accused
of shooting Pizzi
Cyril O'Toole, son of a Merrill farm
er, is at Saginaw recovering from
an operation to relieve pressure on
the brain from fracture of the skull
resulting from the kick of a horse.
In April $4,000 whitefish fry,
which have been raised in the govern
ment hatchery at Point Edward will
be turned loose in Lake Huron to
replenish the catch of last season
The bodies found at kalamazoo in
the Michigan Central yards were iden-
tilted as those of James L. Shea of
Middletown, Ohio, and John Woods of
New York. Both were paper makers.
Four children of Paul Schmidt,
living at Saginaw, the youngest aged
eighteen months, the oldest five years,
were buEned to death in their home.
Mrs. Schmidt was away when the fire
started
The public domain commission told
the Saginaw board of trade that it
will engage in experimental work in
growing basket willows, fiber plants
and other promising crops on lowlands
in the county.
Four women, of Iron Mountain,
Mrs ]. B. Eslick Mrs. ]. H. Kar-
keet, Mrs. w. c. Oliver and Mrs. l..
M. Hanson, walked to Norway, eight
and three-tenths miles, to take lunch
con with Mrs. NJ. Mullen.
The indignation which broke out
against Bishop Burt, of the Methodist
Episcopal Church in the Port HUI
ron conference, is said to have crop
ped out again in the lower peninsula
over the bishops alleged autocracy.
Ten-year-old Edward Thomas, Bay
City boy, was instantly killed by
an automobile driven by Frank
Walker. son of a prominent contrac-
tor, as he ran in front of the machine
from motor truck on which he was
riding.
Evening grosebecks have been
visiting Alma. The birds are extreme
ly rare in Michigan, as Michigan bird
histories do not record visit of these
birds to the Wolverine state since
LVVGs hO Oil 10 diC HALVES vi Wcb-
tern Canada.
Through the Houghton county farm,
farmers will have the opportunity
this year to purchase acclimated seed
oats. 1t is apparent that grains and
other farm products must become in.
ured to this climate before they can
be grown successfully.
Ward Gladding aged 80, clerk Of
the township OF Wilmot and candidate
for reelection, was struck by fall
ing tree and fatally injured in Thay.
er's lumber camp, 10 miles east OF
Wolverine. He was the son of ]. M.
C'a'ding, well-known pioneer Of that
county.
A man froth St Johns, legless
from tuberculosis and with one hand
missing through the same cause, at
tracted a good deal of attention in
Lansing when he was brought to the
state board OF health TO learn n the