The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1916-03-31
Helen A. Clark, pioneer resident or
Kent county, is dead at her home at
Grand Rapids

Mrs. c. Hardke. of Hastings, who
was found nearly dead from coal gas
asphyxiaticn died.
Jas. Mcleod, for many years en-
gagged in tie hotel business at Grand
Rapids, died of cancer.
October 16 to 10 are the dates for
the meeting OF the Michigan grand
lodge of Odd Fellows in Saginaw.
Triplets were born to Flint cou-
pie, Mr.. and Mrs. Nathan Kremosz.
I 2717 ST. John street All three are
boys.
r. Rogers, Grand Rapids, son of DR..
John r. Rogers, will leave soon for
France to join the American ambu-
lance corps.
! The annual 2-weeks spring va
cation at the Michigan Agricultural
College started Friday noon and will
contiue until April a.
James Kelley, aged ~, who came to
the Saginaw valley in 1862 from New
York, is dead. He was identified with
the lumber industry for many years.
A UNDERGROUND carbide gas tank
exploded in the foundry Of s.. Fair &
Son at Saginaw, injuring five men,
three of whom are in the hospital. One
may die.
A loss of $4,000, at Albion, was
/ caused by the burning of a garage
owned by ]. ]. Collmenter and w. d.
Pettibone Seven automobiles were
destroyed.
| The man or woman who finds
| the person who interfered with the
Holland fire departments weekly Ii
baton by pulling false alarm. will
receive $25 from the city.
Judge Chester l.. Collins OF Bay
City, of the Eighteenth judicial
district of Michigan is dead. He had
been vice president and president of
the Michigan Bar Association.
The Owosso high school has been
closed to remain so dntil after the
spring vacation next week because of
a quarantine being established by d.
rection of the state board Of health
Inspired by letter to a newspaper
written by widow who found getting
acquainted in Grand Rapids difficult
task, a social organization of unmar-
| ried middle-aged residents has been
| formed
Talks on fruit growing will be given
in Montcalm, Osceola, Wexford. Grand
Traverse and Emmett counties begin
ming April 8, it is announced by L. r.
Taft, of the Michigan Agriculture
College.
The law just passed giving mem.
bers of city fire departments one day
off in four and two ten-day furloughs
each year, was held unconstitutional
by Circuit Judge William Glover
Gage at Saginaw.
Just as Miss Kate McGivern, of
Coldwater and aged about seventy
five years, left her nephew's residence
and started to walk down town, she
fell dead. The probable cause of her
death was apoplexy.
Word from Los Angeles was re-
ceived by Muskegan friends of mar
riage of Mrs. Kate B. Young, sixty
eight years old, a widow of that city,
and Lafayette G. Ripley Of Montague,
aged seventy-three years.
A Grand Rapids matrimonial bu-
reau, it is alleged, put Mrs. Leah H.
Braden Of Ohio in communication
with Edgar Kilbourn of Otisco, and
now Mrs. Braden is here suing Kill
bourn for breach Of promise.
Sheriff Green, of Genesee county, re-
turned from Scranton, Pa, with Rich
ard p Canning, accused of forging and
/ passing a check for $4,000 on Tor
! onto bank, at Flint. The check was
! cashed by man named Hibbler, who
had just sold his house.
Governor Ferris ordered the return
to Ionia prison of Dr. Nicholas Gre
usels, who was paroled for the fourth
| time about four weeks ago. DR.. Gre
usels term will not expire until 1922,
and it is not believed that he will be
| paroled again.
On an alleged confession by a man
giving his name as Sam Strauss, in
which he says he was paid $210 for
firing the Benjamin Foster livery
barns at Brown City, Prosecuting At
torney Farr and Deputy Fire Marshal
Sam Robinson are seeking a man in
Detroit who is said to have paid to
have the property burned.
Gov. Ferris has paroled Mrs. Bertha
has issued a parole to Mrs. Bertha
Haker, sentenced from Clinton county
in 1910, to serve from seven and one
half to fifteen years at the Detroit
house Of correction for second degree
murder. Mrs. Haker pleaded guilty to
shooting her husband, John Haker.
She will reside with her children in
Clinton county.
The ID. S. S. & A. railroad Is fit
ting out, near ST. Ignace, a seed
special train which will visit the sta
tons on it's line and on the 500 line.
The train will be called the "Clov-
erland Seed Special" and the object
will be to teach the farmers how to
select the best varieties Of seeds, how
to prevent and treat smut and pota-
to scab, and how to prune, spray and