The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1916-04-21

to All Glasses of Readers.
Michigan has a check from the
Pere Marquette railroad for $525, 900
in payment of state taxes.
! After over 40 years in business IN
Manistee, James Henderson has re-
! tired on account of i'll health.
Thrown from his rapidly moving
motorcycle, George Durkee, Of Jack
son suffered a fractured skull.
! A woman tramp startled Hillsdale
people by taking up her headquarters
on railroad property near the western
city limits.
| ABOUT so chicks burned when a
brooder building at the chicken ranch
Of Harm Vos, east of Grandville, was
destroyed by fire.
Geo. Klecker, aged 92 one of Living
stone countys pioneers, died at the
home of his son, Charles, on the lat
ter's farm near Oak Grove village.
John Dykema, Grand Rapids, about
o'clock in the morning sat up in bed
awakened his wife, then dropped back
dead Heart disease was the cause.
Governor Ferris announces that he
has appointed Hugh N. Nichols coun-
ty agent for Shiawassee and George
! N. Deadly as county agent for Huron.
A blaze at Grand Rapids did about
$500 damage to the Woolworth Five
and Ten Cent store, United Cigar
store and Dick Brink Clothing com
pany.
Mrs Clara Frisbie, of Chelsea, sew
enty years Of age, an inmate of the
old peoples home, committed suicide
by hanging herself to the bedpost in
her room
Returns of Mackinac county show
that the $4,000 bond issue for good
roads was carried by a large majority.
This makes a total issue Of $4,000
for good roads
Watts S. Humphrey. Of Saginaw
and seventy-two years of age, Michi-
gan lawyer widely known, for years
head Of the state bar association, is
dead of arterial sclerosis.
Arrangements for organizing the
entire state county by county between
now and September 1 were made at a
meeting of the executive committee of
the Michigan AntiSaloOn league.
Marquette may lose its unit Of the
naval brigade. The term of enlistment
has expired and many of the mem
bers have moved away from Mar
quette, making it doubtful if the di-
vision can he reorganized to it's need
ed strength
The coroners jury on the shoot
ing at the Manley farm near Mendon,
in which B. f. Manley, Richard Chal-
ney, James H. Chalney and w. H.
Marshall were the principals, and
Richard Chalney was killed, brought
in a verdict of wilful murder.
Mrs. NJ. d. Odds and her three
daughters, Florence, Blanche and
Gertrude, of Cheboygan, Mich, were
among the passengers picked up from
lifeboats by the British destroyer
when the Japanese steamship Chiyo
Maru grounded off Hong Kong.
An attempt was made at Battle
Creek to wreck the eastbound Pull
man train on the Michigan Central,
due in Battle Creek at 1926 p. M, by
piling three big ties across the tracks
near the Advance Rumely plant. The
ties were knocked aside by the en-
CINE.
Rose Jovihik, aged 16, pretty and
ambitious, of Ludington, tired Of the
humdrum life Of her town and joined
a vaudeville act that was playing at a
local theater in that city The young
lady was traced to Benton Harbor
where she was arrested and taken
home
Phoebe and Elsie Shawl Flint
tots, aged three years and eighteen
months, respectively, were burned to
death when fire, believed to have dig.
mated from an exploding oil stove,
destroyed the small tar paper home of |
their parents, Mr.. and Mrs. William |
Shawl.
BY the death Of Mrs. Margaret Den |
ringer, of near Monroe widow of |
Charles Denninger, Monroe county |
loses one OF its oldest residents. She |
was eighty years old and with her |
husband had lived sixty years in one
of the picturesque log cabins of Mon
roe county.
In movement to get an |
armory for the Muskegon Rifles of the
NJ N. c., the local Chamber of Com
MERGE has decided to make an active
campaign TO raise $4,000 to meet |
100000 to be furnished by the state
for a combined armory and conven-
ton hall building.
The state commission authorized to
make a survey of the existing system
Of relief for the poor in Michigan or
ganized in the Office of the state
board Of charities and corrections by
electing Benjamin p. Merrick Of
Grand Rapids chairman and Mari T.
Murray, OF the board Of charities and
corrections, secretary.
Governor Carlson of Colorado, IL
is reported, has pardoned Sher-
man w Morris, alias Frank Sher-
n Il