The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1916-07-21

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in vain endeavor to save from drown
ing her five-year-old brother Joe.
C. r. Gildart, son of W. B. Gildart,
editor of Albion Leader, and a JUNIOR
in Albion college. has gone to West
Point.
The body of John Pyant, an Indian
about Harbor Springs who has
been missing since July 4. was found
in Little Traverse Bay.
Grand Rapids reports that It
has three cases of infantile par.
alysis. Doris Allen three years old,
is the latest victim to the disease.
Bortell brothers, fishermen employ.
! ed around Luuington, found in their
nets rock sturgeon measuring Z feet
in length and weighing $50 pounds.
Nursing her child. whom she final.
ly saved from death, following an at.
tack of scarlet fever, Mrs. Herman
Roundhouse died of the same dis.
ease at Muskegon.
Daniel Stivers, old resident of south
ern Michigan, died at his home in
Litchfield. Mr.. Stivers was 101 years
of age in April and had lived in the
county since he was young man.
The death of Mrs. L. G.. Ripley,
wife of Montague druggist, brough:
to a tragic conclusion a romance that
began in the days preceding the civil
war, and eliminated in March, 1916.
Frank Bieschke, resident of Mecos
ia, aged p ears, was kicked
/ by colt. His left arm was shattered
from his shoulder to the elbow, ribs
were broken and one lung punctured.
With minor changes from it's original
draft, Kalamazoo's new lucent gas
ordinance, under which the Michigan
Light company will operate, was
adopted by unanimous vote of the
city council.
The grist mill at Hesperia. which
has been landmark in that part
OF the county for half a century, has
been sold by Duncan McCallum to
Read Speas of Whitehall, the con.
sideration Icing $4,000.
The fifty-siXth wedding anniversary
Of Mrs. and Mrs. A. c. Proctor was
observed at st. Joseph. MIR. Proctor
is the only surviving delegate to the
Republican convention that nominated
Lincoln to the presidency
Charles j. COrby, an automobile
owner of Detroit, was taken in Gus
tody by Sheriff Hartway on the charge
of manslaughter, in the case of John
Reckinger, who died while with Cor
by in an auto accident at Mt. Clemens.
The first Flint lawsuit was dismis.
sed by Circuit Judge Mark w. Stew
ems after seventy-nine years. The
suit was an attachment, and was
brought in 1887 by Chancey Bogue,
against Timothy ]. Walling
Scalded by water, which he spilled
down over the entire front of his body
when he pulled over a pail two-year-
old Thadeus Jowar, son of Mr.. and
Mrs John Jowar, already suffering
from measles, now lies fatally injured.
at Muskegon.
Mrs. Sarah ]. Collins, of Muskegon,
the wife of Sheriff Fred J. Col
Inns, wanted on a charge of having
aided and abetted Joe Bodnar, of De-
troit, and John Brown, of Chicago in
making their escape from the Muske.
gon county jail, fled but was found at
Jackson.
The dying statement made at Mus.
kegon by August Green the aged
carpenter, who was run down and
killed by John Musuadian, a taxi cab
driver, is counted upon by the latter
to free him from a charge Of man
slaughter, pending against him.
For the first time in sixteen years
at Albion, the voters of the To-.
cal school district chose women mem
bers Of the board of education at the
annual meeting. Mrs. K. d. Davis and
Mrs. George Brown each president of
local women's clubs were elected.
A rattlesnake-dog fight was an excit-
ing affair on farm of Benjamin Arndt
at Hamilton The dog attacked the
reptile until it was dead. The snake,
however bit the dog so badly the ami
nal had to be killed. Arndt secured
seven rattles for the loss Of his dog.
Forgetfuness of Mrs. Fred j. Col
Inns, Jail matron, and wife of the
sheriff of Muskegon county, who left
the jail door unlocked, was respon'
sible for the escape Of two of the
most important prisoners locked up
in the county Jail.
II. NJ. Loud and Son Lumber com
pany and Bruce Loud, transferred all
their holdings on the Au Sauble riv
er and shore Of Lake Huron, which
includes $4,000 acres, to a co-partner
ship composed by Selig Solomon,
Joseph H. Hayes, and Frank f. Cow.
ley.
Reconciliation with Duane Mo-
sher, assistant attorney general, to
whom she had been engaged, having
| failed, Miss Norah Barterm, twen-
| ty-seyen-year-old sChoOlteacher of Port