Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1916-03-02


F. M. Cory, the owner OF Petoskey'l
three movie theaters. died suddenl,
OF hemorrage OF the stomach.
Christopher Dansby. aged IS,
we'll TO do pioneer living near Morrice
tried TO suicide by taking morphine.
building boom OF record siz'
Is promised in the city this spring
Many factories will make additions.
Charles Davidson. OF Alma. was al
most instantly killed when he fell OF
buzz saw and was sliced in two.
Owosso report says hog cholera has
broken out near Durand. j. o. Dickin
son lost sixteen of his herd in a week
Mrs. S. Priest, aged TO- Hancock, oil
the copper country for half a century
Is dead following an illness OF on,
year.
mystery fire destroyed 4 buildingi
and the stock OF six stores in Ne
gaunee. The loss is estimated al
$4,000
Claude Brookema was detected by
postal inspectors while he was allsg %
to have been rining mail pouches Al
Muskegon.
The Mackinac Transportation com
pany OF st. Ignace has cut IL.
rate for ferrying an auto across the
straits to $3.50.
Milo White, Lansing man, has
been appointed circuit court commits
sioner for Newsygo county by Gov
ernor Ferris.
Twenty-three horses were burned
to death at Grand Rapids in a fire
that destroyed the Otis H. Ryan livery
barns there.
The hearing at Lansing by the
railroad commission on the long and
short haul clause has been postponed
until March Z.
III. NJ. Lumsdep, OF Virden, ILL.,, the
literary student who was injured by q
Arbor, will recover.
Buried an hour by a cavein while
working in a sewer, Rober Tanser. a
contractor, was rescued uninjured BY
workmen at Marquette.
The Rev. J. A Keul, an Isbpemins
priest. pastor OF St Johns Catholic
church, celebrated his fortieth ami
versary in the priesthood.
The body OF Ebert S. Bryant. an
Ann Arbor student, OF Saginaw. who
was killed when struck by a fast
train, was sent TO his home
The International Mill and Lumber
company's plant, located at Bay City
was totally destroyed by fire OF unde.
termined origin. The loss is placed at
S250.000.
Twice in a day Gov. Ferris had TO
turn loose men brought before him
from Detroit on requisition papers. be
cause the men arrested were not the
men wanted
The bill for divorce field at Corun-
ma by Absalom l. Hallwill. eighty
two years OF age, retired Free Metho-
dist minister and veteran Of the civil
war, was dismissed by Judge Minor.
Three persons living around Rich
mond for many years are dead. They
are Mrs Warren Caughell. eighty-twO,
OF Columbus Mrs William Muggle-
burg. seventy-hve. and Mrs William
Craemer.
Public utility corporations OF the
state Of Michigan will pay taxes
on properties assessed at $258.Ot1 200
this year. according to a final an
nouncement made by the state tax
commission.
Valuable state records are thought
lost and State Dairy and Food Commits
sioner James Halme OF Adrian mar
rowly escaped death in a fire that
swept the old State Block, building
containing several state Offices.
r. Stephens. OF Cadillac. has been
appointed city manager, to succeed
O. r. Carr. who resigned two months
ago TO become city manager Of Mag
ara Falls. Stephens is graduate Of
Pennsylvania State college.
F. w Brown. living at St lgnace.
purchasing agent of the Duluth. South
Shore & Atlantic railway company
for nearly thirty years. retires to pri-
vate life March ]. after forty-eight
years OF active railroad service.
Avoiding flagman at a grade cross
ing on the Grand Rapids and Indiana
railway. William Sibides, nine years
old. attempted TO crawl under a train
at Grand Rapids. The engine started
up and ONE Of the lads legs was
crushed of.
Carrying out a threat repeated many
times to Flint neighbors in the last
few weeks. Mrs. Theodore Ischerland,
thirty-eight. mother OF four small chill
dren. leaped into a hole in the ice
which covers the Flint river and was
drowned.
James Shipper OF Grand Rapids
to celebrate his birthday took half
a roast chicken with him for lunch.
At noon. he mounted a truck to eat
his lunch but became suddenly Ill,
and died OF heart disease while on the
way to a hospital.
A college romance played out at
Marshall when Mrs Howard Kee-
fer. nineteen years old, began suit for
divorce. The couple were married a
year ago when Mrs. Keefer was
freshman and her husband a sopho
more in Albion college.
The authorities of Flint are
holding a jitney bus containing 100
bottles of whisky and twenty-four bot
ties of beer. waiting for a satisfactory
explanation of what the owner Of the
jitney bus. Omar A. James, proposed