The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1916-12-15

Veart van Wyck, ninety-three years
old, was found dead in bed by rela-
tives at Grand Rapids.
Georgis w. Harris, seventy-six
years old. civil war veteran, of Mason,
died at his home of heart disease.
Walter X. Plumb, for three years
secretary of the Grand Rapids Associa-
ton of Commerce, has resigned, effec-
tive January /.
Mrs. Elizabeth Sutherland, ninety
four years old, the Oldest resident of
Genesee county, died at Flint after an
illness of nearly year.
Hughes plurality in Michigan was
in round numbers, $4,000, while Albert
e. Sleeper led the state ticket with a
plurality of almost 100000.
In the Eaton Rapids municipal cleo.
ton l.. ]. Smith was elected commits.
sioner, William d. Wagner assessor.
and Wallace B. Bunker constable.
Don A. Hubbell, lifelong resident
of Ionia, died suddenly while on a
| Pere Marquette train between Ionia
and Grand Ledge. of heart disease.
Hunters in the woods of John Witt,
in Macomb county, found the body of
Charles Pouse, painter of Mt.
Clemens, hanging from the limb of a
| tree.
The Casualty Company of America
has voluntarily withdrawn all of its
business from Michigan, according to
notice served on the insurance COM
missioner.
Eight year old Louis Jolly, son of
Euclid Jolly, broke through the ice on
Trap Rock river, at Lake Linden, and
drowned in twenty feet of water. He
was playing hockey.
Ambrose Cox of Cedar Creek saved
the four year old son of e. Baker, of
Doster, from being devoured by
pig when he beat off the animal, which
was biting the boys head.
William d. Brown, aged seventy
seven years, pioneer vessel master
of the lakes and business man of Port
Huron, is dead. Captain Brown sailed
the lakes from 1848 until 1886.
Another big increase in the number
of counties offering the service of
agricultural agents will be made next
year, according to DR.. Eben Mumford
state superintendent of county agricul-
tural agents.
Apparently blinded by the rain, Mrs.
Jennie Burdick, forty-two years old,
stepped in front of Jackson Grass
Lake interurban car at crossing
two miles east of Jackson and was in
stantly killed.
Lucius Stockbridge, seventy-eight
years old, pioneer Of Ingham county
and veteran of the civil war, was
burned to death at his home, one mile
south of Stockbridge, while burning
marsh on his farm.
Labor day, which for many years
has marked the opening of the Michi-
gan State Fair, will not do so in 1917.
Next years fair will start Friday, Au-
gust 81, closing ten days later. Sun
day, September 9.
Harry underwater, Detroit, taken
to the Ann Arbor hospital suffering
from smallpox, is a brother of the
University of Michigan messenger
who makes the rounds of the other
buildings on the campus twice day.
Andrew Jackson, farmer residing
four miles east of Wayland, was killed
and his wife suffered double fracture
of the right limb when an auto in
which they were riding was struck by
a south-bound interurba.i car at Mar
tin.
Figures announced by Secretary
Towne of the Chamber of Commerce
showed the wage increase in Kalama-
zoo the last year had been more than
$4,500,000, and that this city's plants |
were paying their workmen $780, |
600 annually.
Satisfied that the high cost of living |
in Grand Rapids Is caused by question
able methods, Circuit Judge John s. |
Mcdonald has determined to call a
grand jury to investigate charges of
unlawful combinations and agree
ments among dealers in foodstuffs.
When county canvassers who were
conducting recount for John L. Do
land, Democratic candidate for drain
commissioner, opened the ballot box
of the Ninth precinct of Battle Creek
they found 1913 split ballots which the
election board had failed to count.
Flint officials at st. Joseph identified
Frank Rainey, committed to the state
criminal insane hospital from Berrien
county in November for the robbery
of the Eau Claire bank, as the man
who on October murdered and rob- /
bed Neal j. Berston, real estate dealer
of Flint.
In the release of two men from Mar
quette, Joshua F. Cooper and William
Croft, the governor brought to an end
the famous Painesdale murder cases
OF the copper strike of 1913. Both men
were Waddell-Mahon guards, brought
in for special strike duty by the cop
per operators.
While playing store with her moth
er's medical cabinet. Hazel Allen,
eleven year old daughter of Mrs e.
M. Allen, matron of one of the board
ing clubs at M. A. c., at Lansing,
drank bichloride of mercury and is
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