Alma record., 1916-02-10
Michigan News

William Sharp. OF Jackson, the
last OF a family .of thirteen children,
IS dead in Riyes township, at the age
of n'noty-hye years.
y severe FIRE burned the Bell Tele-
phone eX~iar-c and damaged five
business places in Portland. the total
damage be.ng $4,000
+ A. Ven Lew, q. s. Inspector OF
bc.ers and ono of the best known ma
rire men along the great lakes. died
at IS home a Port Huron.
arwin Miller was taken sick
a.euiy while crossing railroad
bridge at Albion and fell into the
kaiamazoo river, unconscious.
Jacob WuDiou, Houehton farmer, es-
caDed without a scratch when a South
Shore train smashed his cutter into
kindling wood and killed his horse
Crystal Falls is a candidate for the
upper peninsula branch of the state
laboratory. Ishpoming and Marquette
are other cities after the laboratory.
Alfred Baker took a cut across he
ice on the Grand river while riding
a bicyle at Jackson. lie was rescued
by workmen from a nearby factory.
Peace Justice T. j. Richmond. 60.
resident Of Manistee for thirty-five
years. is dead lie was a graduate of
the University of Michigan.
Bessemer will petition the govern
ment not to dispose Of Michigan side OF
the falls near the mouth of the Mon
treal river except at public sale.
The Baptist college at Kalamazoo
and the Baptist church OF Niles will
share equally in the residue of the es-
/ tate of Mrs. Cordelie Reed, who died
last month
The Cadillac stock OF the bank
auction to John Gienan, Of Kalkaska.
The stock. which inventoried at $751;
/ 600. sold for $500.
ID. Myken and son saved their lives
when driving on an unused road near
Laird by cutting down and burning q
telephone pole and keeping away a
pack of wolves that besieged them.
Simplified judicial system as outlined
in the judicature act of 1915, received
its first actual application when the
supreme court refused petition to re-
view a local optioH election case un-
der the new law
j. c. Hopper, leper, has left the Uni
versity of Michigan hospital. where
he was undergoing treatment. and is
living in a shack near Constantine. He
communicates with the rest OF the
world by telephone.
More than thirty out OF 100 per
sons were injured when an interurban
car bound from Flint for Saginaw
crashed into an empty south bound
special at Coldwater switch about a
mile and one quarter from Flint
Aunt julia Reed, 76, grange and
church worker. is dead at her home
in Onsted She was the oldest corre-
spondent In the service OF the Adrian
Telegram until a year ago. when she
resigned on account of Ill health.
With more than $50 foreign and
American students of the University
of Michigan and an orchestra OF so
pieces under professional direction.
the All-Nation Revue which is to be
produced by the local Cosmopolitan
club, March will be one OF the most
J elaborate productions ever staged 10
Ann Arbor
The will OF Adolph e. Guensburg. re-
tired merchant, who died suddenly In
st. Paul a few weeks ago, was filed
: for probate at Menominee and set the
: entire town buzzng with comment, for
the will contained a provision leaving
s75 900 in stocks and bonds to Miss
Narie Marcoullier, a young woman
employed in a department store which
Guensburg owned.
Mrs. Elizabeth Foss, a Bay City
widow her daughter Miss Edith Foss,
md her sons, Walter |. and Edgar b.
Loss. filed suit for 100000 against the
.ichigan Central railroad for damages
|, resulting in the death OF their hus-
band and father. the late Edgar b.
, Foss. millionaire lumber and coal OPP
orator. who was killed by train No
|. vember 26.
In order to punish members OF The
: BOARD of supervisors who refused to
,bey an order for the approval of q
bill for $50 worth of law books, Cir
1 :uit Judge Albert Widdis at Tawas
City fined and jailed supervisors T.
: 2. Robinson. OF Alabaster township;
John Scarf, of WILDER township. anl
: n. M. Delknap. of whittsmore Coey.
lsr csntsapt Of court. nf