Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1916-01-20

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The fine new Sault Ste. Marie
International hotel was burned, caus
ing loss estimated at $3.50. 900.
J. T. Witt. 80. OF near Saginaw, was
killed by a Pere Marquette train at
the Wadsworth street crossing.
The government has purchased land
at the corner OF Sheldon and Porte ge
streets as a site for Houghton's new
postoffice.
By order of the city schools at Nc
Balm were closed and public meetings
prohibited because OF diphtheria and
scarlet fever.
Lucy, twelve-year- daughter OF
Frank Brunais. was killed in coast
ing accident, near her home, two miles
north of Chief.
Saginaw health figures for 1918
show a startling death rate for pneu
monia in Saginaw. II was nearly 100
per cent mortality.
o. =. Chatfield of Escanaba has
refused a war order contract from the
Russian government which would have
amounted to $4,000
BY the judicature act Muskegon
county circuit court will abandon
500 cases for various reasons. some
dating back to 1853
G.. A. Bailey a Port Huron politician,
pleaded not guilty TO charge OF
breaking and entering a home with
intent to commit a serious offense.
Teddy, 4. son OF j a. Atchanowski
Of Grand Rapids, who was frightfully
burnc several days ago by falling in.
to a bucket OF boiling water is dead
Jesse Martin, keeper of an al
legged resort, VIII serve ninety days in
The county jail Judge Frederick re.
fused to accept a ine in lieu of the Jail
sentence
Police seek Pearl Kellogg, seven.
teen. o. Grand Rapids, and Clair May.
nard, OF Three Rivers. The girls par
ents fear she had cloped and married
Maynard
Many Canadians are turned back by
the immigration officials at Port
Huron on the ground that they were
endeavoring to avoid military service
in Canada.
All rural ministers are invited &c
attend "a country life conference at
the Michigan Agricultural college,
February 29 and March 1. in connec.
ton with Farmers week.
l.. E. Burroughs, a Hillsdale boy
who set out TO walk 1000 miles from
Lansing to Savannah. Ca, on reach
ing Knoxville, Tenn, had made an
average OF 25 miles a day.
Sixteen sisters OF the Carmelite order
have come from Mexico to Grand
Rapids. They will probably be furnish.
ed site by Bishop Richter on which TO
build a permanent home.
Fred F. Royce, son OF c. G. Royce,
Escanaba banker. and assistant cashier
in his fathers bank in that city, was
married to Miss Mona Burch of Petos
key. The bride is fond of athletics.
Cary Foelker. 80. employed 70 rthe
last fifteen years on the Buldabuck
dairy farm. near Saginaw, was tramp
tempting to put the animal in stall.
Mrs. Thomas Chettrick OF Escanaba,
was burned to death, while her hus.
band received severe burns about the
face and arms in an Intellectual at.
tempt to rescue her as the Chettrick
home was destroyed by fire
While standing beside the grave
into which the body Of Mrs. Henry
Vorencamp. a life long friend. was be
ing lowered Charles A. Coburn. of
Pavilion township near Kalamazoo.
fell unconscious and died at his home.
George II. Ferry. sixty-three. Oldest
locomotive engineer in western Michi-
gan, died after a shor Illness at Grand
Rapids Starting forty-two years ago.
when wood was used in the engines.
he served continuously on the G. r.
e.
Loud laughter of several dozen
pedestrians in the Cadillac business
district was silenced when John Swan.
son. sixty years old. who fell on
slippery walk failed to rise. When
doctor rushed TO his aid he found him
head
Physicians who have attended her
state Mrs. William Swank, wife of a
wealthy farmer. near Grand Rapids.
who set fire to the farm buildings Sat.
urday afternoon and came near los
ing her life before being dragged out.
will probably recover
An investigation at Battle Creek
in connection with the death OF Ed
mund b. Rosemann, son of Frank X.
Rosemann of St Louis, Mo-, who was
killed by train Saturday night, re-
suited in a report that he was killed
while "dazed and incompetent"
Warrants were issued at Big Rapids
after a sensational raid on the Weling
rooming house The raid resulted i'm
the apprehension of three men on the
roof and three women who attempted
the roof exit. but were dissuaded by
an officers revolver. One OF the men
is a student.
There is more Catarrh In this section
OF the country than all other diseases
put together. and for years IL was sup
posed to be incurable. Doctors pre-
scribed local remedies. and by constant
ly falling to cure with local treatment,
pronounced IL incurabie. Catarrh In a
local disease. greatly influenced by con-
stitutionai conditions and therefore re-
quires constitutional treatment Halis
Catarrh Cure, manufactured by f. J.
Cheney a Co. ToledO Ohm IN n cOnatf-