Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1916-01-27
MICHIGAN NEWS
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VERNE State Readers.
News Of All Kinds Gathered From
Various Points In the State and So
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to All Glasses Of Readers.
Alonzo Reynolds. ~, resident OF
Hillsdale county all his life, is dead.
Sam May, of Mt Pleaant, in the
clothing business for forty years, dice
of old age.
Bliss Bavin walked IA miles in zero
weather TO attend Y. M. c. A. meet
ing at Hillsdale.
Daniel Deneen, aged rs, was found
frozen to death in a shack In Auburn,
nine miles from Bay City.
The fourth scarlet fever victim in
Muskegon died when Walter Magnus-
SEN thirteen years old, succumbed
Miss Minnie Heck, former resident of
Adrian, died at Monroe at the home
of a relative, following a stroke OF
paralysis.
NJ. Keith, Traverse City, died at his
home after a long illness. He was a
veteran of the civil war and cast his
first vote for Abraham Lincoln
Lansing has a municipal woodpile.
Hereafter DRINKS and disorderlies will
get a chance to work out their SEN
fences Telling trees for the city.
The new building for the Ypsi-
lanti high school, costing $4,000, one
of the best equipped in the state, will
be ready for use about February /.
While the crowd passed his restau-
rant but did not come in, Lawrence
Wetzel, respondent over failure to get
business, swallowed a dose of carbolic
acid at Battle Greek.
Grand Rapids city has filed new
articles against City Treasurer James
S Hawkins, charging him with with
holding S39357 tax money Hearing
was set for Jan. 81.
After the L. S. government had
spent 1882 for the harbor of refuge
at Portage Lake. Mich. the war de-
partment recommended its abandon
ment to congress.
Starting May 10 and continuing for
two years the endowment committee
of the board will conduct campaign TO
increase the endowment of Alma col
lege to s1,0OO,OOO
owen Fletcher, 81, son of Daniel
Fletcher, OF Ann Arbor, was instantly
killed when he fell from a tree from
which position he was shooting rab-
bits while hunting.
Simplified spelling is accepted at
Michigan Agricultural college The
faculty, at a recent meeting, refused
to condemn the use OF some shorten
ed words in a college publication.
Mrs. Claude Lonergan, the Grand
Rapids woman who was overcome by
smoke and terribly burned in the fire
which destroyed her home and took
the life OF her four year old son, will
recover.
Workmen and dependents under
the provisions of the workingmen's
compensation law in Michigan were
paid s1,219.1OS during 1915. according
to the annual report of the state in.
dustrial accident board.
A romance honeymoon on the Tt
tanic ended in a Centerville divorce
court with the granting Of decree of
absolute divorce to Mrs Helen Walton
Bishop, of Sturgis, wife of Dickinson
H. Bishop. Dowagiac millionaire
Cloverland is a monthly magazine
published by Roger NJ. Andrews of
Menominee. The magazine will be de-
voted to advancing the upper PENN
sula of Michigan and aiding in the
campaign to become a separate state
A. Lamb, Kalamazoo, was killed by
an auto driven by A. H. Parker The
accident happened on a bridge in
Otsego. Apparently the man became
confused when he saw the machine
coming and stopped directly in front
of IL.
Simple and impressive memorial ser.
vices for Richard Melville Hall.
youngest son OF Or. and Mrs. l.. p.
Hall, of Ann Arbor, who lost his life
on the firing line with the French
troops in France. were held in st. An
drew's Episcopal church
>Michigan's fat boy, Bert Gillespie, of
Calumet, five feet tall and weighing
30S pounds, has gone into the moving
picture business. or rather has be
come moving picture actor In this
statement may be the announcement
of the birth Of a successor to John
Bunny
The request sent from Lansing for
protection for quail and prairie chick
en- during the recent storm throughout
the state was answered by many in
those sections where the birds are
abundant. Officials of the game com.
missioner's department are more than
gratifed.
Being afraid of pneumonia which was
epidemic in Napanee and Centerville.
Ont. where he was visiting. Edward
Evans. of Owosso. started for home
Illness seized him en- route. develop
ing into pneumonia and he died at the
home of his brother.
James Labardie. - member OF one
of the old French families south Of
Monroe, recently died of pneumonia.
Adolph Labardie, the boys father,
attended the funeral OF the son. and
upon his return home was stricken
with the same disease and passed
away few days later.
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