The true northerner., 1916-05-26
MICHIGAN NEWS
ITEMS IN BRIEF
Paragraphs Of interest to WO!-
VERNE State Readers.
News OF All Kinds Gathered From
Various Points In the State and So
Reduced In Size That II Will Appeal
to All Glasses of Readers.

Mrs. A. J. Stephens, of Prescott,
pioneer of that place, is dead of pneu-
monia.
William E. Bosley, aged 70, former
mayor of Marshall and a former men,
Der of the legislature, is dead.
Dependency and ounces Of acid
spelled eternity for Isaac Williams.
tfty-five years old of New Troy.
Charles Palmer, founder of I'm.
lay City, is dead at his home. He was
born at saltwater, n. Y, in 1881.
j. Madison, former Ionia grocer was
sentenced to serve from three to five
years in lonia prison for bigamy.
Muskegon will begin food inspection
June l, with DR.. j. A. McCreevy, Of
Chicago appointed local inspector.
LOUIS Larsen, one of Kalamazoo's
most prominent business men, was
found dead in hotel room where he
had shot himself.
The recent Ingham county election
cost the wet side 1921, according
to their expense account filed with
the county clerk at Mason.
Steve Shott, of near Fairgrove, died
from injuries he received when at
tackled by vicious horse. The animal
trampled on him, crushing his chest.
Mrs. E. Steerard, of Kalamazoo, who
was separated from her husband five
years ago, confessed to poisoning a
babe born to her three months ago.
While demented, Mrs Nellie Bar.
ry, Of Clio, an inmate of the homeopa-
thic hospital, wandered into the Huron
river, but was rescued before drown
ing.
Harold Wilson, student from Sault
Ste. Marie, was elected editor-in-chef
Of the Albion college paper, the Pie
lad, and Gerald Stedman, Of Detroit,
business manager.
A. Everett, of Ypsilanti committed
suicide by drinking poison in front of
the residence of his father-in-law, Ro-
maine Lawrence, where his wife was
watching him from window.
Mrs. Charlotte Bennett, Of near
Eaton Rapids, Eaton townships Oldest
pioneer resident, aged eighty-nine
years, was seriously injured by a fall
at her home. She will recover.
Nathaniel H. Space, pioneer of
Eaton county, and a veteran Of the
civil war is dead at his home in Del.
Ia township, aged seventy-three years.
He was prominent in G. A. K. circles.
Adjutant General Bersey of the Ma
tional Guard received word from the
war department that the two batteries
of artillery in Lansing would not go
to Tobyhanna, Pa, for their summer
encampment.
Nelson McClintic, Mason youth who
swore falsely in a blind tiger case
was found guilty of perjury by jury
and Immediately sentenced TO the
Jackson prison to serve from two to
fifteen years.
Mrs. Wilma George, a Pontiac wo-
man, recently divorced from II,
George, of Pontiac, is now Countess
Won Kaunitz, having been married to
Count Sigmond Raymond Won Kau-
nitz in New York.
A chess game by a club in Glad
stone and a similar organization in
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, is progress
ing slowly through the mails owing TO
the strict censorship on the part of
the Canadian Government.
Prosecutions for obtaining money
under false and fraudulent pretens.
es were ordered by Governor Ferris
in the alleged fraudulent tax roll in
vestigations against the Lake Breeze
Land company, of Pressure Isle county.
After operating 80 years as a great
lumber cutting mill in northern Michi-
gan. the immense Filler & Sons dOu-
bleband saw and shingle mill has
been sold to NJ Braudy & Sons, sal
wage and wrecking contractors, of
Grand Rapids.
A haste TO reach her home ahead
Of an approaching rain storm caused
the death Of Mrs. Emma Hart, aged
sixty-seven years, Of Berrien Springs
She died of heart failure on the
doorstep of her home within the sight
of her two brothers.
Girls won in the district orator
lCdlCal contest Ill DJ. JOS6Dl. flISL
honors went to Miss Anna De Haan,
of iceland. and Miss Aimee Renkes,
of Hastings. Oscar Bennett of Hart
ford, and Donald Bushnell, Of st. Jo-
seph, took second prizes.
Owls have killed and are killing
more partridges in the upper pen
insula woods during this season than
all hunters and woodsmen who shot
the birds out Of season, according to
trappers who have returned after a
season north Of Escanaba.
VIM. Hoekstra, Grand Rapids, car
penter, attempted to murder Reverend
johannes Groen, pastor Of the Eastern
Avenue Christian Reformed church,
and president of the Grand Rapids
Ministerial association. He was later
sent 10 the Kalamazoo insane asylum.
Senior students Of the engineering
college of the University of Michigan
face a suit as a result of the action
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