Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1916-02-10


VIM. Wyrrynen was killed by being
caught beneath load Of logs at Mas
City.
Northern Michigan state fair Will be
held In Escanaba on Sept IA, To- 10
and IL this year.
Ed Young, assistant engineer ior
Harbor Beach, sixty-five years OF age
died while at work.
While aiding patron X. Soder'
ttedt, owner of a bath parlor at Mus
kegon, was stricken with apoplexy and
died instantly.
Rev. A. ID. Long, former pastor OF the /
First Presbyterian church of Menomi |
nee prior to his retirement in 1917
was buried here.
The wife of Professor A. S. Williams
instructor of music at Adrian college,
was granted a divorce after separa-
ton of more than two years.
Ignorance OF law that a will whose
witness is a beneficiary is not valid
may cost oliver St Arnaud OF Toledo
O.. the comfortable sum of $4,000 In
Michigan.
Reports say that two Lapeer men,
Herbert w Smith prosecuting attor'
ney. and Horace Putnam, pool room
keeper. have each inherited $l,OOO,oeO.
Iron countys blind pig" war has
cost more than $4,000. it developed
when sheriffs and constables bills
were presented TO the board OF super
visors.
A boy bandit Of Battle Creek.
not over fourteen years old, held up
and robbed Mrs. Sophie Brogiless OF
ner handbag containing a small sum
Of money
ALE Topper. aged AS. appointed post
master at Holland. Mich, by Presi'
dent Wilson recently. and former EN-
ploye of the state tax commission
died of grip
John p. Smith. of lonia, was named
y member OF the board OF trustees OF
;, the employ ment institution for the
blind at Saginaw TO succeed Bruce
:. smith deceased.
! After a hot row between aldermen
II in the Bay City council over condl
- tons revealed by the finding Of three
, Flint women in a resort, the lid ha
- been put on the town.
A Port Huron proposition TO bon
,r the city for 100000 for the constru'
sr ton of a new Washington school cal
C ried by a majority OF 209 over the r.
80 CURED three-hfths vote.
- d. b. Pierce, aged seventy-eight'
n, lifelong resident of Eaton Rapids an
p veteran of the civil war, died at hi
- home. For a number Of years he ha
Ill been a rural mail carrier.
d. William Eckert, forty-nine years oil
&C Of Frost Center, Saginaw county, en-
~ ed his life by shooting himself wit
o. a shot gun, after he had chased h
ar wife and FIVE children upstairs.
de Business men of Lapeer county hay
SIS obtained state trunk line road {
&c the line from Detroit through Pontia
49, Orion, oxford, Metamora, Lapee
Flint. Saginaw to Cay City.
rs With the annual farmers confe
ence to be held at East Lansing Il
&c week OF February 20, the members
the Michigan State Bankers associ
ton will meet TO discuss rural credit
- A stiff and very bitter battle
,'s tween Marquette and Ishpeming is
regarding which city will be declar
:, the final location for the state bran
90 laboratory, which now is located
If Houghton.
The third elopement in Greenville
ar ciety is that Of Fannie Bahler Sh;
as with r. Cornelius, Jr., Detroit real
sen tate salesman. They met in Clevela
rth two months ago and were wed, t
2-p secret having been kept from tn
. relatives.
ale Oscar Tanner, giant lumberman,
Bell cused of numbering Malt Koski W
Up an ak at lumber camp last spri
- as a result of being tainted over
res ing worsted by Koski in wresti
IRE match, was found guilty OF second
up gree murder.
Michigan Agricultural college is sc
'' -, ing financial aid from the state be
growers to promote what is belie'
TO be successful method Of coml
Ing Dlkni anu amin d~hDoNf WI
'wn' takes annually a heavy toll from
Up states bean crop.
While he was on his way to chu
,on- George Link, a Port Huron yol
or man, was taken with CONFUSION 1
be fell face downward into pool OF
ref ter. His companion, frightened,
ride, away. Sufficient water entered
6-lt lungs to cause death.
Unwate ag the pit of the Ante
iter- Ore company preparatory to resum
'ork, mining operations after an idler
ITO. of a year is now in progress. UpW
n 10 of $4,000 yards of earth will be
up moved in a stripping job which
follow the removal OF water.
yum A happy home is that Of Sid
-. ID. Raymond. seventy-three years
: 80 a veteran of the civil war. for he
az his guests his two brothers, Dai
sixty and Darvit. fifty-nine, of CT
Rapids, Mich. whom he had not {
Zine for fifty years and who dropped il
pens him" without any warning at 3
nent more, Md.
vent
I by G.. Dickinson. general manager OF
saso- State fair. announces that numeI
oveu entrants are being received for
AUS body building" contest which is
no conducted In connection with