The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1916-06-30
Joseph Peck, aged s5, a pioneer q
Washtenaw county, is dead.


al carrier and one additional clerk at
the postofiice.
Rev. E. W. Bruce, Brighton minister
of the Wesleyan Methodist church,
died of pneumonia.
VIM. Lauderwasser, 81, sank dead
at the dinner table Of the Manistee
hotel at Ludington.
President Wilson sent to the senate
publisher of the Owosso Press-Amer-
lean, to be postmaster.
The body of Richard Crane aged 80,
farmer living near Durand, was found
by his wife hanging by a bridle-rein
from a rafter in his barn.
Two members of the band OF
the Thirty-frst regiment, Michigan
National guard, were arrested because
they failed to report for duty.
Claude Tesner, of Baldwin, while
enroute to Ludington was found dead
In a box car near Bedding and is be
lieved to have starved to death.
AS the commencement pageant OF
Central State Normal college was be
ing held bleacher carrying 60 per.
sons collapsed. No one was injured.
The Alter Motor Car Co., concern
at Plymouth, Mich, has decided to
move its plant to Bay City.A factory
site has been obtained in EssexTlle.
Judge Howard West, of Ingham cir.
cult, issued an order directing Attor-
ney James H. Thompson, Lansing, to
show cause why he should not be dis.
barred. -. i.'.''s - -'at-
Chas F. Harloff, found drowned in
Muskegon lake near the Goodrich
wharf, was identified by relatives as
owner of large canning factory at
White Cloud.
w. E. Williams, 20, of Pittsford, Ill
the past year, cut his throat with jac6
knife in an attempt at suicide. A
physician stitched a jagged wound in
the throat, and Williams will recover.
Mrs. jeanette Phillips, of Owosso,
the wife of Major Michael J..
Phillips, inspector of small arms prac.
tee of the Michigan National Guard,
died at her home of hemorrhage of the
lungs.
Selling shares Of stock in a live
church at SO share is the
unique way members of the Stock.
bridge Avenue Methodist Episcopal
church at Kalamazoo have hit upon to
raise the church debt.
DR.. Perry Schurtz, of Grand
Rapids, claims the John e.
Peck estate owes him $4,000 on the
ground that his work as a doctor and
detective kept the entire estate from
falling into the hands of DR.. Waite.
Analysis of the internal organs Of
Mrs. A. b. Good, drowned at Mt. Glen
ems, were received from state chemist
at Lansing and show no trace of poi
son. After her body was taken from
the lake. hints of murder were rife.
An auto Of Rogers Taxi company
containing two men and two girls
went over a steep bank at FrankH.n
road and the auto road south Of Ponti-
&C, turned completely over and was
wrecked. Nobody was badly injured.
DONduoC ANO wy lloACu III ~ OOhNN
lake near Kalamazoo Mich, on Sun
day Isaac Durloo wants them ARRESTED
for breaking the Sabbath. He has ap'
pealed to Prosecuting Attorney Franz
Ford and wants a warrant issued for
their arrest.
John Waters of Owosso, is in coun'
ty jail for driving his automobile while
drunk Waters ran into farmers rig
and wrecked it. He is the first to be
sent to Jail at Corruna for such an Of
tense without being given the option
Of paying a fine.
Milton Trip, 9, stepson of Garry
Prick, Kalamazoo policeman, was kill
ed on Indian lake near Kalamazoo. A
rifle lay on the seat Of the boat. The
boy threw a fish line out and caught
the barrel. The gun was fired, and he
was killed instantly.
Lawrence Page, the Grand Rapids
youth, was sentenced to life imprison'
ment at hard labor in Marquette pris'
on by Judge Durham for the murder
of his grandfather, Frank M. Sprague
Sentence was passed after the denial
of a motion for new trial.
Thirty members of what is know
as the Pioneer School Girls Of 1850. a,
organization of old ladies who attend
ed school in Hastings In pioneer days
held their annual meeting in Middle
Vile at the home of Mrs. Jennie Lee
They enjoyed dinner and short pro
gram
When Lindsey Goss, who has
been a student at Kalamazoo col
lege, met Miss Agnes Grenell, dean OF
women at the college, each morning
as he went to his classes. an acquaint-
ance started which resulted in the an
nouncement Of the engagement OF the
couple.
Asbury Park, n. j., has been Sc
| lected as the place for holding the
next meeting OF the general synod of
the Reformed church which closed SEES
sion at Holland. Just before adjourn
ment the synod adopted strong reso-