The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1916-03-24


Kalamazoo commissioners awarded
contracts for the construction Of $780,
34S worth of highways during the
coming summer.
With five inches of her shin bone
grated into her spine, Mary Masjgo,
five years old, was released from a
hospital at Grand Rapids as cured.
j Jackson's April election will decide
on bonding propositions which total
100000 and call for a new hospital
and several pavements and sewers
The son of William No-esr, Of
South Lyon, died at Harper h ,srital,
Detroit, following an operation afp~r
he had been Accidentally shot ty a
playmate.
When Roy Schram's farm home
on Mullet lake, Chebcygan co ,aty,
burned to the ground, two sons. aged
five and seven years, respectively,
persisted.
Over seventy-five persons, several
women, were taken In custody ~ De-
troll police in a raid which D. actical-
iy cleared two small hotels If their
occupants.
John Leisenring, pioneer Eaton Rap
ids contractor, was brought back for
burial from Onondaga, where h, died
at the home Of his daughter, MIS-. lie.
want Swift.
Dr.. J. Q. Sweetland, aged 81, prom
inent Constantine physician, was kill
ed while returning from Elknart, Ind,
in runabout, three miles west of
Constantine.
John S. Edwards, Flint capitalist.
vice president of the Hersey Banking
company of Hersey, and director of
the First State bank at Evart, Is dead
at his home.
occupants. The raid is the opening
gun Of crusade to clear Detroit Of a
band OF alleged gunner from the east,
who, it Is claimed, have made this city
their headquarters for several weeks.
Diphtheria discovered at Reed
City in the family Of Dr. Durham
caused the marriage OF their eldest
daughter, Georgia, to j. Russell. of
Detroit. to be postponed for one week.
Paul Mastij, of Norway, Mich. a
native OF Galicia, aged thirty-rve
years, is dead at the Swift hospital
after having been an inmate OF that
institution for nearly q decade with
broken back
Mrs. l.. Ducharme, a Bay city moth
er, heroically rescued her three
year-old daughter, when her home
caught fire, by crawling through the
smoke-filled house and cropping her
way to the child.
Christopher Krafset, OF Milwaukee,
in Saginaw county, committed suicide
| by placing the muzzle Of a shotgun at
his head and firing the shot which car.
ried the top of his head away by
pressing the trigger with a stick.
During February, a Flint factories,
the Buick, Weston-Mott, Chevrolet and
| Mason Motor companies, paid out II
wages $1,02S, 709S6. The payroll fer
| the first half Of the month was S522,-
| S08.46, and for the second half, $685.
5O1.46
Frank Molmar. Detroit confidence
man who fleeced Frank Farkas, Mus
kegon Heights butcher, out Of $1,000
on a confidence game, was sentenced
to serve from two to five years at the
Jackson state prison by Judge James
! Sullivan.
Mark and Angillo Paivorora, three
year-old twins, living in Bessemer,
left playing by themselves, found
bottle of bug poison. Each took
swallow with result that both died
within a few hours, in terrible con-
vulsions
Because state witnesses, the four
! teen-year-old daughters Of Alex Stark,
contradicted their stories told at the
examination Of Nelson Darling, Judge
Smith directed a verdict in favor of
Darling, prominent farmer, who was
freed at Hastings.
A can of currants put up 16 years
ago was unearthere6 by Lester
Brindley, while excavating in the Gel
| lar of his old homestead In Allegan
county. The fruit had bcCn put up by
his mother and was In excellent state
of preservation.
While the engineering buildings of
the Michigan Agricultural college
were smoldering, fire ,aZed the East
Lansing high school. The estimated
loss sustained by Michigan Agricul-
tural college is 100000; that of the
high school $4,000.
James G. Blair, railway mail clerk,
living at Hillsdale, was granted d.
vorce from Edna s. Blair on the
ground of cruelty. Mrs. Blair Is one Of
the most prominent suffragists Of the
state, and 1t Is charged she wholly
neglected her duties Of wife.
The last echo Of the Albion National
bank crash several years ago &C.
Cured when depositors received the
fourth and final dividend from Receiver
c. Korbly of Washington, amounting