The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1916-12-08

Walter Corey, for several years head
sawyer in the Lobdell & Bailey fac.
tory at Onaway. was killed at that
place.
Mrs. Fred Davis. of Arthur town
ship, dropped dead just as she enter
ed the store of ]. w. Glass, northeast
of Clare.
George W. Aiken, seventy, was
found dead in his bed at Grand Haven.
II is believed that he killed himself.
He was formerly a whaler.
Rev. Edward w. Ryan. ID. d., re-
tired, former pastor of the Taberna-
Gle M. E. church, died at hts residence,
l453 Fourteenth avenue. Detroit
Gideon Kennedy, eighty years old,
who resides on the east county line of
Barry county, is In a critical condi-
ton as the result Of an attack by a
vicious boar.
| According to a report fled by the
Calhoun County Dry association, the
county's work in helping make Michi-
gan dry cost $2.023. OF this sum 1904
Is yet to be subscribed.
Margaret NcNally, who has tried to
commit suicide at Bay City and Al
pena at least fourt times, caused a
stir at Bay City when the report went
out that she tried again.
Although she was sixty-four years
old, the illness Of which Mrs. M. C..
Lewis, wife Of a prominent business
man, who died at Pontiac, was dag.
nosed as infantile paralysis.
The price of milk delivered to dis
tributors in Grand Rapids is 20
cents a gallon beginning December 1.
The price was fixed at a meeting of
the Milk Producers association.
James e. Stephens, for more than
thirty years mail carrier in the bus
mess district of Bay City, died of in.
juries received in fall at the Federal
building. He was born in Ireland in
1910.
Jesse Richards, Flint, Detroit Uni
ted Railway motorman who was in
jured two weeks ago when the heater
on the south-bound interurban car
from Flint to Detroit exploded near
Oxford, is dead.
After a two weeks campaign Fred
L. Buck and party closed their evan
gelistic meetings at Pontiac, which
were conducted under the auspices of
five Protestant churches at the Gen.
trail M E. church.
d. w. Donohue has been appointed
division superintendent of the Michi-
gan Central to succeed the late
Michael c. Coyle at Bay City. Mr..
Donohue was formerly division super.
intendent at Detroit.
A brilliant event was the wedding of
Miss Lucy Hawk, daughter of Mr.. and
Henry Hawk, and Wendell Lowell
Smith, son of Mr.. and Mrs. William J.
Smith, at the First Congregational
church at Battle Creek.
Traffic east and west on the Mich
igan Central railroad was blocked for
more than two hours when seven
sleeping cars on train No. 20, east
bound, jumped the track near Jack
son. No one was injured.
Why the price for honey docs not
keep pace with that of other commo-
dities in the present drive of the high
cost of living formed the chief sub
ject at the annual convention of the
Michigan Affiliated Beekeepers' asso.
citation.
BY the Grand Rapids board of
police and fire commissioners, a pro-
posed salary increase for the police
and fire department was ratified. An
increase of an average of rs cents a
day is provided to become affective
January /.
Since the opening of the season,
November 10, 1888 deer have been
shipped across the straits from the up.
per peninsula, according to the rec
ords of the state game warden's Of
fee. OF this number. 1,010 were bucks
and 1923 does.
For the first time in ten years De-
troit's downtown streets are open
to traffic from curb to curb in conse-
Quence of the enforcement of Police
Commissioner James Couzen's regula.
ton forbidding the parking of motor
cars on these streets.
A Royal Oak deputy sheriff was
called to investigate report that a |
girl had been assaulted and cow
killed with a pitchfork by four men |
on the Herman Meinke farm on the |
road, the county line be-
tween Oakland and Wayne counties.
That there is strict dog quaran-
tine in force in Kent county was
brought home strongly to Justice of |
the Peace Walter McGrath, of Wyo-
ming township, Kent county, when he |
was arraigned before Justice Creswell,
charged with allowing dog to run at |
large, and was fined.
Harry F. Irvine, former Kalamazoo
court clerk, convicted of embezzling
$500, trust fund given him by Bert |
babe his wife and three babes
and, in charge of Deputy
Sheriff James Warrick, left for Jack
son prison to begin a sentence of from