Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1916-04-13
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" the state supreme court.
William Leland. St Johns resident
and a civil war veteran, and many
years city supervisor, dropped dead.
Potteryille, an Eaton count" town,
will have a cucumber sailing station
through the efforts OF the business
men there.
Cornelius Hayes. Hampton. charged
with assault with intent To Kill by lis
nephew of the same name, was ac-
quilted in the circuit court
ID. A. Prail, one of Saginaw leading
druggists. died suddenly in Pasadena.
Cal. where he had been i'll for 10
months from angina peotoris
Ii has been announced from Chi
cago that the Alma plant of Swift
a Co, will be enlarged this coming
summer BY three story brick struc-
ture.
Police are after u. r Ferney
missing Grand Rapids bookkeeper,
and lately employed by the Siegel
company. The firm says $500 in
currency was found missing from the
safe
Frank \. Green. the postmaster at
Olivet for the past seventeen years,
has retired and turned over the office
10 Thomas Maveety the new APP
pointee
After a long illness. Warren ".
Atwood, OF Frontier, aged eighty
six years. pioneer resident and one
Of the best known men in the com.
munity is dead
Mrs. Robert II Easton has asked
the Saginaw police that search for
her husband be instituted He left
home several days ago 10 seek employ.
ment at Flint and has not been heard
from since
More than eighteen thousand
men are now employed by the north
ern Michigan copper mining com
panies, the greatest number in the
history of the district
His hand catching in belt Roy
c. Acker. OF Traverse City. TWEEN. !
~ years old, was wound around
shaft in the Wells Higman basket fac
tory and instantly killed before his |
fathers eyes.
Leon Pearl, Grand Rapids went into I
the waters OF Grand river and res |
cued his chum. George Baldwin. nine |
teen years old. who had been thrown /
into the water when a boat ia which /
ne was riding capsized
Clarence Wilson. farmer living /
cast of Lansing wear Okemos. is /
charged with having shot Tim VIII 1
liams at midnight Wilson said VIII I
hams tried to break into his house
and thought his life in danger
Former Mayor William u. G. Ger
maine. OF Traverse City who vas held
on charge OF arson since February
%, was released OF $4,000 bond The I
sureties are his mother Mrs. Anna 4
Ce.maine and Peter Peterson
Robert Daily Randall, OF Saginaw. !
died after a short illness Of typhoid !
fever. Seven weeks ago he was unit. I
ed in marriage with Miss Hazel Nc. /
Corkle. Just two weeks ago they re-
turned from their wedding trip to
Panama
Charles Chester. II. a junk dealer
of Dundee was arrested near Willow !
II is alleged that Chester confesses /
that on March 80. at South Rock I
wood, he made felonious assault |
upon Mrs. S Bondy seventy-fye
years old
Six arrests have been made IN /
Grand Rapids and dozen more are |
probable as the result of Prosecuting /
Attorney Barnard's Investigations IN. I
10 charges Of Wholesale illegal regis 4
tration in tho payorality election In !
Grand Rapids /
= big SScci.:t::cal sensation explod.
I'd at Cheboygan when Raymond d. !
Taborn. negro from Kalamazoo
presented himself with credentials for /
taking over the Office of deputy collec.
tor of customs at this port He won I
i'm a civil service contest
The body OF Herman Krapohl Bay I
City trapper. thirty-eight years I
OF age. missing three days was found /
in. eight feet of water in the flood |
ed farm of George Whitney for I
whom he was working krapohi went /
muskrat hunting on the flooded Hats
Drug fends get their su
OF heroin morphine and other -Sp
from Canada according opia'es
sion made mt Battle o comics
Lieutenant Hugh creek TO Police
Ubo has lust Gordon by a victim.
kalamazoo 0eon committed TO the
menf state hospital lot treat
sseatrice TaDley. S-yearold child OF
Grand Rapids. died from severe in.
T1qcs received when she was run over
bv an automobile owned by Charles
r. Sigh millionaire furniture manu-.
facturcr. while attending party
given In honor Of tho eighth birthday
anniversary of Gertrude Sigh
United states District Attorney
Walker ordered an investigation OF
report from Baragl county that work
ers in the interests of the state brew
ers had stolen an issue of the L'Anse
sentinel after the papers had beer
mailed and substituted II with an is
ne Of the same paper containing ad
vertising favorable to the vets.
That n A. Hard. formerly Of Sal
NAV. did not kidnap his daughts
when he took her forcibly from he
nurse IN February. 1915. was the Dc
cisioa OF the United States court q
appeals OF District Of Columbia In IN
appeal action on a writ OF habeas col