The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1916-12-29

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Lake Superior in its grip Dec. 10.
An ice boat has been kept busy
breaking the ice in the Menominee
river. The car ferries are still operat-
ing.
Attorney General Fellows announces
the appointment of Thomas 9. Bailie,
of Saginaw, as an assistant attorney
general.
Sixteen below zero was registered
at the government station at Hough-
ton, setting new low record for De-
cember.
Michigan in 1914 produced 1888.
$50 short tons of coal, valued at ST.
659,7S6. an increase of 51,344 tons and
s104,559 in value over 1918.
Buffeted by heavy seas, created by
stiff northeast gale, the steamer
Hutchinson was forced to give up an
attempt to get to Fort William for a
final cargo of grain.
Muskegon coal dealers met with
Mayor Arrt Ellison and presented ar
guments why the mayor should not es-
tablish a municipal coal yard, such as
Mayor Balch, of Kalamazoo, has es.
tabiishsA
Less than one week after his ar
rest. d.. Henry A. Lounsburg is await
ing sentence for having caused the
death of Mrs. Madeline Kramer, nine
teen years old, by means of an illegal
operation.
Thomas H. james, mine inspector
of Houghton county, was killed while
ascending the Redjacket shaft of the
Calumet and Hecla mine. A section of
a broken pipe penetrated the cage and
killed James.
The state supreme court will soon
be asked to rule upon disputed points
in the injunction suit brought against
Henry Ford by John F. Dodge and
Horace E. Dodge, local motor car
manufacturers.
All of the canals and locks at Sault
Ste. Marie are closed for the winter.
The last steamer through was the
freighter Charles L. Hutchinson,
which will lay up for the winter at
the head of st. Mary's ship canal.
The order of General Funston send
ing home 10000 national guardsmen
from the border include the Thirty
first and Thirty-second infantry regi-
ments Of Michigan and the brigade
headquarters company of Michigan.
The Ypsilanti Reed Furniture COM
pany of Ionia has declared five per
cent bonus for all it's employees who
qualify. Unnecessary absence and tar
illness both figure in qualifying. The
bonus will add approximately $4,000
year to the present pay roll.
Suit for divorce was filed IN circuit
court by Kate Evans against Jack
Evans, alias Jack Harrison, confessed
|,highwayman and desperate, who was
arrested at Grand Rapids last winter
by the federal authorities charged
with holding up train in West Vir-
ginia.
Kalamazoo's first organized drive
against poverty will be made Deem
Der 81, when nearly 700 volunteer
workers plan to raise in single day
sufficient money to finance all char
tiles of the city for the year. No other
appeals for charity will be made dur
ing 1917.
The first action in Kent county to
be taken under the Straight law.was
taken in the superior court by Prose-
cutting Attorney Barnard, when Grace
Cummings was summoned to appear
to show cause why her furniture
should not be confiscated and her
house closed.
Doris Powell, Munising, is the win
ner of the essay writing contest held
under direction of the Upper PENN
sula development bureau and will re-
ceive SIS as a Christmas award. Mary
Simpson, of Menominee, wins $40 as
second, while George Chase, of
Houghton, gets third place and IS.
Charles H. Whittum, of Eaton
Rapids, who will retire January 1,
1917, after fourteen years of service
as inheritance tax examiner, says that
he resigned his Office in connection
with the auditor generals department
to be able to give his time to his thir-
ty-five acre orchard in the suburbs
of Eaton Rapids, and to his blooded
stock raising.
The city of Manistique alone has
secured more than $1,000,00O worth of
factories this year, while there have
been nearly 100000 worth of resi-
Dental property improvements. The
city has voted to spend $4,000 for
park purposes. Marquette and Me-
nominee, as well as other cities, have
secured manufacturing plants, with
the result that they are booming.
With the burial Of Peter Viahos, at
Ann Arbor killed during fight among
Hoover Steel Ball factory employees,
1t became known that Viahos lost his
life while trying to dissuade some of
the most radical of the strikers among
his countrymen to get rid of their re-
volvers and their knives and do all
in their power, as he was doing, to
bring about peace by returning to
work
AS means of relieving the railroad
congestion now threatening all indus
tries of Detroit, the Ford Motor COM
pany suspended operations complete
ly and will remain closed until Jan,