The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1916-10-28
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| Lansing.-Ofiicers of the Michigan
| Library association, chosen at the clos
| ing session of it's twenty-sixth annual
| meeting here, will elect for the next
meeting either Mount Clemens or the
500, 1t was announced. Invitations
from both places were presented, ana
the choice was left with the executive
committee, composed OF the officers.
Miss Katharyne Sleneau of the Fort
Huron public library was elected pres
ident, following term OF first vice
| president. Other officers chosen are:
First vice president, +. l.. ID. Good
rich of Ann Arbor; second vice presi-
dent, Miss Adah Shelley, 500; secre-
tary, Miss Constance Bement OF Lam
sing, and treasurer. Miss Elizabeth
Pomeroy Of Amanda.
| st. Joseph.-With Main street as
their parade grounds, the youths OF the
st. Joseph high school are drilling two
days week. They are the members
of the military training department,
which is now compulsory In the
eighth, ninth and tenth grades of the
| public school. student Is excused
from the drilling only on the written
| requests of parent or guardian, but so
far not single exception has been
taken. Paul J. Rood, former captain
| Of M. A. G. company, Is drill mas
| ter. Officers are elected from the
franks" and based upon merit. There
can be no cigarette smoking or use Of
tobacco If n student desires to become
| an officer.
| Lapeer.-Frank Johnson, former
slave, seventy-6ve years old, was
burned to death when the barn in
| which he was sleeping was destroyed
| by fire. He made his home with his
sons, one and II half miles east and
tire miles south of Lnpeer. They
| were building n new home and as 1t
was only partly completed the father
insisted on sleeping In the barn. Al
though illiterate Mr.. Johnson was an
authority on religion and held meet
ings on the street corners during the
summer.
Pontiac.-The will of Mrs. Mary G.
Parks, former South6eld township
resident, was set aside in the circuit
court. The heirs were two sons, Ward
and Charles G. Parks. The brothers
| paid no attention to their mothers
will, but divided the property, some
| Of which was later sold. The ques-
ton of the sons title to the property
was not raised until recently. The
testimony of four witnesses was taken
to show that Mrs. Parks was incom-
petent ut the time she made the will.
Bath.-Barton ID. Hunting Of Ian
sing and james Grove of IIillsdale,
representatives of the International
Harvester company, were instantly
killed ut Cushman crossing, One-half
mile west Of here, when the automo-
bile they were driving, was struck by
the Michigan Central passenger train
due here ut six O'Clock. The two men
had been working In this vicinity
throughout the day and were on their
way to Lansing when the accident oc-
Cured.
Traverse City.-For the first time in
the experience of railroadng In this
region a train was derailed by running
over a man. When the north-bound
train on the Pere Marquette was near
Beitner, 1t struck John Murray, aged
seventy-seven, pioneer resident Of
Blair township, cutting his body in
two ut the waist and throwing the
pilot trucks OF the locomotive from
the track.
Grand Rapids,=-Charges that an at
tempt is being made to intimidate
members of the council in the matter
Of the Consumers Power company
transfer were made by Alderman Ed
win Church. Church and other alder
men have received an unsigned letter,
] advising them that 'lliSN statement
ms to how they stand on the franchise
transfer would be advisable.
! Saginaw. - Herman Schultz, forty
years old, living about four miles cast
Of Birch Run, committed suicide by
| blowing the contents OF a shotgun into
his body just below the heart and then
Smashing at his throat with a jack
knife. He asked n son to. pull the
trigger. but the child refused.
Grand Rapids.-Frank r. Ferguson,
fifty-two years old was found dead
on the floor of his bedroom. Mrs.
Ferguson heard noise In the room
and upon investigating found the dead
body OF her husband. Appoplexy Is
given as the cause of death.
acksOn.--Playfully grabbing the hat
of playmate, Arthur Churchill, aged
fourteen, jumped from u wagon and
fell in front Of an automobile driven by
George Polopolos. He was instantly
killed.
Muskegon.A-What was at first be-
lieved ts be a suicide but later proved
to be an accidental drowning, oc-
! Cured here when John II. Porter, aged
twenty-one. of Norton township walked
into mudhole In Rood's bayou.
Saginaw-Harry Duranseau, aged
nineteen, while hunting ducks, acct
dentally discharged his shotgun. The
load entered his body near his left
arm. He died several hours after