The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1916-12-22
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NEWS RRIEES

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Rear Admiral John Porter Merrell,
who died at New London, Conn, en-
tered the navy as cadet from Mar
shall.
George A. Loud Of Bay City, Mich.
has been assigned to the house COM
mittee on naval affairs to fill a va
cancy.
An abandoned Ford automobile,
said to belong to Mrs. e. Barton of
Detroit, was recovered at Monroe by
the police.
Robert Smith, publisher and found
er of the Robert Smith Printing com.
pany, Lansing. is dead. He had been
i'll for several years.
Thirty cases of chicken-pox were
reported to the health department in
two days and there are now over six.
ty cases in Kalamazoo.
The board of police commissioners
has ordered all dice games in Lansing
stopped. More than 200 stores, pool
rooms, hotels, etc., are affected.
Mrs. Elizabeth Walter, mother Of
nine children. was found dead of heart
failure by her son. Bernie Walter,
when he went to awaken her at Three
Rivers.
Tony Coviak, convicted in the cir
cult court of robbing a saloon in Yp-
SLANT several weeks ago, was sen.
fenced to Jackson prison for from two
to fifteen years.
To Frank Hall, cripple, goes the
distinction of being the first Flint man
to make application and receive a
widows" pension from the Flint
board of education.
William J. Brown Roscommon, a
member of the Canadian mounted
rifles, was killed in action some
where in France" December /, accord
ing to a telegram.
With orders from needy families for
more than 100 tons of coal on hand,
Mayor James B. Balch, put Kalama-
zoos coal docks in shape and started
the city in the coal business.
A<oaio OVhhih6ot oCNChty yCdIo Olu,
hanged himself in barn at the rear
of his home at Adrian. Dependency
over illness and the recent death of
his wife are believed responsible.
Rev. Sebastian Smith, pastor of the
First Congregational church of Jack
son. announces that picture shows
will be given at his church and that
he will give talk on the pictures.
Launching a movement to adver.
tise Michigan fruit. the State Horticul.
tural society, at it's annual meeting,
authorized a committee to work with
the Michigan director of markets.
Mr.. and Mrs. Moses Avery of Con-
stantine were injured in an automo-
bile accident while going to Elkhart
with their son, H. j. Avery, of Three
Rivers. Their recovery is doubtful.
The forty-cent a day menu test in
Chicago has nothing on the boarding
clubs at the Michigan Agricultural
college, for the average board for the
term will be less than forty cents a
day.
Battle Creek has population of S5,-
600, not counting 1000 or 5000 peo-
pie who live just outside the city
limits, according to the estimate of
the R. L. Polk & Co., directory pub
fishers.
Figures announced by the secretary
of the Chamber of Commerce show
wage increases in Kalamazoo factories
the last year had been more than $4,-
100000 and that this city's plants were
paying their workmen s17,500,00O an.
nually.
The hold-up men who entered a
Grand Rapids saloon on the west side
and took $68 from the cash register
after holding UP the bartender have
appeared again at Glenns' pharmacy,
where about $3.50 and merchandise
was taken.
That a state organization of house
wives Is needed to solve the cold stor-
age problem was the opinion express.
ed by many Jackson women at meet
ing called to consider a remedy for
the high prices of food which prevail
in that city.
City Clerk c. L. Miller, president of
the Michigan Association of City
Clerks, has called a meeting Of the
executive committee of the society in
December IA, to discuss a
number OF proposed changes in the
state election laws.
State Fire Marshal Winship notified
the Michigan fire chiefs to take every
against fire and panic and
to see that all exits are unobstructed
during the holiday season in depart |
ment and other stores where large
crowds congregate.
Zepheniah Baldwin, aged seventy, a |
aborer, is at Mercy hospital with |
three ribs broken, in addition to other |
the result of his being hit |
by switch engine while he was pick
ng up coal in the Michigan Central |
Yards at Bay City.
Rejected by local girl, Joseph |
Woyton, twenty one years old, son of |
George Woyton, Detroit contractor,
attempted to end his life in his room |
1t the Willard hotel at Muskegon by |
drinking the contents of ..wo-ounce
bottle Of poison. He will recover
Because of the lack of finances and
he increased cost of supplies and ma.
erials. Secretary A. M. Brown and
President Frank s. Kedzie have sus.
'ended the publication of all expert
nent and extension bulletins, except