The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1916-05-19
MICHIGAN NEWS
ITEMS IN BRIEF
Paragraphs Of interest to VOL
VERNE State Readers.
News of Al Kinds Gathered From
Various Points In the State and So
Reduced In Size That It viii Appeal
to All Classes of Readers.

Lyman e. Wrisi-, Of Alma. former
justice and pioneer citizen, dropped
Cesd.
r. Crandall, Howell stock raiser and
a director Of the Livingston County
Agricultural society, is dead.
Mrs. George b. Beycrleib. Who l,af
been a resident of Brankenmuth
for fifty-three years, died of apoplexy.
The dozen or more farm tractors
about Eaton Rapids are doing success
full job of blowing for the spring crops.
Jacob Evans, 20 Se5ewa, c;vii
war veteran, attempted to kill him
self by cutting his throat with jack
knife.
City Treasurer A. A. Hanshew is
dead at his home at Charlevoix
He was elected April and had just
taken Office.
The Farmers State Savings bank
opened its doors at st. Johns ready
for business in the Steel hotel It has
a capital of $4,000.
Alex Miller and George Kronan
of Greenville, while riding in an auto
mobile, were badly injured when the
machine turned turtle.
Five per cent of the wheat crop in
the state was winter-killed and will
be plowed up, while three per cent
has been damaged by the Hessian
fly.
Following charges ten inspec-
tors from the state department. of
weights and measures began an in
spection of every scale in Grand Rap
ids
Battle Creek poultrymen, who are
said to have the largest as
ISOLATION in the state, will try to OBJ
tain the Michigan Barred Rock meet
ing in December.
Ruth Durham, a Muskegon woman
arrested by Night Sergeant William
Feeney on a charge Of disOrderly con-
duct, was granted a Judgment for S135
against Feeney in the circuit court.
While Mr.. and Mrs. T. w Dempsey,
Hillsdale parents, were in Toledo
making arrangements for an opera
ton for Mrs. Dempsey, their one and
a half year old daughter, Dorothy, was
scalded to death at home.
Fred Banding, eX-American league
pitcher and once University of Michi-
gan star, who quit the game to become
a farmer, has started suit against his
aunt, a wealthy Birmingham, Mich,
woman for eighty acres of land.
Fire started at Cheboygan and
under the tanning of the high
wind spread until five buildings
were aflame. Two residences were de-
stroyed, the other three badly burn
ed before the fire was under control.
After a tidal wave into Little
Traverse bay from Lake Michigan
Petoskey was visited by a severe cleo
trical storm. Several buildings, in
Guiding the Presbyterian church, were
struck, but the damage was not great
Samuel ]. Schildroth, of Grand Rap
ids, while he was initiating it, was
stripped to the waist, made tempo
rarily deaf and severely cut about the
chest when an extra tire, carried on
the running board of motor car, ex-
ploded.
So many complaints have been re-
ceived from Muskegonites by Police
Chief L. A. Knapp about broken win
dows, children nearly run down by
motorists, and ruined garden plots,
that he has forbidden all baseball
playing in the streets.
Reorganization of the work of Deputy
Sheriff John Bujka former Michigan
League Baseball player, and resident
of Manistee, in capturing murderer
and two accomplices in a Denton,
Mont, brawl, is expressed in an issue
of a paper of that city.
The authorities of Grand Rapids
are investigating the manner in which
John -Bourhouse, seventy years old,
whose body was found on the right Of
way of the Holland interurban, near
Grandville, when it was run over by
car, met his death.
Beekman Winthrop and COM
mittee Of other bondholders of the
Pere Marquette railroad company ap-
pealed to the supreme court from the
decision of the federal circuit court
of appeals, holding constitutional the
Michigan cent fare law as applied
to the road.
w. E. Flanders, of Maxwell Motor
company, emphatically denied a re-
port that the Maxwell company would
join in a reported merger of motor
car companies. There is no founda-
ton for the report and there will be
no change in ownership or manage
ment, said Mr.. Flanders.
John s. Kinney, one Of the largest
mine owners in Northern Michigan,
and richest men in Cloverdale, made
famous by the 100000 heart balm
suit of Mrs. Ida McNabb of Milwau-
kee, surprised the home folks by re-
turning with bride, formerly Mrs
VI. E. Hilbert Of Dover, Me.
In order to boost the East Mich
igan pike, 100 Detroiters will make
the first annual tour over this route
during the week Of July 10. The party
will be joined by others along the
route and the enterprise will culmi-
nate IN q large Joint meeting with the