The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1916-12-15
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as the meeting place for the Y. M. c.
A. older boys conference in 1917.
Following an attempt to escape
from the custody of two deputy sher-
ifs Bert Gown, of Jackson, was shot.
Miss Margaret Stroud, of Charlie
voix county, has $216.91 to her credit
as the result of planting a half bushel
Of beans.
Rev. ]. B. Boyden, the Oldest living
graduate of Kalamazoo college, cele-
brated his eighty-sixth birthday
Thursgiving day.
Former Governor Chase S. Osborn
in an interview announces that he
will be candidate for the United
States senatorship in 1918.
Muskegon milk dealers raised the
price Of milk from four cents a pint to
five cents pint, and from eight cents
quart to nine cents a quart.
James A. Mcknight, eighty-five, for
mer county clerk, died at Bay
City. He served in the civil war in
the Sixteenth regiment, and was at
Vic tiiiiC III OuSlncbO.
The dressed poultry shipments from
Eaton Rapids for the Thanksgiving
trade amounted to a total of seven
teen carloads, the most of which went
to New York and Boston.
Herman Peltier, eighteen year old
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Vernon Peltier
who was burned when he grasped a
live wire on transformer at the
Buick factory at Flint November 20.
Is dead.
An unidentified youth, about twenty.
two years old, leaped into Lake Michi-
gan near Grand Rapids from the
steamer Puritan, bound from Benton
Harbor to Holland. The body was not
recovered.
Charged with infanticide by causing
by criminal neglect the death of her
illegitimate child born Thanksgiving
day, Mrs. Lydia Zupan, thirty-two
years old, of Claybank, is under arrest
at Manistee.
1t is the opinion of Dairy and Food
Commissioner James w. Helme that
the victory of the drys in the recent
election in Michigan is only the initial
step, and he declares the fight to en-.
force prohibition has only begun.
Congressman George A. Loud has
nominated Clarence E. Burger of Bay
City, now at Ell Paso, member OF
Company B, Thirty-third regiment,
Michigan national guard, as cadet at
the West Point Military academy.
Municipal Judge A. B. Titus gave
a decision of no cause for action in
Kalamazoo's case against the Michi-
gan Light company. The city started
suit to force the gas company to fur
nish gas at 70 cents thousand feet
The jury in the Conroy case report
ed at Ionia finding that Ed ]. Conroy,
during an alleged quarrel, was shot
and killed by his wife, Mary Conroy,
The evidence showed that the shot
was fired after the quarrel was over
and while Conroy was fixing the fire
The Northern Michigan Agricultural
congress has elected A. L. Hopkins
president. Resolutions were passed APP
proving efforts to form uniform CO.
operative marketing associations and
urging legislation protecting sheep and
and requiring 500 from owners of
dogs.
According to State Game Warden
William R. Oates, 2,457 deer were
shipped across the straits from the up
per peninsula this year, of which l.
400 were bucks and 1,04S were does.
The total number shipped across the
straits during the 1915 season was
1871.
Port Huron poultry dealers and
meat market men had a stock of tur-
keys on their hands which they were
unable to dispose of. The prices drop
ped from 35 cents to as low as 20
cents pound. The dealers say they
had to pay q and 80 cents for the
supply.
Charles Edward Cotton, once o.
Utica, Mich, who went to California
in 1886, is dead near Los Angeles.
in Burbank, at the age of eighty-one
Cotton, who was born in Utica, Joined
the United States army when he was
eleven years old and went west over
the Santa Fee trail.
Mrs Mary I. Rupert, who claims to
be daughter of the late A. ]. Wins.
low, capitalist, who died at Kalama.
zoo eight months ago without having
made any provision for heirs, was
denied writ of mandamus against
Judge S. II. Van Horn to share in set
Ting up the 100000 estate left by
F. Carew Martindale and David II.
Crowley, assistant attorneys-general,
will not be members of the states le-
gal department after the first of the
year. Martindale plans to leave the de-
partment this month, and Crowley
says he will engage in private prac-
ice either in Detroit or Lansing after
January /.
Growth of trust control of food. |
'tuffs, killing of crops by drought, |
scarcity of farm labor, poor sys-
EN- of distribution of products and |
he unnecessary demands of consum.
IT'S on retailers, these are the chief |
'auses of the high cost of living, &C
,ording to the most exhaustive analy.