The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1916-06-16
MICHIGAN NEWS
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Paragraphs Of interest to VOL.
VERNE State Readers.
News Of All Kinds Gathered From
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to All Glasses of Readers.
Mrs. E. Cody, SO, Ypsilanti. died at
home of her daughter, Mrs. Duane
SALISBURY.
Robert Stutz, Escanaba, lived only an
hour after being hit in the stomach
with log at Wells.
Sheriff Chamberlain, of Wexford
county, is after persons who have been
poisoning COWS in Antioch township.
While /. w. Fox, Marshall resident,
was waiting to take an interurban in
Battle Creek, dips" relieved him of
$50 a.--....
Allen Dorsey, who was born in slav.
cry, is dead at Saginaw, Mich, at
the age Of seventy-nine years. He
escaped in 1S49, going to Toronto, Ont.
Jackson is in grip of measles. There
are more than 400 cases at the present
time and the list is increasing daily.
Fully 100 cases developed within a
week.
The Michigan Central Railroad
company says that an addition to
cost $250,000 is to be erected at Jack
son junction, where the shops of the
company are located.
The monthly report shows a bal
ance of 5000, SO5.91 in the general
fund Of the state treasury at the be-
ginning of business June l. The total
in all funds was $11,55O, BASIS.
While Harry SCOTS family, of the
Elton Spears farm, three miles north
west of Eaton Rapids, were attending
a school picnic their house caught fire
and was destroyed with all of con-
tents.
The body of Walter Feinauer, son Of
Walter Feinauer, undertaken at the
village Of Ida, who was killed by the
Twentieth Century Limited train at
Sandusky, Ohio, was brought to Ida
for burial.
The police Of Battle Creek, Mich,
have Is fine game cocks on hand and
are at loss what to do with them.
The birds were taken in a raid on a
main west Of Battle Greek. Nobody
claims ownership.
Isaac Sylander, Of Greenland, was
shot and killed by John Jarventa, a
Eoarder in ISLANDERS home. After
shooting his victim four times the as
sailant turned the weapon upon him
self taking his own life.
]. w. Weston, specialist of Mich
igan Agricultural college, with head
quarters in Escanaba for the last two
years, has been named to succeed w.
F. Raven as head Of the extension de-
partment in the peninsula.
AS Mrs. Oscar Loucks, cripple gazed
in horror from window of her home,
near Grindstone, her little two-year-
old daughter, Marjorie and compan-
ion were burned to death in a fish
shanty some distance away.
The statement issued for the month
Of May, 1916, Of traffic through the
canals at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich, and
Ontario shows the heaviest traffic for
one month yet recorded, 12,293,476
tons passing through the canal.
Harry Frank Keller, Of Battle Creek.
Keller, foreman at the II. B. Sherman
Manufacturing company, is dead at
Nicholas hospital as result of inju-
ries suffered at a school playground.
Heirs Of the late Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas Merrill have decided the Mer-
rill $4,000 home to the Presbyterian
church at Saginaw and it will be
used for superannuated ministers, mis-
sionaries, their wives and orphan
children.
An auto ride about Cheboygan,
too much liquor and a quarrel over a
woman resulted in the death by shoot
ing of Charles Perue at the hands of
John Lafrance, at Lafrance's camp in
Maple Grove township, where Perue
was employed.
An initial meeting Of about 500
men, representing the mems societies
OF the Catholic and Protestant church
es of Ionia, was held at the Catholic
academy to start movement for the
suppression of profanity and clean
moving picture shows.
The killing of John O'Donnell by a
Grand Trunk train near his home at
Richmond, destroyed plans for dou-
BILE wedding at which he was to have
been a bridegroom. A death in his
fiancee's family caused the event pre-
viously to be postponed.
Suit in the circuit court OF Saginaw
asking the return Of $4,000 interest
money, paid two former county treas
urers, has been started against the
Commercial National bank by Prose-
cutting Attorney E. J. Vincent in behalf
of the board OF supervisors.
Kiril Spiroff, of Pennfield township,
Calhoun county, won the free trip
to the state fair for having the best
standing in the eight grade examina-
tions and for answering 20 questions
submitted by the state fair. One boy
in each county in the state will get a
free trip.
After having sent three bullets