The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1916-06-23
MICHIGAN NEWS
ITEMS IN BRIEF
Paragraphs Of interest TO VOL.
VERNE State Readers.
News OF All Kinds Gathered From
Various Points In the State and SO
Reduced In Size That 1t Will Appeal
to All Glasses of Readers.

are not looking for a full crop this
year.
The new industrial building at the
Kalamazoo State hospital has been
started.
Adam II. Wagner, aged eighty years.
Sturgis pioneer, died at his home,
aged eighty.
The construction of a new ten.
story First National bank building in
Kalamazoo will begin in the immedi.
ate future.
On June II the Kalamazoo Gazette,
claiming to be the Oldest newspaper
published in Michigan, became an eve
ming paper
Mrs. Elizabeth Lefebvre, 20 years
OF age, Of Jackson, Mich, was
struck and killed by an automobile
driven by E. NJ. Williamson.
Reports by police of Kalamazoo
for May show an increase in the num-
Der of arrests made in that city for
drunkenness during the past 80 days.
John Mack, man of mystery, whose
name, years ago, was linked with the
famous Beacraft counterfeiters, is
dead at Flint city at the age of ninety
six
Edward Badgley, twice committed to
Kalamazoo hospital for the insane
suffered a mental relapse because OF
interest in the Republican national
convention.
What Three Rivers people promise
to be the biggest canteloupe crop
ever raised in Michigan is now being
planted. Thousands of plants are be-
ing set out.
To maintain the fund started
by her father for the city's poor, Mrs.
Clara Louise Peck Waite, wife of DR.
Arthur Warren Waite, has sent Super
intendent A. A. Carroll at police head
quarters check for 500.
The police of Grand Rapids have
begun an Investigation Of two myster-
ious fires which followed each other,
destroying the plant and dry kilns Of
the Valley City Chair company, caus-
ing a loss which will reach $200,0nO
Positions are reported to have
been found by the employment COM
mittee Of the engineering college of
the University Of Michigan for almost
every graduate Of the college, accord
ing to an announcement made at Ann
Arbor.
For a better condition among the
weekly newspapers, the editors Of all
IAN Buren, county papers have united
A. n. Moulton, of Decatur, has been
elected president, and c. e. Lewis, of
the Lawton Leader, secretary and
treasurer.
Suit for $4,000 was instituted in
the circuit court at Kalamazoo
against Charles w. Wright by Ernest
Smith, who alleges that he was injur-
ed when struck by an automobile driv-
en- by Wright's son. Smith says that
his neck was broken.
Henry II. Swan, &c, former Judge
of the United States District court at
Detroit, died at his home in Gross
Point, a suburb Death was due to
pneumonia Judge Swan retired from
the bench in 1911 after serving twenty
years as federal Judge.
Fears of a double drowning at
South Haven, proved groundless
when William and Charles Anders,
aged thirteen and ten years, were To-
Gated at the home of a neighbor,
where they had sought shelter after
running away from home.
Karl Won Papen, alleged German re-
servist and observer tried at Pontiac,
who was convicted of embezzling 1915
from John f. Deacon, of Detroit, his
employer, was sentenced to from one
to five years in Jackson prison with
a recommendation of two years.
Although Miss Mary E. Spaulding,
a Grand Rapids girl, posed for a
life-sized photograph in nothing but
tights, and a thin pair at that, jury
IN the circuit court has awarded her
$1,000 heart balm against David
McWhorter, a retired business man.
When Attorney Milo Bennett at
Kalamazoo learned that Prose
cutting Attorney Frank Ford held an
| other warrant for the arrest OF Harry
I F. Irvine to be served If Irvine should
gain his freedom on habeas corpus
proceedings, Mr.. Bennett withdrew
his petition.
Sheriff Ralph Chapman, Kalamazoo
county, is having difficulty in rid
ding the county OF Pypsies. Numerous
| thefts are said to have been commit
ted by them and women prophets ere
forcing their way into homes and
forcing women to give them money or
other articles.
Thursday, June Is, at the state cap
itol marked the retirement from &C
tive service of Brooklin S. Carlton,
messenger for the Michigan supreme
court For more than eighteen years
Mr.. Carlton has carried the mail for
the court and its members to and from
the Lansing postofiice.
The Manistee. lifesaving crew drag
ged Manistee river in the belief that
Edward Bikowski, aged seven years