The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-11-16
MICHIGAN NEWS BRIEFS

oaIe blowers got $500 from the post
office at Clayton.
Rev. e. j. Nest of the Lutheran
church, at Blissfield, while standing
on a chair attempting to lower win
dow in his church, fell and sustained
serious internal injuries.
Daniel A. Reed, managing director
of Flint Board of Commerce, now di
recting publicity for the food pledge
campaign, will go to France soon or
special government mission.
orespes Millard, 65 years old, sui
fered several head wounds when a ID
II. r. electric car smashed into his
wagon loaded with cornstalks near
Washington. Willard crashed through
the motorman's vestibule and was
cut by broken glass.
Margaret Hurry, of Saginaw, 10
years old, was shot and instantly killed
by Arlington Brown, a few minutes
after Brown declared to several stand
ing nearby that the gun was not load
ed. Two years ago Browns younger
playmate did not know was loaded.
Grant SlOcum, head Of the Cleaner
organization, has wired Food Director
Hoover that organized Cleaners In
Michigan are prepared to take over
elevators which refuse to handle beans
on a reasonable price basis this fall to
eliminate spectators who are now
alleged to be bearing" the market to
a point below actual cost of produc.
ton.
the Detroit Board of Commerce are
making an investigation to ascertain
the number of factories in Detroit
which have equipment for the man.
afacture at munitions. They will also
seek to determine the amount of
munitions which can be produced and
submit the information to the govern.
ment which is now endeavoring to
place contracts here.
Schools in Waldron were closed be-.
cause Of lack OF coal.
Port Huron grocers have adopted
q cash system and eliminated tele.
phone orders and deliveries. u..-
Otto Goss, Big Rapids, IL years old,
shot his right hand off while pulling
the gun over fence by the muzzle.
A barn belonging to N. H. Winans
and Son, Lansing milk-dealers, contain.
ing $50 tons of hay and the seasons
crop of corn and oats, burned at loss
OF $4,000.
Joseph Pieper, Detroit, was killed
when his automobile overturned be.
tween Utica and Disco His son,
Frank, and Joseph Zewieskie, Of De-
troit, were injured.
Details of the permanent force,
Michigan state troops, have been as
signed to guard power dams about the
state following the suspicious destruc
ton Of two such structures at Ira
verse City.
While trying to save his brother
from losing his hand while saving
wood, Henry Kinds, a former near
Bad Axe, suffered injuries to his right
hand which necessitated amputation
above the wrist.
c. E. Huntington, 81 years old, a
familiar figure in Eaton Rapids for
40 years, was injured when he fell
from a silo on the Daniel Ball farm,
east of the city. He fell 20 feet, break.
ing both legs at the knee and ankle.
BY. vote of 1895 to 1871 Bay City
rejected a proposed new charter de.
signed to replace the aldermanic form
with a commission form. Saloons
were allowed to remain open. Alder.
men piled up large majorities against
the measure I'm the Polish wards.
Several hundred families Of German
descent will colonize in Hiawatha
township, near Manistique.. where
$4,000 acres were selected by Ger.
man Lutheran association in Iowa. A
town will be laid out on the M. G. L.
E. railroad, II miles north Of Manis.
tique.
M. A. C.'s 400 CO eds signed the Hoo.
yer pledge to observe Tuesdays and
Wednesdays as meatless and wheat
less days.
Herbert Hoffman, Traverse City,
taught big burly friend of the Kaiser
lesson In war ethics. Hearing a
stranger make slurring remark about
the American flag, he jumped into him
and stopped only when the stranger
consented to kiss the American flag.
o. w. Slayton, Wayne, who was at.
tackled several weeks ago by an axe
wielder, was taken to Ann Arborr
where specialists will try to save his
sight. Since the attack, Slayton has
been totally blind. Mrs. SIayton is in
Ann Arbor undergoing treatment for
an abcess caused by head wounds re.
ceived the same night her husband
was nearly killed. The crime is still q
mystery.
Miss Durlng, Miss Jennie Smith and
Miss Marion Abbott, Michigan State
Normal students at Ypsilanti, pleaded
guilty in justice court to breaking the
quarantine laws October IA and walk
ing to Ann Arbor and returning on an
interurban car. The city health Off
Ger, DIR. Floyd E. Westfall, made the