The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-03-16

ton fixing March 81 as the last day
for active business.
Miss Annie Timpson. ninety-three
years old, former public school teach.
er. died a! Ypsilanti
Since November 1000 cases of scar.
let fever have been reported to the
state board of health.
The Methodist Episcopal church, of
Richmond. will celebrate it's seventy
eighth anniversary Sunday, March IL.
The Indiana Refining company plant
at Jackson, an oil distributing con-
""rn, was destroyed by explosion and
fire.
4nomas A. Wilson, eighty-one years
old, of the legal firm of Wilson &
Cobb, one of the leading attorneys of
Jackson, is dead.
Mrs. Thomas Garner, aged eighty
two, mother of Miss Lota H. Garner of
the Michigan state normal faculty,
died suddenly at Ypsilanti.
A thriving bootlegging joint was
raided by Sheriff Hogue and deputies
in an old shack without heat of any
description at Benton Harbor.
George A. Harrington, many years
deputy city recorder and more recent.
ly a clothing merchant at Jackson,
died from an attack OF hay fever.
William Aldridge, siXty-nine years
old, working on the farm of Mrs. A.
M. Angus, at Standish, fell from hay
NOW on her farm and broke his neck
Samuel Rayle, aged siXty-eight, of
Selma township, Wexford, is dying OF
broken heart because of the death
of his wife, Margaret, sixty-six years
old.
William Freeman, Michigan Central
fagman who was knocked down and
run over by an unidentified driver of
an auto at Kalamazoo, will die, physi-
clans say.
Defeat of Muskegon by the Grand
Rapids Central basketball five leaves
their state championship claim. clean,
having defeated all of the big teams
in this section without single defeat.
Forty government employees of Sault
Ste. Marie have formed union to bet
ter the service. Thomas Ross, immi-
grafton inspector, is president. Mr..
Ross said 1--WE are Americans first
and unionists after"
The Grand Rapids city council has
voted against the request Of COM
mittee which sought free use of the
armory for a peace meeting at Grand
Rapids to be addressed by Senator
Robert M. La Toilette.
Delmon O.SParker, portrait artist, of
Portland, Ore, is held at Kalamazoo
on a charge of having directed gang
of boy burglars in operations which
have puzzled the police and sheriffs
departments for months.
H. e. Willis, thirty-four years old,
of Detroit, was injured three miles
east of Ypsilanti when an auto that he
was driving turned turtle and pinned
him underneath. Willis was taken to
Detroit. The automobile was badly
damaged. .
Prosecuting Attorney Johnson Of
Mount Clemens, when asked for an
opinion regarding the closing of sa-
looms. because of the primary election,
said that all should be closed, although
no election was held in 'Macomb couh-
ty, as there were no contests.
After shooting Richard Sampson,
neighbor, in the right hand with
shotgun, Paul Rheinholz, a Moorland
township, Muskegon county, farmer,
ran to a wood patch a half mile from
Moorland village, where he killed him.
self by shooting himself in the right
breast.
1.-THE largest crop in the history of
the state" was the expression of w.
J. Orr. president of the Michigan Bean
Jobbers' association, regarding the
outlook for this year. He said that
farmers would plant 100000 acres of
beans, which will be 100000 more than
in 1916.
Representative Charles Flowers, OF
Detroit, who has fathered all the suf-
frage legislation introduced in Michi-
gan during the past ten years, intro
duced bill patterned after the ILL
nois law, giving the women OF Michi-
gan the right to vote for presidential
electors.
The Congregational church in Han
cock was destroyed by fire. Members
of the congregation express the opin-
ion that this church and the Metho-
dist church of Houghton, burned in
December, were set afire by liquor in
terests in retaliation for church ac-
tivity in the dry campaign last fall.
The real bone dry bill and the one
that looks like the m easure which the
present session of the legislature will
adopt to control the possession of liz,
uor in Michigan after May I, 1918.
was introduced in the senate by Sena-
tor John A. Damon, swatting loaded"
patent medicines along with straight
booze"
Three members of single family,
the father and two sons, are men,
bers of the Muskegon coast guard
crew in consequence of frequent trans
fers from the local station to others
on this shore of Lake Michigan, where
IL is proving difficult to keep the per-
sonnet of the crews up to the required
Michigan will do its share in the
coming season to help swell the rec
acreage which Chicago
experts predjcted will he planted in