The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-04-13

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among those killed In France.
| The state central committee of the
Socialist party spent s1S.56, according
to Chairman George W. Eldridge's re-
port.
William MCCULLOUGH, one of the
best known marine divers along the
Great Lakes, is dead at his home at
| Port Huron.
On third reading the Hulse anti.
cigarette bill failed to receive the re-
CURED number of votes. The measure
was effectively killed.
Gertrude. the seventeen, months old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. John Car
michael, fell into an open cistern and
was drowned at Saginaw.
Internal Revenue Agent Walker and
corps c. inssectors have been in
Grand Rapids investigating the meth.
DDS of butter manufacturers.
Washington w. Stevens. eighty-five
years old, resident of Muskegon
since the early SOS, is dead. He built
the first sewer system in the city.
Mrs. e. L. Spillan, well known resi-.
dent of Battle Creek, was fatally hurt
when struck by motor truck owned
by Panchett and Crooks, plumbers.
Because of failure to secure bids,
the st. Clair county road commission
ers are considering plans to proceed
with the road construction them
selves.
The senate committee "dry-docked"
the bone dry bill of Repres entative
Macarthur, of Eaton, which has pass
ed the house. The Damon bill sup
plants it.
To bring Company e, Thirty-third
regiment, to the full war strength, an
appeal has been made to Pontiac by
Captain ]. S. COOK to recruit sixty
more men.
Two Port Huron saloonkeepers have
announced that they will net take out
licenses for the last year Of the wet
regime and no new applications are
being filed.
While attendants at Kalamazoo
state hospital were searching through
out that part of Michigan for him. ST.
las J. Bill. aged forty-flve, of Bodies.
vile, suicided
Plans for raising two regiments and
battalion of artillery in Michigan
within the next two years.. were made
public by Captain Chester B. McCor-
mick of Battery A, Michigan field ar
tillery.
Twenty-Five persons lost their lives
ND ~ WV oil
burned or injured as the result Of
fires in Michigan last month, accord
ing to the March report of State Mar
shall Winship.
Benjamin Briscoe has retired tenn
porarily from the presidency and
management of the Briscoe corpora
ton, manufacturers of automobiles at
Jackson, because of failing eyesight.
He will be succeeded by Fred W. Co.
wan, Of Chicago.
Because the government will not
allow the Ann Arbor car ferries to
carry passenger autos across the
lake without making changes in the
boats, the Great Lakes Auto tour has
been cancelled for this year, but may
be made next year.
Although the bill creating the war
preparedness board and authorizing
the governor to issue war bonds TO
the extent of $5,0OO,OOO did not pass
the legislature until this week, Gov
ernor Sleeper called the proposed
board together for a conference.
1t is believed that Attorney General
Groesbeck sounded the death knell
Of the railroad rate bill when he rem
dered an opinion to the house CON-
mittee on railroad affairs to the eff
feet that the Smith bill increasing
passenger rates Is unconstitutional
The conviction of murder in the
first degree of Dr. Arthur Warren
Waite of New York for the murder Of
his father-in-law, John Peck Of Grand
Rapids, Mich, was affirmed by the
court of appeals. Waite now is in
Sing Sing prison awaiting execution.
Major e. c. Lee, surgeon of the
Thirty-second infantry, M. N. G., has
been promoted to acting chief surgeon
of the First brigade, M. N. G., by Brig
adler General Louis G.. Covell, brigade
commander, and Colonel John S. Ber-
sey, adjutant general of the state
troops.
Prosecuting Attorney Christian A.
Brock. who closed the twelve houses
of Muskegon's red light district,
agreed to give the habitues OF the dis
orderly houses until April 16 before
he would take action looking toward
the sale Of all fixtures In the estab-
lishments.
If he will enlist in the Canadian ar
my at Windsor and send back certi.
fed proof of his enlistment William
Saunders can escape the penalty for
Forgery to which he had pleaded gull
ty In circuit court at Pontiac. He was
warned that If he returned without
having kept his promise he would be
taken into court and sentenced.
Judge George s. Hosmer refused to
grant a decree to either of the con-
testants in the case of Harriet Beau
bien against L. j. Beaubien, Detroit.
"You have lived together thirty-four
years." said the Judge after hearing
the allegations and counter allega.
ton, "and the chief difficulty seems to
grow out of the husbands drinking
habits. In another year there will be
no saloons in Michigan. Under these
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