The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-04-20
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Joseph Cornell, eighty-one years
old. and a resident of Hillsdale thirty
years. is dead.
James Figgels. twelve years old, IA
tally shot himself while hunting spar
rows near his home at Pierport.
Michigan railroads have asked the
governor to name q commission to In
vestigate their plea for an increased
passenger rate.
Circuit judges throughout the state
are excusine from jury duty farmers
who are needed to prepare. the soil
for the spring planting.
The great activity in land deals In
and about Pontiac has caused a large
number OF cases involving title to
realty to be brought into circuit court
Building operations have been mul.
tiplied in Pontiac this spring in the
hope OF solving a housing problem
which has become serious during the
winter.
Foul brood among bees is so serious
this spring that B. F. Kindig, state in.
spector of apiaries, has inaugurated a
campaign to eliminate 1t as much as
possible.
George H. Names, president of the
Michigan Baseball league, has pur.
chased ten thousand American flags
which he will have distributed to the
school children of Flint.
Claude Winfield died at Jackson
from injuries received when an auto
mobile in which he was riding was
struck by d. u. R. interurban car.
His wife met instant death.
Mayor Sparks warns residents of
Jackson that public properties are
guarded by armed men with orders to
shoot to kill or inquire those who fail
to halt when commanded by the
guards.
Albert Kaltschmidt, alleged German
plotter, was arrested in Marine City
by United States marshals and
brought to Detroit Kaltschmidt Is
president of the Marine City Salt
company.
Lieutenant H. B. Grow, of Michigan.
is among the officers of the Cruiser
Des Moines, which was one of the
three ships belonging to the United
States navy in Mediterranean waters,
when war was declared.
The board of education of Port Hur-
on selected Harlan A. Davis superin-
tendent of public schools to succeed
w. F. Lewis, who rendered his resig-
nation to accept chair in the North
ern Normal school at Marquette.
Colonel Joseph B. Westnedge, IN
command of the Thirty-second regi-
ment, has recommended to Adjutant
General John S. Bersey, of Lansing,
the appointment of Captain John p.
De Right, of Company c, Kalamazoo,
as regimental adjutant.
An employee of the Buick Motor
company at Flint made a remark
about the American flag that was re-
sented by his fellow employees who
proceeded to beat him up. He was
taken to the Hurley hospital where
he died as the r. It of his injuries.
Mrs. Maude l. Goodspeed of Grand
Rapids and Chicago, suing John Good
speed, her millionaire husband, for
divorce, announced that burglars ran.
sacked her trunk in search Of letters.
The defense branded Mrs. Goodspeed
"a greater vampire than Theda
Bara."
The death of Walter Wallace, son
Of L. J. Wallace, justice of the peace.
who was killed by an electric she IL
when he attempted to strike a match
on a wooden pole at Jackson, has ere.
ated considerable sentiment as to the
way in which electric wires are placed
on posts.
Chris Ludwig, fifty-eight, German,
has been in a critical condition at the
receiving hospital at Detroit as the re-
suit of bayonet wound in his hip,
received when he refused to halt at
the order of Edwin Myers. a naval
militia guard On duty in the rear of
his armory.
The Michigan union, a students or.
ganization of the University of Michi-
gan, mailed out to every a.Jmnus. for
mer student or faculty member, a per-
sonnet index card to be filled out with
personal information and qualifica.
tions and returned to the union az
military data.
The Sparkling family of Ubly, con.
sisting Of Ray Sparkling and his moth
er, Mrs. Carrie e. Sparlin, who figured
in one of Michigan's noted trials, has
exchanged 120-acre farm in Huron
county and house and lot in Ubly.
with William Elliott for the Elliott
hotel at Richmond.
J. w. Bolen, of Elkhart, Ind, travel
ing salesman, seventy years old, kick.
ed Henry Behrenwald, aged twenty.
six, of Winfield, out of the Montcalm
house at Howard City when the lat
ter declared Americans should stay
of the ocean and this country had no
cause to fight Germany.
At the suggestion of President Ked-
zie of the Michigan Agricultural col.
lege, one of the first duties of the
board will be to interest the farmers
OF the state In increasing the food sup
ply and to this end banks will be
urged to extend liberal credit to far.
mers who are in need of funds.
While the full numerical quota OF
the Detroit branch OF the naval militia
has been obtained. and even exceed.
ed, according to Lieutenant Comman.
der G. b. Lundy, the wedding out
process, which includes the discharge