The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-01-12


Ia county Jail by saving a ba. and
removing ii. from window.
The board of supervisors OF Neway-
go county refused to submit the ques-
ton of returning the county seat to
Newaygo to the people by vote of II
to IL.
At commission meeting at Monroe
John Farmhouse was appointed chief
of police. He succeeds Frank Former,
who has had the Office for the last sew
en- years.
Daniel Lingensmith, merchant, post.
master and Democratic politician at
Orangeville. was found dead in bed.
His health had been failing during the
last year.
William G.. Jameson, fifty-nine
years old, superintendent of the Will
liam Barrie Dry Goods company of
Saginaw, died in Lakeside hospital,
Cleveland.
The state of Michigan will establish
fish markets at Manistee lake and
Pere Marquette lake, which is near
Ludington. Many protests at the high
Ludington.
A telegram from Ell Paso announces
the death of Corporal Joseph Weder-
burn, Company l, Thirty-third Michi-
gan infantry, Of pneumonia. He enlist
I'd from Norwood
More than twice as many men es-
capped from the Jackson prison during
the last year thas in 1915. The rec
Ords show thirty-three escapes last
year and fifteen for 1915
The honeymoon of Clyde Fox, of By.
ron, and Miss Mary G. Price If Ypsi-
lanti, who were married Dec. 27 end.
ed when a commission six days after
found the bride feeble-minded.
Chief of Police H. Glenn Greening,
who resigned the day before the new
city administration took office Janu.
airy 1, was replaced by Fred Hubbard,
a member of the force sixteen years
ago at Albion.
Eugene P. Robertson, president of
the Albion State bank since its or
ganization, former mayor of Albion
and past grand commander of the
state Knights Templar died at his
home, following a long illness.
A city market to aid in the reduction
of high cost of living by direct sell.
ing to consumers by farmers, is plan.
ned by the Housewives league. of
Ann Arbor, according to Mrs. Edward
Richar, president of the league.
State Treasurer Haarer's last report
as the custodian of the state funds
shows the state has considerably more
money on hand for the start of a leg.
islative year and a new administra.
ton than it has ever had before.
The will of the late Bishop Henry
Joseph Richter, who died December
26, was filed in probate court by
Bishop Michael J. Gallagher, his sue
cessor. The estate consists of ten
shares of bank stock worth $1,000.
Allen Ecker, twenty-eight years old,
who had been sentenced from West
Branch to from one to three years in
state reformatory for perjury, es-
capped from Sheriff Kenyon near
Standish by leaping from a moving
train.
Mrs. o. H. Clark, of Kalamazoo,
president of the Michigan State Suf-
frage association, spoke to women of
northwestern Michigan. She brought
message to that part Of the state
which, summed up, means, "Organize
arhx L..
Walter Doty, fifty-eight years old,
and Earl Dale, eighteen yeats old, of
Flint, blew out" the gas in their bed
room. Other members Of the house
hold detected the odor of gas early in
the morning and found the two nearly
suffocated. The men will recover.
Attorney General Froesbeck's first
official opinion had for its object mat
ter fee of six cents for filing charged
by a county clerk in Algona county,
and the new head of the states legal
department promptly decided that the
clerk had no authority to collect it.
Grin Stair, owner of several thea
tiers in Michigan, was granted d.
vorce in circuit court at Grand Rap
ids from Helen Stair. According to the
terms of agreemnt between Mr.. and
Mrs. Stair, she will receive custody of
the three children and 5000 a month.
The sitting tenements, ill-lighted and
disease-breeding novels which many
Detroit and Michigan citizens have
been forced to call home will become
relics of a bygone day if the Michi-
gan Housing commission can persuade
the new legislature to enact its recon-
mendations into law.
After months of investigation
through federal authorities and private
operatives, the Grand Rapids, Grand
Haven & Muskegon Railway company
has learned the identity Of the direc-
tors of a ring which has been robbing
cars for the last year. One arrest has
been made and others are expected. 1t
is estimated that the losses total S..
600.
Although not officially announced.
another group of appointments expect
ed to be made soon by Governor
Sleeper have become known. l.. Whit
ney Watkins of Jackson, recently the
Progressive candidate for governor