The Owosso times., 1917-04-06

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| Thawing of heavy snow falls so
flooded Cheboygan that row boats
piled the streets.
Six stores and business places were
burglarized at ROYAL Oak when loot
valued at about $3.50 was stolen.
John Katenhus, eiF 4 seven years
old. a pioneer of Grauot county, is
dead at his home, ncrth of Alma
The general store of Mrs. c. c. Sui
livan, at Valley Center, was burned in
fire caused by defective chimney.
The elevator at Eden burned witt
1900 bushels of beans, two carloads
of wheat and quantities of hay and
coal.
The Northern Tri-State Medical as
sociation will hold its semi-annual
meeting in Battle Creek Tuesday,
April 10.
Mrs. Libbie Lee, after whose father
Kent county was named, is dead at
her home in Grand Rapids. Mrs. Lee
was formerly Miss Libbie Kent.
A bill establishing the Torrens sys-
ten of land transfers passed the Mich
igan house. Approval of the Read bill
was given by a vote of 81 to AZ.
Edgar o. Blackmar, "The Popcorn
Man." who killed himself at Kalama-
zoo March 20 and whose body. was
found March %, left an estate valued
at $4,000.
The police dynamited the river at
the foot Of Myrtle street in an attempt
to recover the body of Lewis Noble.
four years old, ,~who was drowned at
Grand Rapids.
ID. W. Daily, lately an efficiency ex-
pert Of Detroit, committed suicide in
the Hotel Vanderbilt in New York by
shooting himself in the right temple
with revolver.
Oliver In Fave, twenty-six yc- re-
old, Cadillac boy tbought to lave
been lost in the war zone in France,
is now with Pershing's army on the
Mexican border.
The Greater Fart association be-
came an assured fact as the result Of
campaign for members conducted by
six teams. The teams have raised
more than $4,000.
Contracts have been awarded to the
Great Lakes Engineering worlls at De-
troit to build seventeen ocean freigh-
ters. The ships are for foreign inter.
ests, it is reported.
Henry Fair, Mt. Pleasant dog killer,
has gone to Ann Arbor to take the
Pasteur treatment, having been bit
ten on the hand by strange dog
which he had wounded.
Despondert because his wife would
not live with him, Edgard Blackmere,
forty-fve years old, committed suicide
His body was found a week after
ward in gas-fllled room.
Judge Sharpe at .Standish. in the
case of former Sheriff John e. Glasure
against Sheriff Hasty, to determine
Hasty's right to the office, decided
Hasty is entitled to the office.
1t cost Traverse City $3.50 for
every voter whose name was regis.
tered at the regular registration day.
Twelve names were handed in as new
voters and the total cost Of the work
was SIS.
A survey o. the loss incurred In the
fire which swept the Anderson Pack
ing & Slaughter bosue at Muskegcn
Heights, made by Fire Chief Napoleon
Belly, revealed the loss was $4,000
with no insurance
After facing fire in several sessions,
the bill making it an offense to false
ly pretend to be physically defective
has finally been passed in one house
at least. The senate passed the Stew
art bill Furnishing such almseekers.
Third degree" or sweating" Is alb.
solutely contrary to the laws of Michi-
gan, according to opinion rendered by
the supreme court in the case OF Will
liam Brockett, OF Grand Rapids, who
was arrested and convicted of assault
with intent to rob.
When Mrs. Fl. E. Doty, of Hillsdale,
came to her sons home at Jackson
for a visit, she found no person at
home, but noticed a note on the table
which read: Don't come down cellar
until you call Willard" She found her
daughter-in-law a suicide.
". L. GTdWn mas LenQeTeQ MS reSlgndr
ton, to take effect June 1, to the state
board of education as president of the
Mt. Pleasant Normal college. Profess
sor Grawn has been president of the
college seventeen years. He is said to
be tired Of teaching and eager to re-
tire.
The Flowers amendment to the con-
stitution providing for universal suf-
frage passed the house and will prob
ably be accepted by the senate. II the
senate concurs the proposed amend.
ment will be submitted to the people
ut the general election in November,
1918.
For the first time in the history OF
the University of Michigan student
has been reported to his dean as be.
ing guilty of wilful and deliberate
disobedience Of orders and for .insub-
ordination" The student, II. B. Win
chell, circulated pacifist handbills
against hall rules.
The railroads won the first round
of their Battle to put an increased
passenger fare bill through the legis-
lature. BY vote of 20 to II, the sen.
ate passed on third reading the Smith
bill after enemies of the measure had
failed in their efforts to tack refer.
endum On the measure.