The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-07-27


| overalls and welding a brush.
| Mrs. Alice Charles, publisher of the
Bellevue Gazette since the death OF
William Charles. Jr.. is dead.
Charles Dykema of Holland said
that he was held up and robbed OF 81
by two men In soldiers uniforms.
One of the first white residents OF
Muskegon county, Mrs. John p. Mel
son. eighty years old, of Dalton town.
ship, is dead.
Run down by an automobile driven
by Lester Rosenkrans, Helen Martin,
seven year old daughter Of Frank
Martin, died at Flint
More than 200 sailings from the
Great Lakes training station at Chi.
cago will come to Muskegon August
Is for the big merchants picnic.
Farmers say that the bean weevil
is working havoc near Hesperia, that
| the wire worm has attacked onions
and that potato bugs are assailing tu
bers.
A. o. White, banker and insurance
man of Fremont, died suddenly OF
neuralgia of the heart He was a resi-
dent of Newaygo county for fifty
| years.
The eight year old son of Lon Hol-
ly had one of his hands and an ear
badly torn when a railroad torpedo,
which he hit with a hammer, ex.
ploded.
The steamer Mack which ran
ashore to prevent sinking after col.
liding with the steamer Manitoba,
reached the 500 under temporary
| patching.
A warrant issued for the arrest of
Anthony j. Kloka charges him with
the embezzlement of $9,523.51 from
Wayne county while he served as
mortgage tax clerk.
Mrs. David Vanderploeg of Lamont,
is near death at Grand Rapids from
injuries received in an accident when
an automobile and street car collided.
She sustained fractured skull
| August Mattel again changed his
story of the death of Theodore Ander.
son. He pleaded guilty to the murder
of the liberia farmer in Justice
| Whickham's court at Frankfort.
BY the first of August or a few days
later, the Michigan national guard,
which modified at various home sta.
tons July Is, will be on the way to
the concentration camp at Waco, Tex.
John w. Rose, seventy-five years Of
age, former head of the Kalamazoo
branch of the free employment blu.
reau, fell from a tree he was trimming
and is reported in dying condition.
Sammy Taylor, lightweight boxer,
we'll known in the middle west and
Pennsylvania, has enlisted in the
navy. Sammy's real name is Grabow.
ski, and his lineage is not that Of the
allies.
John Blake, a peddler, arrested as a
German agent on account of rumOr
that plasters infected with leprosy
were being sold throughout the coun-
try, was held for the United States
| agents.
Miss Mildred Warner, of Augusta,
saved the life of her friend, Miss
Rose Barnes, seventeen years old, by
pulling her from under an interurban
car as she was lodging a car going in
another direction.
Prominent public men speaking to a
meeting of workers and the Citizens
alliance at Calumet advised them to
sternly curb all activities Of Industrial
Workers of the World agitators who
have been organizing for a strike.
Thrown from an automobile in
which two men, two women, and three
children were riding, when the driver
lost control and the machine went in.
to the ditch, Samuel Cowell, forty
years old, Of Flint, was instantly kill.
ed.
Leo Sherrer, of Harbor Springs
who went with Pershing's first expedi.
ton to France, writes that he has
been attacked by trench gas sickness.
He has been made lance corporal and
cares for wounded in his section OF
the trench.
Detroit police discounted the theory
that Sidney Levin was murdered. 1t
10 InOu6hI thdS uO was iAi6htShSN ~
death when he was grabbed from his
bed by an intruder, who apparently
intended to make away with Celia, a
nine year old sister.
To help the farm labor situation the
Michigan food preparedness commit
tee will pay railroad fare one way for
each city man who goes outside his
resident county to work on atfarm for
one week, and If he stays two weeks,
return fare will also be paid.
Mrs. George E. Barnes, active in
vigilance work at Battle Creek, states
that, despite the formation Of vigil
ance committee, vice conditions are
already growing bad and one soldier
was accosted eight times by immoral
women while en- route to the city from
camp.
Directors of the Peoples State bank
of Detroit voted to petition the federal
reserve board for admission to the
federal reserve system of banking Ap
prevail of this course was given by the
banks stockholders some time ago in
authorizing the action the directors
have taken.
Lee Dickman, twenty-three years