The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-08-31
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iy-five vars old. ~
| Fred Biers, of near Mt. Clemens,
who has for some time been impaired
mentally, was committed to the Uni
yersity hospital at Ann Arbor by the
| probate court.
Five Socialists, indicted by a fed
eral grand jury on a charge of con,
| spring to distribute anti-National ar
my literature were acquitted in the
| federal court at Detroit.
John Clay, farmer residing three
miles from Waldroh, died from injur-
| les received when the gasoline tank
OF his automobile blew up as he was
filling 1t, aided by the light of lam
tern.
1t is announced that the associa-
| ton of farmers who have control Of
| the Red Rock wheat and the rosen
which is wanted for seed for rext
year, have agreed to a distinct drop
in prices.
John F. Peterson, of Bentley,
charged with violation OF the army
law, by urging and persuading men to
resist the call, was held to the federal
grand jury by United States Commits
sioner Pratt
A reward of $500 was offered by
Sheriff Green for information which
will lead to the arrest and conviction
of the slayer of Deputy Sheriff Albert
Anderson, of Royal Oak, who was ia
tally shot on Aug. 10.
The Kalamazoo County Milk Pro-
ducers' association served notice up
on the retailers Of Kalamazoo that I'M
less recent demands for a one-cent in
crease quart were allowed by Aug.
10 strike will be called.
Hypnotic influence exerted over her
by Edward Eckert prompted her to
attempt to end her life by jumping
into the Detroit river from the Joseph
Campau avenue dock Mrs. w. A. Pry-
or told Police Justice Stein.
The partly decomposed bodies of
Mrs. Charles A. Dix and her fifteen
year old son of Jefferson City, Mo-,
were found one mile south of Augusta,
where the mother had evidently shot
her son and ended her own life.
Fine and Imprisonment for officers
If the Grand Trunk who are respon-
IDLE for the street crossings being
locked by standing trains, will be in
luded in an ordinance ordered to be
Irafted by the Pontiac city attorney
William Kettlehut, forty-seven years
old, living on farm in Lynn town
ship, seven miles \from Yale, was
found dead near his barn by small
boys, who, seeing the farmer lying on
the ground, believed him asleep, and
attempted to brighten him.
Judge William F. Connolly sentenc.
ed James Small to serve three years
in Jackson prison because Small's au.
tomobile ran over the curb on May
10, instantly killing little Joseph Tar
sidewalk at Detroit.
With the leaving of Muskegon's ar.
my quota Of a44 men in few weeks,
and enlistments here in the regular
army and navy averaging several men
daily, Muskegon will face the most
acute shortage of labor in its history,
local employers say.
Michigan stands among the leading
states in the work of the woman's
committee, council of national de-
Tense, according to Mrs. Ira Couch
Wood, of Washington, executive Sec
rotary Of the national woman's COM
mittee.
Two unidentified men were killed
Marquette, two miles south of Kaleva.
The bodies were ground to pieces. 1t
is thought they were Indians. The
men were thought to have been sit
ting or sleeping on the track when
struck.
DR.. William Dekleine, Flint health
officer, has begun a crusade for the
enforcement OF health ordinances to
which little attention has been paid.
Sixteen arrests were made for various
offences, from dumping garbage in al
leys to failing to make proper sewer
connections.
A censor hereafter will determine
whether the Garb Of bathers at Cass
lake is in keeping with a sense Of
modesty. Frequent complaints have
caused the organization of the Cass
Lake Uplift society which has en-
gagged a Waterman, mas had him depu-
tiZed and has set him to watch over
the peace and morals of the resort.
The following officers from Self
iidge aviation field at Mt. Clemens
were rendered dinner at the Colon
ial by the hotel management: Cap
tain B. G. Jones, J. M. A. commanding
officer Selfridge aviation field, and
Mrs. Jones; Captain George E. A.
Reinburg, j. M. A., commanding Off
GER Ninth aero squadron and Mrs
Reinburg.
Alfred Benninghaus, a German mer-
chant, was wounded by machine gun
bullets when his launch was fred on
by Michigan infantrymen in a patrol
boat after a command to stop had not
been obeyed. Two other persons in
the launch escaped injury. Benning-
haus and his companions reached the
wh