The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-04-27
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John H. Sweetland. eighty-seven
years old, resident, of vassar fifty
years. is dead of pneumonia.
| Because the stars and stripes were
not displayed at the Bliss mine the
men employed there refused to work.
More than 600 students of the junior
college and the. Central high school
will take up optional military train.
ing at Grand Rapids.
Aaron Miller, ffe major OF the
Michigan Veterans Musical society,
offered to organize a ffe and drum
corps to aid Kalamazoo recruiting Of
fcers.
Warnings were given Battle Greek
dealers in sporting goods by Chief Of
Police w. H. Harrington against sell
ing firearms to Germans, Austrians
or Bulgarians.
Fifty boat houses and other struc-
lures used by sportsmen were de-
stroyed by fire which swept thirty
acres along the Muskegon river. The
loss is $4,000.
Mrs. Thomas Driscoll, of Aurora,
ILL.,, came to Lansing to visit a sick
relative at the Sparrow hospital and
was seriously hurt in an auto accident
near the institution.
Lanawee county board Of supervi,
sors adopted resolutions favoring uni
versal military training and asking
Representative Mark R. Bacon to get
into the war game and support the
President.
The state house Of representatives
has passed the Culver bill providing
optional military training in high
schools, 81 to 81. The bill was badly
defeated in February and placed on
the table.
Prison authorities set the price of
binder Irvine at $16.35 hundred cash
and $16.S5 credit This price, it is an
nounced, is not permanent, as raw
sisal is now costing $3.50. A year ago
it was $3.50.
At meeting Of the new Iron River
council, Silvert Solbert, for twenty
seven years superintendent Of the wa
ter works, and Charles Mcfarland. for
twelve years marshal of the village
were deposed.
Major Charles w. Castle, comman-
dant of cadets Of the University OF
Missouri, has been ordered by the war
department to the University of Mich
igan. which institution has installed
military training.
According to Colonel Bersey many
discharges of guardsmen with Deepen.
dents will follow as fast as the war
department orders them. In his opin-
ion they will total about twelve per
cent of the guard.
judge Durham ruled that there
never has been a legal marriage unit
ing the two contestants in matrimony
in the divorce suit of Mrs. Maude
Irene Goodspeed against John w.
Goodspeed at Grand Rapids.
Captain William Reid, at Port HUI
ron, of the Reid Wrecking company, is
in Harper hospital, Detroit, recoverinr
from the effects of two serious opera.
tions. He was stricken as he was
about to leave on his. wedding trip.
According to the returns on enlist
ments from Michigan which have
been received by Captain W. NJ. FL
more, in Charge of the Grand Rapids
army recruiting station, the eastern
half of the state is outdoing the west.
ern.
Michael Kolnaty, twentv-eight years
old, was brought to Bav CITY on a
statutory charge. He had been livinc !
with Mrs. Subeck, widow in Beave~
township, and he left her accompanied
by her fifteen year old daughter.
Paline, several months ago, it is al.
legged.
Sergeant Leigh A. Poole of the
marine corps at Grand Rapids has
gone to Detroit and is succeeded by
Sergeant Joseph L. Wedge, of the De-
troit office. Poole, since coming to
Grand Rapids last June. has made the
Grand Rapids office the best in the
state.
Fire, presumably catching from a
spark from the chimney, burned off |
the roof of the Alpha Epsilon Iota
house, the home of the medical sor-
ority at Ann Arbor, and damaged the |
upper story to the extent Of about ST.. |
300. Most OF the girls were away for |
the spring vacation.
Edward Frensdorf, of Hudson. has |
been negotiating with the manage. |
ment of the Mutual Life Insurance |
company, of New York, for insurance |
protection for Hudson men who enlist. |
Mr.. Frensdorf wants twenty-five poll.
cies of $1,000 each payable to the de-
Dendents of the young men.
DR.. w. d. Mueller, assistant super.
ntendent of the Traverse City State
hospital, asked for and has been
granted leave of absence to enlist in
he medical corps of the United States
army. All employees have been given
permission to enlist, and assured that
heir positions will be retained for
hem.
"Americanism before Methodism" is
he rule imposed upon all Methodist
Episcopal ministers or the Detroit T
'rea by Bishop Theodore s. Hender.
ION. His official statement, which will
compel every one of the $40 Metho-
list Episcopal ministers in Michigan
o declare allegiance to the United
states, has been dictated by him.
II the plan outlined In a conference