The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-08-17


Clarence Slack. who Ia serving time
Cor jumping a board bill, is held az =
ilacker al Bay City.
Henry Davis, twenty-three years
old, was drowned while bathing In
Davis lake at Lapeer.
Russell j. Anter, who was born in
Damascus, has enlisted for service In
Company c. Thirty-third, M. N. G.
Fred Boyd, ffty.four years old, was
arrested at Kalamazoo after a search
OF more than a year on a charge of
bootlegging.
While packing hay on a wagon Au-
gust Osterberg, sixty-five years old,
fell to the ground at Iron Mountain
and broke his neck.
While at play in the basement of his
fathers grocery store at Flint, Joseph
Minardo, eight years old, grasped a
live wire and was almost instantly
killed.
Dry cleaners OF the state have been
obliged to raise their prices twenty
five per cent, says A. G. Bishop, presi-
dent of the Michigan Dry Cleaners
association.
Full publicity Of all claims for ex-
emption from service in the national
army and action On such claims in
Michigan is the desire of Major Sam
uel d. Pepper.
Matt Hurskaneu, treasurer of the
/. w. w. local at Ramsey, and Jacob
Kangas, secretary, are in Jail at Bes-
semer charged with the theft of $500
Of union funds.
Diving from a dock at Woodruff
lake, near Charleston. Jack Peters,
twenty-five years old, of Detroit,
struck his head on submerged log
and was drowned.
District Attorney Myron M. Walker
announces that the United States
grand jury for the southern district of
Michigan will be called early in Sep
TENDER to take up war cases.
H. o. Young, president of the
Miners National bank of Ishpeming
and one of the leading Republicans in
Michigan, died at his home in that
city of complication of diseases.
A branch Of the women's committee
of the council of national defense has
been organized at Bay City Mrs. Eric
L. Gates was elected chairman and
Miss Marguerite Herrick secretary.
Mrs. George A. Ford has been elect
ed chairman of the Gaylord branch of
the women's committee Of the council
of national defense. Canning demon.
STATIONS are being held each week.
C. L. Cooper and Jack Loop were
killed. Waite Morgan and Frank Loop
are seriously injured and three other
local men badly bruised as the result
of an automobile accident near Spring
port.
Members of Company B, Thirty-sec-
ond NJ N. G. of Adrian, are anxious to
have a re-examinaTion of several men
who were disqualified by Lieutenant
Lockwood, the examining officer who
rejected sixteen of the company,
Captain Emery Rice, of the steam
ship Mongolia, has been the guest of
Benjamin S. Hanchett at Grand Rap
ids. He commanded the ship which
fired the first American shot OF the
war which sank a German submarine
Members Of the Kalamazoo unit of
the defense commiCtee announce a
plan to open cooperative store al
their fruits and vegetables. Left
overs" will be used in canning demon
STATIONS.
Orders were received by Colonel ].
B. Westnedge to discharge Lieuten-
ants Otto X. Buder and o. II. Stein
berger Of Company c, Kalamazoo.
They were both recommended for dis
charges following recent physical
examination.
When Mrs. James Deviney reached
Jackson from her home in Omaha. she
found her supposedly dead husband
alive and well. The man cut to pieces
by a Michigan CENTRALLY train identi-
fed as Deviney, now proves to be c.
w. McVay of Jackson.
A. E. Stevenson, chairman of the
QlSITlCC appeal DOdiu dt IOIt I1ulOu,
has announced that farmers and
others claiming exemption because OF
industrial pursuits must file such
pleas with his board and not with the
local exemption boards.
Eddie Lehto, the third man wanted
in connection with the murder of Mrs.
Elizabeth Nicholas of New York, for
the killing of whom Arthur Waltonen,
a former barber of Ironwood, recently
suffered the death penalty at Sing
Sing, has been located in Finland.
In response to an appeal for help
from Manager Duncan, Of one of ths
Cleveland Cliffs company's mines,
near Ishpeming, Governor Sleeper or
dered twenty-five members of the
state constabulary. from Bessemer.
to proceed at once to the Marquette
iron range.
Thrusting out from under the door
of her room in a Flint hotel, note in
which she accused young man
whose name the police withheld, of
wronging her, young woman, who
had registered as Miss Caroline Day,
Of Cleveland, o., attempted suicide by
swallowing poison