The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-06-22
Kaiser Bill Hohenzollern's likeness

erty loan bonds at Iron Mountain
The bakery of Ii. c. Kruth at La
peer was burned to the ground. The
damage is estimated at about SIC 900
FRANKLIN Pinney, twenty-one years
old, son of ELI Pinney of Morley. was
killed WHILE trying to catch a freight
train.
Victor Brander, Russian Finlander
charged with melting eligibles
against registration for draft, was ar.
rested at Maple Ridge.
E. o. Dewey, county manager CT the
liberty bond campaign, announced that
100000 of Shiawassee county's share
of $657 900 had been subscribed.
Michigan has surpassed the govern.
or's estimate of 32S,0OO registration.
Detroit's registration is $4,000, ex-
ceeding the federal estimate by 55,-
600.
Michigan's quota to be trained in the
second series of officers training
camps Aug. 81 to Sept. 26 is 4S2, and
applications should be sent to Fort
Wayne, Detroit.
Captain John Hanson, sixty-one
years old, survivor of three marine
disasters and veteran mariner and for
thirty years keeper of the coastguard
station, died at Manistee.
Gloria, the seven year old daughter
of Fred Peacock, of Corunna fell on
the sidewalk while on her way to
school and died few minutes later
of concusson of the brain.
Frank II. Ellsworth of Benton Har-
Dor, former judge of probate of Ber-
rien county, will be the next state in
surance commissioners, according to
well founded information.
Mark Norris, Grand Rapids, was
elected grand commander of the
grand commandery, Michigan Knights
Templar, at the closing session of the
sixty-irst annual conclave.
Michigan now has a quarter of a
million members of the Red Cross,
Secretary Mark T. Mckee, of Detroit,
Of the state organization told it's rep
resentatives at a conference.
Attorney Alfred Lucking, acting for
Henry Ford, petitioned Judge Hosmer
to dismiss the suit of the Dodge
brothers, seeking to compel distribu-
tion of $5S,o0O,O0O surplus of the COM
pany to stockholders.
The Mueller Brass works of Sarnia
has made an appeal to women of Port
Huron to accept positions in the mu-
milton plant in that city owing to the
scarcity of men and the increased de-
mand for ammunition.
Ellsworth Krantz, physical director
OF the public schools, has been en-.
gagged by the Manistee city commits.
sioner to act as supervisor of public
playground and bathing beaches dur
ing the summer months.
The body of Fred M. Knight, who
with Thomas ]. lillian, both Detroit
statesmen, was drowned in Spring
lake, near Fruitport, May 81, during
g storm, was located near Fruitport.
Jillan's body was also found.
News of the destruction by fire OF
the Greenwich, Conn.,, home of Mr..
and Mrs. e. B. Close, formerly the es-
tate of c. w. Post, reached Battle
Creek, with estimates on the loss run
ming from $4,000 to half million.
The Manistique battalion of the
Michigan home guard, numbering 265
men, was mustered in by Major Phil
lips of the state home guard. Benja-
min Zero Sr. has been commissioned
as major 70 command the battalion.
Rapid development of all the sum.
mer resort districts OF Michigan is
forecast by announcement of the pur-
chase of Marion Island, in Grand
Traverse bay, by Henry Ford, of De-
troit as site for his summer nome.
Charles Hayward, farmer, speeding
along in his automobile, struck loose
board on the Verona bridge, just
north of Battle Creek and was hurled
through the railing into the Battle
Creek river fifty feet below. Hayward
was unhurt.
Rev. Klass Oosterhuis, pastor of the
Holland Unitarian church at Grand |
Rapids whose anticonscription senti- |
ments caused a stir in his church,
promised to be good and he will be
allowed to finish out his year, which |
ends August l.
The steamer A. A. Augustus Of
Cleveland and the Delaware, owned
by the Great Lakes Transit company
If Buffalo, arrived at Port Huron bad
y damaged as result of collision
n Saginaw Bay. The freighters came
ogether in a fog.
Henry Ford, owner of the Ford au.
omobile factory, announced that all
lis employees eligible to draft and who
Ittempt to evade CONSUMPTION will be
dismissed from his service. Every man
# military age must show his certi-
Icate of registration.
At a meeting of the war board at
lansing IL was decided to suggest to
he state military board that the arm
ries owned by the state be turned
yer to the local authorities for the
ome guard after the national guard
caves, for patriotic meetings, etc.
Edward Wanzer, supervisor, ]. d.
White, cleck, and John +. Westerberg,
ustice of the peace, members of the
ownship board of the Township OF
Iron county, were arrest
d on warrants alleging that they &C.