The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-03-09

The Halpin Creamery company's
plant at Vassar burned. The loss is
about $4,000.
Isaac Morgan, eighty years old,
pioneer and civil war veteran, is dead
at his home near ST. Louis.
In Ogemaw county March because
Judge Nelson Sharpe has no opposi-
ton.
Mrs. Louisa r. Tyler. nearly sew
enty-two years old, and resident of
Hillsdale county most of her life, Is
dead.
The Northern hotel. one of the
northern Michigan's oldest hotels, was
completely destroyed by fire at Ros-
common.
Mrs. William M. Wheeler, seventy
six years old, is dead of injuries re.
ceived in recent fall at Flint when
her hip was fractured.
The proposition to bond the Romeo
district for $4,000 for a new grade
school building was carried by vote
of 213 for and 80 against.
According to an orchard expert, who
| inspected various orchards near Ira
verse City, the peach crop for the
coming year will be certain failure.
High cost of food will be combatted
at Hillsdale by potato patches" and
home gardens, If the project of Mayor
L. A. Goodrich meets with proper re-
| Spouse.
Ill health is believed to have driven
John e. Cooper, bookkeeper at the
Saxon Motor company, to jump in
front of a passenger train at the
Union station at Kalamazoo.
The rabies situation in western
Michigan is the worst in the history
OF the state. So far nearly every coun-
ty in the western part of the state is
partially or entirely quarantined.
When Henry Dykman IF Fife Lake
was fined s22 for beating his wife, he
told Judge Hanslovsky that he would
have to go home and get nine bushels
of potatoes before he could pay his
fine.
While Mrs. John McPhall, who lives
near Wexford. was at a neighboring
farm house after pail of buttermilk,
her home caught fire and her thirteen
month old daughter was burned to
death.
|. Secretary of State Vaughan has is
sued more than $4,000 automobile H.
censes this year and the fees from
the sale of license plates, and chauf-
feurs' licenses amount to more than
100000.
Following his admission that he had
rented some of his buildings to the
county poor, County Poor Commission
er Gill Miller, of North Branch, re-
signed at the request of the county
board of supervisors.
A proposition to bond St. Louis for
$4,000 to sink wells, construct reser-
voirs and extend the water mains to
supply the residents with pure mineral
water, will be submitted to the voters
at the April election. 5. arz
Captain Jerome G. Kiah, an old res
ident of Harbor Beach, wintering at
Los Angeles, Cal, died there sudden
ly from heart disease. He was a mem
Der Of the national board on life saw
ing appliances for thirty-seven years.
A thief's thirst for hard cider caused
Barrett and Barrett of Chicago, own.
ers of cider mills at Bangor, the loss
of $4,000. The man opened a valve OF
large vat and started two inch
stream which he was unable to check.
Peter J. DreXelius, 54 years old,
founder of the Social Order Of Moose
and lovingly known as Father Pete"
by his comrades, died at his residence,
at Detroit after an illness which had
afflicted him for more than a year.
While the family was playing cards,
fire started in the kitchen of Anthony
Martins house at Cheboygan and got
such start it was necessary for the
players to make their exit through
window. Frank Martin carried his in.
valid mother out.
Captain d. L. Kimball, Company f,
Pontiac, Thirty-third regiment, Michi-
gan national guard, died at Ell Paso
base hospital. Mrs. Kimball was on
her way to the border and was mott
fed of her husbands death when she
arrived in Kansas City.
William o. Calkins, aged forty-eight,
prominent business man of Perry, Is
dead after lingering illness caused
by a paralytic stroke. At one time he
owned grain elevators in Perry Ban
croft and Shaftsburg, and owned the
Shaftsburg plant at the time of his
death.
Anticipation OF complications which
may possibly result from the election
commissioners decision that no pri-
mary be held in Kent county to nomi-
nate candidates for circuit Judge, has
led Judge Willis B. Perkins to seek
advice from the office of the attorney
general.
That the state fire marshal's depart
ment is keeping close watch on Sagi-
nav is evidenced by statement from
Insurance Commissioner John Win
ship. An epidemic of night fires in
South Saginaw has caused several in.
surance agencies in Saginaw to cam
eel policies and the department has
sent men to investigate.
During a brief respite in the Pom
torno murder trial Judge George w.
Bridgeman at st. Joseph found time to