The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-06-01


A Red Cross chapter of the Detroit
branch has been organized at Ionia.
George Sullivan, eighty years old,
civil war veteran, died at Grand
Ledge.
Retrial of the George T. Lay case
will open in circuit court at Kalama-
zoo June IS.
Allegan, like Holland, is without a
board of public works. the entire body
having resigned.
Two Mt. Clemens school children
were the first purchasers OF liberty
bonds in that city.
Mrs. Dwight Peters, of Springport,
hanged herself at Albion in her hus-
bands barn while demented.
Christopher DAILY, ninety-three years
old, the Oldest man in Mt. Morris, and
one Of Genesee county's pioneers, Is
dead.
Leon Hill, escaped convict from
Jackson prison, was returned after be-
ing arrested for stealing an automo.
bile at Vicksburg.
Clarence Seahill, twelve years old,
was killed at Jackson when he fell
beneath the wheels of box car in the
Michigan Central yards.
Trainmen in northern Michigan re-
ported several places where the snow
had drifted to four feet deep. There
were two feet of snow at Gaylord.
Using a rail for pillow, James
Monahan laid down in the Holland
Furniture company yards to sleep. a
switch engine came along and cut off
his head.
Under a new order received from
the war department by Adjutant Gen.
eral John S. Bersey, men will not he
discharged from the national guard in
order that they may enlist in the reg.
ular army.
William d. Miller. sixty-nine years
old, died at Marshall Of hardening of
the arteries, one month after the
death Of his brother, F. S. Miller. for
several years postmaster ard mer-
chant at Wildonville.
The Fountain Street Baptist church,
valued at s250,000, was destroyed by
fire shortly after o'clock in the
morning, following a defamation which
is supposed to have been an explo-
sion at Grand Rapids.
Sister Victoria. seventy-one years
old. for forty-seven years a member of
the community at Monroe. is dead at
st. Mary's academy at Monroe. She
was born in New York city, and went
to Monroe from Ann Arbor.
Nurses from all parts of Michigan
were in Grand Rapids to attend thir.
teenth annual convention of the Mich.
igan Nurses association. and the
fourth annual meeting of the State
League Of Nursing Education.
Governor Sleeper has issued
proclamation designing the week of
Nav 27-June as liberty loan week"
and urging Michigan citizens of large
or small means to buy liberty bonds to
helm win the war with Germany
with the present army in the field.
and an additional 100000 men prob.
ablv to be calle1 out August l, the
United States is bound to have food
shortage next writer" declared Major
r. c. Vandercool:, of the war prepar.
edness board.
Ad1utant General Bersey, after off,
cially notifying the guardsnen that
the guard might expect to ho drafted
into federal service about July II as
previously announced from Washing.
ton. also sent out authorization for
the recruiting to begin.
Division Superintendent d. J. Hack.
EFT, of the MichfSRn Ce-tca! railway
says that the Pile o. fr~.rht in the
Grand Rapids Storage houses az r9il-
way yards, is caused ty wa: scared
public with every person try ing to
ship goods for future use.
Two passengers were injured seri.
ously and many others were cnt ard
bruised when car on Ire Detroit.
Monroe and Toledo electric line YVES
wrecked near Wyondotte. Invcstiga-
ton showed that the accident was dre
to deliberate loosening Of ire rails.
Driven insane by fear that he would
be drafted into the army, Hollis
Knobs, twenty-five years old, a farmer
of Dundee, Monroe county. attacked a
physician who went to attend him,
wounded his mother when shotgun
he was handling was discharged and
killed himself.
One of the worst snow storms ever
seen in Mancclona ragged for thirty
six hours. nearly six inches of snow
having fallen. The storm extinguished
all forest fires. Nine years ego 70 n
day there was a seven-inch fall OF
snow.
A report has reached Port Huron
that Dr. John V. Frazier, formerly OF
Lapeer and that city, has been killed
in France. DR.. Frazier enlisted with
the Canadian contingent more than n |
year ago. Friends are endeavoring TO
obtain confirmation of the report from
Ottawa.
Battle Creek was much interested
in the news Of shell explosion
aboard the Mongolia, as four well
known boys are on board. They are
Earl BRADLEY, Charles Bradley, James
c. Devcl and Donald Baker, the latter
the 1915 prize orator of the Battle |
Creek high school
The following officers were chosen