The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-10-12
MICHIGAN NEWS BRIEFS

Joseph Reed OF st. Clair died oil
burns suffered when he used gasoline
to light the kitchen fire.
The postoffice at Monroe has been
made distributing center for the Is
other postoffices in Monroe county.
Lower Michigan's share Of the sec
ond Liberty loan is $124,500, 900, al
lotted to the 68 counties that comprise
the lower peninsula.
A bulletin issued by the M. A. c.
urges greatest care in conserving the
sntire Michigan apple crop this fall
owing to the scarcity.
Mrs. l.. G. Hall. of Ann Arbor, who
has seen service with the Red Cross
In France and whose son, an am
bulance driver, was killed in action,
was one of the principal speakers a:
the state Kings Daughters conven.
ton recently held in Flint.
Complying with request which
comes jointly from President Wilson,
Food Commissioner Hoover and Fed
sral Commissioner of Education Clay
ton, the public schools Of Kalamazoo
will institute the course Of instruction
, In community and national life-recom'
mended by the government.
Rollo, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Marion
Lambson, of Bailey, is dead after be-
Ing crushed beneath an auto truck
driven by Roy Thomas. Young Lamb
son held to the mudguard, intending to
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ped from the running board the rack
knocked him beneath the wheels.
In the face of all the obstacles
raised by wartime demands. the re-
tired preachers endowment fund COM
mission of Detroit conference has sue
ceeded in raising 100000. This Is
the largest fund raised by any con-
ference of the Methodist Episcopal
church in the United States for pen
sioning Of old preachers.
Fritz Rhode, of the Lake Side Inn,
near Mt. Clemens, lost $50 ducks and
300 chickens when someone fed his
poultry poisoned meat.
Seventeen persons lost their lives
and 13 others were seriously burned
In Michigan in September from care
less use of gasoline or kerosene, w. T.
Shaw, deputy state fire marshal, re-
ports.
Egisto Graesschi, an inmate of the
Houghton county jail, charged with
killing Angelo Massali at Franklin
mine seized razor from one of the
x.,I,D e1, wi nd Oh,
ed his own throat He will live.
Port Huron has completed the task
Of raising $4,000 to insure bringing
the plant of the Mueller Manufacture
ing company to this city. Mueller
company officials say work on the
plant will begin at once and will be
ready in 80 days. The cost of the
plant is placed at 100000.
Part of the equipment for the two
regiments Of the--Michigan state
troops located in Detroit has arrived
and been issued. This is the first
equipment the Detroit soldiers have
received from the state. Many of the
enlisted men were losing interest in
their work after drilling four months
In their civilian clothes.
At the celebration in Port Huron,
concentrating the twenty-fifth ami.
versary Of the Womens benefit asso-
citation of the Maccabees, Miss Bina
M. West supreme commander of the
order, was presented with $500 silver
dollars as a token Of appreciation for
her services in building up the order.
She was also granted a years vaca-
ton.
During the month Of September, 49,
500 visitors were shown through the
Ford Motor Co. plant at Detroit. The
company maintains corps Of from
10 to Is guides solely for the purpose
of conducting visitors around the build
ing. Two hundred and thirty-six cities
Of the United States were represented,
in addition to Canada, Mexico, and
japan in one days inspection tour.
Charles Stevenson, formerly an en-
ploye on a farm near Pontiac, was
awarded a military medal for bravery
in the attack on Messines, June 7,
and was advanced from lance corporal
to sergeant. Despite heavy artillery
fire, he led pack mules with ammuni-
ton and food to the first line of attack.
An account Of his bravery is given in
Cookstown, Ireland, newspaper. His
parents live in that city.
William Garrison, of Prescott, was
shot and killed by Dell Smith, of
Gladwin, at the fair grounds in West
Branch when Garrison with a party of
friends drove an automobile through
the midway into some of Smiths tents.
Smith ordered them away and when
they did not go started to read the
automobile number. Garrison started
for him and Smith drew a revolver and
fired In the air. A man named Payne
grabbed Garrison and started to turn
him aronnd towards the automobile
when Smith fired the fatal shot. Smith
gave himself up to the authorities. He
was bound over to the circuit court
for trial
One of the largest farms in northern
Michigan next year will be that of
King Karpen and John III. Jenny Of
Chicago, who have just purchased A..
600 acres in one block in Otsego Lake
and South Hayes townships, Otsego
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