The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-02-16
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L. E. Cooley, brother of Dean Nor
timer Cooley, of Ann Arbor, is dead
at his home in Chicago.
Clement Waldron, seventy-seven
years old, civil var veteran, is dead
st Lapeer. He came to Lapeer in
1856.
Captain David Warwick of Froom-
field, Ont, well known lake mariner,
died suddenly in the Rhadigan grocery
store at Marysville.
Thomas A. Downes, forty years old,
for FIVE years resident and once
county clerk of Saginaw, died at Har-
per hospital at Detroit after a short
illness.
No more are punch boards, slot ma
chimes or other gambling devices to be
tolerated In Hillsdale county, accord
| ing to an ultimatum of Sheriff F. w.
Phillips.
| Fifty-ive Greeks were arrested
when the police raided Turkish cof-
fee houses which had long been
suspected of being a gambling joint
at Ann Arbor.
The state treasury has balance of
$3,11S,05496 according to the monthly
report of State Treasurer Odell OF
the total balance, S2,405, 967.60 is in
the general fund.
| 1t is announced that the salaries of
Alma college professors would be in.
creased because of the high cost of
| living. The professors will receive
about ten per cent more.
| One of the largest business transac-
tons in Flint in some time took place
when Thomas c. Riley, of Rochester,
N. Y, bought out the interests of e.
G. Puffer in the Dresden hotel.
Mrs. Mary Bickford, of Masco, Hills.
dale county, was found dead in bed
at the home of her son, Clyde Bick-
ford at Jackson. She was sixty years
old and arrived in Jackson on a visit.
Grand Rapids can have no more
Sunday barber shops as the result of
Prosecuting Attorney Cornelius Hof-
rius ordering the shops in the PENN
sular and Elks clubs to close Sundays.
The annual report of the state
board Of agriculture shows that the
average salary of the professors, as
sistant professors and instructors. at
the Michigan Agricultural college is
| $3.50.
Stanley Bailey, twenty-five years
old, of Cadillac, and Rollin Sanford,
of Owosso, are In jail at Lansing,
charged with robbing c. E. McKane,
of Lansing, of 81 at the point of re.
volver.
The states aid for the fairs will be
| 100000 for each Of the next two
years instead of $4,000, as it is now,
unless the legislature turns down
bill introduced by Senator Wood, of
Manistique.
Mrs. George M. Berry, aged seventy
one, one of the most prominent wom-
en- of Grand Ledge, died after a short
illness. Mrs. Berry was the wife of
George Berry, president of the Loan
and Deposit bank.
Albert Cary, eighty-three years old,
an heir of Hetty Green, died at Mil
| ford before his share of the fortune
could reach him. Cary was notified
recently that he was entitled to 81, 400
from the Green estate.
According to the monthly report OF
State Fire Marshal Winship the care.
less handling of gasoline and kero.
sene caused twelve deaths during
January and eighteen persons were ser.
! iously burned or injured.
Full confessions explaining eleven
hold-ups of the past month, in which
about $4,000 was taken from various
victims, were wrung from four auto.
bandits, held prisoners at the Hunt
street police station at Detroit.
Word has been received from the
university that Will R. Pearl, of st.
Johns, Michigan's Rhodes scholar,
| has obtained leave of absence from
| Oxford and has gone to France with
the American ambulance corps.
During January more deaths were
recorded by the board of health than
during any previous January in the
history of Grand Rapids. A total of
| 215 death were reported. The next
| highest was 1876 during March, 1915.
Sister Angelica of st. Joseph acad.
| envy died at the institutions hospital
after an operation. She had been a
member of the community for about
six years and before her admission to
the order was Miss Helen Vessel, of
| Detroit.
Fire of undetermined origin virtual.
| ly destroyed the plant of the Saxon
| Motor Car CO.. at Detroit. A tempera-
ture of below hampered the efforts
of the firemen who fought the blaze
for more than two hours before bring
| ing it under control.
Rev. John e. Troy, pastor of st.
| Patrick's church at Parnell, has been
named chancellor Of the diocese of
Grand Rapids, the post held by Bishop
Michael ]. Gallagher, before his eleva.
ton to full Episcopal authority, on the
| death of Bishop Richter.
Every circuit court Judge In Mich
igan will get boost of $500 in sal
| airy from the state, while his addition
al emoluments from the counties will
| remain the same, If a bill introduced
| in the senate by Senator Lyman A.
Holmes, of Romeo, becomes law.
Melvin j. Coy, nineteen years old,
supply sergeant OF Company /, died
| at the base hospital of diabetes. He