The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-01-12
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| Governor Ferris filed his acceptance
of recall for nomination for mayor of
| Big Rapids.
Mrs. Clara Gravlin, seventy years
old, died at her home at Birmingham
| of a complication of diseases.
The new $4,000 building of the Al
bion Commercial & Savings bank was
opened to the public New Years day.
Captain Ambrose Gain, seventy
five years old, one of the old time
lake mariners is dead at Port Huron.
John Cooley, of Jackson, fireman
employed by the Michigan Central
railroad, was struck by an engine in
the local yards and instantly killed.
John Ball, seventy years old, en-
ployed by the Slight Furniture COM
pany, was run down and killed by a
Pere Marquette passenger engine at
a Grand Rapids crossing.
G.. w. Froman, a motorman on the
Plainfield line, fell unconscious at the
controller at Grand Rapids. Passen.
gers called the conductor, who stop.
ped the car. Froman's condition is
| critical.
Frank Hart, seventy-two years old,
who for years conducted coal dock
in Marine City, died suddenly at his
home. He supplied fuel for boats on
the st. Clair river for more than for
ty years.
The Wright Parson company and
F. E. Burton stores are in ashes as
the result of fire at Gladwin. The
Wright Parson company store was
valued at $12,S00 and F.. e. Burton's
at $500.
Directors of the Union National
bank submitted to their stockholders
plans to erect an eight-story Office
building, giving Muskegon its first
modern office building more than five
stories high.
Marion Louise Tremaine and Vern
H. Cooper, supervisor of Kalamo
township, Eaton county, were quietly
married New Years evening at the
home of the brides mother, Mrs. d.
L. 1remaine.
Hitching his Christmas sled to the
front runner of bod-sied, loaded with
hay, which passed his home. Edwin
! Maher, five years old, fell under the
rear runner and was run over and
killed at Pontiac.
Losing his balance while working
on a ladder at Central High School,
at Grand Rapids, Engineer Fred ].
Toogood, So years old, fell 10 feet to
the floor, striking on his head. He
died several hours later.
E. C.. Austin of Battle Creek, who
has been private secretary to Gov.
ernor Ferris during the last six
months, will remain in the executive
office temporarily at least, in the same
capacity under Governor-elect Sleeper,
Hopes that the new state admin
stration would sanction a revival of
boxing in Michigan were dashed with
the issuance of a statement by Gov
ernor Sleeper that he would veto any
bill seeking to legalize prize fighting.
Charles Kline, twenty-one, a mem
Der of Company X, Thirty-frst Michi-
gan infantry of Monroe, summoned
home few days ago by the serious
illness of his father, died OF pneu-
monia. His father died in Ann Arbor
December %.
A bonus of Is cents day will be
paid to employees of the Copper Range
company, effective Jan. /, 1t is an
nounced. Underground employees were
granted 10 per cent increase in wages.
Four thousand were affected by the
announcement.
Wishes and demands of the public,
expressed through their representa-.
tives in the legislature, constitute the
principal cause for the increased cost
of the state government in the last
decade, according to the Michigan
State Tax association.
Within a day Of each other, Mrs.
William ]. Montague and her son
Henry died of pneumonia. Henry was
forty-eight and his mother seventy
eight. She died on the farm which
has been her home for fifty-five years.
He died at Big Rapids.
One Battle Greek couple started the
new year right, by getting married
while bells and whistles proclaimed
1917. The bride was Miss Vida Sand
ifer, of the E. c. Fisher Book COM
pany, and the groom, J. Edison Fuller,
an employe of the Grand Trunk rail.
road.
Michigan railroads will again ask
the legislature to grant al increase
in passenger rates of one-balf cent
per mile, bringing their compensation
up to the point established by the
United State interstate commers e
commission for interstate passenger
traffic.
When Mrs. Ralph Belmore awoke
at Marquette she found her nine chill
dren unconscious as the result of es-
Gaping coal gas from a stove. She
dragged the children outside and fell
unconscious. The children soon recov.
cred, but Mrs. Belmore's condition is
serious.
Horace E. Dodge, automobile maker,
who, with his brother, John Dodge,
controls the Dodge Brothers plant,
was appointed under-sheriff d. Sheriff.
elect Edward F. Stein, who left