The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-08-10

Medvin Petamore, sixty years old.
fell dead while calling on a neighbor
at Bay City.
Thomas Mitchell. sixty years old. is
dead from self-infiicted revolver
wounds at Howell.
Alfred Bagley. prominent Powers
resident, was fatally injured when
struck by an auto truck.
Respondent over an illness, Edward
iehrlng, twenty-one years old, ended
MS lie by swallowing poison at Flint
berrien county suffragists denounced
the acts which have ANNOYED Presi
oent Wilson by picketing the White
House.
Automobile caravans carried cen.
trail Michigan farmers to the congress
or wheat growers at Michigan Agricul-
tural college August 1.
Mrs. Caroline David, aged eighty. is
dead at Sturgis. She was the grand
mother OF forty-two children and had
thirty-four Observation-Disclosures.
ARA Doty, thirty-nine years old. is
in jail charged with a serious crime.
the alleged victim being his seventeen
year old daughter. near Bronson.
n. e. Hafner, Fl. Wayne, Ind, was
killed when he leaned too far out of
his engine and was hit by a beam of
the bridge just south of Plainwell.
Steve Radlitz of the Muskegon
Heights police force rounded up a
gang of four robbers following a pis-
toll duel in which no one was hurt.
Every highway entrance to Flint
Will be spanned by an electrically
lighted arch if the plan of a commerce
board committee is accepted by the
city.
Joseph Hero, sixteen years old.
drowned at Escanaba Five hundred
bathers tried to locate the body in
six feet of water. He became tangled
up in seaweed.
Dr. and Mrs. d. p. Rogers, Cincin-
natl. Walnut Hills and Manistee, have
announced the engagement of their
daughter, Norine, to Mr.. ]. r. Nc
Cleary, at Cincinnati.
The only men who answered the
strike called in the Besscnier district
were the 200 or 800 employees at the
Colby and Ironton mines Of the Corri.
gan-McKinney company.
A general strike of all miners on
the Gogcbic iron range wac called as
a result of vote taken at mass
meeting. The strike was TO begin al
o'clock July 80 morning.
Dowagiac residents were again re-
minded of the war when local dealers
announced a two-cent raise in the
price Of milk. Mix sells for ten cents
Quart now instead of eight.
Fifty mounted state troops were
sent to Ironwood to suppress l. w. w.
activities in the upper peninsula. The
men were taken from the state con-
stabulary at East Lansing.
When Kenneth Howard, a compan.
ion, made cast while fishing at Flint,
the artificial bait struck Walter Win.
date in the face, three of the hooks
taking hold, one in the pupil of the
eye.
Eugene Parent of Menominee, hold
er of number 25S, the first number
drawn in the new army lottery, has
started the organization Of a national
body known as the 1.-TWO Fifty-eight
Men"
Running to escape a crowd of bows
who were throwing stones at him
Michael Logan, nine years old. was
hit by Pere Marquette switching
train at Flint and his left foot was
amputated.
Paying little attention now to the
diet and general welfare OF "Biddv."
the hen, will return dividends by put
ting eggs in the nest during the VIM
ter, Michigan Agriculture college 2oul-
trymen say.
The war board has authorized the
purchase Of $172 worth of medical
supplies for the Thirty-first regiment
ipon the request of Major Kerr, The
anking medical officer, approved by
Colonel Pack.
AS result of the Covert act being
sustained by the supreme court st.
Clair county will construct a concret,
road north from Gratiot avenue to the
county line to form a part of the Dix.
lie highway route.
Seven hundred and thirty-five thou
sand automobiles were manufactured
by the Ford Motor company during
the fiscal year ended July 81, it is an
nounced. This exceeded last years
output by 100000.
One man was seriously injured and
three others bruised when trains No.
III, running from Chicago to Ashland.
and No. "a, running from Saxon, Wis,
to Wakefield, Mich, collided head.on
about a mile west of Hurley.
Rather disquieting reports concern
ing the conditions Of the wheat crop
have been received at M. A. c. within
the last few days. Rust is said to have
attacked the standing wheat in several
districts and done much harm
Former State Senator William NJ.
Potter, of Hastings, has been elected
president of the army appeal exemp-
ton board of the first district, com.
prising Barry, Eaton, Allegan. Kala.
maZoo, Van Buren,. Calhoun. Rerrien