The Owosso times., 1917-06-29

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mingham.
The annual picnic of the sanilac
County Cleaners was held at River.
bend park.
Charles Montague Paris, while haul.
ing in drifted fishing boat, was
drowned near Big Rapids.
DR.. Thomas Nadal of Olivet college,
was the principal speaker at the Fer.
ris institute commencement
| All public and parochial schools at
Adrian have been closed as the result
( discovery of eight cases Of scarlet
ever.
| Mrs. Ida Rother Simmons, sixty.
seven years old, widow Of the late An.
DIRE Simmos3, died from heart failure
at Richmond.
r. c. Herbison, ffty-four years old,
serving his second term as county
clerk OF Mason county, is dead Of
heart disease.
young unidentified man was killed
by bolt of lightning at the Joy avi-
| alton field. He sought shelter from
the StOTm unueT u tree.
John Claus, arrested at Muskegon
on charge of having failed to reg
lister June 5, has been taken to Grand
Rapids by Deputy Marshal Andrew
Dowd.
Miss Eleanor E. Eppler, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. William Eppler, was
married to Clarence H. Church, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Calvin d. Church, of
Utica.
Anthony c. Schneider, sixty years
old, despondent over illness, locked
himself in his cellar at Lansing and
cut his throat from ear to ear with a
razor
Bay City liberty loan general COM
mittee presented its secretary, James
c. McCabe, with an Oakland Six tour
ing car at a meeting to wind up it's
business.
Stricken with heart disease while
alone in her home as she sat weaving
a carpet, Mrs. Joseph Geno, seventy
two years old, is believed to have
died at Capac.
Adam Ulmer, sixty-three years old,
a German residing near Wacousta, be-
came respondent and hanged himself
in a barn on the Guy Garlock farm
near that village.
Gloria, the seven year old daughter
of Fred Peacock, of Corunna fell on
the sidewalk while on her way to
school and died few minutes later
of concussion of the brain.
The seventh semi-annual convention
Of the southern Michigan district of
the Brotherhood of American Yeomen
convened in Jackson with $50 dele
gates representing 40 lodges.
Special services were held at st.
Mary's church when Rev. Father Leo
Meade, of st. Paul, and son of Mr..
and Mrs. Richard Meade, of Muske-
gon, solemnized his first high mass.
Niles started the official Red Cross
week campaign June 1S with its full
apportionment of $4,000 all provided
for, and the money ready. The city
council appropriated it in the budget.
Fred Hutty, fifty-eight years old, for
mer postmaster at Grand Haven and
prominent Ottawa county Republican.
died at Mayo Brothers hospital in
Rochester, Mimi, following an opera
ton.
Mrs. William Jordan of Portsmouth
township, Bay county, went to Ann
Arbor with her eight year old son,
Av.th ht,r xxyhn fc fo nd Do fnI.,
treatment The child was bitten by a
dog.
The Runyan Ryall Gas company, Of
Kendallville, Ind, which operates gas
plants in Allegan, Otsego, South Ha-
ven, Mich, and in the Hoosier city
will remove it's main Offices to Kala-
maZoo.
Setting the clock just an hour fast,
the Randall Landfield Cigar company
at Benton Harbor will use eastern
time beginning July l. This plan has
been successfully carried out In their
Chicago factory.
The proposed tearing up and
abandonment of the Garden Bay rail-
road running from Manistique to Gar
den Bay in the upper peninsula has
been ordered stopped by the railroad
commission by wire.
Charles Stamper, alias Ellis Gee, a
convict, disappeared from prison
farm at Jackson during the night.
Stamper came from Schoolcraft coun.
ty September 26, 1912, on a twenty
year sentence for robbery.
President Kedzie of the Michigan
Agricultural college considered a re-
quest from the United States govern
ment to provide q course for the train
ing of telegraph operators for both
wire and wireless service.
81 will not register under any cir
cumstaNces and if l do any fighting
it will be for Germany" was the de-
fiant utterance in the Shiawassee
county jail of Samuel Danferback,
twenty-seven years old, a farm hand
of Byron.
A romance of the University Of IL
linois campus had its climax at the
home of w. L. Abbott, president of
the trustees of the university, when
his daughter was married to Lieuten-
ant Otto Randolph of Detroit, Of the