The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1917-02-24
Michigan NeDs
Tersely Told


Alma.-Charles V. Calkins. local Car
negie hero and manager of the Wright
house. was married tn Miss Grace
Kumyelman OF Mount Pleasant.
Grand Rapids Grand Rapids yot-
crs will be asked to pass on Il pro-
pOSal to bond the city for S25OOOO TO
improve park and playground lands
now owned by the municipality.
Bay City-The shortage of coal has
compelled the Detroit 4 Mackinac rail
road In discontinue two trains daily
between Alpena and Cheboygan and
two trains daily between Alpcna and
liilIman. Other trains may be taken
off later, ii is said.
Muskegon.- Judge Albert Dicker-
man, presiding over the Fourteenth
judicial district from 1855 10 1894
comprising MuSkegon aud Oceana
counties, died AT WatsonvilIe Cal, ac-
cording to word received here. lie was
II veteran of the Civil war.
Lansing. The promoters Of the llar-
roun Motor company have deposited
with the securities commission the 81
200, 900 worth Of stock which the com
mission insisted they must place In
escrow before they sold the Sl.Ooo,WO
treasury stock in this state.
Ironwood. The new city charter
which was adopted last winter and I'M
der which the officials are now work
ing is said 10 be void because of neg
lect to follow n 90-day filing Failure
To sell 100000 bonds for waterWorks
revealed the illegality of the charter.
Cadillac.-Cadillac proud diStinc-
ton Of having the lowest bonded In
debtednesS Of any Michigan municipal
ity is threatened The honor will he
lost IL suggestions Of Mayor T.. II. Ne
Mullen for a S2OOO0O bond issue are
ratified by the voters. The mayor he
lieves the money should he voted for
extensive improvements.
ST. Joseph - Extensive improve
ments will he made next summer by
the federal government in the equip
ment of the coast guard station here.
Among other things. u new penthouse
will be erected for the fleet of five
boats operated from this station. A
federal Inspector. who recently looked
over the station recommended the inn
provPments.
knlamaZoo. Under The SuppoSitiOn
that KalamaZoo's city sanatorium is
mismanaged, members of the board of
supervisors made an investigation.
Miss Charlotte Garrison. head of the
sana torium, IS alleged 10y several citi-
zens. who have made dispositions, 70
have mistreated patients. None of the
supervisors would make comment On
their findings.
Kalamazoo There were jobs await
ing every one of the returned members
of Companies G and u. Thirty-second
Michigan National Guards. The great
or part of the guardsmen returned 10
the places they gave up when They left
Kalamazoo for the border last sum-
mer and n committee from the cham
her of commerce provided employment
for all whose jobs had been perma-
ncntly filed when they left.
KalamaZoo.--charg that many
rural schools in Kalamazoo county are
unfit to house children, Dr, Blanche
Epler. physician and social worker Of
this city. asked the supervisors 10 take
immediate steps To remedy the situa-
ton. She declared that many Of the
buildings are poorly ventilated and
supplied with impure drinking water.
Attention was directed To the rural
schools by the fact that health OF most
of the girls who apply for admission
at the Western Normal school from the
country districts-is below the average
Grand Rapids. The Michigan Trust
company of this city has prepared
plans for the reorganization of the
Boyne City, Gaylord X Alpena railroad
with a bond issue of SSO0.OOO and the
completion of the line from Alpena TO
Atlanta. 1t is said that Alpena men
have subscribed S2OO.OOO toward the
bond issue. The trust company is re-
ceiver for the road. 1t is planned to
clear up the outstanding debts of the
road and discharge the receivership.
When the line from Alpena TO Atlanta
is completed IL will open up an east
and west cross-state line and give
Grand Rapids an almost direct line TO
Alpena.
STANDARDIZATION TO control chem
ical factories along the Tittabawassee
and Saginaw rivers to cease dumping
their chemical refuse into the streams
will be started at once In the Saginaw
county circuit court by the public do
main commission and Attorney Gen
eral Alex. J. Groesbeck. according to
Chief Deputy Game Warden John
Baird and Attorney Frank A. Rock
with. The suits will be based on the
findings Of the state health board
chemists. The chemists reported that
the noxious odor of the water and its
peculiar taste which has rendered FISH
unfit for food is caused by chemicals
and coal-tar products poured into the
rivers by the chemical manufactures.
Fllnt.-Whether n tentative juror
takes glass Of liquor occasionally is
meme of the business of an examining
attorney who is drawing the jury. Cir
cult Judge Mark w. Stevens held while
attorneys were endeavoring to impan-