The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-08-24

c. L. Hoffman, business man u
stock breeder of statewide reputation
Is dead at his home in MuEith.
John Rudy. ffty-fve years old. was
arrested at Flint on charge pre-
ferred by the parents of seven year
old girl.
George A. Deibert. thirty-five years
old, OF Saginaw. was drowned in the
Kawkawlin river, near the mouth Of
the stream.
Armon w. Hixson. sixty-four years
old. one OF the largest merchants in
Flint, died at his home here after a
brief illness. u
The Kalamazoo Milk Producers as.
ISOLATION notified retailers of two one
cent advances a quart, the FIRST com.
ing August Is and the second Septem.
Der 1.
Nicholas Nerbout. of Eecanaba, in
an attempt to escape draft is declared
to have gone into the woods and am.
putated the middle toe on his right
foot.
The Michigan railroad commission
has issued an order restoring a daily
round trip between Freeport and Elm
dale on the Freeport branch of the
Pere Marquette.
At the reunion of the Dewey fam.
lily at Lake Orion, August Is, each
kinsman was provided with a gen.
ealogy of himself running back more
than 800 years.
William Smith. Jackson negro. was
attacked and robbed by five soldiers,
according to the police Two other ne
groes reported that they had been
chased by the soldiers.
Action to avert the threatened coal
| shortage in Michigan next winter has
been taken by Governor Sleeper and
coal experts, who met in confer
ence at the state capitol.
Vice President and Mrs. T. r. Mar
shall, accompanied by Clarence Mar.
shall, passed through Grand Rapids
on their way to Petoskey, where sew.
eral weeks will be spent in rest.
Fresh from the scene of Germany's
submarine warfare, Thomas Wander.
wall, machinist on one OF the trawl-
ers of a Dutch fishing company. has
established his home in Muskegon.
A Bay City mother is appealing to
the newspapers Of Michigan to help
find her son, Charles Goodrow. fifteen
years old, who accidentally shot
playmate and fearing arrest ran away.
Announcements have been received
of the marriage at Detroit OF Clemens
p. Steimle to Miss Mary Graham The
bride is a graduate, while the groom
is registrar of the normal at Ypsilan-
IT,
Mrs. John Gould. thrty-nine years
old, of Hastings, was crushed under a
touring car which was backed over
the side of culverl into creek. Mrs.
Gould died fifteen minutes after the
accident
Passing the examination for the ma
tional army, Alex McGills, only son
of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph McGillis of
Escanaba not in military service, will
leave his parents soon. Three other
sons in the family have enlisted since
the war broke out.
John Sherwood, OF Newayco. and a.
G.. Harding, of Shelbyvillc, suffered
broken ribs and F. Van Leuven re-
ceived broken left arm when the
automobile Van Leuven was driving
threw them to the road when the
brakes failed to work.
w. H. Stewart of Kalamazoo mas
been asked by Governor Sleeper to
resign as a member of the district
appeal board in that city, following
charges that in a weekly paper he
publishes Stewart made statements
against President Wilson.
Fearing renewal of ]. w. w. ac-
tivities in the upper peninsula, Col
onel Roy c. Vandercock planned to
take charge Of the state constebulary.
which is stationed there. Wander
cooks action will follow dynamiting
of a f1agpole near Negaunee.
The absence of blossoms in potato
fields at the time OF the year when
they might be expected to appear,
should give growers whose crops have
been behaving this way no cause for
worry, says bulletin from the M. A.
c. department of horticulture.
The following FIVE Michigan men at
Fort Benjamin Harrison have been
given commissions, as second lieu
tenants: Bertram Ciffels, Laingsburg;
George NJ. Fitzpatrick, Alpena; Carl
c. Bloomshield, Bay City; Merritt d,
Miller, Alma; Walter F. Perkins, De-
troit
Men discharged from military serv-
ice in the recent muster OF national
guards into federal command, on
grounds of physical disability, may
apply at army recruiting stations for
re-enlistments, with fair prospect Of
success, according to information re-
ceived by Adjutant General Bersey.
Imports for the year just closed
were s2,190,77753, an increase of
s496,S3507 over the preceding year,
when imports totaled 1,693,942.46.
Records of the collectors office
showed that fully nine-tenths OF the
balfmilliou gain was from importation