The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-08-03
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COunty HOW tOtdlS poO,OVV.
Discoveries show that the Richmond
postoffice has been robbed OF s35 II
lash.
Company e OF Pontiac is recr aItej
to within Q few men OF its wal
strength.
The Pontiac state hospital enrolled
1872 members for the Red Cross. They
gave $3.50.
DR.. William Worthy, the only den
fist in Newaygo, has been selected fol
the new army.
Ilaf Sorenson, fourteen, Of Moor
land, was drowned in Truckee Lake
Newaygo county.
Port Huron's home guard company
now has eighty members and is ready
for the state equipment
Odd Fellows lodges of Port Huron
will furnish Identification badges to
all members who are called into army
service.
Bernhard Heine, son OF a Mount
Clemens banker, was commissioned
first lieutenant in the United States
Zero corps.
Seventy-four indictments were re-
turned by the federal grand jury al
Marquette for violations of the regis
tration law.
David Wees, seventy years old, own
er of Sarnia amusement park, and
pioneer summer resort booster OF
Canada, is dead.
The body of Holden Hit, who was
drowned when he fell from the steam
er Campus below the 500 on July H.
was found by passing boat.
Court plaster peddled at Menomi
nee recently is being collected for an.
alysis to determine If it had been in.
oculated with tentanus germs.
County officers of Cass and Van
Buren, counties called off their annual
picnic because of increased work
caused by the selective army draft.
Attorney c. G. Wing, editor and pub
Usher of the Daily News, was served
with summons to appear in circuit
court On contempt charge at Lud.
ington.
Major Vandervoort of Chicago, q
blind man, saved two girls from
drowning in Traverse Bay at Traverse
City. John Schwartz, Of Chicago
drowned.
According to the mortality report is.
sued by Secretary of State Vaughan,
1913 births were reported in June.
The total number of deaths reported
was 1859.
The American Red Cross opened q
hospital for the Michigan engineers
In camp at the Michigan College OF
Mines. 1t is in charge of an enlisted
Red Cross nurse. ~
Professor l. w. Parkins, English
teacher in the Petoskey high school,
has joined the regular army from his
home city, Milton, Ind, and has been
sent to a training camp at st. Louis.
Declaring he feared for Is life If he
turned the fast, seagoing motor boat
Venetian Maid over to the United
States government, Willard Peck, of
Detroit, captain of the boat, confessed
that he burned the vessel during the
night Of June 5.
Samuel T. Crumblett of Muskegon,
passed the rigid examination for
the aviation corps at Fort Benjamin
Harrison, having received his com
mission as captain and will attend the
Royal Aviation corps meet at Toroh-
to, Can, next week.
Indications point to a general mine
strike on the Ogebic range, under the
auspices of the Industrial Workers of
the World. Already miners at the Col
by and Ironton properties near Besse-
mer have gone out, reducing the work
ing force by fifty per cent.
While bathing on the shores of
Lake Michigan at Lakeside, village
north of Benton Harbor, Immediately
after terrific storm, John Duke of
Omaha, Neb., was struck by lightning
and instantly killed while his chum,
Frederick Rich, of Chicago, is lying at
deaths door.
Anton Bjornsted, president Of the
Munising Savings bank of Munising,
and his two sons, Harry and Walter,
drowned in the Mines river near
Munising when the father and one son
attempted to save from death the 9TH
er son. who was seized with cramps
while swimming.
Governor Sleeper has reappointed
Lincoln Avery of Port Huron as a
of the state board of law ex
aminers. George Barnes of Howell and
Henry ]. Hartz of Detroit have been
reappointed as members of the board
of trustees of the state tuberculosis
at Howell.
Harry Potter, twenty-eight years
old, Alice Potter, twenty-sevep years,
claiming to be the formers wife and
John Hayes, thirty-five, were arrested
by federal authorities at Bay City,
charged with violation of the Harrison
law by selling and distributing NOR.
phine.
Eluding her nurse Miss Emma Eric
roh, thirty-five years old, maid in the
family of Elmer Schlesinger, Chi
cago attorney. lifted the screen of her
berth and leaped from the Grand
Rapids and Indiana Northland limited
near Cadillac while the train was in
motion, and was decapitated by a
s~osobt train foIIowfpg