The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-05-18


Dr.vW. e. Hinsdale issued warn
ing against the use of pie plant tops
Tor green's. (.
Attorney Ebert 8. Roos, seventy.
one years old, for more than fifty
years a resident of Kalamazoo. is
dead.
Mrs. Adeline Trowbridge, the oldest
resident of Kalamazoo county. cele-
brated her one hundred and fourth
birthday.
Thirty ships are waiting on the
locks on account OF the ice JAM Half
dozer vessels are caught outside In
the foes.
The annual convention q the Michi-
gan State Nurses association will be
held May % to "a at the Pantlind ho-
tel, Grand Rapids.
Undaunted by quarantine OF five
weeks for scarlet fever, with four
weeks yet to run Miss Marie T. Hol-
ben was married to Harold Anderson
In fire which partially destroyed the
Crown Picture theater in Red Jacket,
John c. Vogel, manager of the house,
was smothered, dying after removal
to hospital.
The result Of injuries received sew
eral months ago In an elevator accf
dent in a totel at Chattanooga, Tenn,
former Justice Elmer E. Rosenberg
died at his home at Muskegon.
Employing ten pens, that each fair
exponent of suffrage present might
have a souvenir, Governor Sleeper
signed the Damon bill, giving women
the right to vote at presidential elec-
lions.
The Rex Paper company of Kalama.
zoo announced an increase of 12h to
20 per cent in its wage scale for the
coming year. Girls and women EN-.
ployed in the factory will receive a
minimum of s11.16 a week.
Grand Rapids is now under the com.
mission form OF government. City
Manager Cummins will establish a
bureau of publicity for the newspa.
permen who handle municipal affairs.
at the home of her parents near Kent.
With the assignment of Major M.
J. Philips, of Owosso, formerly in
spector of small arms practice in the
the new Michigan home guards, work
of mastering in the various companies
now organized has been started.
Rev. John Walter Beardslee Sr. has
resigned his chair at the Western
Theological seminary at Holland, af
ter an unbroken service of twenty
nine years.
Mrs. Dennis Pearson, charged with
the death of William George. pleaded
guilty to manslaughter when arraign
ed before Judge Perkins, in circuit
court at Grand Rapids.
Through a misunderstanding, Ira.
verse City commission raised the cleo.
trio rates to consumers on April %
when it adopted a new schedule in.
stead OF lowering them as they in.
tended
Admitting in court that he had
raised check for $500, given him
by his business partner in laundry,
to 5000 by means of an acid, David
G.. Lindsay at Pontiac was fined s450
by Judge SmlJn.
Mike Malinski. twenty-eight years
old. shot and killed his twentythree
year old wife at Polish wedding
celebration in South Saginaw. Malin'
ski then turned his revolver on him.
self, but his ammunition had run out
Rev. w. A. Brown, of Marshall, was
named president of the Kalamazoo
river Baptist association in annual
convention. c. II. Heaton, Of Paw
Paw. was elected secretary, and
Newell S. Pond, of Kalamazoo, treas
urer.
A petition was filed in probate court
and May IL was set for a hearing on
the sanity of Isaac VOORHEES,, wealthy
retired farmer and church deacon,
who last week pleaded guilty in JUS
tice court to taking small articles
from a grocery store at Pontiac.
James Homer Depeu. recently mar
ried to Grace Chandler Horn, of Far
Dor Springs. head Of the Hiawatha In
dian play. has been arrested at Petos
key and taken to Hastings on al
charge OF bigamy. He is said to have
failed to obtain a divorce in Barry
county.
Admitting that since she was al
child, she has been accustomed to tax
ing money from the purse OF othet
people, Miss Evelyn Sherman, eigh-
teen years old of Manistee, has been
sentenced to serve sixty days in the
county Jail by Justice Erb. Her arrest
followed the complaint Of her father.
Realizing that advanced prices Of
practically all commodities has made
il impossible for certain employees toI
save money from their present earn
ings. the Manistee commissioners
have granted increases in salary to all
members Of the fire department to
the city treasurer and city superin.
tendent.
Michigan doctors who go to the
front can go with the assurance that
their wives, babies and dependents
will be we'll provided for, and with the
assurance that during their absence
their practice will be taken care OF by
the physicians who have to remain at
home because OF the age limit or
physical disability.
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