The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-03-30


French flying corps. has applied for
passports to return to the front.
Council of Bay City Endorsed the
proposed law to stop pollution OF wa
ters connected with the Great Lakes.
Alfred Hall. fourteen year old
school student residing near Buchan.
I'm, shot himself just abcTe the heart.
Glasses at Adrian college were dis
4 missed one day because Of two cases
of scarlet fever found in the boys dor
mitory.
Victor Lobere, Pontiac photog-
sapher, was convicted in circuit court
bf having exhibited obscene pictures
at his studio.
Stockholders of the Union Tele-
phone company at Alma voted to in
crease the capital stock from $1,000
900 to $1,5OO.00O.
A. L. Willard, superintendent OF
schools at White Cloud, was badly
burned while carrying a flaming oil
stove from his home.
Albert L. Davis, fifty-nine years DID,
died suddenly of heart disease at the
bedside of his aged mother, who is
critically i'll at Grand Rapids. 81.
William H. Rose, farmer living
near Linden, collected $25 bounty at
the county clerks Office on timber
wolf which he killed on his farm.
Because Of an error in the printing
of the ballots the election board OF
Clayton has declared the recent vii
lage election there null and void.
The Wiley soil survey bill, one of
the most important measures of the
session, was passed by the house by
vote of to / and now goes to the
senate.
DR.. Thomas Shaw seventy-six years
DID, is dead at his home at Ypsilanti.
He was born in Ontario and was grad
uated from the University of Michigan
| In 1870.
Blacksmiths of Huron, Sanilac, Tus-
cola and Lancer counties held their
annual meeting at Brown City. The
next annual meeting will be held at
Croswell.
Mrs. ALI. c. Smith was reelected
state oracle of the Royal Neighbors of
America, at the fourth triennial state
camp and Lansing was selected as the
meeting place for 1920.
After a heated debate the house re-
jected the Culver bill requiring boards
of education in all cities of more than
5000 population to install elective
courses in military training.
Health Officer DR.. r. G. Leland an
nounces that there were forty-one
cases of scarlet fever in Kalamazoo,
twenty inside the city and twenty-one
at Kalamazoo state hospital.
A bill to divide S.. Clair township.
st. Clair county. is being contested
before the state legislature It is ssa'd
that a corporation desires the change
made in the township to set off the
river frontage. IT,,
A marriage license has been issued
to Bert B. Gustin and Miss Mary Can
ley, the, manicurist who started suit
for breach OF promise against Gus
tin, the landlord Of the Steel no.
tel at st. Johns.
A newly organized Battle Creek mil
itary company, directed by men who
attended the Pittsburgh trainnc
camp last season, has held its frs
drill. the First Congregational church
furnishing the rooms.
Senator Damon's bill giving women
of the state the right to vote for pres
idental electors passed the senate on
third reading, after its opponents had
made futile efforts to amend 1t by
lacking on a referendum clause.
\Genesee county road commissioners
have advertised for bids for the con-
struction of an important link in the
Dixie highway in Michigan, a concrete
road through the county, north and
south, through Mt. Morris, Flint and
Grand Blanc.
c. p. Clark, of the Creston Heights
garage, and three women had mar
row escape from death at Grand Rap
ids when the automobile in which
they were riding was run down by
Grand Rapids & Indiana passenger
engine at the Island street crossing.
Jacob Wehn and his son, William.
anu AHuTeW T1uDeT anu HIS SUI,
George, have been bound over to the
circuit court on a charge Of felonious
assault on Joseph Baker, who is said
to have circulated stories about their
families and has been near death at
his home near Unionville.
For the past five days three Of the
leading downtown hotels of Detroit
have had to deal with one of the
cleverest boy thieves Detroit has ever
known. Although hotel and police
headquarters detectives have been on
his trail, this modern oliver Twist
the tool of Fagin, has made a clean
getaway.
The teams for the Hope, Olivet and
Alma triangular debate have been
chosen. The three colleges will debate
April 13 on Resolved. That with re-
spect to immigration the United
States should accord to the citizens of
China and Japan the same treatment
that is extended to citizens of the
European nations"
After a session between the execu-
tive committee of the Michigan Beet
Growers association and the heads OF
the various sugar beet factories OF