The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-02-02

sufficient for the city and vicinity for
another month.
The Alama Farm Light Plant COM
pany of Omaha. Neb.. may locate a
factory in Hillsdale.
Fire which broke out in the Whit
aey theater caused damage amounting
10 $4,000 at Ann Arbor
The shortage of coal has forced
The brick yards located Near East
Lansing to close temporarily.
Kalamazoo plans to entertain 1000
Michigan grocers and retail dealers
when the state association meets there
February 1928.
Clarence Wilson, forty-five years
old, committed suicide by cutting his
throat in the basement of his store,
south of Adrian.
The probable acquisition of a new
factory and the enlargement of the
Alamo and the Alec companies are
announced in Hillsdale.
Albert o. Braun of Muskegon was
found not guilty of violating the Mann
white slave act by jury in the Uni
ted states district court.
During the recent cold snap the
mercury dropped to twenty-five de.
grees below zero at Iron River, the
coolest weather of the season.
Edwin A. Walton of Detroit, vice
president of the American Association
of National Advertisers, died of pneu-
monia after an eight days illness at
Spokane.
Ernest T. Cameron has resigned as
county school commissioner Of Isa-
bella county to take the position of
secretary of the new teachers pension
fund board.
The Ann Arbor car ferry No. 6,
which left the Ecorse yard of the
Great Lakes Engineering works JAN
uary Is for Frankfort, is held by ice
west of Mackinaw City.
Continuance of the storm through.
out Michigan may make great differ
ence in the coal situation and may tie
matters up so tight that for a few
days actual famine will result.
Fifty men from different parts of
Isabella county have organized claw
and order league" to uphold the off,
GERS in an effort to clean up the ii.
legal liquor traffic in this county.
James Rossington, of Lansing, a
freight conductor on the Michigan
Railway line, was crushed to death
between two traction cars while max
ing a coupling in the Jackson yards.
Two children are dead and several
are critically i'll as result of an cpl
demic of measles in Iron River and
vicinity. The deaths resulted from
pneumonia, which followed the attack
of measles.
Sam Robokon, twenty-five years old,
is in Butterworth hospital at Grand
Rapids with bullet wound above his
heart. Peter Pologoll, a straw boss
over Italian and Polish workers, is
locked up.
Many Grand Rapids merchants have
fallen victims to the gold-p,ated half
new issue of fifty cent pieces are
used and when gold-plated resemble a
genuine $40 gold piece.
F. T. Cameron, of Mt. Pleasant. COM
missioner of schools for Isabella coun-
ty, was elected secretary of the teach
ers' retirement fund board. The salary
of the secretary was fixed at $1,000
and his term will be for three years.
Dr.. Hugh Black, head of the Union
Theological seminary, New York city,
has accepted President II. B. Hutch
ms invitation to deliver the baccalau.
reate sermon to the graduating class
es of the University of Michigan,
June "a.
Attorneys compromised a claim for
$4,000 against the estate Of Edwin
c. Way, president of the Scotch Dill
Ion Tobacco company of Detroit,
agreeing to pay $25.75O to his house.
keeper, Miss Pauline Klaumbush, who
filed the claim.
Earl Windsor, twenty-seven years
old, single, a brakeman on the North
Western line, was fatally injured and
died shortly afterward from injuries
tween two cars at Bristol junction,
near Crystal Falls.
Toddling about the kitchen while
her mother, emptied kettle Of hot
water into a tub on the floor, four
year-old Alice Splitter, living few
miles south of st. Joseph, was scald-
ed to death when she accidentally
backed into the boiling caldron.
The football eleven of the Univer-
sity of Michigan will not meet Rut-
gers university next fall. Director Of
Athletics Bartelme said that Michi-
gan would not play any games after
Thanksgiving and it is understood
that Rutgers had only late date to
offer.
Prosecuting Attorney Glenn c. Gil
lespie of Pontiac has drafted a bill
which he has asked Senator F. L.
Covert to introduce at this session of
the legislature making felony of fail.
ure on the part of husbands accused
of non-support to comply with a court
payment order.
James Alexander Hayward, the &C.
centric millionaire owner of the for.
mer Berrien county seat properties
at Berrien Springs, who gained con.
siderable notoriety last fall in Chicago
uhan ha drew S6O nm from, a Chioa on