The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-03-23
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TIE dog quarantine in Kent county
again is causing the officers worry.
Chester Kelley, eighty-five years old.
resident of Grand Ledge nearly six
ty years, IL dead.
John Kelly, seventy-nine, former In.
diana legislator, died at his homo at
Sturgis of paralysis
Frank Joslyn, seventy-three years
old, Oldest member Of the Washtenaw
county bar. died suddenly.
| The Association Of Collegiate
| Alumnae announces a fellowship of
$500 available for the academic year.
| Edward Medendorp of Muskegon, in
district court, pleaded guilty to
charge of breaking lockbox In the
Muskegon postofice and stealing let
| ters
William Fleming, fifty-six years old,
a fruit grower who had resided for
| half a century on the Fleming home
stead, two miles south of Shelby, 4
dead.
| About 100 men, some Of them with
| families, have been signed up by the
| Ontario labor bureau, which has an Of
fee in Port Huron to go to Canada for
| farm work.
Saved from fire which threatened
the building the home of Harris e.
Galpin, Muskegon attorney, again
caught fire the next day causing a
loss of $4,000.
Newell Fl. Rowlingson, civil war
| veteran. eighty-eight years old, is dead
of heart failure at Ludington. He was
second lieutenant in the Eleventh
Michigan cavalry.
John Stevens charred body was
taken from the ashes of his home near
Big Beaver, after he climbed ladder
to the second floor and entered while
the house was in flames.
Sturgis women, who are preparing
for war, have organized unit of the
Red Cross association, and work will
start at once under direction of Red
Cross Nurse Ida Armitage.
Albert Gerst, f1fty-two years old, for
mer Muskegon alderman, is dead at
his home after five year illness.
Gerst was liquor dealer in Muskegon
for nearly twenty-five years.
Poison, taken either by mistake or
Intentionally, caused the death of
George Grapser thirty-seven years old,
business man, who was found dead in
bed at his home at Grand Blanc.
Gregori Woitowich, thirty years old,
Of Albion, had both legs cut off by a
Michigan Central freight train and
died at the city hospital. Suicide be-
cause Of poor health is suspected.
Adrian workingmen, thousand
strong, rallied to the support of the
President and his policies in a spon-
taneous movement which expressed It.
self in kilograms to the President.
At midnight Mrs. Almeda Pixley,
ninety-two years old, the Oldest wom-
an resident of Rochester, died after
being an invalid for three years. She
had spent her whole life in the village.
Westbound passenger train number
70 on the Michigan Central struck and
instantly killed two foreigners seven
miles east Of Marshall as they we're re-
turning to boarding cars, stationed at
Marengo.
Thomas Halethorpe, seventy-five
ty-five years, was found dead in a chair
in his Office. Mr.. Halethorpe was pres
ident OF the Michigan PHOTOGRAPHERS
association.
Daniel Vieglvier, sixty-six years old.
Of Grand Rapids, was found asphyxi-
ated In bed by his son. Mrs. Viegivier
was unconscious, but Is now out of
danger. They were overcome by es-
Gaping gas from coal stove.
A farmer residing four miles west
of Eaton Rapids has marketed the last
OF his 1916 onion crop and received
1913 bushel for them. Last fall
when he harvested his crop the high
est price offered was 81 bushel.
East Lansing faces a situation not
to be found In many cities in Michi-
gan. A caucus was called for March IL
and not candidate announced
his intention of running for any of
the cfiices to be decided at the coming
election.
CONSERVATION reigns among the
farmers OF the Grand Traverse region
who realize that they have sold them
selves short of potato seed and that
potatoes will have to be shipped in II
the average acreage is planted during
the coming spring.
Announcement is made by the
American Museum of New York of the
arrival OF new specimen of tertiary
mastodon, which was found last sum-
mer by DR.. e. L. Troxell, of Ann Ar
Dor, near the Keyapaha river, OF
Northern Nebraska
Major General George w Goetha,s.
who spoke at Ann Arbor March Ia
in ELL auditorium on "The Construc-
tive Features of the Panama canal"
was made an honorary member of
the local branch of Tau Beta Pi. ma
tional honor engineering society.
Failure OF CONGRESS to pass the riv-
er and harbor bill, which carried with
II an appropriation for Improvement
OF Muskegon harbor, as well as sew
eral ports on the east shore of Lake
Michigan, may hold back harbor i'm
provements in western Michigan.
Contrary to expectations. the Michi-
gan legislature last week did not make
the hoped-for advance with the move