The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-02-02
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Martin Nagel. fifty-nine, proprietor
If the Commercial hotel died at Mon
roe from a stroke of apoplexy.
While walking to his home in Gus
ter an unidentified Indian was killed
by Pere Marquette train at Bald
win.
M. and Mrs. L. c. Mead, of North
vile, celebrated their fiftieth wedding
anniversary jan. II at Kalamazoo at
the home of their daughter, Mrs. A. d.
Gallery.
William Livingstone of Detroit was
again chosen president and chairman
of the executive committee of the
Lake Carriers association at the con-
veniion at Detroit.
Seventy-three lives and fourteen
vessels were lost on the great lakes
during the season of 1916, according
to the annual report of the Lake Car
rierS' association.
Bert Love, twenty-nine years old,
of Grand Rapids. private in Company
4, Thirty-second Michigan national
guard, died at the base hospital at Ell
Paso OF pneumonia.
Leroy Schell, of Niles, has filed a
bill with the board of supervisors ask
ing foI $500 damages because of the
illness of his daughter of infantile
paralysis last summer
]. Clarence Ponton, Of Sherman,
won fret place in the tryout for the
state oratorical peace contest to be
held at Ypsilanti March 16 and will
represent the Normal at that time.
A girls debating team from Lansing
high school defeated girls debating
interscholastic clash between girls de-
batting teams in the major high schools
of the state.
DR.. Harry L. Cotton, Calhoun coun-
ty veterinarian, may lose his sight be.
cause he examined with a lighted
car, after cleaning out the tank, at his
home ar Albion.
Judge Samuel S. Cooper, who has
been judge of the circuit composed
Of Gogebic and Ontonagon counties
for the last ten years, has announced
that he will not be candidate again
because of illness.
The Rev. c. w. Buzzell, whose fl
nancial operations and subsequent dis.
appearance startled Rochester, where
he was pastor of the Congregational
church is reported to be under arrest
in Toronto, Ont.
The movement to establish a coop
erative organization to retail fuel col
lapsed at Flint. The committee of IF
teen" appointed by Mayor Johnson
turned IT. final report that they found
the proposition was not feasible.
M. A. c. is sadly in need of sew.
eral new buildings, including new
science and horticulture buildings, and
an auditorium. The state board has
decided that of all the buildings need.
ed new library was the most urgent.
If Michigan is ever to revise her
jury system and provide for verdicts
in either civil or criminal cases by
the decision of less than twelve men,
as has been frequently urged, it will
have to amend the state constitution.
The board of state auditors have
authorized Herbert E. Powell, the new
commissioner of mediation and concil-
iation, appointed by Governor Sleeper
to succeed Frank l.. Dodge, of Lans-
ing, TO have his office at Ionia, his
home.
Miss Alice Clune, twenty-seven
years old, daughter of the late ]. H.
Clune, a wealthy Cheboygan furniture
dealer, in fit of dependency caused
by fear she would lose her sight, shot
herself through the right temple She
died instantly.
The extension department of the
Michigan Agriculture college is coop
Grating with the bureau of animal in.
dustry, of the United States depart
ment OF agriculture, in warning PEG.
ple not to eat pork which has not been
thoroughly cooked.
Guy Fisher, of Grand Rapids, divi-
sion master mechanic for the Michi-
gan Railway company, is near death
at Kalamazoo. Fisher was directing
workmen replacing a derailed car at
Montieth when a cable broke and a
flying end fractured his skull.
To facilitate arrangements for rae
ing programs, concessions, exhibits,
etc, al county fairs, the Central
Michigan County Fair and Racing as
ISOLATION has been organized with A.
A. Mccall, of Ithaca, president and
w. J. Bowling, of Owosso, as secre.
tary.
Coach Yost lost one of his most
promising line candidates for 1917
squad when wellington Chapman, bet
ter known as Babe" Chapman, tackle
on the 1916 freshman squad, quit the
university. Chapman will remain home
Tor a year before completing his
course.
Because it is said DR.. John L. Burk-
art, secretary Of the state board of
health, refused to approve certain pro-
posed expenditures suggested by two
members of the state board of health,
an effort will be made to GUST him at
the emf Of his term, now only a few
months away.
Official word has been received by
officers of the Thirty-third regiment
on the border of the first conyiction