The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-02-16


The body of one of the mon nise'ng
in the food of the Isle Poysle mine
has been recovered.
Mrs. Anthony Hondelirk, siyty-n'ne
years old, a resident Of Grahd Rapids
for many years. is dead.
Mrs. William Haste Hcrr's, thirty
five years old. prominent society wom-
an of Flint, is dead at Flint CT pneu-
Conia.
August Tnrro. thirtv-one yc"rs old,
who was partially smotherod tn
fall of coal at the Wolverine mine
at Calumet, died.
Wheat was not damaged to any
great extent during January, accord
inr 10 THO cror rercr+ issued by Sec.
rotary of State Caughan.
Charles V. Calkins, Alma Carnegie
hero and manager of the Wright
house, was married to Miss Grace
Kunyelman, of Mt. Pleasant.
Just because the train transporting
the men from Shiawassee mine was
forty-eight minutes late the men did
not go to work the next day.
James Forsythe, of Milan, died of
burns he received when he attempted
to relight a furnace fire with kero.
sene oil. He was a merchant of Milan.
Mrs. Florence Curtiss Schroeger
killed herself by taking carbolic acid
at Ypsilanti. She was quarantined be.
cause her two children have scarlet
fever.
The residence of Mrs. Mary Reese
at West Branch, was almost destroy
ed by fire caused by a defective chin
ney. Mrs. Reese, who is more than
eighty years old, was residing alone.
Heavy wind storms piled the snow
high in gullies along the right-of-way
of both the Pere Marquette and Ann
Arbor railroads, delaying traffic for
hours all through their section of the
state.
Word was received of the death In
Big Rapids of Henry Newcombe,
eighty-seven years old, formerly a
Flint contractor and builder. Mr.. New
combe was an uncle of City Clerk
Delos E. Newcombe.
Fred w. Green, of the Ypsilanti
Reed Furniture company, has purchas-
ed the Callow hotel at Ionia, and will
make 1t over into a ladies' rooming
house. This leaves but one hotel in
lonia, "the Brown Williston."
Supervisor Fred A. Beard, aged sew
enty-five years, Is dead at his home
at Boards Hills. His parents were
among the earliest settlers in the coun-
ty and the present Beard farm COM
prises more than 1900 acres.
For fifty years resident Of Oxford
and vicinity, where he has held sew
eral local Offices. Payne Chapel, eigh-
ty-four years old, is dead of pneumon-
ia. He was found lying in the snow
near his door too weak to rise.
An estate of $4,000 or more is dis
posed of to five persons, of whom only
one is a blood relative of the owner
of the estate, according to the will of
the late Alice H. Roberts, of Detroit
which was probated at Ann Arbor.
w. e. Kelsey, aged seventy-four
years, highly esteemed citizen and
business man of Richmond, proprietor
of Kelsey's drug store, for the last
twenty years, is dead of heart disease
superinduced by a severe attack of
asthma.
The family of Richard Kimball, and
two guests, were forced to fee, scan
tily clad, from the farm residence in
Walker township in Kent county short
w. 4 ~ IN, 70 ;ney I,
fire, originating from furnace, burn
ed the home.
To insure protection for its plants
against possible injury or destruction
by German sympathizers in case of
hostilities between the United States
and Germany. the Dow Chemical com.
pany of Midland has sworn in a large
number of deputies and guards.
To substitute criminals in the state
prisons. especially life prisoners, for
mice and other animals for vivisection
and experimental work in contagious
diseases, is the plan Professor H. A.
Gehring, of the Michigan Agricultural
college, disclosed in lecture on Con.
tagious Diseases"
AS flames were approaching the
room where Mrs. Sidney Carpenter, of
Ivan Rest, with her eighteen months
old baby lay sick and unaware of dan
ger. Adolph Meir, neighbor, burst
into the building crying your house
is on fire." and carried Mrs. Carpen-
ter and the baby to safety.
In a decision issuing a mandamus
against the Wayne county board of
supervisors, ordering them to recon-
vene and take the figures of the state
tax commission as basis for tax-levy-
ing, the supreme court read into Mich
igan law little more recognition Of
the state tax commission as the real
assessing power of the state.
On page S96 of Kalamazoo's new
City Directory may be found the name
of Polybus heodorcoumoundorge
uolos, a waiter in a restaurant 1t is
said of Theodorcoumoundor
olos that his name of eleven syllables
and twenty-eight letters is not only the
longest in the directory, but also long.
er than that of any other resident of
Michigan.
Clinton Rhodes of Battle Creek has
been charged on so many occasions
with threatening to kill Mrs. Mabel