The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-03-09
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Is dead.
Louis I.abarge and Joseph Ranger,
two old residents of Ogemaw county.
are dead after a long illness.
Captain Joseph Taylor, one of the
oldest navigators on the great lakes,
died at his home at Sault Ste. Marie.
Farrell w. Anderson, of Lake
Odessa. had fight with a savage dog
ut Grand Rapids. Both were killed.
Former Mayor Charles Martin, sixty
years old, was found dead by neigh
Dor in his home at Charlotte of heart
failure.
Mrs. Lucy Ellen, fifty-eight years
old, wife of L. J. Townsend, for forty
years a local greer of Monroe, died
suddenly.
The dead body of an unidentified
man was found on the railroad tracks
near Altoona by the section crew. The
face was badly mutilated.
There is under way in the legisla-
ture movement to adjourn business
OF the session April 1. This would be
the earliest adjournment date of many
years.
Nicholas Drummey a former cigar
salesman and proprietor of billiard
parlor at Pontiac died of pneumonia.
He was formerly a resident of Port
Huron.
Jonathan L. Snyder. president emer-
titus of the Michigan Agricultural col
lege, and former active president of
that institution for more than two
decades, has resigned.
Cadillac home owners, inspired by
the high cost of potatoes, have decided
to turn their flower beds and all other
available space on their lots into pri-
vate patches this spring.
City Clerk William Nash of Traverse
City turned the books of the city over
to Miss Clara Miner and left his Of
fee, following his suspension on
charge of malfeasance in office.
Mrs. Marie Kane. widow of John
Kane, is dead of apoplexy at her home
just east of Steamburg. She was eigh-
ty-three years old and had lived on
the same farm fifty-eight years.
Installation of machinery In the new
Solomon-Cowley, Hayes company saw
mill at Oscoda is nearing completion
and the mill will soon go into service.
1t will have capacity of 100000 feet.
That a recount in probably twenty
precincts of Lenawee to determine the
election of s. w. Beakes or Mark R
Bacon to congress will be ordered
within few days, has been reported.
Two brothers, Wells Sheldon, eighty.
four years old, and Leroy Sheldon,
eighty-six years old, are dead at their
home at st. Johns. The younger broth
er died twenty-four hours before the
older.
Harvey Jucketta, fifty years old and
married, was killed by Grand Trunk
train on the Fountain street crossing
at Battle Creek. Mr. Jucketta was
walking on the track and did not hear
the train.
Notification that April 20 has been
selected as a tentative date for the
starting homeward of the Thirty-third
Michigan confirms earlier belief the
regiment would not get away until
well toward May.
w. c. Smith, of Detroit, Michigan
Central railway freight conductor, was
instantly killed between Detroit and
Dearborn, in rear-end collision in
which two eastbound Michigan Gen.
trail trains were wrecked.
Through the efforts of H. r. Eddy
of Jackson, aided by the state fish.
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planting OF three new species of fish
in Au Sable river dam ponds next
summer has been assured.
An auction sale near Bentley was
interrupted when several dogs ran a
big doe past the crowd of farmers and
several men took up the chase. The
doe was stopped in q fence corner and
was killed with a shot gun.
The proposition to bond Monroe for
$4,000 for the purpose of erecting
new eight-room school house in the
Fourth precinct was defeated at a
special election by eighty-four votes.
The vote was 1874 nays, $50 yeas.
The securities commission approved
for sale under the blue sky law the
following securities: Michigan Silo
company, Detroit; Birmingham Cream
cry and Ice company, Birmingham;
Fort Shelby Hotel company, Detroit.
Former Lieutenant Governor w. E.
Lindsay, of New Mexico, who succeed
ed to the Office of chief executive on
the death of Governor Debaca, is a
brother of Mrs. H. B. Wilkinson, of
Pontiac, and a graduate of the Uni
versity of Michigan.
A month and half old baby girl
was left on the doorsteps of William
Streeter, drayman, at Bay City. When
the police went to get the child to take
It to the juvenile home Mr.. and Mrs.
Sreeter refused to give It up, saying
they intend to keep it.
For the first time in the history OF
the board of education a woman will
have a membership at Saginaw. Two
Tlen. nominated by the Republicans and
Democrats respectively, in the First
ward declined TO run. leaving the cleo
ton to Mrs. Ella Hanks.
John Dolan, of Sheridan, who was
convicted of arson, was sentenced to
the Ionia reformatory for from FIVE to
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