The Owosso times., 1917-06-29
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Albert j. Dorance, siXty-four years
cid, for many years a prominent Cold.
water resident, is dead.
Mrs. Lelah Eaton Fuller. TWENTY-FIVE
years old. former nurse, died at Stur.
fis, leaving a child two days old.
Mrs. Harry Anderson, eighty-two
years old, formerly of Marryton, is
dead at her home at Eaton Rapids.
Three men drove to Alfred Zim-
mer's farm near Sturgis in a hired
car, and stole horse valued at SIS.
Mrs. MichaelAJ. Cullen of West
Branch died suddenly at Mercy hos
pital, Bay City, following an opera
hon.
Residents of Flint have launched a
movement to have the city construct
an athletic stadium and military drill
field.
Mary Jane Lininger, two years old
daughter of Arthur Lininger, is dead
of infantile paralysis. She had been
Ill two weeks.
Miss Tthel Mcintyre, of Marine
City, will recover from a revolver
shot wound which she received while
handling the weapon.
Veterans of the Grand Army and
all allied societies started their an
nual state convention at Battle Creek
Wednesday, June 20, ending June %.
Driven to desperation because of ill
health, Mrs. Mary Kelso, fifty-seven
years old, drowned herself in cistern
at the rear of her home at Dowagiac.
James Chisholm, sixty-seven years
old, of near Ludington died after brief
illness with pneumonia. He was an ex.
tensive breeder of and dealer in
thoroughbred shorthorn cattle.
John OConnor, sixty-three years
old, was struck and instantly killed at
Bellevue when he stepped from be-
hind westbound Crank Trunk train
in front of an eastbound freight.
George Sage, siXty-nine years old,
Of Ithaca, Mich, is in the hospital at
Jackson suffering from the effects Of
inhaling gas. He was found uncon-
scious in his room in a hotel, and it
is supposed he blew out the gas.
Leslie White, fireman, was instantly
killed and JohnsC. Kull, engineer. was
probably fatally scalded when a train
on the Saginaw-Port Huron division
OF the Pere Marquette was derailed.
Frank Karow, salesman employed
at Lansing, was informed that he had
been left $65,OO0 by Edger Robertson.
of st. Louis, Mo-, for saving the life
of Robertson snd a companion when
the boat in which they were rowing
Because of lack of proper ranges at
Fort Sheridan about 900 student off.
GERS including 800 from Michigan who
have chosen heavy artillery training
will leave in few days for Sparta
Wis, where they will finish their
course.
Because he employed Miss Bessie
Churchill, an operator at Bear Lake,
for an average of fifteen hours per
day, Glen L. Williams, manager Of the
Benzie County Consolidated Tele-
phone company, was sentenced to $36
fine and costs.
Plans are being considered and
data of wide range gathered by the
state board of education and leading
manual training instructors of Michi.
gan with the idea of shaping manual
training to meet as far as possible the
needs of the war.
Eleven commissioned officers, fif-
teen non-commissioned officers and
eighteen enlisted men in the medical
have been called into the federal
service, with orders to report to Fort
Wayne in Detroit by noon of June "a.
d. M. Gilleo, Of Cheboygan, forty
years old, was killed when his auto
mobile was smashed by a Michigan
Central logging train, about a quarter
mile north of Grayling. Miss Phoebe
Johnson, of Grayling, who was in the
car with him, was seriously injured.
X. Trimms, Pontiac truck driver,
was fined SO and costs in Justice Du-
senbury's court for violating the
speed ordinance at Utica. Robert
Tomson, also of Pontiac, was fined SIS
and costs for a similar offense, and
Leslie Ulrich, of Mt. Clemens, drew a
fine of $5 and costs.
John Holmes, carpenter residing
northeast of Eaton Rapids, was prob
ably fatally injured when the scaffold
on which he was working in the con-
struction work of barn on the Ben
jamin Skinner farm, collapsed and
threw him to the ground, a distance
of about twenty-five feet.
Assistant Prosecutor Homer ]. Nc
Bride has filed complaint in circuit
court at Flint asking that six houses
in Waverly street and the vicinity
known as Chinatown, be declared pub
lie nuisances and that the owner, DR..
G.. H. Bradt, be enjoined from renting
iherl under present conditions.
The week OF July 1 to Z will be
wheat week" In Michigan, a proc
lamation from the Michigan Agricul-
tural college announces, and every ele-
ment of the state will be asked to rem.
der some service, either in prepara-
tion for the approaching winter wheat
or by making ready for put
ting in wheat in the fall.
An order was issued by the supreme
court directinp Circuit Judpa Stavepa