The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-10-05
MICHIGAN NEWS BRIEFS

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Der of the state food conservation com.
mittee.
| The big sister movement will be re-
newed this year in the state normal
college at Ypsilanti.- Each senior girl
will be expected to adopt" a fresh
man.
Schools at Paw Paw are being
closed at noon SO pupils can aid in
picking the grape crop. which is re-
ported one of the largest in many
years.
Grand Traverse, Charlevoix, Leela-
nau, Kalkaska, BenZie and Antrim
counties were represented in the an.
nual fair which was held at Traverse
City last week.
Rules on how to prevent tuberculos-
is are being distributed by the state
| board of health, backed up by the
board of public instruction, in all
schools In the state.
A dog quarantine has been declared
in the townships OF Winfield and Cato,
Montcalm county, and Deerfield and
Hinton. Mecosta county, following
the discovery of case of rabies.
r. J. Baldwin, extension director for
the M. A. c., in a press notice assures
housewives that there is no truth to
the rumor that the government will
confiscate home-canned goods for its
own use.
Mildred Jones was seriously injured
when pan of gasoline exploded in
the Kathan jewelry store and music
house at Cheboygan, the stock Of
which was entirely destroyed at a
loss of $4,000.
Walter Leabell. Detroit, had long
ago lost faith in banks. He regretted
that however when he discovered that
thieves had entered his noNse and had
taken a cash box containing $742 from
kitchen shelf.
Every soldier boy that leaves st.
Clair county or that has already enter.
ed Uncle Sans service will be pro-
vided with knitted articles of comfort
for the winter months by the Donald
B. Duncan section of the Navy league
In Port Huron.
The engineer OF Grand Trunk
train, when near Battle Creek, saw
Carl Blanchard in the track in front
of him and applied the brakes. When
the train stopped, Blanchard, who had
been bowled over, was between the
pilot and the front wheel. His injur-
les are not serious.
Henry M. Jackson, 76, Pontiac's pio-
neer blacksmith, is dead. He came to
Pontiac in 1867.
-Four acres of oats which were cut
and stacked at Fred HACKS farm
home, lear Birmingham, burned. 1t
- thou,,h to have been set on fire
by children.
In the Canadian casualty lists ap-
pear the name of w. M. Johnson, of
Lansing, dead of wounds. and w. J.
Immersion. of Sault Ste. Marie, wound
cd in action.
An American flag. 800 by SO feet, Is
being made by Grand Rapids
manufacturing concern. Each star
will be AZ inches wide.
Stewart Smith, 81 years old, was
killed and Robert Mccarthy, William
Sanderson and Fred Kaiser we're Sc
riously injured, at Sault Ste. Marie,
when the car which Smith was driving,
turned double somersault. The car
was speeding.
Nerina Morse, of Hudson, 10 years
old, took her brothers high-caliber
rifle and with her cousin, Charles AL
len, 10 years old, went hunting. The
gun was accidentally discharged and
the ball splintered Miss Morse's knee.
German language study in the
grades was eliminated by the board
Of education of the Saginaw east side
schools by unanimous vote. Strong
traces of German propaganda in the
text books was the basis of the action,
which was bitterly opposed by Teu-
tonic influences. The campaign to
force German from the schools Of Sag
inaw, which has the. largest percent
age of Teutonic population of any
CITY, hdu pOSh oSupcoAhi
fought for weeks.
Harland Wudtke, of Ironwood, an
electrician, was electrocuted when a
telephone line he was stringing be-
came crossed with a power line.
Helen Miles. 7-year-old daughter of
William j. Miles, of Flint, was killed
when an automobile containing a par
ty of nine Flint people was overturned
in ditch.
Cornelius Sullivan, Sault Ste.
Marie saloonkeeper, was sentenced to
year in the Detroit house of correc
ton and a $1,000 fine in federal court
at Marquette for selling liquor to sol
diers.
Distribution of the second Liberty
loan is under the direction OF the
federal reserve bank in Chicago for
this district. Michigan will be divided
into two districts, one with Detroit rs
the center and the other Grand Rap
ids, and the districts will be sub.
divided into counties and even smaller
districts for intensive efforts. Sub
scriptions for the loan open October
and II Ia nrohahIe that November /