The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-08-10
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A near cyclone passed over Iron
county, doing large amount OF dam
age to standing timber.
The forty.ninth annual reunion OF
the Ninth Michigan infantry associa'
ton was held at Portland.
The thirty-fourth annual encamp'
ment of the Eaton county battalion
was held at Eaton Rapids.
BY back firing after much loss, far
mers have subdued the brush fire that
ragged three days near Traverse City.
Adam Peska, an Austrian, who has
been in this country twelve years,
has been arrested by Gratiot officers
for failure to register June 5.
More than $4,000 was reported as
raised for Kalamazoo's three military
units by H. e. Johnson, treasurer of
the gdardsmen's auxiliary corps.
Labor Commissioner Fletcher has
announced the appointment of Will
liam Henry, of Marquette, as factory
Inspector for the upper peninsula.
Two hundred employees of the Du-
pick Truck company at Charlotte have
volunteered their services for work on
farms and the factory will be closed.
Mrs. Josephine Reed, who shot and
killed her husband, following an at
tack by him at Saginaw, was freed
by recommendation of the coroner's
jury.
Out of the first twenty-nine men pre-
senting themselves for examination
who had been drafted for first call
from Washtenaw, twenty-five were
passed.
The state convention Of the Michi-
gan Lutheran bund opened a three
day session at Bay City with 100 dele
gates coming from nearly every part
of the state.
Simon Smith, deaf and dumb, about
fifty years old, committed suicide by
jumping from the Grand Haven bridge
into Black river at Holland. His body
was recovered
Margaret Anderson, nineteen years
old, daughter of w. B. Anderson, a
Calumet banker. was drowned while
bathing at Twin Lakes, Houghton
county summer resort.
Small silk Gags, embossed with the
seal of the city of Adrian, will be pre-
sented by Mayor Baker to each mem
Der of Company B, Thirty.second
Michigan national guard.
Driven by fifty mile gale, brush
fire burned a swath three miles wide
from a point twenty miles west of
Traverse City to Lake Michigan, a
distance of twenty-five miles.
Discharges from the Michigan ma.
tional guard by reason of physical dis
abilities will total 500, according to
Chief mastering officer Colonel E. A.
Root, Thirtieth u. s. infantry.
The Diamond Crystal Salt company
of st. Clair, has advanced $4,000 to
the Detroit, Bay City & Western rail-
read as an inducement to extend the
line from Port Huron to ST. Clair.
Police and professional divers found
in Star Lake the body of Nine. Evan
geline Barron, Chicago concert singer,
who was drowned within 100 yards of
the resort hotel, where she was a
guest
Charles Johnson, employed by Won
Platten Lumber company at Ironwood,
was struck by lightning and is in
Lakeside hospital badly injured. A do,
standing beside him was instantly
killed.
More than $50 enlisted men of the
Thirty-frst Michigan regiment, sta
toned ut Detroit armory, have been
ordered discharged from the service
as result of findings of United States
army medical examiners.
Three Flint automobile workers are
in the hospital seriously injured as the
result Of their automobile overturn.
ing near Montrose. The injured are:
Alvin Law, lower jaw fractured; AL.
fred Briszois, badly fractured collar
bone, and Owen Emmons, left hip
fractured.
The Thirty-frst infantry has 295
discharges or 14.07 per cent of the to-
tai enrolment. The Thirty-second in
fantry has 271 discharges or 1893 per
cent of the total. enrolment. The First
squadron of cavalry has but As dis
charges or 1906 per cent of the en-
rolment.
Erwin Steeby, of Allegan, pleaded
guilty to United States Commissioner
Stockwell to a charge of mailing
letter demanding that John Kackele, a
Mobile farmer, deposit $500 in the
basement of a brick church near his
home with the alternative Of losing
his life
Despite assurances given by Mich.
igan manufacturers earlier in the sea.
son that men in their shops familiar
with farming would be released dur
ing the busiest seasons in agriculture
10 assist the farmer, tillers of the soil
can not get help and are working Ions
hours, assisted in many cases by their
wive and children.
Disbarment proceedings against At
torneys John M. Rhodes and William
A. Harrington, of Grayling, before
Judge Weist Of Lansing, were finish
ed when Judge Weist found each gull.
ty of malpractice and suspended them
from practicing law anywhere in