The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-11-23
MICHIGAN news BRIEFS

| Geo. Fleure, Jr., returned to his home
at Monroe after serving on the west
ern front in France.
Boy and girl potato growers of the
upper peninsula held their first an.
nual convention at Crystal Falls.
C. A. Seleck, 40 years old, of Port
land, was fatally injured in an auto
mobile accident at Grand Rapids.
The operating plant of the Michigan
Fertilizer Co., near Greenville, burned
to the ground. The loss is estimated
at $4,000, covered by insurance.
State employees do not have to pay
the federal tax on railroad tickets,
which will save the state $4,000 q
year.
H. w. Loud & Sons are opening q
planning and saw mill at West Branch.
Between 80 and 40 men will be en-
ployed.
Luce county raised its apportion-
ment to the Y. M. G. A. war camp
fund before the campaign was formal
ly opened.
William Hasse, 7S years old, Detroit,
was killed instantly when he fell
from tree which he was trimming
in the front yard of his home.
Edward Ganthiers, 10 years old, of
the Michigan School for the Deaf, at
Flint, was fined $50 for whipping an
other pupil while acting as monitor
Of class.
Bay City's meanest thief stole
stamp vending box which the local
| chapter of the Red Cross had placed
in the Pere Marquette passenger sta
ton, smashed the glass and took its
supply of nickels.
Albert Boshek, who was killed in
a 3,000-foot fall while making an ex-
hibition fight at Holdredge, Neb., was
the third employe of the o. e. Will
liams Aeroplane Co., of Fenton, to be
killed within the last month.
| The state war board has r1xed the
following shoulder strap insignia for
state troops: Second lieutenant, one
1isk; first lieutenant, two disks; cap
tain, three discs major, one diamond:
lieutenant-colonel, two diamonds; col
onel, three diamonds.
| Michael Ellsworth, state fire mar
shall, has opened an investigation In
the attempt to discover the reason
for the great increase in fire losses
in Michigan during the present year.
With three months fires still to be re-
corded, the state has lost $1,000,000
more than in all of 1916.
The Saginaw Retail Merchants as
ISOLATION wired the state and
national fuel administrators and Michi-
gan railway commission for aid in
bringing relief in the curtailment OF
Pere Marquette service, which, 1t is
| declared, has resulted in stagnation
af passenger and freight traffic, caus-
ing injury to business interests in
Saginaw.
Two Flint women were attacked by
the same man within a few hours,
both being beaten, bound and gagged
Mrs. Charles Thomas was dragged
to a shed in the rear Of her house
where she fell unconscious. Miss
Nina Black, boarder at the home of
Mrs. Thomas sister, was the other
victim. Both women gave the police
good descriptions of the man.
The Eastern Michigan Tourist and
Resort association, to boom the ad.
vantages of Eastern Michigan, through
national advertising and publicity was
formed at Bay City by representatives
80 90 ho do hNo ri NJ
Detroit, Saginaw, Port Huron, Alpena,
Mt. Clemens, Grayling, Oscoda, East
Tawas, Millersburg, Oxford and Bity
City. The new body covers 81 coun-
ties, including the east half of the
state from the Straits to the Ohio
line.
Between 800 and 900 Airmen will re.
main at Selfridge field all winter.
Government agents will arrest all
persons who manufacture, buy or sell
explosives without special permit.
The state constabulary is guarding
the power dam and plant Of the Me-
nominee Traction Co., following the
discovery of an alleged plot to destroy
the dam.
The first deer hunting accident Of
the season in Delta county was record
ed when George Miller, lumber job
Der at Lathrop near Escanaba, walked
into a rifle trap set to shoot deer. The
shot penetrated his hip. He will re-
cover.
Names of the following Michigan
men appear on Canadian casualty
lists: Herman Ludwig, Benton Har-
Dor, killed in action; M. A. Wadsley,
Flint, and Bay Reed, East Jordon,
wounded Gassed: j. d. Carroll, Rich
mond.
The Pere Marquette railroad has
discontinued its fight against the two
cent passenger fare law. The road
has dropped it's appeal from the deci.
sion of the United States court, which
denied an Injunction preventing the
state from enforcing the law.
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