The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-03-02
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Edward Hudson, Rochester mer-
chant, was held up on the street while
on his way home and robbed of about
$50.
William French, of Tuscola county,
has been arrested charged with steal.
ing $75 worth of beans from an ele.
vator.
The Michigan Central depot at
Wayne was burned at an early hour
in the morning, presumably by tramps
who had broken in to obtain lodging.
The house ways and means COM
mittee has killed the Flowers bill
boosting the pay of the members of the
supreme court from $1,000 to $4,000
per year.
The P. P. Wright farm near Cold
water was sold for $4,000 to Harvey
Hoopingarner, of Gilead. The price Is
the highest ever paid in Branch coun-
ty for a farm.
Attorney Frank L. Fales, sixty-nine
years old, died at Vassar Of heart
trouble. He had been a prominent at
torney at Vassar and in Bay City for
thirty-nine years.
Deputy Game Warden Millenbacher
has arrested Myron Langton, of Ain
ger, and Emmett c. Cowell, of Battle
Greek, for hunting rabbits with a fer.
ret in Berry county.
Miss Mabel Rogers, eighteen years
old, of Birmingham. died in the Pom.
tiac city hospital of injuries received
two weeks ago when she was struck
by car in Pontiac. Her leg was am
putated
John Mawdsley, for the last thirty
three years city clerk of Adrian, and
one of the Oldest of city clerks in the
state will retire from public life when
his present term of Office expires in
the spring.
Charged with having sold under
sized perch, Ben Zemke. a Monroe
county farmer, was fined $26.75 in Jus
tice court. The complaint was made
by State Deputy Game Warden Law
renee Duvall.
John G. Quimby, aged ninety-four,
is dead at the home of a relative at
Grand Rapids. Mr.. Quimby resided in
Grand Rapids for sixty-two years. In
the civil war he served in Company E,
Eleventh Maine infantry.
Horatio Bidleman, of Coldwater, the
well known horseman and stock breed
er, aged eighty-one, and his wife, aged
seventy-six, celebrated their fifty-sixth
wedding anniversary by entertaining
their sons family at dinner.
The big annual convention of the
Woodmen of the World, sought by
Muskegon for weeks, has been land
ed in competition with Benton Har-
Dor. The gathering will bring 1000
Woodmen to Muskegon in June.
Bishop John N. Mccormick, of the
Methodist district of Western Michi-
gan, has written from Grand Rapids
to Senator William Alden Smith ten
dering his services to the government
in the event Of war, as volunteer chap
lain.
Lieutenant Colonel Joseph B. West
hedge, of Kalamazoo, second in COM
mand Of the Thirty-second regiment,
Michigan national guard, has been ap-
pointed colonel of the regiment to sue
coed Colonel Louis c. Covell, of Grand
Rapids.
Newaygo county will hold no ju.
dicial primary election this spring as
Judge Joseph Barton, who is COM
pleting his first term, has been nomi
mated on both the Republican and
Democratic tickets and he has no an.
nounced opposition.
The special committee appointed by
the house to investigate the feasibility
of Jackson prison doing the state
printing will recommend to the house
that constitutional amendment be
submitted to the people allowing the
state to do its own printing.
The Grand Rapids Live Stock COM
pany. which concern recently lost the
contract for the Grand Rapids garbage
with which to feed it's thousands of
pigs at Uhl, three miles south of
White Cloud, will continue to operate
its plant by raising it's feed on its own
land.
Hedged about by embargoes, Detroit
automobile manufacturers are combat
ing the railroad congestion by ship
ping automobiles under their own
power. Daily caravans OF high and low
priced cars are leaving the city for
points all over the central west and
in New York and Pennsylvania
President Livingstone, Lake Carriers
association, has made morally certain
the deepening Of the River Rouge to
be provided for in the pending rivers
and harbors appropriation bill The
only chance of the project failing is
the possibility of there being no riv-
ers and harbors bill this season.
Friend Soules, aged eighty-four
years, Barry county pioneer and civil
war veteran, died of injuries received
in falling down stairs. Soules was sew.
eral times wounded in the Petersburg
siege where he conducted himself with
such bravery that he was promoted to
a lieutenancy. He enlisted in Emmett
county.
The second largest inheritance tax
ever spread on Calhoun county was
assessed against the estate of the late
Edwin c. Way, president of the Scot
ten Dillon Tobacco company, OF De-
troit, and formerly of Chicago. It to-
toIod con ITO 10 IN eEEo ION GO xorco,.