The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-06-15
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now in camp on show grounds at Stur-
gis.
The Michigan w. C. T. u, in se..
sion at Kalamazoo voted to subscribe
$1,000 to the liberty loan.
Chippewa county has raised $2,565
for the army Y. M. c. A. campaign,
which is SCI over the amount allotted
to the county.
Among American casualties with
The Canadian overseas forces report
ed Sunday night was: Died of wounds,
L. Schaefer, Bangor. Mich.
Five thousand dollars has been sub
scribed by convicts in Jackson prison
for the liberty loan and $423 has been
contributed to the Red Cross fund.
Mrs. Julia Varnum, eighty-nine
years old, mother of p. L. Varnum,
postmaster and American express
agent at Vassar, is dead.
An epidemic of thievery broke out
at Mount Clemens and three resi-
dences were looted and a guest room
robbed at the Cass hotel on the same
night.
While digging in his garden, John
Schultz, of Port Huron, unearthed a
box containing twenty pounds of dyna-
mite. Apparently it had been buried
several months.
Truman H. Newberry of Detroit, as
sistane secretary of the navy under
President Roosevelt, has been select
ed for a commission as lieutenant
commander in the navy.
Marvin Brewer, twenty-four years
old, married two months ago and in
fear of being drafted, killed himself
by shooting himself through the heart
In his barn near Overisel.
Thomas Harold, fifty years old, a
driver for an Orion grocery firm, was
fatally injured when he drove a motor
truck on a railroad crossing and was
struck by a passenger train.
Professor julius Otto Schlotterbeck,
dean Of the college of pharmacy of
the University of Michigan, died at
his home at Ann Arbor after a five
month illness, aged fifty-one years.
Residents of Berlin township, Mon
roe county, being largely of French
extraction, have taken up the matter
with the prosecuting attorney with a
view Of having another name sub.
stituted.$
Sheriff Mallory has in the basement
of the Calhoun county Jail 1oS pints
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Battle Greek druggist, is under arrest
on a charge of transporting liquor in
a dry county without proper label.
The announcement was made that the
ferry boat fare between Port Huron
and Sarnia would be boosted to six
cents a trip. No freight is being car
ried on the boats crossing to Sarnia
as a result of a recent government or
der.
Andrew M. Carmody, while umpir-
ing a baseball game between the An
ker-Holth and Independents teams at
the Port Huron driving park, was
struck over the right eye by Oall and
was unconscious for some time and
was taken to the hospital.
The steamer Flagg and the consort
Warmer went aground at Traverse
island, near Portage entry during the
rain and fog. The Flagg can not be re-
leased until lightered. Lighters at the
500 have been summoned. Both boats
bound up were for Hancock.
Following attempts to wreck Grand
Trunk trains near Holly on two sue.
cessive nights, five men are serving
time in the county jail at Pontiac on
charges of vagrancy. Ties had been
piled on the tracks, but were seen in
time to prevent trains being wrecked.
James Couzens, Detroit's million.
aire police commissioner and former
business associate of Henry Ford, was
sentenced to Jail for thirty days by
Justice Albert F. Sellers for contempt
of court. He served sixty-one seconds
in jail, when writ of habeas corpus
freed him.
Bad forest fires north of Ahmeek
and Manhattan, Keweenaw county,
and near Chassell and Arnheim,
Houghton county and in Ontonagon
county, were completely extinguished
by heavy rains. 1t is estimated half
million feet of timber was destroyed
by fires in the past week.
In seeking to increase food produc.
ton, Michigan needs not so much to
break new ground for crops as 1t does
to control plant diseases, a fact which
has been brought home forcibly by an
investigation just completed by plant
Psychologists and farm crops men Of
the Michigan Agricultural college.
A message received from Shreve-
port, La, states that Frank Peace, an
Albion man who moved to a farm In
Louisiana, three years ago, is in a
Shreveport hospital in a critical con-
dition as the result of premature ex-
plosion of dynamite while on an al.
ligator hunt His right arm was blown
off.
Rev. Klaus Oosterhuis. pastor OF
Holland Unitarian church of Grand
Rapids, who got into difficulties
with his church because of his Social
istic and peace propaganda propensi-
ties and who was given notice that he
must quit HIS pulpit. has already aban-
doned his work there in advance of the
time set by the church.
Where q woman violates a city