The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-09-07

nual meeting In Traverse City Oct. 16,
IL and Is. II ia announced
The Kalamazoo chapter of the Red
Cross is planning to establish can
teens at all railroad stations. serving
soldiers and sailors enroutc to camps.
Anthony ]. Kloka. former mortgage
clerk in the county treasurer's once,
who has been on trial charged with
embezzlement, changed his plea to
guilty.
Manistee schools opened Labor day
despite harvest conditions. The school
board may grant absence permits to
boys required during the September
harvest.
Spread of hog cholera In counties
OF southern Michigan is causing anx!-
ETY. to state officials. Drastic steps to
curb the epidemic are under consider
alton.
Within a few minutes aftor he was
kicked over the heart by horse
while untangling the lines, the six
teen-year-old son of L. Woodward fell
dead in the road near Big Rapids.
Howell Turnbull, Of the second
ward, Ann Arbor, will have the honor
of being the first man Of the first five
per cent to be sent to Camp Custer
from Washtenaw county.
The Changers of aMnistee district
will hold federation meeting in
Thompsonville Sept. s. Fred Marvin,
of Detroit, supreme supervisor of the
supreme federation, will conduct the
meeting.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Lupo and three
daughters were burned to death early
in the day in fire which destroyed
their fruit store at Bad Axe. The only
person to escape from the building
was George Woodhall.
st. Mary's Catholic church at An
chorville, the rectory and adjoining
buildings were destroyed by FIRE
which started late IN the day. The
cause has not been ascertained. The
loss was about 100000.
The Northern Transportation Co., Of
Baltimore, announces through its SEC
rotary, Thomas j. Donohu, that its
subsidiary organization. the Manistee
Shipbuilding company, would begin
active operations in this city Oct. L.
Traverse City has filed a petition
for an injunction in the Grand Ira
verse circuit, asking that the railroad
commission be restrained from put
ting into effect an order raising the
rate for Citizens Telephones in that
city.
A farewell banquet was given to
Rev. Donald M. Brodie, former pastor
of the Manistee Congregational
church, who has received a chaplair's
appointment to the American over
seas contingent. He was presented
with a purse of $2.51.
That England cancelled munitlon
orders to allow men to work in the
harvest fields is the belief of General
Superintendent Haiby of the Mueller
Manufacturing company Of Port Eu-
ron. He believes that within two
months renewals will arrive and The
men be recalled.
Mrs. Christine Gordon. who accused
DR.. George A. Fritch of administering
illegal surgical treatment to her. died
in Harper hospital at Detroit Dr..
Fritch was the defendant in the "a
nous "Mabelle Millman case" sew
eral years ago. He was arrested on a
manslaughter charge.
The Stearls Salt and Lumber COM
pany announces it will close its saw
mill, the only one in Ludirgton, and
will employ the men in thai mill at
the salt works this fall. The company
has sold its timber to the Antrim
Iron company. The sawmill here has
been in operation since 1S4S.
Michigan's sixty-eighth annual state
fair and live stock exposition opened
Friday morning at o'clock amid con-
siderable pomp and ceremony. The
spacious enclosure has been "dolled
up in gala attire and record-breaking
crowds are expected to click the turn
stiles during the next ten days.
More than 100 workmen In the drop
forge department of the Continental
Motors company at Muskagon went
on strike. Officials said I. w. W. agi-
tators were responsible. A disturb
ance at the plant during which one or
more shots are said to have been
fred was suppressed by policemen.
The strikers demand an increase In
pay.
United States and railroad detec-
tives at Hillsdale are investigating
the theft of mail sack containing
about $4,000 in money and cheeks.
The sack, which was being forwarded
by Hillsdale bank to its correspon-
dent bank, was taken from a truck at
the railway station at Hillsdale. II Is
known that check for $4,000, which
was among those in the sack, was
cashed in Toledo.
c. w. Wade, M. A. c. potato disease
expert, said that with fair weather
during the next three weeks, Michi-
gan's crop of potatoes will be at least
40, 900 900 bushels. Mr.. Wade declares
the price must not be allowed to drop
too low II the farmer Is to be given
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