The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-09-07
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The Livingston county fair Is now
open. Horse races have been SEIZED
uled.
The Detroit Free Press announces
an advance to Z cents in the price OF
Ats Sunday edition.
Frank L. Colby, for sixty-seven
years a resident Of Pontiac township
is dead. He spent his whole life on
| the same farm.
C. j. Hubbell has arrived at Mount
Clemens to take moving pictures OF
| the Selfridge aviation field. Before the
pictures are shown they will have to
be censored by government officials.
Wexford county is using road patrol.
men on some of their state reward
roads to keep them in condition.
These patrolmen spend their full time
! on the road, one man taking care of
| six-mile stretch.
John Doran, slXty-six years old, kill.
ed himself at the home of his daugh-
ter, Mrs. George F. Derhammer, of
Portage. Four years ago he suffered a
sunstroke and from that time on his
mind gradually weakened
Joseph Sliwinski, widower, thirty
five years old, of Ann Arbor, was in
stantly killed by west bound pas
senger train on the Michigan Central
when he stepped directly in front of
it while avoiding the east bound VOL
VERNE.
Andrew Ajax, of Detroit, was re.
lieved Of $3.50 by pickpocket as he
was boarding an interurban car for
home. He gave the police the descrp.
ton of man who asked him the time
and then justled him as he entered
the car.
Announcement has been received at
Camp Custer that $4,000 uniforms are
on their way from Washington and
drafted soldiers will not be required
to drill in citizens clothes, as given
out several days ago. The uniforms
will be of the winter variety.
please draft my son-in-law for the
army" said Traverse City woman to
DR.. H. A. Holiday. "He is a loafer.
His wife is in the hospital. He is
drinking, selling the furniture Tor
more liquor and not supporting her
and would be better off in The army"
William P. Stone, wanted for the
murder of his wife and Ross Davis, Is
held at Cleveland. O., according to
messages received At Battle Creek.
Undersheriff Robert Towsley has left
for Cleveland to identify Stone and
bring him home for first degree muir
der
AS soon as the Michigan national
guard, now at Grayling, leave the
camp, a reserve battalion for each of
the three regiments Of infantry will be
raised, and will be Differed, as far as
possible, by reserve officers of the
guard.
Governor Sleeper and othe- men,
bers Of the war preparedness board
are visiting the national guard nobili'
zaticn camp ut Grayling. There is an
indication in certain Washington
quarters that the Grayling camp may
be used as a cantonment for aviation
troops.
Emma Goldman, convicted in New
York of obstructing the operation Of
the selective draft law was in Detroit
for a short time. She fitted in during
the morning hours. In the afternoon
the federal authorities were notified
of her presence, and IN The early
evening she fitted out.
Ideal Phisena, fourteen-year-old lad,
confessed that he fired the shot which
killed William Kettlehut, sixty.fve
years old, farmer, near Yale, for
whom the lad and his parents worked.
81 thought it over" said the lad, land
decided to kill him. would have kept
the horse and buggy, given his farm
to my father, and sold the hay"
Detroit mills are enjoying a strong
demand from the east. Much Of the
wheat -four made in Detroit goes to
the New England states, where it's
quality is held in high regard by the
housewives. The export business il,
not heavy, in fact, neither Of the big
mills has catered to t. having all they
could do to take care of the home de-
mand and the orders from other
states.
Aroused from his slumbers by
disturbance in another room In
boarding house in the foreign quarters
o. Flint, Jack Chestnut asked for less
noise. A quarrel resulted in which
Chestnut's head was split open with
n Ratchet, said to nave been welded
by Joe Packet. who escaped. Although
the weapon struck deep into his SKULL
Chestnut is still alive and physicians,
who dressed the INJURY, say he has
chance to recover.
Ten men, suspected of being l. W.
W. leaders, have been ordered to
leave the city in the crusade to clear
Grand Rapids of all labor agitators.
While the investigation has been car
ried on zealously, plans have been
made so that quick prosecutions may
follow when arrests are made. Men
caught spreading the seed OF discon-
tent among laboring men with the in