The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-02-09

G.. G. Williams, state insurance eX
aminer, formerly of the 500, died sud
denly of apoplexy at his home at Ann
Arbor.
Mrs. Roxie Nudge. eighty.three
years old, is dead at the horne cf ter
son. She YVES a resident of Caro- more
than forty years.
Oscar Roggeman, a former ernploye
of the Bryant Paper ccmpGny, Of Kal.
amazoo, was killed on the Scmme
front December 6.
John Pender, seventy-two, a retired
farmer of Fife Lake, dropped dead of
heart disease i'll the office of DR.. B.
H. McMullen at Cadillac.
George Marquette, plasterer of
Royal Oak is i'll of smallpox. Strict
measures have been taken to prevent
| the spread of the disease.
Governor Hutchins, forty-five years
old. died of spinal trouble. He was pro.
| prietor of the Howell mills, and had
f, been i'll only few weeks.
Dexter j. Filkins, eighty-five years
| old, is dead at his home at Howell.
Of heart trouble. He came to Howell
more than seventy years ago. 80
Captain Charles T. Paxton, veteran
fisherman on Great Lakes, is dead of
apoplexy at South Haven. He was
born in Detroit seventy-two years ago.
Frank Rochembeault, living west of
Sterling, Arenac county, was found
hanging from rope at his home.
Neighbors found his body suspended
from the stairway.
A bill to provide for a board of
prison industries" and create the DO
sition of supervisor of prison indus.
tries has been introduced by Senator
George Scott, of Detroit.
Naming a Kalamazoo coed, Miss
Luella Kellar, formerly of Gobleville,
as correspondent, Mrs. August d. De-
Goenaga of Gobleville caused the ar
rest of her husband, dentist.
Social circles are agog over the an
nouncement of the approaching marri-
age of Miss Fannie Perrin, social secre.
tary of the Ssnitarium, to Mr. Elmer
scott of Madison, Ind, to take place
at Battle Creek.
Ira H. Mckinney, earning $50 a
year as mayor of Alma, has resigned
his position as superintendent of the
Alma plant of the Michigan Sugar
company at $4,000 a year, so that he
may be mayor of Alma in dead earnest.
DR.. Ward Giltner, head Of the bac-
teriology department Of the Michigan
Agricultural college, scored the state
board of agriculture for permitting
what he alleges the worst insanitary
methods of disposing Of the college
sewage.
Included in the order from the sher-
if for the cessation of the operation
of slot machines, punch boards, and
dice games at Mt. Clemens, small
rhum games which have been played
in various saloons are also placed un.
der the ban.
A piece of linen 200 years old is
owned by Mrs. Helen Edwards of Gar
field. 1t is foot square and is cop.
per color. The cloth was woven and
dyed in Allegheny county, NJ Y, by a
great grandmother of George Turner
Just one hour after he was release
from the Pontiac Jail after serving a
thirty day term for vagrancy, Earl
Smith. Twenty-Five, said to be from
Columbus, was arrested on a charge
of trying to cut open a mail bag at
the Grand Trunk depot
More convicts were received at the
Michigan state prison during January,
than in any month of the institutions
history. The number of men sentenced
during the month was sixty-one, thir.
ty-eight of whom came from the
recorders court at Detroit.
Miss Luella Keller, Kalamazoo, co.
ed, named by Mrs. Augusta H. De
Goegana, of Gobleville, as co-respon.
dent in an action against DR.. De
Goegana for misconduct, started suit
in Van Buren, county circuit court, ask.
ing $4,000 damages for SANDER.
The stockholders of the Peoples
Telephone company, which has ex.
changes at Carleton, Flat Rock, Ro.
mulus and Wayne, has decided to sell
its lines to the Michigan State Tele.
phone company, subject to the ap.
prevail of the state railway commits.
sion.
Captain Henry Miller, for many
years resident of Saginaw, died in
Washington, d. c., Of pneumonia, aged
lightweight years. Captain Miller or.
ganized the first military company in
Saginaw to serve in the civil war. He
was sheriff Of Saginaw county four
terms.
What is thought to have been the
seventh attempt within few months
to wreck the famous center of Black
Hand activities in the north end of
Flint, the Piedmont store, was frus-
trated about o'clock a. m. when two
patrolmen discovered the building in
flames.
The backbone of Battle Creeks milk
strike was broken when one of the
largest producers hauled his milk to
town, followed at intervals by other
strikers" President George Writ of
the Producers association announced
that the fight was over, but would be
waged ito the last ditch"
Aldermen George Welsh and Harry
Rogers, elected to the house of repre-.
sentatives and the state senate, filed |