The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-05-18
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Grand Rapids has two less saloons
than last year.
C. Fl. Sayles. eighty-three years old
veteran groceryman of Hillsdale
is dead.
Mary Ann Watkins, eighty-twc
years old, is dead at the home of Jed
Allen, north of Monroe.
Harry Rexford, who enlisted Easter
at Sturgis was shot while doing guard
duty at Fort Warren, Mass.
Twelve hundred employees of the
Bryant Paper company are affected by
a new wage scale at Kalamazoo.
Saginaw bakers Increased the price
OF bread May 2 from IL to Is cents for
the large loaves and from to cents
for the smell.
Mrs. Arthur H. Vandenberg, wife of
the editor and publisher of the Grand
Rapids Herald, died after an illness
of nearly year.
Mayor Howard d. Bradford of Man
istee issued an order against the sale
of firecrackers and other explosives
until the end of the war,
John Gorney, forty years old, EN-.
ployed in the What Cheer mine at
Bay City, was killed by fall OF
slate which broke his neck.
To save the profits of the live stock
shippers, farmers near Tasting have
formed the Central Barry Cooperative
Shipping and Purchasing commission.
Alma residents say the. Scity is the
most rapidly growing city in the Uni.
ted States, having jumped from 2,757
in 1910 to almost 10000 in May, 1917,
Lansing bakers announced raise
in the price Of bread from to 10
cents for the one-pound loaf and from
IA to 20 cents for the two-pound loaf
Fire broke out in Ralph w. Hayes
printing plant at Hillsdale for the sec.
ond time in few months and did
damage estimated at more than $10,-
900.
The coal laden steamer J. T. Hutch
inson of Cleveland, which went ashore
at Parent Bay in Lake Michigan, was
released after litering considerable
cargo.
Originating from a hot box in the
bran room, fire did damage estimated
at $4,000 to one of the mills of the
Valley City Milling company at Grand
Rapids.
Charles Artemas Kent, eighty-one
years old, for more than a half cen
fury one of the members of the
Wayne county bar, died at his resi-
lence at Detroit.
Three hundred members of the
Knights of Pythias assembled at
Traverse City to take part in the an
nual field day of the Northern Michi
gan Pythian league.
Otto Newman, fifty years old, a
Sturgis jeweler and former city treas.
urer, committed suicide by shooting
himself at Hotel Elkhart, Ind, be-
cause of dependency.
Six hundred doctors for the army
and navy is Michigan's quota. accord.
ing to DR.. Frederick c. Warnshuis, OF
Grand Rapids, secretary of the Mich.
gan State Medical society.
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ton that congress has been asked to
fix a minimum price on foodstuffs will.
1t is thought, increase acreage in
Michigan, especially of potatoes.
The bazaar of Seger Brothers, bank
rupt, including the remainder of the
ten year lease was sold at Monroe
under direction OF Referee George
Marston, of Detroit. for $4,000 to John
F. Hartle, Of Button. Ind.
Elmer f. Blakeslee, one of the best
known attorneys in Oakland county.
circuit court commissioner for sew
eral years, former probate registrar,
and for two terms prosecuting attorney
of Lake county, died at his home.
The thirty directors elected by the
Red Cross society of Macomb county,
have chosen Francis P. Ullrich, chair.
man: Allen w. Kent vice president;
I. A. Hartung, secretary, Henry o.
Chapoton. treasurer: all of this city.
The death of James Finley OF
Laurium marked the passing of one
of the oldest members of the Masonic
order in the State Of Michigan. He
was eighty-flve years old and had been
member of Quincy lodge for more
than sixty years.
Stxty-eight enlisted men now on the
Michigan national guard are to be
sent to Fort Sheridan, or some other
officers training camp, as soon as they
can be selected and the approval
given by the department commander,
General Thomas H. Barry, at Chicago
Kalamazoo school children are aid
ing the fatherless children of France
movement and it was announced that
pupils in the Burdick school had
adopted French orphan He is little
two and one half year old Pierre Mo-
reau, who lives with his mother at
Chatillon on Roire river.
When the Western Michigan Tour.
list bureau is formed at Grand Rapids
1t will decide to spend $4,000 in an
advertising campaign to bring tour.
lists to western Michigan, according
to John l. Gibson, secretary of the
Western Michigan Development bu.
reau.
To increase the production OF food
stuffs and not compel the farmer to
bear the entire burden. the banks OF
Sault Ste. Marie, have purchased near.
" SIX 600 worth IF small praip eaaA