The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-01-26
John w. Clements, a business man


years old, is dead at her home two
miles south of Birmingham.
Nebraska will play Michigan at Ann
Arbor on October 81, taking the place
which Syracuse held on the Wolverine
1916 football schedule.
Mrs. Richard Heath, eiglt.-six years
old, widow Of Richard La Ia, is dead
at the home of her daughter. Mrs. II.
A. Simmons at Richmond.
Former Governor Ferris was defeat
ed in Big Rapids mayoralty election by
Mayor A. B. Cogger. OF 1893 votes
cast Cogger received a majority of
1913.
The Reid Wrecking company has
| started work raising the sunken
steamer Frontier which lies on the
bottom of the Thames river at Chat
| ham.
Afrer having been terribly injured
| by bull on his farm in Southfield
| township, seven miles from Birming-
|, ham, Marion l. White, ffty-five years
old, died
The state railroad commission auth
orized the issuance of $42,540 900 in
bonds, stock and equipment obliga-
| tons to the New York and Michigan
Central railroads.
Word was received at Marshall of
| the death of Mrs. Georgia Phillips,
who killed herself in her lonely cabin
near Dimes, Alaska. She left Marshall
twenty years ago.
Claude S. Carney of Kalamazoo
was selected by the Democratic state
central committee to be chairman of
the party's spring convention in Grand
Rapids on Feb. Is.
Goldie Savage, nineteen years old,
is still asleep at city hospital. She
was taken to the hospital week ago
ley car. Her condition is said not to be
serious.
Mrs. Carrie Mandt, sixty-five years
old, has started $4,000 damage suit
against John Schill, wealthy Bridge
water farmer. Mrs. Mandt is widow.
She alleges that Schill has called her
and her son names.
Theron F. Giddings. seventy-three,
state commissioner of insurance under
former Governor John T. Rich, died
suddenly at his desk in the Offices of
the Michigan Mutual Life Insurance
company at Detroit.
That business in Cadillac is stead
lily increasing is indicated by the bust
ness done by the local postoffice dur
ing 1916. In 1915 the total receipts
were $33,501.10, while last year the
business totaled s35,200.24.
Attorney General Groesbeck decided
for Game Commissioner William r.
Oates that the act of 1908, giving RI
parian owners in Saginaw hay the
right to license fishing rights off their
land, was practically invalid.
A base ball league for southern
Michigan for the coming season is al
most assured. Options have already
been secured on the parks in six
cities-Saginaw, Bay City, Lansing,
Battle Creek, Jackson and Flint.
John A. Smith, fifty-nine. caretaker
at Wenona Beach for the last twelve
years, and in the employ of The street
railway company for twenty-nine
years without demerit mark, died
at his home at Bay City of pneumonia.
A trip which may make history for
the Great Lakes began when Ann Ar
Dor car ferry No. started up the De-
troit river, en- route to Manistque.
The boat is TO be used to transport
freight between Manistique AMI Frank.
fort.
A state board of health nurse is at
work in the counties where tuberculo-
sis surveys were held late in 1915 and
early in 1916 to determine the present
condition of the persons diagnosed in
the public clinics as positive cases
of tuberculosis.
While playing with a revolver
which he found in the dresser of a
broarder's room at his parents home,
Archie Hayward. ten year old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Hayward, shot
himself through the heart and died in
stantly at Flint.
The steamer Minnesota which was
reported in dispatches from London
to have been lost in a collision was
not the passenger steamer owned by
the Northern Michigan Transportation
company. That vessel is snug in the
harbor, locked for the winter.
Johr. J. Shea, former Tammany hall
contractor in New York, was convict.
ed in federal court at Toledo. He was
charged with defrauding Wilbur l..
Rumble, farmer of Oakland county,
Michigan, of $4,000 by fake wire tap
ping and horse race betting scheme.
Max Schoeneman, clothier, was ar
rested at Sault Ste Marie on a charge
of statutory offense. The girl COM
plainan' in the case is Doris Skidmore,
seventeen years old, and pretty. An
other case charging him with serving
liquor TO a minor girl is now pending. |
Schoeneman is former police COM
missioner.
The final tragic chapter was writ
ten in the life of Frederick F. Arms, |
whose family was at one time among |
the richest in Michigan, when he COM |
mitted suicide at his home at Grand |
Rapids. The Arms formerly lived n |
MuskeRon, and were one of the group |
;II;nn i've 90 -, ,1iac u,hinh tho It,y,,- /