The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-08-17
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| IN ADRIAN LOT me tWo-udy inlu-Suui
mer session.
Fred r. Young will be Muskegons
city accountant, taking the place OF
Albert Nicholson.
James Mcdowell, sixty years old,
committed suicide at his sons home
ut Ionia by shooting himself.
Kalamazoo women, members of the
defense council, will open a cannery
| and store August IA.
A large barn Jilled with hay and
wheat on the Mcpherson farm near
| Howell was destroyed by lightning.
In barn fire Burt Bullock of Char.
lotte lost three horses, this years
crop of hay and all his farm equip
ment.
Ezra Randolph, twenty-six years
old, farm hand at Garland, is dying
as the result of a self-infiicted revolv.
er wound over the heart.
John Ryan is dead at Detour and
several others are seriously i'll as a
result of drinking bedbug poison
which was taken for whisky.
George A. Tyler, seventy-eight years
I'D, buglar for the First Michigan
cavalry in the civil war is dead at
Flint.
William Kaiser, Allen hotel proprie.
tor, committed suicide by hanging
himself.
Thirty young women went to work
at the plant of the Chevrolet Motor
company in Bay City as operators of
light machines.
At meeting Of Bay county bean
growers it was predicted that only a
twenty-five per cent crop will be har-
vested this year.
George Koske, proprietor of ar
Adrian ice cream company, nearly
froze to death when he was locked in
the ice room of his factory.
Cecil Conley, of Marine City, was
the sailor who was lost from the
barge Uranus which foundered at the
mouth of Detroit river Aug. S.
Milk producers of Bay county put
into effect an advance in the price Of
milk. The price now is "a cents a gal
Ion or $3.50 hundred pounds
Reports that the state apple crop
would be thirty per cent Of the aver.
age yield and that the peach crop
would be virtually neglible are made.
Injunctions were issued against
striking molders from picketing the
plants Of the Reed Manufacturing and
Garage Fan companies at Kalama-
zoo.
Several farmers wives living near
Crystal are suffering from poisoning
and believe that heir illness is the re-
suit OF taking medicine purchased
from an itinerant peddler.
Albert Tyrell, elghty-two years old,
of Dimondale, went from his noon
day meal to the writing desk to send
a card to a relative. Instead he took
out a revolver and blew out his
brains.
Federal agents in Detroit set on
foot an inquiry 70 determine if treas
enable intercourse with the enemy
can be traced to leaders of the "Peo-
pies Council FOR Democracy and
Peace"
Edward Cryan, sixteen years old
started out from Kalamazoo to see
the world. When alighting from
freight car, he leaped directly into the
path of an approaching passenger
train and was killed
Chester Thayer, who a few weeks
ago ran into and pinned the Rev. Il.
r. Bellingham to a lamp post at Ben
ton Harbor, injurrng the minister Sc
verely, was fined $25 and costs and
settlement was given the minister of
$780,
Leo Carey, twenty-one years old,
was arrested by Sheriff Chestnut on
complaint of Detroit campers ut Lake
Byron, near Linden, who say Carey
spoiled their outing by annoying them
at night and insulting women mem
bers of the party.
The roof on the main building OF
the state normal college was blown
off and lightning struck the First
Baptist church and the water tower
in the most damaging wind and cleo
trical storm which has swept over
Ipslanti since 1919.
Louis Reimann, ST., a resident Of
Iron River for thirty-flve years, shot
himself dead, whether by accident or
intent is not known. One son is Louis
Reimann, Jr., well known University
of Michigan football player and Y. M
c. A. worker.
Glenn Park, the young farmer liv-
ing east of Portland who attempted
suicide by shooting off the lower part
Of his face, because he had been call.
ed for army service, is now at Spar.
row hospital. Lansing, and 1t is said
the doctors believe he will live.
While Clyde Eyoe, seven year old
son of John Evoe, was playing on
a street at Monroe, stranger
jumped from an automobile and tried
to catch him. His screams attracted
the attention of neighbors when the
stranger quickly boarded the machine
and left in a northerly direction.
Il went with him, because he said
he would kill my big brother IL did
MT. want to go home to my mother
and father" fearful and frightened,