The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-07-13
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fog.
Mrs. Margaret NAPLES, seventy
eight years old, is dead at Ann Arbor
after a short Illness.
Mrs. Fred Gerbensky died from a
fractured skull at Hartland, the result
of a fall down a stairway.
An unidentified man - killed by
being run down by a Michigan Rail.
way car at Grand Rapids.
Harry Olmstead, of Detroit, was
named as chief accountant for the
state securities commission.
Allan Livingston, arrested in De.
troit, was charged with the murder of
thirteen year old Hope Irene Alexan.
der.
While his two companions looked
on, Dominic Kulakutski, of Detroit,
drowned in the river east of Dear.
born.
Justice of the Peace James M. Tor.
reg has retired from Office after thir-
ty-siX years continuous service at
Flint
Detroit and Mt. Clemens, has organ
lied a bank The capital stock is $685.
600 and Detroit and Mt. Clemens cap
ital is interested.
Electrical and wind storms accom-
panied by pouring rains added extern
sively to a loss of thousands of dol.
lars on beans and corn planted in
Shiawasee county.
first half of the Michigan league
schedule, which ended July 4, by tax.
ing both morning and afternoon
games from Saginaw.
More than $4,000 was realized for
the Flint ambulance at farewell ben
eft given at Oak Grove hospital
grounds. Governor Sleeper was guest
of honor at the reception.
The attention Of Prosecuting Attor.
ney Gillespie has been called to the
mysterious disappearance of Charles
Mack, manager of a collection agency
at Pontiac, two weeks ago.
Nine members of the Muskegon
branch of the Polish Falcons have
gone to Cambridge Springs. Pa,
where they have entered the officers
training camp for this order.
Fifty priests from the Detroit do
cese attended the funeral of James
Crowley, father of Rev. FIR. Michael
Crowley, of St. John the Evangelist
church, of Detroit, in Jackson.
The level in Lake ST. Clair is high
er by several feet than 1t has been for
years. At Belvidere, the Hotel Den
marsh has foot of water in the base
ment and the dock is under water.
That the city of Muskegon Heights
has doubled it's population in five
years is shown by school census rec
ords, which reveal the number of pu-
pills to have increased 100 per cent in
that time.
Sixteen children were made father
less when Nels Anderson, seventy, and
John Pink, thirty-fve, drowned in
Birch lake, north of Elk Rapids, when
boat from which they were fishing
overturned.
Miss Katherine Pierce, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward rierce. of Mus.
kegon, and an instructor in the public
schools, and Roy Tid;nan, of Owosso,
superintendent of factory there,
were married in Muskegon.
Two persons were killed and sixteen
others will probably die and sixteen
are injured as result Of a collision
at Manistee between a north bound
excursion train on the Manistee and
Northeastern and a trolley car with
two heavily loaded trailers.
Two persons were injured at Grand
Rapids celebrating the Fourth. Lam.
bert S. Hubers, sixty-two, was shot in
the back by cannon and may die.
Edward English, eight years old, may
lose the sight of both eyes through the
explosion Of a large fire cracker.
The Whitehall home guards have
been mustered in with Dr. Henry S.
Cole elected as captain, L. F. Judd,
first lieutenant, and Guy G. Covell,
graduate of West Point, second lieu.
tenant. Lieutenant Covell will be in
charge of the work of the guards.
The poles and wires of the Michigan
State Telephone company along the
highway, between Monroe and the
Wayne county line, are in many cases
placed in positions so as to prevent
making this road portion of the Dix
lie boulevard. The company has de.
clined to change their position.
Although condemned by his own
son as the murderer of Theodore An
derson. of Elberta, August Mattel, re.
tired Benzie county farmer held in the
Manistee Jail on a charge of first de-
gree murder, stoutly asserts his limo.
cence of any crime and denies any
knowledge of how Anderson met his
strange death.
That the scourge stamping out the
lives of thousands of fish in western
Michigan is continuing to make in
roads and Is almost daily increasing
its toll, Is the statement of Deputy
State Game Warden Weilhamer, o.
Muskegon. WHO has made a detailed
inspection of lakes and streams in
this part of the state.
SEEKING two little girls as they were
picking flowers in Sylvan Garden,