The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-08-31

The county board at Houghton A.
thorized the sheriff TO begin round
up of slackers.
When the Grand Rapids quota
leaves for the training camp. II will
be given big send-off by citizens.
To assist in the relief of the house
famine, St. Louis business men are
buying vacant houses throughout the
county and using traction engines to
move them TO st. Louis.
Chamber OF Commerce officials at
Port Huron have employed T. Clifton
Sheppard, Jr., Of Detroit. to get the
Tussock moth. which is raising. havoc.
with the trees of the city!
| There will be no horse racing at
Grand Crossing at the West Michigan
state fair September 1921. Action to
this effect was taken by the board of
directors Of the fair association.
Notice has been sent to all men ac-
copied for the new army in and
around Grand Rapids to hold them
selves in readiness to become active
members Of the federal service.
Samuel r. Upton, director OF athle-
tics at Central high school, in Grant
Rapids, and Miss Nellie Sarah Swift
of Flint were married at Beechwoods,
the summer home of Upton's parents
on Lake Harbor.
The body OF Paul Kinkley, forty
years old, was found on the Michigan
| Central tracks below the Broadway
bridge at Ann Arbor. Hinkley's neck
was broken and II is believed that he.
fell from the bridge while leaning
| over.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jeff Bush, of Hastings,
both OF whom are more than seventy
years old, were committed to the Kali
amazoo State hospital Mr.. Bush was
Michigan Central agent shortly after
| he Grand Rapids division of the rail-
Dad was built.
George Wooley, sixteen, runaway
boy who had found a haven al the
farm of Richard Willis, wanted a new
suit SO badly that he took $25 from
| his benefactor. He was found after
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now in the county detention home.
Miss Antoinette Stephenson Jen-
| nings, granddaughter of the late Con
gresham Samuel M. Stephenson and
grandniece of former Senator Isaac
Stephenson, was married at Menom-
inee to Lieut.. Frank e. Stoppenbach,
son of Emil Stoppenbach Of Jefferson,
Wis.
In the ruins of his home, the char
red body of William Watts, sixty-ive
years old, st. Clair farmer, was found
At the coroner's inquest 1t was de.
cided that Watts had fred his house
and barn and then shot himself, after
wounding his horse and killing his
dog
Michigan dairymen, 500 of whom
convened for the annual convention
o. the Michigan Milk Producers asso-
citation, raised the price of milk to
$275 a hundredweight for September
delivery to condenseries, and to SO a
hundredweight for September delivery
to city distributors.
addition to Kalamazoo's list of public
utilities She will furnish milk twice
daily to a whole neighbornood. Her
advent is the result of the latest in
crease in the retail price of milk. 1t IS
likely that the community cow will
soon become fixture in every neigh
borhood.
Edward Hollingsbeck, of Marquette,
shot and probably fatally wounded his
wife in a Trout Lake hotel. One of
the shots slightly injured porter at
the hotel. 1t is said Hollingsbeck was
angry because his wife refused to re-
turn home with him. Sheriff Lundy
and a posse of men are on Holdings
beck's trail.
Returning from a thirst quenching
expedition to a nearby oasis, Edward
Hopkins told Police Judge Landon of
Flint that he drew cuts with four COM
panions to see who would raid hen
house on the farm Of Dan O'Connor,
near Mt. Morris. He drew the fateful
straw, getting twenty-five fowls and
fifty days in Jail.
Announcement was made that the
recently organized Saginaw Shipbuild-
ing company, with capital of $780,
900 had obtained government con-
tracts amounting to 100000 for the
construction OF steel ocean freighters.
Contracts for material have been
made and work will commence on
construction as soon as the shipyard
can be made ready.
DR.. George A. Fritch, fifty years old.
accused of causing the death of Mabel
Milman, several years ago, but &C.
quilted in his second trial, was arrest
ed charged with performing an IL
legal operation on Mrs. Christine Cor
don, twenty-nine years old. who is
said to be dying in Harper hospital.
Fritch is held at police headquarters
under $4,000 bail.
That Muskegon manufacturing
plants now filling war orders have
been subjected to number Of unac-
countable explosions was suddenly
brought to attention, following an ex-
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