The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-12-07
MICHIGAN NEWS BRIEFS


Freight congestion In the central
part of the state was relieved through
an order from the government, plac
ing 1000 empty box cars of eastern
roads with the Michigan Central, Pere
Marquette and Detroit & Mackinaw.
Henry Bortimore of Calumet, has
been notified from France of the death
of his son, Roy Bortimore, 20, In
battle. Bortimore enlisted five years
ago in the regular army. A brother
Carl, is also in France. Roy was a
member of the first contingent to &c
abroad.
The distinction of being the only
girl draft board official in Michigan is
claimed by Mildred Clough, who is
clerk of the local board for the Second
Kalamazoo district. Miss Cleugh was
formerly assistant to the clerk and
when that official resigned>she was ap
pointed in his stead.
Charles McGeary, a former Muske,
gon boy killed on the western from,
with the Canadians. In letter he sent
to his aunt, Mrs. E. j.. Tishhouse oil
Muskegon which was received the
same day that word Of his death was
sent out by Canadian officials, he urged
his relatives not to mourn should any
thing happen to him.
Battle Creek authorities, through
the war recreation board, has engaged
Miss Mary Hubert, sister of Probate
Judge Hubert, of Detroit, as police.
woman for Battle Creek. Food City
authorities have taken the report o.
the war department as warning to
purge the city of evil women. Public
sentiment, which has been thoroughly
aroused by the report, will probably
play large part in the cleanup.
Domino Chickey, and Italian, return.
ed to Albion, from Camp Custer, be.
cause he didn't like 1t there, walking
the % miles to his former home and
returning to work at the Malleable
Iron Co. He was returned to camp.
Grand Rapids has been selected by
the United States government as the
cite OF the first reconstruction hos
pital for convalescent American sol.
diers. The building of the O-Wash-Ta
Nong club at Reeds lake will be used
for the hospital, which requires room
for from $500 to 1000 beds.
Albert Haag, 20 years old, claiming
Port Huron as his home, was caught
robbing the home of Rev. George L..
Cady, pastor of the Plymouth Congre-
gational church, at Lansing, by the
minister's son, Henry. Young Haag
jumped out of second-story window,
but was stopped by shots from shot
gun.
The villages of Charleston and Water
ford will finance a grade separation for
the Detroit, Pontiac & Owosso Elec
trio railway line, which will cross the
Grand Trunk. Citizens have agreed
to raise $4,000, which will be deposit.
ed in bank until the road is COM
pleted, which must be within three
years.
When three men attempted to rob
the garage of Flossie McCarty, Of Sagi.
nav. the girl with steady aim put 60
pellets from a double-barreled shotgun
into the back of Merrill Delmarter and
then called the police. Delmarter was
far enough away and moving fast
enough not to be seriously hurt. OFF,
GERS later arrested his two compan.
ions.
A list of food administrators for
each county in the state is being COM
piled by State Food Administrator
George A. Prescott. The plan is to
have one man in each county to whom
authority can be delegated. Local
complaints and questions will be taken
up first by the county officer. II he
cannot settle them, they will come
to Prescott. This plan is working in
other states.
Mayor Walter w. Russell, of Mt.
Pleasant, has appointed 25 special pc.
lice to serve without pay until April 1,
1918. The action was deemed neces-
sary to preserve peace and order in the
city.
ihouidS 0hStfuS, VI OdSiudW, a NCi-
man native born, was refused admis-
sion into the national army on orders
from Adjutant General Bersey. Gil.
ginas has taken out his first papers
and wants to serve.
Service has been resumed on the
Harrison branch of the Pere Marquette
to Lcota by order of the state railroad
commission. Several hundred cars or
logs and forest products will be ship
ped out this winter.
From 100000 to 100000 bushels If
beans are lying wet in Michigan.
awaiting either to spoil and go to
waste or the permission of the food
administration at Washington to be
dried and canned. The beans are
worth to the farmers who own them
from $4,So0,000 to $S,000,00O. They
are good for canning, perfectly
wholesome as food, but they must be
canned soon or they will become musty
and go to waste The situation has
been placed before Herbert G. Hoover,
food Administrator.
Michigan must furnish 1.750 new re.