The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-07-20

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did, pioneer settler Of Leonidas, Is
lead.
Mrs. e. S. Hough. sixty-six years
old. widow of late Judge Hough, is
lead at Lapeer.
| Mrs. Myrtle Snyder is the first
Grand Rapids woman to pay fine in
police court for speeding.
During a heavy storm lightning
struck and burned the large barn on
the H. ID. Pessell estate near Quincy.
Weber Pierce was named by the
state board professor of mathematics
for the Central State Normal school
at Mt. Pleasant.
Work is being rapidly pushed for.
ward on the Petoskey golf grounds.
1t is expected that nine holes will be
completed for play this season.
Word has been received at Flint of
the death in San Francisco Of Am
brose Walsh, former Flint man, broth
er Of Joseph Walsh, a capitalist.
e. B. Wilhelm OF BEDFORD has re-
ceived his commission as captain in
the engineering corps of the United
States army and expects to be called
| soon.
The Delta county delayed ReS
Cross campaign has ended, with the
| committee certain that the $4,000 al
lotment was oversubscribed. Escanaba
gave s $4,000.
John T. Shelp, eighty-four years old,
DR. frn anvil 10 MI y.
founder of Shelp's resort at Pine lake,
has been committed to the Kalama-
zoo State hospital.
Lieutenant Thomas Howell of Grand
Rapids of the police department, while
examining a revolver accidentally dis
| charged the weapon and shot off the
| end of the index finger of his left
| hand.
A telegram received from Winnipeg
announces the death there of John l..
Hodgson, fifty-eight years old, who for
sixteen years was master car builder
| for the Grand Trunk railway at Port
| Huron.
Mary Hornak, who travelled from
Texas to Charlotte, Mich, expectin.
| to marry, came to Owosso when her
prospective husband refused to fulfill
| his promise to wed, and became
! stranded.
Though Calhoun county's Red Cross
drive supposedly ended two weeks ago,
money keeps pouring in and the fund
| is considerably past the $4,000 mark,
though the allotment for this county
was only $4,000.
That the governments fixed price OF
SO and $3.50 for soft coal at the mines
is exorbtant is being impressed upon
Congressman Patrick H. Kelley on
| his arrival at Lansing.
A 3 weeks old child of Charles Miers
| of Greenville died while Mrs.
Sonora Collins was holding it in her
arms. Before the body could be taken
| from her arms, Mrs. Collins was
stricken with paralysis.
The first prosecution under the state
| law against speeding on the Dixie
highway between Monroe and Toledo
was held when Arthur Schultz, of To
ledo, paid a fine of s25 and $3.50 costs
| for speeding near Erie
Harold Woefel of Chicago was
drowned in Black river. Sam Laport, a
companion, had a narrow escape from
| the same fate. Frank Z. Mills and
| Anil Douders, also of Chicago, saved
themselves by climbing out on q pier.
George Wightman, an employe in
| the Office of the Hawthorne Paper
company at Kalamazoo, enlisted in the
knights Templar ambulance unit for
service in France. He is the first to
volunteer from Kalamazoo in this
unit.
Frank Cody, of Detroit, was elected
president of the state board of educa.
ton. Fred A. letters, Of Painesdale,
was made treasurer of the board and
Superintendent Of Public Instruction
Fred L. Keller was reelected secre.
tary.
Lyle La Due, an Ann Arbor railroad
fireman living at Owosso, has sued the
corporation for 100000, the result OF
a fracture of his spine, received when
an emergency water standpipe be.
came disconnected and fell on him, at
Bannister.
After lying for more than half a
century at the bottom of Lake Huron
off Thunder Bay Island. south OF ~
pena, the 100000 cargo of copper
stored in the hold of the steamer Pow
able, sunk August 9, 1865, is being
brought TO the surface.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Van Orden of
Ann Arbor received word that their
son William, who is a member of one
of the University of Michigan units OF
the Michigan naval militia, now sta
toned at Great Lakes was dangerous
ly i'll of spinal meningitis.
To knit two pairs OF socks each
week for the soldier boys is the self
imposed task of Mrs. Louisa NJ. Con-
rad, seventy-five years old, who during
four years of the civil war put in a
large amount of time hemming band
ages, knitting and scraping lint.
At meeting of the food prepared.
ness committee at Lansing the ques-
ton of farm labor was discussed, with
particular attention to the securing OF
temporary help from the large indus.