The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-07-13


The Caro- Fair association has de-
cided to devote one day OF fair week
TO patriotic celebrations.
Mrs. Elizabeth Glatzack. mother of
twenty-four children. died at Besse-
ner. at the age of ninety-two years.
John Hutchins. twenty-five years old.
WIS suffocated at Jackson by the cav.
hg in of sand in a sewer trench he
was digging.
AS the time for drafting approach.
es. recruiting is on the rapid increase
In Company E, Michigan national
guard of Ionia.
Twenty-Five members of the class Of
1917 at the University of Michigan
who are at Fort Sheridan were grad
uated at the University club at Chi
cago.
Clark E. Higbee, of Grand Rapids,
was elected president Of the Michigan
Association of Probate Judges at the
convention recently held at Portage
Point
Hugh Ray, fifty years old. of Romeo,
attempted to end his life by cutting
his throat at his home. This is his
second attempt to die within the last
few weeks.
Fl. c. Mather, president and general
manager of the Moore Oil company Of
Cincinnati, was drowned at Horseshoe
Cave, fifty miles north of Calumet, in
Lake Superior.
Archibald Buttars, Of Charlevoix, Is
the newly elected president of the old
Settlers association of the Grand
Traverse region. The reunion will be
held in Charlevoix next year.
Sherman Dumen, private of Com.
pany F, Sixteenth U. S. cavalry, was
drowned in the Rio Grande river at
San Pedro while in swimming. Dumon
recently enlisted from Evart, Mich.
Examining Physician H. v. Tuition
says regarding the second contingent
Michigan naval militia, "A fine, gal
liant lot, and / am proud to associate
with them. They are the pick of the
district"
Vincent Dilluvio. grocer in the first
precinct factory district, and Charles
Shaddix, who rooms above the store
kept by Dilluvio are under arrest at
Monroe charged with maintaining a
blind pig.
Governor Sleeper named Charles A.
PARCELS, Of Detroit, as the Michigan
director of the boys working reserve,
the national food preparedness organ.
ization countenanced by Food Direc.
tor Hoover.
Hugh J. Grey has been selected as
general manager of the Michigan Tour
ist and Resort association, organized
to bring more tourists to Michigan,
and about 100000 will be spent in
an advertising campaign.
Frances Carven, six year old daugh-
ter of Walter r. Carven, of Mason,
was badly bruised when a pony, whose
halter she had tied around her waist,
became frightened and ran away drag
ging the child through an orchard.
With nearly 100 pastors in attend
ance and with a score of denomina-
tional instructors, as members Of the
faculty, KALAMAZOO colleges annual
summer school for Baptist ministers
was opened and will continue until
July 20.
The second district board for the
selective army In Oakland county
has been organized with Edward Sew.
ener. of Ortonville, as chairman; Mark
~ Dol \
DR.. c. j. Sutherland, of Charleston,
third member.
DR.. Sylvester w. Merritt, srty-eight
years old, former mayor Of the village
of Fort Gratiot, and at one time one of
the prominent men Of his profession
in the country, Is dead. He was for
many years the Grand Trunk inspec.
tor OF immigrants.
That the United States will be strip.
ped Of her young manhood even as
France and England before this war
ends, was the prediction of ex-Vice
President Charles Warren Fairbanks,
speaking in Traverse City under the
auspices of the Methodist church con.
ference.
Not only has heavy damage been
done to beans and corn by rains
flooding fields on heavier ground in
Shiawasee, Saginaw and Genesee
counties, but from some localities in
Shiawasee and Saginaw reports come
that in many fields potato vines affect
ed by the blight are dying.
Garland Bentley sought a Job at the
Pontiac State hospital and gave his
age as twenty-one, thinking he would
be accepted more readily. Instead he
was asked to produce a military regis.
tration card. Sheriff's officers took
MIN to his home where his mother
proved the boy was only seventeen.
Jerrold e. Thomson, telegraph edi.
tor of the Muskegon Chronicle, was
so impressed after reading one ur-
gent appeal to young men to join the
colors, that he proceeded to promptly
enlist in Company G., Thirty-second
infantry. Merle Smith, another mem.
Der of the staff, enlisted at the same
time.
John Price, proprietor of Prices
Hunting and Fishing club at Mt.
Clemens, was Jailed as a result of a