The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-04-26

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Manistee--The school board has
abolished the study of Ger
/ man and substituted Spanish in the
high school. Students refused to
/ study German.
Grand Rapids-George Hubbard, 16
years old, high school student, took
his own life in his home at Grandy-
vile while his parents were attend
Ing Liberty loan rally.
Three Rivers-Sherman township,
st. Joseph county, whose population
is more than 80 per cent German, was
the first township in the county to go
over the top in the third Liberty loan.
Pontiac-Frank Paroski, aged a.,
was sentenced to life Imprisonment in
Marquette penitentiary at hard labor
for the killing with Ratchet on Sep
TENDER % of Theodore Radtke, aged
20.
Port Huron-County Food Admins
traitor Summers has ordered Frank
Lown, a farmer living near Memphis,
to sell several hundred bushels of
wheat which 1t is alleged Lown has
been boarding.
East Lansing-Prof. l.. r. Taft, state
inspector of orchards, has ordered the
killing throughout Michigan of all
high barberry bushes. This shrub is
annually instrumental in causing con-
siderable damage to the grain crop.
Camp Custer-K. of G. secretaries
have been informed that their organi-
zation in Camp Custer is to train
workers for overseas service. Two
men already have been selected to go
to France Immediately, and six more
are to be sent here to train.
Port Huron-A fiat and apartment
house corporation has been formed
here with a capitalization of $4,000 to
provide housing accommodations for
several hundred persons who will
come to this city to be employed in
new industries now being completed.
Camp Custer-The fourth officers
training school will be started at
Camp Custer, May Is. Two per cent
of the candidates will be selected from
the S5th division. The remainder will
be taken from the Central division
and credited colleges, as named for
the first camp.
Detroit-Among the nonogenarians
who are knitting for the American
forces none probably occupies high
er place in the esteem of the women
whose duty 1t Is to pass on the pro-
ficiency of the workers than Mrs. Geo.
G. Mahon, who is 81 years old in body
and but 81 in heart
Ann Arbor-Prof. Herbert Sadler,
head of the main engineering depart
ment of the University of Michigan,
has been appointed assistant manager
of steel ship construction for the Emer-
gency Fleet corporation. The govern
ment ordered him to report at Wash.
ington May 1 and to remain there for
the duration of the war.
Albion-In a speech here, Horatio
Earle, Of Detroit, said that the high!
ways of Michigan offered the only re-
lief for Michigan railroads. The short
hauls must be taken of the railroads
and placed on the highways. II this is
not done the people will face freezing
every winter as the roads are unable
to handle the traffic.
Flint-A citizens committee is in
vestigating the local coal situation as
a result of the refusal of local dealers
to fill orders at government prices.
The dealers claim they cannot do bust
mes sat the prices set. Meantime con-
sumers are urged to buy at once and
are forbidden to form pools to buy d.
rect fro mthe mines or outside deal
evs.
Camp Custer-Books are beginning
to pour into the Custer library as the
result of the recent drive. At present
the library has 5000 volumes cata.
logued and on the shelf, whereas its
quota calls for 10000. AS soon as the
limit is reached additional reading
matter will either be diverted to
points of embarkation or given the
men from the 85th division just be.
fore they leave for overseas.
Lansing-The amount of the cost
price of loaf of bread, between the
wheat producer and the bread con.
sumer, is strikingly shown In a re-
cent compilation by the food admins.
tration, covering the period from 1913
to the present time. In 1913 but 26
per cent of the cost went to the far
mer, as compared with As per cent at
present. In 1913, 6S per cent of the
price of bread was added after the
flour left the mill door, as compared
with 40 per cent now.
Detroit-Jean Kerr, detective for
downtown store, arrested Mrs. Lena
Sansone on larceny charge and then
secured the woman's release, pending
arraignment in police court. This was
because Mrs. Sansone is the mother of
IL children and was needed at home,
Miss Kerr said. But Mrs. Sansone
didn't appear in court and her rear.
rest was ordered. Miss Kerr says
she saw Mrs. Sansone's little boy, not
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