The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-01-25
MICHIGAN NEWS BRIEFS

eu SNOW from the yard.
The University of Michigan turned
over 100 tons of coal to the City OF
Ann Arbor to relieve the coal short
age.
The Hall of the Divine Child, a
boys boarding school costing $3.50.
600, has been formally opened by ST.
Mary's college at Monroe.
A locomotive and snowplow, used by
the Grand Trunk, In an effort to clear
the Durand-Saginaw line, were over
turned In ditch near Flushing.
Rev. c. A. Wroth. of Saginaw. who
was held for four days on account OF
alleged seditious statements was dis
missed because there was no real
ground for the accusation.
William H. Gay, OF Grand Rapids,
has been appointed by Gov. Albert E.
Sleeper to succeed Franklin Sayre,
Of Flushing, as member of the board
Of control of the Industrial school for
boys.
Information that Loren Mcmillan, Of
Detroit, was wounded by a rifle shot
In the battle of Cambria and is now
convalescing at the Second Canadian
general hospital in France, is contain
ed in a letter received by Lieutenant
Russell Bruckner of Detroit, from Nc
MILAN.
In connection with the campaign to
enlist 1000 high school boys of De-
troit to take the places of men draft
ed from Michigan farms there was a
meeting in the Detroit Board of Com
merce at which time federal service
badges were given youths who worked
on farms during the past year.
Members Of the University of Mich
igan forestry department are aiding
w. X. Prudden. state fuel administra-
tor. and e. H. rockingham, agent of
the federal forestry service, In making
a survey of the state wood supply.
Plans are under way to cut much Of
this wood for use next winter in rel
lieving a possible coal scarcity.
Representatives of Bay City's water
larger commercial fishermen of that
city have been investigating the al
legged contamination of the Pine river
by one Of the sugar beet companies at
st. Louis. Since their trip up the
stream officials of the state game and
fish department have been over the
ground. II Is said that thousands of
dead fish were seen and that no live
fish whatever could be found. Farmers
living along the river complain that
their stock refuse to drink the water.
DR.. M. A. Plummer, "a years old,
the oldest man in Holly, is dead. He
practiced until 1910.
st. Ignace fishermen are earning as
high as SIS a day. The prevailing
price is Is cents a pound.
The international Harvester Co. will
conduct a series of free schools for
farmers at Lansing, teaching them
uses of the tractor.
Food Commissioner Woodwork now
declares that there will be no whole.
sale search of homes for liquor after
May 1 in this state.
Mrs. Thomas Mullaney, residing on
a farm near Yale is dead as the re-
suit of tfhe explosion of arcan of kero-
sene. Her daughter, aged IA, was also
badly burned.
A north bound Grand Rapids & In
diana passenger train left the tracks
at Austin Station, seven miles south
Of Kalamazoo, several persons being
injured. The train had been delayed
by snow and was trying to make up
time.
Battle Creek mourns the loss Of her
irst boy, somewhere in France"
Lieut.. Newton Lowell died a few days
ago from pneumonia, a message from
General Pershing breaking the news to |
MS parents. Mr.. and Mrs. r. T.
lowell.
Due to the inability of Mrs. Carrie
Chapman Gait, president of the Ma.
tional American Woman's Suffrage as
ISOLATION, to get train out Of Wash |
ngton, d. c., for Detroit, where she |
was to have been the honor guest at |
he thirty-second annual convention OF |
he Michigan Equal Suffrage associa-
ion January 14-16, the convention was
until some date two or
.hree weeks hence.
Elaine Frost, of Bad Axe, aged 8,
has broken her right arm for the third
ime.
Vivian Conklin, infant daughter Of
Bert Conklin, of Battle Creek, was SER
ously injured when coal stove ex-
,loded
Rev. w. H. Bishop, Baptist clergy
nan of Flint, has enlisted as a private
n the Canadian army. He expects la
ter to take up work with the chaplains.
John Brink, of Alma. 35 years old.
decorator and painter, is dead after
alling from a ladder and fracturing
lis neck. He slipped on a piece of
ce.
Missing his train at Kendalls, r.
Wesley Becker walked Is miles to
kalamazoo in the recent blizzard to
AXE civil sirvice examination for
Fan Buren, county mail carrier. He
rived too late for examination.
Sweeping authority was given by the
tate fuel administrator to the mayor