The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1918-04-05
STATE NEWS

washington.
Charlotte.-Isaiah Kimmel, "a years
old, only local Confederate army veter'
an OF the Civil war. died at the home
Of his daughter in Grand Rapids.
Ann Acknowledgements students
in the University of Michigan have
proposed to shorten the summer vaca-
ton four weeks to haster their enlist
ment in active service.
Detroit.-Detroit and Michigan coal
dealers told State Fuel Administrator
Prudden, that they would 60 out of
business rather than accept the $2.25
profit margin per ton allowed.
Harbor Beach-This city is to have
lake shore park. A large piece of
land on the shore of the lake has been
set aside for the purpose and will be
made ready for use this spring.
Lapeer.-Charles w. Smith, former
speaker of the state house Of represen-
tatives, has announced that he will not
be candidate for lieutenant-governor
because Of the press of other duties.
Monroe.-An automobile belonging
to George Mclaughlin, in which Car
Teton postoffice safe blowers escaped,
has been found in Toledo, where the
same gang is believed to have blown
a safe.
Traverse City. Grand Traverse
county has given her fifth son to the
cause. Elgin Lewis, of Central Lake,
member of the national army. died at
Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. The body was
sent here.
Hastings.-Mr. and Mrs. Moses
Horn, an aged couple, lost all their
belongings and their home when the
building and contents we're burned to
the ground on a small farm in Johns
town township.
Grand Rapids.-The 416th railroad
telegraph battalion, under command
of Maj. N. d. Ballantine, containing so
western Michigan men, has arrived in
France, according to word from Capt.
James Bailey, of this city.
Houghton.-Maj. Harold Whiting
ham, Michigan College of Mines grad
uate in 1912, has been made German
prisoner, according to word received
from British officials, who returned a
letter addressed to Nottingham.
Grand Rapids-Joseph Walter Male
WITT, "a, of Grand Rapids, is listed
among the II men reported missing
as the result of the collision between
the American Destroyer Manley and
British warship in European waters
recently.
Sault Ste. Marie.-Chase s. Osborn,
former governor of Michigan and can
didate for the Republican nomination
for the United States senatorship at
as president Of the Presbyterian Broth
erhood here.
Lansing.-The law passed by the
legislature in 1913, authorizing the
sterilization of mental detectives,
maintained wholly or in part by public
expense in the public institutions of
the state, has been declared uncon-
stitutional by the supreme court.
Flint.-Police have decided that
Steve Williams, 30, found dead in
poolroom here, died from an over
dose Of bootleg" whiskey, which the
authorities say they found He and
Nick Tenoff, who was made violently
i'll, had INDUCED. Tenoff recovered
after being taken to a hospital.
Lansing.-The supreme court has
upheld the conviction of Robert Will
liams, before Judge Jeffries in Detroit
Williams was arrested for carrying
concealed weapons. He had a revol-
yer which was not loaded. The
supreme court decided that conceal
ed weapons does not need to be load
ed to make violation of the state law.
Grand Rapids.-Colonel Charles
Walbridge Calkins, aged 76, one of the
oldest lawyers in Grand Rapids, and
the city's oldest native-born resident
is dead. He served through the Civil
war. advancing from a private to regi-
mental adjutant. After the war he
6nkdBtu III WOIh anu ldtcI Ill
the grocery business. He afterwards
became a lawyer.
Detroit.-S. s. Kresge, by supreme
court decision, is exempted from pay
ing taxes to the city of Detroit on a
SO 900 900 interest in the stock of the
Kresge company, invested in FL states
other than Michigan. The supreme
court affirmed the decision Of the
Wayne county circuit court, which
held in Krege's favor in the suit filed
against him by the city.
Port Huron.-The largest single
road contract ever awarded in st.
Clair county has been given a Detroit
concern. 1t calls for the expenditure
of s236,393 for ten miles of concrete
road along the lake shore, north Of
this city. The road will be part Of
the Dixie highway as well as the East
Michigan Shore pike. Five miles Of
road will be completed this summer
and five miles in 1919.
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