The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-08-09

! st. Clair-Melvin M. Pecor. this
city. has been severely wounded In
service overseas.
Hart-Herbert Mailman, this place.
has been severely wounded in ser.
vice overseas.
, Gagetown-Francis L. Lenhard. this
place, has been severely wounded In
service overseas.
Battle Creek-Bruce White, this
city, in service overseas, has been
, severely wounded.
! Port Huron-Sergt. Henry j. Socha,
this city. has been severely wounded
In service overseas.
White Pigeon-Grover Hathaway,
% years old, was killed when caught
in belt in the Eddy Paper Mill here.
Bay City-Charles Bernal, 80 years
old, of Saginaw, is held to the grand
jury on the charge of hindering en-
listment.
Mt. Pleasant-Stanley Myshak and
Joseph Kremshreiter were arrested
on the charge of sedition and taken
to Bay City.
| Machinac Island-Capt. John w.
Davis, so years old, one of the States
earliest pioneers, sailor and merch-
ant, is dead.
Kalamazoo-Patrick Shanahan, 70
years old, is dead of burns suffered
while trying to start fire in the
kitchen stove.
| Algonac-Dr w. E. Bostwick, a
physician here for 20 years, has. been
commissioned captain In the Med
ical Reserve Corps.
Reed City-James Cooper and
Francis Smith, 15-year-old boys,
drowned while swimming in Gregg's
Lake, Oseola County.
Grand Rapids-Lieut. Dan w. Cas-
sard. the first Grand Rapids aviator
to bring down q German plane, Is re-
ported missing in action.
! Port Huron-A hospital drive will be
launched here soon. The plans SUBJ
mitted now call for a building which
will cost approximately 100000.
Saginaw-Herman G. LANCE, FORM
er principal of the Arthur Hill High
School, this fall will become an in
structor in chemistry at the M. A. c.
Hillsdale-Children swinging
curtain over a gasoline stove started
a blaze in the farm home of Arthur
Lewis, south of Prattville, which did
$500 damage.
Eaton Rapids-Miss Catherine
Smith, of Ann Arbor, graduate OF
the University of Michigan, has been
engaged to teach the science depart
ment Of the high school next year.
Bay City-D. w. Stinson, represent
ing labor interests, and Norris z.
Wentworth, representing business In
terests, have been appointed on the
Bay County War Labor Policies
Board.
Flint-Herbert c. Day, aged "a, and
Cecil Day, aged Fl, are nuder arrest
charged with aiding in the escape of
a 14-year-old girl from the detention
home at the county farm several
nights ago.
Port Huron-St. Clair county
, friends Of Truman H. Newberry, Re-
publican candidate for United States
senator, at a meeting in the Metro
pole hotel launched a campaign In
his behalf.
Saginaw-All but three members
of the city fire department have join
ed the American Fire Fighters asso-
citation, affiliated with the American
+, Federation of Labor, and the local
Federation of Labor.
Muskegon-Sheriff Stauffer's force
/ is investigating the drowning of Ar
mold Siedenstrang, aged IA years, IN
! Bear lake recently. The lads body
was recovered In a short time, but
, efforts to resuscitate him failed.
Hillsdale-The closing of contracts
with Miss Mildred Rood, of Chicago
university, as teacher of English and
/ Miss Marion Struble, of Boston, as
teacher of violin completes the fac
/ ulty Of Hillsdale college for next year.
Hillsdale-Delbert Baker and wife
were bruised but not seriously hurt.
! when the brakes on their automobile
+. failed to work on the steep Jonesville
hill three miles from here. They were
thrown into ditch. The car was bad.
| ly damaged.
Muskegon-Richard Block, alias Jo-
1 seph Smith, wanted at Manitowoc.
Wis, on train wrecking charge, 10
held at the local jail Block, 1t Is said,
was convicted of an arson charge and
admits he broke Jail. He was working
In a local foundry when arrested.
' Ann Arbor-Wounded American
soldiers in hospitals In England do
not lack entertainment, according to
Major lido Vile, who has returned to
Ann Arbor on a six months furlough
after IA months work in establishing
and directing a general military
base hospital for Americans, near
Liverpool.