The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-04-12


to five years with recommendation OF
enc year.
Flint. Dallas bort, automobile
manufacturer, has offered his son.
Ralph now in France, $1,000 for every
German helmet he brings home. Mr..
bort Is chairman of the county Liberty
loan committee.
Camp Custer Sixty men from the
various division units have been de-
tailed to take a two months course
In the cooks and bakers school. OF
this number 80 are taking instruction
In cooking and 10 in baking.
Sault Ste. Marie. Charles NJ.
Brooks, employee Of the Richardson
Avery company, was instantly killed
here when a tree, which he was fell
ing struck another tree, rebounded
and struck him in the neck.
Hillsdale.-Litchfield township re-
sidents voted unanimously to raise
money for war activities by direct
taxation. The township treasurer will
collect this tax, which will probably
be about seven-tenths of one per cent
St. Johns-Eleven thousand bushels
of grain valued at $4,000 were de.
stroyed here when the John Hicks
elevator burned. The property was
total loss before the Owosso fire de-
partment could reach this city. Total
loss is approximately $4,000, partly
insured.
Charlevoix.-Raymond Solomon is
the first Charlevoix man to give his
life for his country, He died in
France from an attack of bronchitis.
He was son of o. A. Solomon, man.
ager of the local telephone exchange.
He was married shortly before sailing
for France.
Big Rapids.-Mrs. Mary Oleson re-.
Gently received $21 from the govern.
turned it with the patriotic request 1t
be used for the Red Cross. Her son
is a corporal In France. Mrs. Oleson
had secured employment and found
the $21 unneeded.
Grand Rapids.-Federal officers here
have rounded up members Of the Sons
of Lithuania Aid society, an organiza.
ton whose personnel Is alleged to
have attempted to evade the draft. IL
is alleged the society members have
taken pledges to swear that each was
above draft age and to have failed to
register.
Camp Custer-Orders have been
posted In the camp that every soldier
was to be given try-out scaling an
eightfoot wall and jumping a seven.
foot ditch, carrying full equipment
Every man is to be scored by his show
ing along these lines and will be given
training until he can accomplish these
two feats.
Bay City.-Henry V. Lafrance. up
to year ago prominent and pros.
porous undertaken, was sentenced to
serve from five to ten years in Jack.
son prison by Judge S. G. Houghton
for defrauding insurance companies
by firing a building and for fraud in
burying a nude body in a rough box
after securing money for a decent
burial.
Sault Ste. Marie.-Deeds held by IL
Detroit and Lansing people, mostly
women, to land bought for summer re.
sort property near here, have been
found to be worthless, following an
investigation by T. J. Green, prose
cutting attorney. The land lies in the
middle Of a swamp on lower Sugar Is.
In nd IL xxyilI ha RI.
ed for this land.
Flint.-The teaching of German in
the Flint public schools will be dis.
continued after the present semester,
the school board has decided, in re-
spouse to numerous protests received.
Already textbooks have been expur.
gated Of considerable German prop.
uganda by teachers, but it was thought
advisable to finish the semester, in
order that students might not be de-
prived of credits. lnt> aa =,
Kalamazoo.--Sec Lieutenant r.
Van Ranney, member of the Grenadier
guards and well known Kalamazoo
young man, has been killed in action |
according to word received by his
mother. Mrs. Frank M Clark, from
the war, department. Ranney was in |
London the day war was declared and |
after many futile attempts to enlist, |
he changed his citizenship that he
might get into the fray. -
Camp Custer.-It has developed that
the intensive training given at the
training camps has developed what
medical officers call an irritable"
heart This is especially true of men
who in civilian life were not injured
to violent exercise. Medical officers |
have been warned to watch for these
cases and when located the victims |
will be placed in company which,
takes it's work more gradually. e
Grand Rapids.--The annual report
OF the Grand Rapids e Indiana rail.
road, presented at the annual meeting |
Of the stockholders here, stated the
prospects for increased settling of
northern and western Michigan dur,
ing the coming year were better than
ever before. The report shows the