The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-06-28
STATE NEWS

drowned In Hamlin lake when sh,
waded out beyond her depth.
Owosso-An organization has beer
formed in Shiawassee county to op
| pose the beer and light wine amend
| ment.
Eaton Rapids.-Sunday, June %, II
Sunday, June 80, will be dedication
week for the new Methodist church
in Eaton Rapids,
Pontiac.-A campaign will be start
ed here to raise money to pay a full
time boy scout commissioner to take
charge of activities In the city.
Monroe.-Since May 1, when the
statewide prohibition law went into
effects, fines and costs assessed against
liquor violators in Monroe have tot
aled $4,000.
Lansing.-Fire destroyed the Ole
frame building formerly the First PHI
grim Congregational church, land
mark. The church was the first charge
Of the Rev. Ernest Bourner Allen, OF
Toledo.
Grand Rapids.-Business sessions
Of the twenty-second national synod
OF the Christian Reformed Churches
OF America opened at Calvin college
The synod will be in session two
weeks.
Ann Arbor.-Wallace Trabbe, three
years old, was run over and seriously
injured by an automobile while the lad,
dressed in a soldier suit, was
watching the drills of the U. OF NJ.
auto mechanics unit
Petoskey.-Wesley E Herr, "a
years old, who was to go to Camp
Custer with the next Emmett county
contingent, has disappeared after not.
flying Sheriff Miller that he intended
to take his own life to avoid the
draft.
Ferndale.-The village government
has exhausted Its initial loan Of ST..
500, from the First State Commercial
bank Of Royal Oak, and has passed
. resolution asking for another $500
pending the collection of this years
taxes.
Olivet.-Seventeen b A degrees
were conferred upon seniors of Olivet
college at the commencement exer
cises. DR.. Edwin w. Bishop, pastor
Of the Plymouth Congregational
church Of Lansing, delivered the
address.
Port Huron.-Eighteen questionair
es in local draft board Offices are now
being revised, and men who were TAX.
en- out of Glass / and given deferred
classifications, will be re-examined
and many of them brought back to
Glass 1.
Grand Rapids-Oakley c. Johnson,
principal of the Grant high school,
near here, Is being sought by federal
agents as a supporter of the l. w. w.
Police say Johnson had receipts for
contributions for the defense of the
I. W.. W.. members on trial in Chi
cago.
Manistee.-Howard Leonard,
former prominent Manistee business
man was killed at his summer cottage
near Portage Point, his widow was
the only witness of his death, which
was the result of gun shot wound.
self inflicted. His friends maintain
that the shooting was accidental
Albion.-Es L. Moore, druggist, paid
to the local treasurer of the Red
Cross a 5000 fine imposed on him by
the Michigan state fuel administration
for illegally filing out three appli.
cations for hard coal He has turned
back to o. H. Gale, local fuel admins
traitor, all the hard coal he had on
hand and this will be distributed to
the poor.
Houghton.-The Greenwood Lumb-
er company, operating in Ontonagon
county, was ordered to sell so barrels
of boarded -four, by G. w. McCor-
mick, upper peninsula food admins
traitor, including one barrel found in
the home of X. II. Bice, the manager.
and one found in the home of his as.
sistant. The company also was fined
$50 for the benefit of the Red Cross.
Ann Arbor-In an effort to find
slackers, between $50 and 400 men of
draft age were rounded up recently
in draft raids in Washtenaw county.
But eight or nine of the men taken
to the armory were unable to prove
that they had classification cards at
home. They were sent to the county
Jail. Members of the sheriff's and po-
lice forces, and One Hundred and
Seventy-fourth company Michigan
State troops made the raids. I
Ann Arbor.-After the city alder
men voted to allow poolrooms to be
operated on Sundays in this city, Cir
cult Judge George Sample called
County Prosecuting Attorney Carl
Lehman, and City Attorney Frank
Devine to his chambers for a confer.
ence. The aldermen's edict will be ig
nored, and the state law against open.
ing pool rooms on Sundays will be
rigidly enforced II will take the re-
sponsibility for the strict enforcement
of the state law into my own hands,
said Judge Sample
Pontiac--Oakland county's FIVE