The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-02-22

90 STARS. Among the NUMBER were 20
officers.
Port Huron-Mayor Black has been
requested to list all skilled shipbuild-
ing and shipyard workers, to be placed
on call for government service.
Albion-In searching for seed corn
to help Calhoun county farmers, Com
ty Agent e. B. Moore found one lot of
500 bushels of two-year-old corn.
Grand Rapids-A new dog quaran-
tine has been established in Lowell
and Cascade townships. Many dogs
have bitten live stock, spreading ra-
bies.
Saginaw-Isadore Vallad marketed
500 bushels of beans recently and re-
ceived a check of $3,94S.33. He still
has ample seed for himself and some
to sell.
Grand Rapids-Jesse B. Davis. prime
pal Of Central High school, in an ad.
dress to the Rotary club, advocated
keeping the schools open the year
round for greater efficiency.
Flint-Flint bakers. are making all
bread with 20 per cent wheat substi-
tutes of rye and barley flour, and on
Mondays and Wednesdays absolutely
wheatless bread being manufactured.
Camp Custer, Battle Creek-A mill
tary exhibition similar to the one
staged this week by the 339th regi-
ment will be put on in Milwaukee,
March 1, Q and 3 by picked teams of
the 340th.
Flint-Dr. VIM. DeKleine, health Of
dcer, has asked the common council
TO pass an ordinance requiring inspec-
ton of all meat sold in Flint and for
the killing of all animals for food in a
central slaughter house.
Fremont-Fully 200 persons escaped
Heath or injury when the old skating
rink, used as basketball court, col
lapsed just after the Newaygo-Fremont
game. The fans had just left the hall
when the roof toppled in and one wall
Tell.
Lansing - Ten-dollar-a-ton sugar
beets do not mean an increase in the
price of sugar to the consumer, in the
opinion of those who had to do with
he agreement completed here between
he beet growers and the sugar manu-
lecturers.
Muskegon-That the Continental Mo-
tors corporation must soon change the
location of its drop forge plant, the
result of other nearby buildings set
ling, from the terrific shock Of the
gigantic hammers, has just become
known here.
Manistique-William Brassau, of
Gladstone, 500 line freight conductor,
and Howard Lafave, of Manistique,
section foreman, were instantly killed
in the local yards when run down by a
switch engine. A blizzard prevented
their seeing or hearing the engine.
Manistee-Arthur Gudart and Louis
Gering, out on bail and bound over to
the federal district grand jury on the
charge Of stealing naval pump plans
from the Manistee Iron Works and
forwarding them to the German gov
eminent, are back at their old jobs at
the iron works.
Coldwater-A man believed to be
Peter M. Kennedy, about 55 years old,
Of West Plains, N. Y, was killed when
he jumped from New York Central
train west Of here going SO miles an
hour. He had more than $1,000 in
his pocket and round trip ticket from
West Plains to San Francisco.
Flint-More than SO families were
driven from their homes when Thread
Creek, ordinarily a small stream, be-
came raging torrent, overlooking its
banks and inundating )owlands for a
distance Of two miles through the west
ern and southern parts of Flint. Po-
Iicemen carried numbers of women and
children to safety after the creek left
its banks.
who graduated from the University of
Michigan last year was drowned when
the British transport Tuscania was
sunk off the Irish coast by a German
submarine. He was member Of the
Goth Engineers (Foresters), and last
year was captain of the senior track
team of the university. His body has
been buried on the Scottish coast. He
came here from Dayton. Ohio.
Ann Arbor-Injuries sustained
when an electric shock suffered at the
plant of the Argo Power company,
threw him from a ladder, his head
striking against an iron post, caused
the death of Alderman Isaac L. Sherk,
aged IS. representative Of the Fifth
ward for IA years. A fractured skull
was the immediate cause of death. The
accident occurred on the twenty-fourth
anniversary OF his coming to Ann Ar
Dor.
Lansing-Soldiers and sailors in fed
eral service. who have not made ap-
plication for government Insurance.
and have thus left their dependents
unprotected in case OF wounds OF
death. have been given additional time
for filing their requests. The expira-
ion date was February IL. and the new
date is April IL. The council of ma
tional defense, however, warns soldiers