The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-04-05
STATE NEWS

Ann Arbor.-Applications In the
ordnance training course again are
open as the result of an order from
Washington.
Charlotte.-Isaiah Kimmel, u years
old. only local Confederate army veter
an of the Civil war, died at the home
of his daughter in Grand Rapids.
Ann Arbor.-Engineerin 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 go out OF
business rather than accept the $2.25
profit margin per ton allowed
| Harbor Beach.-This city is to have
a 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 Acknowledgements
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
q 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 were burned to
the ground on small farm in Johns.
town township.
Grand Rapids.-The 416th railroad
telegraph battalion. under command
OF Maj. N. d. Ballantine, containing 80
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 a German
prisoner, according to word received
from British officials, who returned
letter addressed to Nottingham.
nrar ND Do
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
the coming election, was inaugurated
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, 80, 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
Ill, had INDUCED. Tenoff recovered
after being taken to hospital.
Lansing.-The supreme court has
upheld the conviction of Robert VIII.
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
cd weapons does not need to be load.
ed to make violation of the state law.
Grand Rapids.-Colonel Charles
Waibridge Calkins, aged 76, one of the
the citys oldest native-born resident
is dead. He served through the Civil
war. advancing from private to regi
mental adjutant. After the war he
engaged in railroad work and later in
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
| $4,000, 900 interest in the stock Of the
Kresge company, invested in 81 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 fled
against him by the city.
Port Huron.-The largest single
road contract ever awarded in st.
Clair county has been given Detroit
concern. II calls for the expenditure
Of S236,393 for ten miles Of concrete
road along the lake shore, north OF
this city. The road will b. part Of
the Dixie highway as well as the East
Michigan Shore pike. Five miles of
road will be completed this summer
and Ave miles in 1919.