The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-01-18
MICHIGAN news BRIEFS

| $l,00O to advertise the county.
State agencies obtained employment
for S,7O4 persons In December.
Eight passenger coaches of the Wa
bash Detroit-St Louis fiier left the
rails at Adrian but failed to turn over
no one being hurt.
The Ionia gas plant shut down fol
a day owing to lack Of coal and resi-
dents were forced to use candles OF
lamps for lighting.
Mrs. Patrick Walsh, of Sault Ste
Marie, was seriously burned when an
oil stove with which she was heating
her bedroom exploded.
Names of 200 high school boys have
been furnished Port Huron pool room
proprietors who have been ordered to
deny them admission.
An anonymous letter has been re.
ceived by the Manistee draft board
threatening assassination of two mem.
bers unless they resign. Federal Off.
Gals are investigating.
A contract fol. 1,644 uniforms for the
University Of Michigan students TAX.
ing military training, has been let to
Chicago firm. The government pays
$14 and the state $40 for each uniform.
A triple wedding was held at Ban.
croft, when three sisters, Misses Lea,
Winnie and Eroledene Chalker, were
married respectively to Robert Wal.
ton, Frank Edgeworth and B. Brock.
way.
Only three out of the several hNnd.
red boys at the Saginaw high school
volunteered to enter a military train.
ing course, which the board of educa-
ton offered to establish under the act
Of the last legislature requiring such
course where rs or more boys de-
sire 1t.
Lessons in war farming will be
brought to the farmers of Michigan
through extension classes to be given
in 100 state schools by the Michigan
agricultural college. Two and three.
day meetings will be held in practic-
ally every county in the southern PEN
operate in the meetings.
The deferred quota of al men from
Muskegon county will be sent to Camp
Custer about March /.
Albion factories are cooperating
with the United States government
by taking census of enemy aliens.
The work is being done through the
foremen at the factories.
Attorney George W. John, of Mt.
Clemens, has been appointed by Cover
nor Sleeper draft board inspector for
Lenawee, Monroe, Washtenaw, Oak
land, Wayne, Macomb, Lapeer and st.
Clair counties.
Battle Creeks new dance hall ordi-
nance, prepared as result of criticism
Of local dance halls by Camp Custer
officials, ends all dances at midnight
and bars girls under 16 years of age,
licensing all proprietors.
The Michigan Anti-tuberculosis as
ISOLATION leaders at Ann Arbor an
nounce that their forces will be found
ranged with the dry workers Of the
state whenever the campaign for the
adoption of the constitutional prohibi-
ton amendment is begun. The asso-
citation will back this campaign, not
for sentimental reasons, but because al
coholism aids the rapid spread of
tuberculosis.
The first motor mail truck line to
operate in Michigan will connect
Grand Rapids and Saginaw. The SER
vice will start February 1. Trucks
will operate in both directions six
days week, with running time Of
IL hours for the 1913 miles. The route
will run through ST. Charles, Chesan-
ing, Owosso, st. Johns, Ionia and
Lowell. While the trucks will handle
parcel post matter largely, first class
mail will also be carried when service
can be thus bettered.
The STATE tax commission will hold
its seventh annual conference in Bay
City January 81 and %. 1t is expect
ed between 200 and $50 assessing Off.
GERS will attend.
Fine horses which two or three
years ago brought from 500 to $500
each were sold at auction in Bay City
at $25. $50 and $40. The highest price
secured was $50.
Marquette will observe two lightless
nights each week because the scarcity
OF water in the dam basin of the wa
ter works has made 1t necessary to
use coal to operate the generating
plant.
A quarantine has been raised
against all cattle entering Michigan
from New York state by the state live
stock and sanitary commission. New
York cattle are now suffering from
tuberculosis. The quarantine order
requires all New York cattle to be held
60 days before entering this state.
Mr.. and Mrs. Burnham Nash, an
aged couple residing on Chester
farm, just outside Of the city J
Of Charlotte, were burned to death.
saw the house afire and |
broke into the kitchen and bedroom
but could not find the occupanfa he-