The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-05-31


has been appointed city welfare direc.
tor, succeeding Fred S.ocke, the new
city manager.
Port Huron.-Mayor John L. Black
has instructed police department to
run down all war rumor mongers and
to make arrests.
Lansing.-Advance information on
the tabulations of the state labor CEN
! sus taken April Is, indicate that wo-
men factory workers In Michigan have
increased 100 per cent in the last year.
Bay City.-A service flag containing
$50 stars, 20 more than the total
! charter membership enrolment of IA
years ago, was unfurled May 81 at the
meeting of the Michigan State League
Of Nurses.
Houghton.-St. Curtis Danielson.
aged Is, was drowned in Portage lake
when his canoe overturned. Darcy
O'Brien, son of Circuit Judge O'Brien,
aged 10, almost lost his life in at
tempting rescue.
| Ann Arbor.-A committee of 10
! faculty members of the University Of
Michigan is communicating with De-
troit manufacturers to find out in what
line trained women can be used with
a view to establishing university cour-
ses in which to prepare them.
Ann Arbor.-Lieut. Lozey William,
assistant professor of military science
and tactics at the University of Mich
lgan, received orders from the war
department to report to Northwestern
university, Evanston, ILL.,, to take the
chair of military science and tactics.
Flint.-Pontiac was selected by the
Grand Encampment and Patriarchs
Militant of the Michigan I. o. o. F..
.or the 1919 convention, at closing Of
i session May %. Battle Creek also
put in a strong bid for the meeting, at
which the l. o. o. F. centennial is to
be celebrated.
Pontiac.-A. w. Wilson and M. R.
Blair, Royal Oak township officers con-
victed of fraud and neglect of official
1uties, has obtained a stay of sentence
Until June to enable the court to
investigate legal points raised. An
effort was made to get sentence de-
terred until the supreme court can
pass on appeals.
Lansing.-The food administration
will issue within the next week rules
md regulations for the storage and
, distribution of butter and cheese based
q M OF OF
terence of butter and cheese dealers
with food administration officials in
Washington, according to Food AID.
ninistrator Prescott.
Flint.-The Flint council has grant.
I'd permission to Michigan Light coiu-
pany to increase the rate charged con.
'umers from IS cents to 81 1000
,eet of gas at the same time fixing the
standard number of heat units at a
claximum of 565 and minimum of $40,
and fixing a penalty of 500 day for
every day in which the gas falls below
he minimum for three five-minute
periods.
I ashington.-Ensign Stephen Pot
.er, U. s. naval reserves, of Detroit,
Mich, was killed April 25 in desperate
combat with seven German seaplanes
over the North sea the committee on
public information announced May o.
Potter and companion battled gall
intly against the V-shaped flying
wedge of the Teutons and quit only
when his machine, in flames, crashed
into the sea.
! Mt. Clemens.-Clarence J. Crosby,
bell boy at the Sherman hotel, is
, the first drowning victim this season.
With another boy, Amos Bruery, he
went to the old Swimming hole at the
, Cadow brick yard, was seized with
swim, could give no assistance
Crosby was 16 years old, the son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Crosby, South
3ratiot road
Grand Rapids. Alexander, 81
years old, of Grand Rapids, a member
If the Lafayette Escadrille, is dead in
France of injuries suffered in an afr
PLANE accident May s. His father
James Bayne, has received a cable
gram from French authorities announc-
Ing the death. Bayne had been flying
with the Escadrille several months
and was planning to be transferred to
the American flying corps.
! Lansing.-Upon information from
Washington, Adjt. Gen. Col. John s.
Bersey is advising all local and district
draft boards not to induct into mill
tary service registrants having her
MAS Of any kind. Those having foot
conditions which interfere with weight
bearing or with wearing military
shoes, or those having teeth below
present dental requirements, whether
remediable or not, are also barred
from army service.
Big Rapids.-An ordinance increas-
ing fixed salaries has been passed by
the city commission. The pay of City
Manager Willis was raised 500, max
Ing it $1,000 year. The pay Of City
Clerk Lazer was brought up $50, max
Ing it $500. City Treasurer Megargle's
pay is also increased $50. making it