The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-03-01


Menominee-Local police have beer
instructed to roundup youths who are
unemployed and make them go Il
work or go to war.
Adrian-Orval " Blakely, 10 years
old, who died in France, was the first
Lenawee county man to be killed ir
action. He lived northwest of Clay
ton.
Ann Arbor-J. w. Newman, conduc
tor, had both legs broken when he fell
from his car west of here. The motor
man ran seven miles before he found
he had no conductor.
Pontiac-William A. Patterson, local
recruit for the national army, had his
trousers and Sc in cash stolen while
submitting to a physical examination
at the Light Guard armory.
Flint-Falling on a poker while at.
tending furnace at home in Ortonville,
Mrs. Scarth Ingles, wife of a teacher
in the local high school, injured her
eye so severely that she will lose her
sight.
Pontiac-Charles Strasburg, ma.
tive of Germany and for 35 years a
resident Of this county, is the only
registered. He has two sons in the
American army.
Standish-The first house erected in
Standish, built and occupied by Isaac
Polon, has been destroyed by fire.
Polon was asleep and was forced to
flee in his nightclothes, $115 in his
trousers pocket being lost.
Battle Creek-Social workers have
started campaign to keep mothers
from public dance halls. A mother
recently left three weeks old baby
on a table In a soft drink room
throughout public dance.
Mt. Clemens--Charles ]. Corby, ar
rested last June 5 charged with man.
slaughter, after wrecking his automo-
bile and causing the death of John
Reckemger, has been released by
Judge Law for lack of evidence.
Hastings-The bodies of Jasper War
ner, "a years old, civil war veteran,
and Grover Lancaster, "a years old,
Barry county's first soldier to die in
the present war, were conveyed in the
same hearse to Fuller cemetery.
Port Internationally every COM
pany Of state troops must be re-en-
listed as the result of an error in the
Instructions sent out from Lansing.
Equipment will be sent out as soon as
the new enlistment is completed.
Pontiac-Collapse of a floor in sta
BILE, on the Anderson farm near Orion,
resulted in hanging Ave cows. The
animals were fastened in stanchions
and could not free themselves. They
belonged to Fred Norton, who places
the loss at $500.
acknowledgement Charles A.
Hulse, sc years old, of st. JOHNS, died
at Albuquerque, N NJ, of pneumonia
He was en- route to California with
his wife and a party of friends. He
served three terms as member Of the
legislature from Clinton county, lead
ing in the fight for anti-cigarette legis-
lation.
Charlotte-Because they called Geo.
Weller, school boy living near Yer
montville, bill" in derision because
he was of German parentage, aud at
tempted to take him out of the school
house and wash his face with snow, he
drew a pocket knife and slashed three
of his schoolmates, cutting cash
clear to the bone in the arm of one of
the boys.
Camp Custer-Officers agree that
the plan of sending civilian selects to
Camp Custer to replace the men pro-
nounced ready and shipped overseas,
is an efficient one. They say it not
only does away with the necessity of
men are drafted, but allows the divi-
sion to develop expert drill masters to
prepare the men.
Houghton-Candidate for township
treasurers on the Red Cross ticket"
will enter the field in the copper coun-
try. The state law allows township
treasurers one per cent of taxes col
lected, the return in some cases mount
ing to $4,000 annually. A number
of business men will run on the Red
Cross ticket" turning their incomes
over for war relief.
Lansing-Patriotic women from all
over Michigan attended a meeting at
Lansing to pledge their support to the
government in nationwide campaign
to enlist woman's assistance in stimu-
lating food conservation and food pro-
duction. The meeting, known as the
Womens War Conference, was con-
Quoted by representatives of the wom-
ans committee of the Council of Ma
tional Defense.
Pontiac-James Street was found at
oxford, unconscious from concussion
of the brain. He was dragged mile
over frozen ground by horse he had
hired from livery for trip into the
country to examine quantity of wood
on the Baza farm. The horse bolted
after he left The rig, and in an effort
to stop the animal, he became en-
tangled in the lines. He suffered Sc
we're scalp wounds, a broken arm and
the flesh was torn to the bone from
one of his shoulders by Jagged ice.