The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-03-29
STATE NEWS

ey and stamps In the safe were saved.
The origin of the fire Is unknown.
Saginaw.-John. M. List, resident
of Frankenmuth since 1916, one year
after the founding of the village, has
again been unanimously nominated as
clerk, an Office he has held for the past
45 years.
| Kalamazoo.-Boys' and girls garden
clubs are being organized in the pub
lie schools here as a means of beating
the Hun. practically the entire enroll
ment OF all the grade schools Of the
city having enlisted.
Lansing-The state board of agricul-
ture, In session at the Michigan Agrl-
| cultural college, elected William II.
Wallace, of Saginaw, member of the
| public domain commission in place Of
A. ]. Doherty of Clare Mr.. Doherty
presented his resignation some months
| ago.
Bay City.-Efforts to release the ice
jam at the Henry street bridge with
dynamite resulted in wrecking the
| 24-inch water main from the west side
water works and as result the west
| ern portion of the city was without
water, until temporary connections
| could be made.
Camp Custer.-Camp Custer is being
In the machine gun battalion area &C.
ment walks are being built. The long
est walk in camp is that constructed
by the 310th Engineers from division
headquarters to the home of Maj. Gen.
Kennedy, about half mile.
Grand Rapids.-George Wiilemsen.
son of Dirk Willemsen of Grand Rap.
ids, with a machine gun battalion IN
France, Is the first Grand Rapids boy
to be killed in France. Death was
accidental according to word received
by the parents. Willemsen enlisted
in 1916, in the South Dakota National
Guard and served through the Mexican
trouble.
Albion.-After having tried the war
intensive program, with classes six
days each week so as to close college
In early May, the trustees and facul-
ty of Albion college have agreed that
the plan has serious drawbacks and
have voted to go back next year to the
former plan Of classes only five days
week This will give more time to
athletics.
Ann Arbor-Professor ]. G. Parker,
head of the electrical engineering fac
ulty of the college of engineering in
Al, NsoIl
deliberate artificial tax burden on the
price of coal, based on the general OBJ
servation that when things are cheap.
people use them carelessly, and that
as the price goes up the average citi-
zen economies.
Detroit.-Carpenters and unskilled
laborers are needed by the United
States government for construction
work at Washington. The government
will pay 62 IL cents an hour for car
penters and 35 cents an hour for I'M
skilled laborers, on a shift Of eight
hours day. Time and one-half will
be paid for overtime on a ten-hour
shift Free transportation will be al
lowed
Flint.-Laverne Herman, aged 8,
who was run down by d. u. r. inter
urban car while walking on track south
of Flint, died of fractured skull. The
boy is said to nave boarded car for
Detroit and when the conductor found
he had no money to pay his fare, he
was put off at Atlas, the first station
south Of Flint. He started out to
walh and was struck by car from
south.
Mason.-Rev. Frank Gates Elicit,
OF this city, has announced he will be
a candidate for the nomination FOR
United States senator. Mr.. Elicit
says that the reconstruction work re-
quired after the war, politically, So
cially, economically and industrially,
will cause bitter rivalry and that
seat in the United States senate will
offer possibly the best opportunities
for unselfish service to the world.
Lansing.-The license of E. Chapp!e
Co., operating a -four mill and elevator
at Bedding, has been revoked for three
weeks, by Geo. A. Prescott, state food
ADMINISTRATOR. II. IL. OuSleTHOul was
called here to answer charges that the
mill sold -four without substitutes,
sold wheat for chicken feed and took
higher prices than the government
has fixed. The announcement that the
license had been revoked was made
Immediately after the close of tho
conference.
Detroit.--John Des Champs, cadet
aviator, the third Detroit flyer in the
service of the United States to lose
his life within a week, died at Wichita
Falls, Tex, as the result of internal
injuries suffered when his airplane
fell several hundred feet at Call field.
The other two men were killed over
seas. Lieut.. George @. Middleditch
died in an accident at a training
camp In England and Captain Philips
Collins was killed In an air duel with
q German flyer.
Camp Custer.-Army medical officers
are pointing to the fact that Michigan
could save the army vast sums Of
money by obeying the state laws of
sanitation. Men visit their homes n,
communities where disease Is allowed