The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1918-03-29
STATE NEWS

Reed City-Dighton postoffice. in
Osceola county burned to ground with
all mail and contents. Only the mon
ey and stamps in the safe were saved.
The origin OF the fire is unknown.
Saginaw.-John M. List, a 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
IS years.
Kalamazoo.-Boys'a and girls garden
clubs are being organized in the pub
lie schools here as a means of beating
the Hun, practically the Mtire enroll
plent OF all the grade schools of the
city having enlisted.
Lansing-The state board of agricul-
ture, in session at the Michigan Agri-
cultural college, elected William II.
Wallace, of Saginaw, member of the
public domain commission in place or
A. ]. Doherty of Glare. Mr.. Doherty
presented his resignation some months
ago.
Lay 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 a result the west
ern portion OF the city was without
water, until temporary connections
could be made.
Camp Custer.-Camp Custer is being
covered with a network OF sidewalks.
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 a 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
a week. This will give more time to
athletics.
Ann Arbor-Professor ]. c. Parker,
head of the electrical engineering fac
ulty OF the college of engineering in
the University of Michigan, favors a
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
1aborers are needed by the United
States government for construction
work at Washington. The government
will pay 81 IL cents an hour for car
penters and 35 cents an hour for UNI
skilled laborers, on shift OF eight
hours a 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 ID. u. r. inter
urban car while walking on track south
OF Flint. died of fractured skull. The
boy is said to have boarded a 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
walk and was struck by car from
south.
Mason.-Rev. Frank Gates Elicit,
Of this city, has announced he will be
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 a
seat in the United States senate will
offer possibly the best opportunities
for unselfish service to the world.
Lansing license OF L. Chapple |
Co., operating a -four mill and elevate:
ut Bedding. has been revoked for three |
weeks, by Geo. A. Prescott, state food |
II. l.. Ousterhout 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 |
after the close of the
Detroit John Des Champs, cadet /
aviator, the third Detroit flyer i'm the
service OF the United States TO lose
his life within 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 we're killed over
seas. Lieut.. George o. Middleditch
died in an accident at training