Charlevoix county herald., 1920-12-31
Michigan NeDs
TerseIy Told

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| Albion-Albion- planning a coop
erative oil and gasoline station.
Manistee-P. II. Beauvais, city man
ager, resigned to become manager
of Royal Oak.
| Petoskey-Francis Felle, 17-year-old
| Fetoskey school boy, has been ar.
rested here charged with forgery.
Kalamazoo-Harry DenBleyker, of
this city, killed in an automobile acci.
dent in New York last summer, left
an estate valued at $93,695.
| Kalamazoo-Oscar. NJ ALL, jr., Ga,
a lifelong resident, who was closely
identified with manufacturing inter
ests in Kalamazoo, is dead.
East Tawas-George Green, Detroit
world war veteran, lost his right
! hand in a corn shredder at the farm
| Of George Hadwin, last week.
Grand Rapids-The board of direc-
tors of the Grand Rapids Association
Of Commerce has endorsed retention of
Camp Custer by the war department.
Pontiac-The d. U. r. has settled
the $4,000 damage suit brought
against it by relatives Of Harry v.
| Sowles, 25 years old, who was killed
by a d. u. r. car.
Petoskey-Harry Wiseman and
Mrs. Mary Moray, who are alleged to
have eloped from Harbor Springs.
have been placed under arrest at the
request of the woman's husband.
Mt. Clemens-Mrs. Julia Macarthur
ems, and S. Rosen, of Detroit. for $780,
600 alleged due her IN payment for
the park annex here, sold by her in
1919.
Battle Creek-One dollar bills mas
querading as tens were so skillfully
erased and etched, that they found
their way into a local bank The
notes are on the Chicago Federal Re-
serve bank.
Allegan-The John Harvard schol-
ership of Harvard University has
been awarded to Garratt Mattingly,
of this city. Mattingly was captain
of the first military unit organized in
the Kalamazoo High School.
Grand Rapids-Mrs. Abraham Don
ker, whom. ner attorney, Shelby b.
Schurtz says is in hiding in this city,
has filed a demand In probate court
for jury trial in the proceedings
brought by her husband to have her
declared insane.
Mason-John Marshall, Mason
county pioneer and member Of
Phil McKernan Post, G. A. R., is dead
here. He was retired recently from
the rural mail service, having covered
$4,000 miles in discharging his postal
duties through many years.
Pontiac-Nineteen owners of lots
In Royal Oak Township have obtain
ed an injunction restraining. officials
Of Ferndale from taking their prop
erty for park. They claim the vii
lage condemned the property in a suit
which they were not included among
the defendants.
TVS general fund became exhausted,
scores of court building employees
were forced to wait for their semi
monthly pay checks until members Of
the finance committee could be as.
sembled to approve Of $4,000 trans
ferA to the fund.
Albion-Mrs. Catherine I. Cool, Of
this city, was found dead in her home
with the gas Jet in her room wide
open. The woman, who was 81 years
old, was dressed in her best clothes
when found Pinned on the wall was
a note requesting that she be given
a private funeral and naming a list
Of seven people whom she wished to
attend 1t.
Lansing-The oil painting of Cover.
nor Albert E. Sleeper, which will be
presented to the state when the pres
ent executive retires, is completed
and will be framed within few
days. Murray Mckay, the artist, was
born and spent part of his boyhood
days in the Thumb district, the home
Of Governor Sleeper The portrait il
said to cost about $4,000.
Kalamazoo-A bitter denunciation
OF army red tape as the chief OBJ
stacle he encountered during the war
In improving the hygienic conditions
In American military encampments,
was voiced by DR.. Victor Vaughn, of
Ann Arbor, in an address before the
Kalamazoo Academy OF Medicine.
Segregation of diseased persons and
steps he urged to curb influenza,
were rejected. he said. because of red
tape.
Flint-An order was made by Cir
cult Judge Fred w. Brennan for the
disbarment OF Judge Albert l.. Widis,
of the Twenty-third judicial circuit.
The order resulted from petition
filed a year ago by Assistant Attor-
ney General G. E. Converse, asking
that Judge Widdis be prohibited from