Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1920-12-24
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Hillsdale-The Alamo Engine Co
has temporarily reduced its stan Of
employees from 800 to go men.
Eaton Rapids-The Eaton Rapids
Wooden mills. the principal industry
here, have closed down for an indef
mite period.
Port Huron-O. L. Cutler, OF Mus
kegon. has purchased several acres
of land west Of Port Huron and Will
start q $4,000 fox farm.
Ironwood-Robert Larson, 20, who
was shot by Police officer Jack Paul
In q holdup at the Hurley board OF
trade Is dead from the wound.
Ann Arbor-The Rev. F. w. Thrun
has resigned the pastorate Of the Scio
Church, which he held for nearly IL
years, to open a music store in this
city.
Ionia-This city was given second
place In the citizenship contest con
Quoted before the November election
by the National AUGMENTATION So.
ciety.
Flint-Capt. Thomas Colladay is
forming company of the National
Guard composed entirely of former
service men who saw service in the
front lines.
Grand Rapids-Operation of the
nrap1 DaniIu DoiIwov 10 IN a car
vice-at-cost plan is being considered
by City Manager Fred II. Locke and
other city officials.
Grand Rapids-To meet the increas-
ed demands for power, the Consumers
Power Co. will build one and: perhaps
two dams on the Manistee and Au-
Sable rivers next year.
Grand Rapids-Harold M. Barnes
has purchased 1000 acres near Clare,
Mich, and stocked it with 1000 sheep
in plan to develop the sheep raising
industry in that section.
Bay City-Leo Rozewski, Is years
old, Is in hospital with a bullet in
his lung, said to have been inflicted
by officers who were looking for car
thieves in the Pere Marquette yards.
Cadillac-The Great Lakes Way
Tourist Camps will undergo a change
OF name to the Indian Trail Camps.
There are several of these camps,
those in Northern Michigan being at
Cadillac and Traverse City.
Port Huron-A movement has been
started here to rush forward public
works to relieve the unemployment
situation, while the city commission
announces that lack of funds will
force a suspension Of municipal work.
Saginaw-Mayor Mercer will con-
Ter with f. E. Oxreider, transporta-
tion engineer Of the Packard Motor
Car company, with the view to in
vestigating possibilities of substitute
ing motor buses for the street rail-
way.
Muskegon-Maj.-G General Leonard
Wood, commander of the Central De-
partment of the Army, has conferred
at Camp Roosevelt, regarding plans
with Capt f. l.. Beals, commandment
for next summers Junior r. o. T. c.
camp.
Northumberland Scott, the only
Democrat elected in Ottawa County
in November, in statement declared
he was not prepared to fill the Office
of county surveyor, as he had never
had a surveyors INSTRUMENT in his
hands.
Kalamazoo-Jesse Baker, 80, de-
spondent over his inability to obtain
work and declaring that the world
had 1t in for him." killed himself by
swallowing poison. The suicide fol-
lowed a quarrel with his bride of
month.
Howard City-While the family of
William Schaub slept the wind storm
tore the roof from the farm house
and whirled II into the poultry house,
which was wrecked. Schaub was
awakened when bricks from the chin
ney fell into the attic.
Pontiac-The Oakland County as
sociation of past masters OF Masonic
bodies has been organized with p.
ID. Larson, of Pontiac, as president,
and DR.. Smead, Of Rochester, as Sec
rotary, to promote closer cooperation
between Masonic groups.
Big Rapids--With his lower jaw
shot away and his left hand mangled,
A B. Newton, of Grand Rapids, walk
ed a half mile from the woods to
road unaided after a hunting acct
dent near Stanwood. At the hospital
here his hand was amputated
Saginaw-Detroit police will be paid
the reward Of $500 offered by Saginaw
county for the arrest of Karl Weiner,
according to decision made by Sher-
IN Beach Baskin and Prosecuting At
torney r. L. Crane. Weiner Is one
OF the men implicated in the Franken-
muth bank robbery, october z.
Allegan-The statewide search for
Lille and Sylvia Warner, who disap-
peared 10 days ago, ended with the
announcement that the girls had been
located in Battle Creek The sisters
we're unaware that their absence haa
been brought to the attention of the
until they read in the pa
pers about a suspected elopement with
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