Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1920-12-24


ed president OF the Emmett county
fair, to be held the week of Sept. 6.
1921.
Gladstone-A shoe factory to en-
ploy 20 to 80 men will be established,
$4,000 of the capital being subscrib-
ed here.
Marshall-Calhoun County farmers
in session here formed Calhoun
Marketing Association to distribute
farm products.
Iron Mountain-The 100000 saw
mill of the Michigan Iron Land &
Lumber Co. will be ready for opera
ton by May /, 1921.
Kalamazoo--Mrs Melissa Brunk OBJ
tanned a divorce because her husband,
Clarence Brunk, she testified, spent
most of his married life in jail.
Lansing-The Michigan Allied
Dairy Association announced that its
annual convention will be held In
Grand Rapids Feb. Is. 16 and II.
Holland-Mrs. Robert S. Close drop
ped dead when she went to the rescue
of her husband who was pinned under
falling timbers when a storm porch
collapsed.
Adrian-The Continental Sugar Co.,
of Blissfield, is holding 100000
pounds of sugar in its warehouses, be-
cause there is practically no market,
1t announces.
Ludington-At special meeting OF
the board of education 1t was voted
to submit to the voters proposition
to bond the district for a new high
school building.
Iron Mountain-Oficers are invest
igating the killing of John Sakel in
the woods near here. A companion
told the officers Sakel accidently shot
himself when he slipped on the ice.
Mason-John Marshall, rural mail
carrier In Ingham County for Fl years
and said to have travelled a distance
equal to seven and half times around
the world while delivering mail, died
here. He was 76 years old.
Big Rapids-Their home destroyed
by fire, the family Of Milo Gingrich,
Sheridan Township supervisor, is liv.
Ing in chicken coop, recently built.
Township records kept by Mr.. Cling
rich were destroyed in the fire.
Bay City-Northern Michigan farm
ers are being paid As and so cents
bushel for potatoes which are being
sold in most cities for from $1.25 to
$3.50 and a further drop in the price
paid to the producers is expected.
Muskegon-Mayor Paul r. Beard
sley has received a letter threatening
his life because, the letter says, jit-
ney bus owners in the city have not
been given a square DEAL" The let
ter has been turned over to the police.
F1int-Fined 500 in police court for
driving an automobile while intoxicat
ed, R. A. Pincombe appealed to the
Circuit Court, where he was sentenc-
ed to serve 80 days in the Detroit
House of Correction without the op-
ton Of fine.
Lansing Walter French
Of this city has been appointed deputy
instructor general of the Grand Com
mandery of knight Templars of Mich
lgan. Professor French succeeds
Fred Aldrich, who becomes attached
to the advisory staff of the grand
commandery.
Kalamazoo-Because keg OF wine
was placed in a hall in Kala-
iro eli IF
room, Mrs Anna Kreling was found
guilty of violation of the prohibition
law. The prosecution held there
would have been no violation had the
keg been in the room.
Battle Creek-This city, which has
had a commission form Of government
for eight years, may return to the old
system of government by mayor and
common council. A petition is being
circulated, asking that the old system
be restored and declaring that the
present plan has failed.
Detroit-Horace E. Dodge, wealthy
automobile manufacturer of this city,
died suddenly at his winter home at
Palm Beach, Fla, after a lingering
illness. Mr.. Dodge, with a brother
who died last January, formed the
Dodge Bros. corporation and manu-
featured a car of that name.
Pontiac - The General Motors
Truck plant, which closed Nov. 13, has
resumed operations with a schedule
of 400 cars for December. Trucks are
being disposed OF at a rate of so per
cent Of normal, says w. L. Day, gen.
eral manager. and a shortage of
trucks, forcing large operations, may
be looked for.
Monroe-Game Warden Ireland
was ordered in court to return to the
Offices of Attorney Miligan, Of Detroit,
the shotgun taken by him from Thorn
as A. Fuller, Ethel Dix and six others
while they were hunting in the marsh
es near Monroe, October 80, claiming
they were hunting after sunset. He
did not arrest the party, merely con-
fscating the guns.
Grand Rapids-A Grand Rapids
conscientious thief has convinced Ste
phen Nowak of the value of banks
The burglar stole $1,000 hidden in