The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1921-07-21

| or Harsens Island has elected Mrs
Peter Lacroix. president.
Mason-The state game preserve
here has received two fawns, cap
tured at Sault Ste. Marie by Game
Warden Allen Warren.
Lansing-The soap manufacturing
plant at Michigan Reformatory at
Ionia has been temporarily closed.
1t is probable that 1t will operate
again within few weeks.
Grand Rapids-Four street car
tickets for 25 cents, II for 81 and
10-cent cash fare will probably be
incorporated In the new franchise OF
the Grand Rapids Railway Co.
MISUNDERSTANDING water plant
election was called off by the city
council because the legislatures in
advertent repeal of the Ramsey act
made it impossible to go on with it.
Muskegon-More than 600 boys,
most of them from Chicago high
schools, are participating in Camp
Roosevelt's first training period here,
under direction of Captain Hutchins.
Otsego-Home sickness led to the
re-arrest of Harry Smith, who as
capped six weeks ago from the Allegan
County jail Officers arrested him
when he returned to this village for
visit with his parents.
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conventions in the country will be
held in Flint, when the Michigan
Good Roads association meets here
August 80, 81 and September /, with
1900 delegates in attendance.
Kalamazoo-Frank c. Anderson, ar
rested here following an attempt to
cash a $4,000 check was to be taken
back to Toledo on a charge of having
swindled bank in that city. Detroit
police waived their claim on him.
Adrian-Eveline Hawkins, 8 years
old, daughter of William Hawkins of
this city, died at local hospital as
the result of burns received when her
clothing caught fire while she was
playing with matches with some play
mates.
Muskegon-Postal officials have re-
covered only $4,000 of the $4,000
stolen from a mail pouch at the
Grand Haven Postoffice last April by
Benjamin Bergman, the janitor. Off,
Gals believe Bergman hid most Of the
money.
Flint-An injunction restraining jit-
ney buses from operating on streets
traversed by street car lines, contrary
to the provision Of a new city cr-
dinance, was granted by Judge F. w.
Brennan in Circuit Court on appli-
cation Of the city.
Lansing-The State of Michigan
has been enriched for $1,268,283.6S
as receipts from the motor vehicle
tax for quarter ending June 80, 1921,
according to a report submitted to
o. B. Fuller, auditor general, by the
automobile division.
Muskegon-Mrs. Sarah McVeigh,
police matron, has appealed to Mus
kegon women to discontinue the
wearing of bathing suits while shop
ping. Women recently have appear
ed on the streets and aslo in some of
the downtown stores clad in bathing
costumes.
Port Huron-Mayor John V.
French has asked that 100 swimmers
volunteer their services to instruct
beginners on the various beaches.
The educational campaign in swim
ming is the result of a recent drown
ing accident in which two young peo-
pie lost their lives when but a few
feet from safety.
Muskegon-An Oriental "punkah"
has been installed by the Rev. Geo.
r. Critchett, pastor of the Muskegon
Heights Methodist Episcopal church,
for keeping his congregation cool
during the heat. 1t consists of
sheet of canvas suspended on a
frame and moved up and down by
means Of a rope and pulley.
Kalamazoo-Alex. Porkowsky and
his entire family were arrested on a
street car after an officer accidentally
brushed against their picnic basket
and found that it contained liquor.
During a search of their home so
gallons of mash was found buried
under a back porch, and a gallon of
liquor was located in a pair of boots
hidden in one of the closets.
Orion-The main street of Orion
will become runway of pleasure July
30, when carnival will be staged
here by the Eastern Star Masonic
Lodge, according to John b. Downey,
a member of the committee in charge.
Plans are being made to accommo-
date $4,000 visitors. A number of
features have been booked
as part of the program, Mr.. Downey
says.
Dowagiac-Citizens in the annual
school district election here, voiced
sentiment against a $350,000 new