The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1921-11-17

Eaton Rapids - The Techekensit
Camp Fire Girls will hold white
Elephant" sale In rooms adjoining the
city library November 1926.
Lansing-Irma Petit, sentenced in
1916 to serve 10 to 20 years in the
Detroit House of Correction for kill
ing her common-law husband at Mt.
Clemens was paroled by Gov. Groes-
beck.
Saginaw-Congress J. w. Ford
ney, of Saginaw, head of the ways and
means committee of congress, headed
large party of local hunters north
to the deer territory in the upper PEN
insula.
Sturgis-Hobart Johnson. 81, is
missing from his home here and his
parents fear that some serious acct
dent may have befallen b m or that
he may have become mentally de-
ranged.
Sturgis This city's tax rate has
been reduced 1892 from last year by
the city commission. Under the com
mission form of government, the tax
rate has been reduced total of SO
per cent.
Ann Arbor - DR.. Levi Barbour OF
Detroit is in local santarium for an
indefinite rest. Dr. Barbour is for
mer regent Of the University of Michi-
gan. He has made many large gifts
to the university.
Port Huron-The new Gratiot con-
crete turnpike will be officially opened
Nov. %, from Marysville to Detroit. A
celebration is planned in which Port
Huron, Marysville, St. Clair and Ma
rine City will participate.
Grand Rapids-Through financial as.
sistance given by Mrs. Edward Lowe.
Butterworth hospitals out-patient de-
partment has been increased to care
for 80 persons daily. It's former capa-
city was limited to five or six.
Grand Rapids-The Rindge-Kalm-
mach-Logie Co.. shoe manufacturers,
have asked the appointment of the
Michigan Trust Co. as receiver, pre-
paratory to dissolution Of the COM
pany, which was organized in 1902.
Adrian-The next session Of the
Michigan legislature will be asked to
rename the Adrian-Toledo highway
now known as Michigan Trunk Line
No. 81. in honor of the late Will earle.
ton. Michigan Poet" who died in
1912.
Saginaw-Consolida of the Bell
and Valley Home Telephone systems,
eliminating duplication of service,
now under consideration by the State
Public Utilities Commission, has been
endorsed by the Saginaw Board of
Commerce.
Saginaw-Rev. FIR. James E. Rear
don, for the past two years assistant
pastor of st. Marys Catholic church.
has received word from Bishop E. ID.
Kelly that he has been named SUPER
intendent of hospitals for the Grand
Rapids diocese.
Muskegon-Charles L. Reed, White.
hall merchant, was arraigned In JUS
tice Court on charge of attempted
arson and demanded an examination.
Reed is charged with attempting to
burn house owned by him in White
hall on which he carried $4,000 insur
ance.
observation-disclosures entering w. II.
Van Auken's drygoods store at night,
fitted themselves out with clothing,
valued at $50, leaving their cast-off
garments. They also broke into the
billiard room of Wertz & Peterson and
helped themselves to lunch, cigar
cites and Canadian money.
Ann Arbor - Robert Magoles and
Sidney Lombarg, both of Detroit, were
arrested on a charge of rum-running
Eight cases of whisky we're confiscat
ed by Sheriff's officers. The men waiv-
ed examination and were bound over
to the December term of circuit court
under bail Of $4,000 each.
Saginaw - Mrs. Marie Szkowski,
Carrollton, for whom a warrant was
issued charging larceny. has left her
home leaving four small children to
provide for themselves, police report
Her husband. Tony Szkowski, is con
fined in the county jail on a charge OF
violating the prohibition law. The
woman took one child with her, the
police state.
Iron Mountain-A total of 98S,S05
tons of ore was mined at the various
mines in Dickinson County during the
season just closed. 1t was the smallest
tonnage in years, and was only 300,-
900 tons more than vas produced at
the Chaplin mine alone last season.
Only the mines of the Oliver Iron Min
ing Co., Penn Iron Mining Co., and the
Loretto Iron Co. were active, and
these for only part OF the year.
Pontiac-The Detroit United Rail.
way is defendant in a $4,000 damage
suit brought by Elsa Kurtz. of Pontiac,
and now being heard in Circuit Court
Kurtz, a salesman for the Michigan
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