Charlevoix county herald., 1921-02-11
Michigan Nevs
Tersely Told

ployes have been reduced 20 per cent
by the council.
Kalamazoo-Electors here will vote
on April on the question of abolish
ing the city commission.
Grand Rapids-Grand Rapids will
have free camping park for automo-
bile tourists next summer.
Flint-A proposition to extend sew
ers in order to give work to the unem-
ployed will be voted on Feb. s.
Saginaw-Dewey Yancer, 26 years
old, bled to death after he had acct
dentally shot himself while hunting
near st. Charles.
assopolis-Attorney S. e. Cone. 30
years old, is near death as the result
of taking two 5-grain tablets of BIZ
chloride of mercury by mistake for
asperin to cure a headache.
Pontiac-John Baynard Post Amer
lean Legion, has been formed in Pom
tiac. The members are all colored
ex-service men. 1t is named after
Negro soldier who died in service.
Port Huron-Mrs. Eunice Howe.
wife of George w. Howe, a leader in
the Grand Army of the Republic, who
lived rs years in the house built by
her father here, is dead of old age.
STANDARDIZATION Brown, director
of schools in Bentley, west OF here, in
an advertisement for teachers, says
he will guarantee a diamond ring
and a man for all women teachers"
Kalamazoo-The public library has
received from Mrs. Dimoc, widow of
the late Gordon A. Dimoc, 500 vol
umes on equestrianism, some of which
were printed in the seventeenth CEN
fury.
new $1,000,000 dam of the Escanaba
Paper Co., in the Escanaba river, and
the enlargement of the mill to double
it's present capacity, will be completed
by March s.
Soo-The Dunbar School OF Com
merce and Domestic Science in Chip
pewa county will be abandoned at the
close of the spring term, owing to
poor attendance, the county super
visors decided.
Flint-William Running, the fifth
man arrested in connection with the
robbery of the Clio State bank Decem.
Der %, pleaded guilty in court and
was sentenced to from two and one
half to five years in Jackson prison.
Calumet-The Quincy Mining COM
pany put in effect 10 per cent re-
duction in wages and salaries OF all
Of it's employees This is the COM
pany's second wage cut in 60 days.
The first reduction was 25 per cent.
Ann Arbor-Saxophone music has
been prohibited at all dances at the
Michigan union by the union music
committee, and it is believed that 9th
er dance halls here will follow suit.
Stringed instruments are being sub
stituted
valuables, a burglar entered the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Everett Gherke here,
but when told the couple worked for
their living, said he was sorry he en-
tered the home and left without mo-
Testing anything.
Port Huron-Because of the wave Of
theft and crime, spreading throughout
this part OF the state, the city COM
mobiles will be allowed to park in
front of any bank in the city. The
action is taken as a step to minimize
the chance of bank thefts here.
Grand Rapids-The winter wheat
crop in Western Michigan is threat
ened with destruction because of cold
weather followed by frequent thaws
and lack OF snow, according to re-
ports received here. Farmers in
Kent, Montcalm, Mecosta, Muskegon
and Ottawa Counties say that damage
already has been done to the crop.
Reading-Dale, three-year-old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Lutjens, pros
porous farmers Of this county, was
shot through the heart by his five
year-old brother, Raymond, while the
parents were absent. The lad report
ed that his little brother had fallen
from his chair and broken its neck
and the gunshot wound was not dis
covered until the body was turned
over to the undertaken.
Pontiac-Judge OF Probate Ross
Stockwell has been advised by Merlin
Wiley, attorney-general. that the re-
call petitions filed against the village
commission of Ferndale by William
G.. Simpson and others are defective
I'm that they were drawn under the
Home Rule Act Of 1913, instead of
under the Amended Act of 1917, which
provides the machinery for carrying
cut a recall. The petitions will be
dismissed by Judge Stockwell. Simp-
son has not yet indicated whether cor
rected petitions will filed.
Lansing-Although 1853 more cases
of tuberculosis were reported in Mich
igan in 1920 than during 1919, the in
dications are that the number of