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

from burns received while extinguish.
ing fire in a playhouse The lads
clothing was nearly burned from his
body.
Houghton-Roy Chynoweth, station
electrician here for the Houghton
Electric Light Co.. was killed when
he came in contact with wire carry
ing $4,000 volts.
Battle Creek-Except for Lieut..
Canfield all soldiers removed from
Camp Custer going to Columbus bar
racks, Ohio. There are 800 men here.
Canfeld remains to check camp
equipment.
Holland The Michigan State
Christian Endeavor convention at
its closing session here adopted
resolution calling on Congress to take
action to put stop to Turkish afro
cities in Armenia.
Ypsilanti-C. p. Steimle, secretary
of the State Normal college, stated
that 2,027 students were enrolled for
est enrolment in the history of the
school, The previous highest enroll
ment was 1888 students.
ST. Johns-F. A. Reinhart, of Dun
dee, Mich, the monkey man and
human fly who gives exhibitions or
climbing the sides of buildings, fell
two stories from the Carten building
here, but was saved from serious in
jury by landing on an awning.
Mt. Pleasant-Peter F. Dcdds, form
er judge of the Twenty-fourth judicial
circuit, died in Spokane, Wash. He
held the judgeship in the circuit
"a years, retiring four years ago. lie
leaves a widow and son, Fabian y.
Dodds, an attorney in Spokane.
Grand Rapids-National secretaries
Of six religious denominations will
conduct a Sunday School institute in
Grand Rapids next fall under the
auspices of the Kent county Sunday
School association. The institute will
open October 3. continuing for five
days.
Lansing-Mrs. Edwin Grove, OF
Lansing, was killed and three others
were injured, one perhaps fatally
when an automobile driven by Edwin
Grove overturned in ditch near
here. The injured were Grove, and
Mr.. and Mrs. Stephen Dunning, all of
Lansing.
Algonac-Blame for the accident,
in which Ralph Blauvelt was killed
several weeks ago when his truck was
struck by a Michigan Rapid railway
car, was placed on the motorman by
a coroner's jury. Blauvelt was back
ing his truck across the tracks when
the car rammed into him.
Pontiac - Settlement has been
reached in dispute lasting several
months between city and county as to
payment Of delinquent taxes on city
property. A check for s2,124 has been
given the city treasurer, which in
cliuded an auditing fee Of $500 spent
by the city to determine what was
due.
Kalamazoo Governor Groesbeck
and Attorney General Wiley have
given their official approval to the
new proposed charter for the city
of Kalamazoo, which has just been
drafted by a charter commission in
this city. Kalamazoo will vote upon
this new charter on October at
a special election.
Kalamazoo-In an effort to impress
upon its members the responsibilities
and privileges of citizenship, the
Kalamazoo Rotary Club has set up
a permanent rule in regard to vot-
ing. The rule imposes a penalty of
81 upon every member who fails to
vote at any city, county, state, ma
tional or school election.
Pontiac. D. McElderry, 38, died
here OF heart disease while a doctor
was engaged in removing his tonsils.
The physician had removed the first
tonsil and started to work on the
second when it was discovered that
McElderry was dead. Mrs. Noel
derry, became hysterical when told
of his death. She had been waiting
in the anteroom during the operation.
Flint-With elections of officers, the
Michigan G. A. X. and affiliated organ
izations closed the Add annual en-
campment. officers elected by the
G.. A. r. were: Department comman-
der. John j. Holmes, Eaton Rapids:
senior vice commander, j. A. Jen-
nings, Flint; junior vice commander,
George A. Freeman. Detroit; depart
ment medical director, DR.. Robert lie
Baron, Detroit; chaplain, Rev. Horace
Palmer, Adrian.
FIint.-August Clifford, 81, is jailed,
charged with assault with intent to
kill his landlady, Elizabeth White. 1t
is alleged Clifford attacked Mrs.
White, because she refused to band
age his foot, which, he claims, was
niurad nv a bullet The woman ran