Charlevoix county herald., 1921-04-01

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lage manager.
Coldwater The Hoosier Shoe Co.
and the Wolverine Portland Cement
Co. have reopened their plants and arc
running with full force.
Petoskey.-Boyne Falls suffered a
loss of $4,000 when firs destroyed the
hardware and implement stores of
Grosbaski Bros, and the grocery and
market of Grosbaski & Co.
Holland. - A straw vote will be
taken at the April election on the pro-
posal to build a municipal gas plant.
At the recent election the electors
voted down a proposition to buy the
plant here.
Port Huron-Mrs. Myrtle Woodruff
received a judgment for $4,000 in cir
cult court against Evelyn Springborn
of Marine City for alienation of the
affections of her husband, DR.. Royden
A. Woodruff
Baldwin.-Ray Trucks former prose
cutting attorney of Lake, county. has
been appointed by Governor Groes-
beck as probate judge to fill the vacan-
cy caused ~ the death OF Judge
Bryant j. Russell
Charlotte-Palley Sexton, IS years
old, the third of a gang of alleged
automobile thieves who operated in
Eaton and Ingham Counties, has been
brought to the county jail He was
arrested in Pontiac.
Notwithstanding Bros, of Chica-
go, are suing the board of education
for $7,440 which they say represents
the amount of a certified check sent
with a bid for the construction OF a
school building here.
Muskegon-City Manager Ellison
announces that work will be started
on improvements in Muskegon at
once giving employment to several
hundred men. The city plans nearly
81 ,000,0 900 in street improvements this
year.
Saginaw. - Rev. George Emerson
Barnes, pastor of the First Presby.
terrain church at Flint, and head OF
the Rotary club there, unanimously
was chosen by the Ninth District Ro
tary convention, in session here, as its
nominee for district governor
Kalamazoo-VirgilL Let's, an athlete
who does the dashes in amateur track
meets, was beaten in a foot race with
Joseph Milbeck, patrolman, who ar
rested him on a charge of stealing
coal Milbeck caught Let's in spite
of the handicap of heavy uniform.
Pontiac.-Through the efforts of the
Pontiac post, American Legion, two
former service men. convicted here of
attacking police officers last fall and
sentenced to Jackson prison, have
been released under parole. They are
Leo Majewski and Leroy Eisenhardt.
Onaway.-Contracts have been let
by the state park commission for the
erection of two bath houses, and for
the remodeling of hunting lodge for
the caretaker's dwelling on the 1872
acre state park site that the residents
of Onaway purchased and donated to
the state for park purposes.
Albion.-One man, Paul Particle, a
Polish molder, four gallons OF raisin
whisky, several parts of stills and a
large quantity of raisin mash fell into
the hands of the police when several
houses in the foreign settlement were
raided. Particle was bound over to
the circuit court under bond of $500.
Iron Mountain The Chicago &
Northwestern railroad has obtained
permission from the interstate COM
merce commission to issue $15,000,0 900
of Is year 6 IL per cent gold-secured
mortgages, maturing March l, 1885.
The money is to be used for the re-
tirement of bonuses to fall due soon.
Wakefield--County and city author
tiles are searching fer Mike Mulivich
who is alleged to have slashed his
wife across the throat with an axe and
beat her over the head, face and
shoulders with piece of stove wood.
Mrs. Mulivich may live, say physi-
clans, unless blood poisoning sets in.
Holland.-Orrie Brusse was arrested
for speeding an automobile while in
toxicated. He came up for trial in
the court of his uncle Peter Brusse.
Nephew Brusse pleaded guilty and
begged for mercy. Uncle Peter, how
ever, surveyed him with cold eye.
Fifty dollars" quoth he, "or 80 days
in the county jail" Orrie paid.
Grand Rapids.-Charging repeated
promises of marriage were forgotten
after her friendship had been bought
by increased wages and more pleasant
work, Selma Urban, 23-year-old en-
ploye of the American Seating Co.,
has brought suit for $4,000 damages
in circuit court against William
Dauser, superintendent of the steel
department of the company.
Ludington-A solid train of AZ cars
of -four from across the lake, destined
for Hamburg, Germany, was received
by the Pere Marquette railway here
and delivered to the Lehigh Valley at
Ruffalo for the seaboard last week.