The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1921-02-10

Observation-Disclosures here will vote
on April on the question of abolish.
ing the city commission.
Cadillac-Several hundred Northern
Baptists OF Michigan will meet here
in series of missionary conferences
Feb 21-22
Alpha-John Deyman and John So.
colucci, while racing to cross the
tracks ahead of a train, were struck
and killed instantly.
Kalamazoo - Kalamazoo building
contractors are asking tax exemption
for 10 years on all new houses in
Michigan costing up to $4,000.
Manistee = Joseph Broadhead, 20,
founder and head of the Manistee
Saw works, which supplied all the 10.
cal lumber mills during the height OF
industry, died suddenly.
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.
Escanaba-It is announced that the
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 srcinC term. owing TO
poor attendance, the county super
visors decided.
Flint-William Running, the nth
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 GO days.
The first reduction was 20 per cent.
Ann 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 SUBJ
stituted.
Pontiac-Demanding money and
valuables, a burglar entered the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Everett Gherke here,
but when tolj the couple worked for
their living, said he was sorry he en-
tered the home and left without mo-
Testing anything.
Port Huron-John Hammond of Sar-
MIA was arrested by customs officials
while wheeling a baby cab from
ferry boat. In the cab on which the
baby was resting was quilt contain
ing IL pockets, in each of which re-
posed bottle Of liquor.
Grand Rapids-Loui5 Stedman, 'po-
liceman of Lookout park" was SEN
fenced by Judge NJ. l.. Durham In SUI
perior court to life Imprisonment at
Marquette for having attacked girl
in the park. Her escort was knocked
down a long fight of stairs.
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
nervous 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 It's neck
and the gunshot wound was not dis
covered unit, 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
in 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
out a recall The petitions will be
dismissed by Judge Stockwell. Simp-
son has not yet indicated whether cor.
rected petitions will filed.
Battle Creek-A lone patrolman
saw something move within Kellogg's
meat market and notified Chief Day,
who came in person with another Off
Ger. From the shadows they saw the
same thing the patrolman had, so tele-
phoned for more officers. and sent a.
nolica car for the proprietOr Mean