Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1921-06-03

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struck the building during severe
electrical storm. Damage is $4,000.
Ann Arbor-Dr. John Dieterle, for
many years member of the German
teaching staff of the University OF
Michigan, died at his summer home
at Whitmore Lake, following a long
illness.
Marek-Miscauno island, in the
Menominee river, has been taken over
by an association of Chicago business
men to be used as a country club. 1t
was the property of the Wisconsin &
Michigan lumbermen.
Bay City-Frank Gielda, Sc, Beaver
township farmer, committed suicide by
hanging himself in his barn. Trouble
with neighbors is said to have made
him respondent. He leaves a wife
and large family of children.
Pontiac - Mrs. Lorena Beebe, OF
Orion, celebrated her 106th birthday
anniversary, at the home Of her daugh.
ter, Mrs. William Shoemaker. She
was born in 1915 in Monroe county,
N. Y, and came to Michigan in 1S45.
Pontiac-Ray King of Highland
Park, former village attorney OF
Ferndale, has sued the village for $12,.
900 for alleged breach of contract, In
Circuit Court here. King was deposed
May 16 by the new village commits
sion.
Sault Ste. Marie-Police and sher-
ifs departments are investigating the
drowning of James Perry, an employe
of the 500 Towing Co. Perry's body
was found floating in st. Mary's river.
1t is feared he was assaulted and
thrown into the river.
Flint-George Sutherland, deputy
game warden of Greenville, waived
examination to the Circuit Court when
arraigned on charge of illegally trans
porting liquor. He was held in $500
bail The police say they found %
quarts of liquor in his automobile.
Battle Creek-Chief of Police Ralph
Day and Patrolman Fred Holdings
worth were found not guilty by cir
cult court jury in a $4,000 damage
suit brought by Mrs. Lucille Murrin-
ger She alleged assault and battery,
false arrest and false imprisonment.
Standish-A state school for hunt
ers and trappers is conducted at Burg
land by the U. S. biological survey.
Deputy game wardens, hunters, and
fishermen attend for instruction. They
are put through a rigid test. The ex-
termination of obnoxious animals is
taught.
Pontiac-Because, it is alleged, the
sinking of wells for the purpose OF
tapping a water supply for the village
of Birmingham has caused other arte-
sian wells in the vicinity to cease flow
ing, five farmers have filed claims for
damages amounting to $4,000 with
the village.
Sault Ste. Marie-The body Of a
woman believed to be that Of Mrs.
Florence Peterson of Buffalo, who
sank with the barge Miztec was found
by an Indian on the shore of Maple
island in Canadian waters. Maple
Island is directly east of the scene of
the wreck.
Kalamazoo - Four $1,000 Liberty
bonds belonging to Edward Codde, Of
Augusta, which were stolen when the
state bank at Augusta was robbed in
September, 1919, are now in the hands
Of the federal treasury department at
Washington, the Augusta bank has
been advised.
Saginaw-Theodore Kasper, former
Carrollton township treasurer, who
was brought back from Seattle on a
eight children and clipping with an
other woman, pleaded guilty and was
sentenced to serve 10 years in the
Jackson State Prison.
Flint - Mayor e. w. Atwood and
City Clerk King have been authorized
by the common council to enter into
a contract with F. H. Alfred, president
of the Pere Marquette, for the con-
struction of an eight-mile belt line
through the new Industrial district on
the east side of Flint,
Pontiac-Three st. Louis youths, ar.
raigned on charges of breaking into
the Heinz pickle factory at Holly, told
Judge Covert hunger drove them to
it. The court withheld sentence until
he can investigate. The boys gave
their names as Mike Karfick, Martin
Dormondy and Joe Chromoga.
Kalamazoo-Studen and teachers
at the Western State Normal School
are raising fund to erect memorial
in honor of Miss Fanny Ballou, in
structor who was killed in the train
wreck at Porter, Ind, three months
ago. The memorial will be erected on
the campus and will cost about $4,000
Paw Paw-Judge L. B. Des Voignes
has dismissed the case against Mrs
Sarah l. Tabor, accused of manslaught
er in connection with the death of her
daughter, Maude Tabor Virgo, whose