The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1921-03-03
| STATE NEWS

jerome, Oh Hlllsdale, has accepted a
call to the Episcopal church here.
Crystal Stockholders of the
Iron County National bank voted to
raise its capital stock from $4,000 to
100000
Adrian.-Raids are to start in Lena
wee County against slot machines,
punch boards and other minor gamb-
ling apparatus.
Observation-Disclosures j. Doyle, may
or of Menomipee. has been appointed
chairman of the Upper Peninsula
committee for relief work in Ireland.
Prescott-Henry Zoran speared a
24-pound pike. three feet, 10 inches
long, which, he claims. is the largest
caught in this section for many years.
Bay City. Judges Nelson Sharpe
and G. M. Clark, Of the State Supreme
bench. were guests of honor at the an
nual banquet of the Bay County Ba!
association.
Battle Creek.--The city commission
has turned down the proposed sewer
bond issue Of 100000 after deciding
on policy of curtailing sewer con-
struction for year.
Mancelona.-The sawmill If the An.
trim Co., the daily capacity of which
is $4,000 feet is being electrified, max
ing 1t the first in the state to be OPP
Grated by electricity.
Lansing-The industrial School for
Boys is under quarantine for scarlet
fever. The cases OF scarlet fever are
80 light as to be considered hardly
more than scarletina.
Coldwater. - Fred G. Barber, mill,
and food inspector, has notified all
milk dealers in this vicinity that they
must abandon the use Of milk bottles
not OF standard size.
Big Rapids.-Because bandits and
robbers have apparently refused to
work at night, w. o. Sprague, for
years night Waterman in this city, has
been transferred to day duty.
Grand Rapids.-Col w. Il. McGurrin
has announced that the quarantine
at the Michigan Soldiers Home has
been lifted. The home was quarantin.
ed after several cases of smallpox
were discovered.
Flint. - Jack Longkus, whom the
police claim was wearing a pair of
shoes stolen from Pere Marquette
freight cars here, rs under arrest 1t
was said that large supply of goods
stolen from the freight yards have
been recovered
Crystal Falls-Incorporation papers
of the Michigan Iron. Land & Lumber
Co., organized by Henry Ford to de.
velop his Upper Peninsula iron and
timber lands, have been filed with the
county clerk of Iron County. The com.
pany is Incorporated for $1,000o00
Saglnaw.-Charles Strunjak, 81, was
instantly killed when his motorcycle
went into ditch at sharp curve in
the road near Merrill, this county. His
neck was broken. George Pintarich,
Breckenridge, riding in the sidecar of
Strunjak's machine, escaped with a
few bruises.
Ann Arbor. - Mrs. William Henry
Waite, of the Daughters of the Amer!-
can Revolution, OF Ann Arbor, has
been awarded the silver medal of THE
Reconnaissance Francais." by the
French government for meritorious
service during Che war. a dispatch
from Paris said.
Kalamazoo-The death of Miles
Dewey, 80 years old. prominent Hick.
DRY Corners farmer, whose body was
found by an int: urban crew along
the right of way of the Camp Custer.
Montieth Junction line hear Yorkville
is puzzling officers. There were no
marks of violence.
Albion-Dr. Delos Fall, former state
superintendent of public instruction
and at one time dean of Albion Col.
lege, died at Brandentown, Fla, after
short illness Of pleuro-pneumonia
EDr. Fall took an important part in the
framing of the educational chapters
of the Michigan law as written in
1907.
Mt. ns.-Incorporation OF Half.
way, midway between Detroit and Mt.
Clemens, as a village under the name
of East Detroit" or "Clairview" was
emphatically urged at a meeting at
which sthe Hallway Commercial was
organized Halfway will vote on in
corporation 1T the same time in May
as do Center Line and Roseville, also
on the route from Detroit to Mt. |
Clemens.
Port Huron - Electors of Port
Huron will vote April on the pro-
posed fare boost from five to 1O-cents
asked by the City Electric Railway |
Co. The present franchise OF the rail
way does not expire fos eight years !
President Frank w Brooks OF the De /
troit United lines. writes that unless
immediate action to increase fares is /
taken the company will take steps to /
discontinue its service.
Bay City.-Arthur Hartwiek, 16, of \