The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1921-03-31

IN THIS city from >. Z. l.. Brown.
Ann Arbor-Oswald Dietz. charged
with selling patent medicines con-
tanning 60 per cent alcohol has been
bound out over to Circuit Court.
owosso-E. J. Whitman. superin-
tendent of schools at Gladstone, has
been named superintendent Of the
Owosso schools to succeed o. H..
Voelker.
Flint - Morris Hill. Elm Crest.
Grand Boulevard and Lyncroft, four
adjoining communities five miles
north of Flint. are considering in
corporation as village.
Eaton Rapids-Olin Moore, gradu-
ate OF Albion college and an instruc-
tor in the boys military school at
Howe, Ind, has been procured as
superintendent of city schools for
next year.
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.
Muskegon-Judge Davis, of Ionia,
has set aside two deeds to the home
stead Of the late John Torrent and
given the property to the widow. The
home is valued at $4,000. The wild
ow charged the two deeds frauds.
Flint 49, George Silva, who several
days ago pleaded guilty in circuit
court to h charge of burglary after
confessing to officers he had robbed
a number OF Flint homes, was SEN
fenced to five to 10 years at Jackson
prison.
Sault Ste. Marie-The body of
Charles Koski. 81, farmer, was found
in o field near here following one of
the heaviest electrical and rain storms
ever known here. His face was burn
ed, showing he had been struck by
lightning.
Grand Rapids.-City Commissioner
Julius Tisch has asked the city com
mission to direct that the curfew
whistle shau be blown at one hour
intervals ON election day to remind
voters to visit the oils. Tisch is a
candidate for reelection.
Flint-With infantry and machine
gun company rosters completed, Flint
National Guard officials have opened
q recruiting drive for battery OF
artillery. There is 100000 appropri-
alton bill before the Legislature to
provide an armory for the three units.
Port Huron-Port Huron police are
puzzled at the activities of a man
now known as the Saturday Night
Bandit" who stages holdups in out
lying grocery stores at about the
same hour every Saturday night. The
bandit uses a mask and large re-
volver.
Kalamazoo.-The Administrative of
the estate OF Sylvanus Mohney de-
ceased, has brought suit IN circuit
court against the Chicago, Kalamazoo
and Saginaw railroad, demanding $780,
900 damages. Several months ago
Mohney, a road employe was crushed
by freight car.
Muskegon-A breakwater extending
across the end of the Muskegon piers
will be constructed next summer, ac-
cording to word received from Wash
ington. The sinking of the City of
Muskegon, which cost the lives of 2S
persons, is said to have stirred
Congress to action.
Lansing.-A meeting of the State
Christian Calling Conference, which
aims to help men who plan to enter
their calling, has been set for April
1916 in this city. DR.. A. j. Studer,
general Y. M. G.. A. secretary Of De.
troit, will be one of the speakers.
Holland-Sixty days at hard labor
and fine of $25 were imposed by
Justice Brady on George Opperman,
charged with putting the stencil gland
of skunk in the fresh air shaft of
NO. ID SChOOl
classmates, however, hail him as
hero. School was suspended for a
week.
Ypsilanti-Henry J. Pinckney, so,
Civil war veteran, died at his home
here. He was captain of Company
/, Third Michigan cavalry which was
formed at Whittemore Lake at. the
beginning of the Civil war. The vii
lage of Pinckney was named after his
grandfather, Joseph Pinckney. Five
children survive.
East Lansing. - EARLY History OF
Michigan" will be the theme of the
annual pageant to be given at NJ. A.
c. in June. The scenes will show the
ceremonials of the Indians, the Jesuit
establishing the first set.
French court dancers of the
century and the discovery
of the site of Detroit.