The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1921-03-17

tioh iSSS IMAM tHTee Weeks away tueT
are no candidates for mayor.
Flint-Dismissa Of three detective
and patrolman for conduct unbecom
ing officers was announced by the pc
lice commission.
Ludington. = The body OF Emor!
Christensen, 26 years DID, drowned
last October while trying to cross Per'
Marquette Lake in canoe, was founC
on the beach at Buttersville.
Frankfort-The Point Betsie coast
guard station has been reopened after
being closed three months. Capt. A
VESSEL is in charge. The Frankfort
station has been open all winter.
Pontiac.-G. l.. Jenner, superinten
dent OF schools, says he will put in
effect next September a system where
by children may be graded according
to their intellects rather than accord
ing to their age.
Muskegon.-A balance of more than
$4,000 in the Muskegon War Chest
will be the nucleus of a memorial to
soldiers of the World War. War Chest
members have authorized this disposi.
ton of the fund.
Newago.-George w. Shepherd. for
16 years county clerk, has been asked
by the board of supervisors to resign
for alleged neglect OF duty. He has
refused. The board presented the case
to Gov. Groesbeck.
Petoskey.-Wilson Maxim and David
Wills are dead and Maxin's son, Ty,
is critically injured as the result of a
collision between their automobile and
Grand Rapids & Indiana railroad
train near Kegomic.
Albion-The city council has order
ed materials for all sewers, water
mains, sidewalks and similar improve
ments to be delivered at once that
the work may be started at the earli-
est possible moment.
Cadillac.-Several pupils were in
jured, two girls seriously, when plas-
ter fell from the ceiling of the eighth
grade room in high school building.
Girls badly hurt are: Gladys Bennin-
ger and Bertha Brehm.
Ann Arbor.-That Ann Arbor will
be the site for the Federal hospital
for soldiers which is to be located in
the Great Lakes region" was the
prediction of Col. Guy NJ Wilson, pres
ident of the state department of the
American Legion.
Kalamazoo-When officers went to
the home of Wincenty Niedzweicki, a
Comstock township farmer, and locat-
ed a still, they could not find the
cover to the metal tank. 1t was dis
covered in the babys cradle. where
1t had been hidden.
Ferndale-William Simpson has an
nounced that he will be candidate
for the presidency Of the village to re-
place the commissioners who have
been removed from office. 1t is prob
able all of the commissioners recall
ed will be candidates.
Owosso-Mayor A. T. Wright says
he will ask passage of an ordinance
requiring that all cows from which
milk is sold be tested for tuberculosis.
Protests are being made against a
ordinance prohibiting the
sale Of unpasteurized milk.
Ionia.-Three more members of the
staff at the Michigan Reformatory
here have resigned. James Collins,
of mails; Cyrus Men
denhall, chaplain, and Guy Conner, in
farmer, are the latest to quit.
Collins and Mendenhall have held
office 81 years.
Ann Arbor.-The trial Of Harry Sit
xo, a Detroit university medical stu
dent, and Harry Harper, barber, on
the charge of murder in the second
degree has been set for the last of
March in the circuit court here. 1t is
they caused the death Of
Ethel Mcclure, Traverse City nurse.
Muskegon-The Muskegon Traction
and Lighting Co. has petitioned the
state Public Utilities Commission to
nave jitney bus competition in Mus
xegon eliminated. contending that the
street cars or buses must go. The
says with buses eliminated
t could reduce the 1O-cent fare to
cents.
Ann Arbor-Seven graduates and
,ne undergraduate Of the University
If Michigan department of agriculture
rave been honored by the first pan
American Congress Of Architects In
session at Montevideo, Uruguay, ac-
,ording to word received here. A. B.
Berg received a gold medal for the
lesign of a cathedral.
Pontiac.-Warren Banfield, IL years
I'D, who accidentally wounded his
brother Claire, g. and then shot again
Ind killed him, Ito put him out of his
Misery" was taken to the State Psy-
,hopathic Hospital at Ann Arbor on
/ Probate Court order. He will be
here for 35 days for observation Ply
'icians who examined him here said
hey found him normal