The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1922-03-30
STATE NEWS


Marshall-The annual report OF
City Clerk Lee c. Sherman shows SILL
655 on hand at close of municipal fis-
cal year out of total revenue of $685.
GIT.
Kalamazoo-A complete survey to
determine the cost of acquiring the
present gas plant or Of erecting a new
one has been authorized by the city
commission.
Big Rapids-President w. N. Ferris,
who attended the semi-annual Ferris
Institute club banquet at Ann Arbor,
was presented with a panel painting
OF Abraham Lincoln.
Ann Arbor-Mrs. Charles Sink will
contest her husbands suit for divorce.
filed against her. Mr.. Sink is state
senator and secretary of the Univer-
sity School of Music.
Kalamazoo-The Michigan Associa-
tion of Ice Industries, comprising
dealers from all over the state, will
convene in Kalamazoo April and 6,
for its annual meeting.
Monroe-Mike Miller, "a, Serbian
paper mill worker, died at st. Vim
cents hospital, Toledo, as the result
of bullet wounds from a revolver al
legged to have been fired by Cass Coch-
ran, %.
Alpena-Rev. Clarence Miles Burk-
holder, for seven years pastor OF the
First Congregational church of Alpe-
ma, has resigned, effective April Is, to
accept a call to ST. Clair, Mich. He is
a writer of considerable note.
Kalamazoo-Mrs. E. X. McCarthy's
screams, when she discovered burg
lars in her dining room, as she re-
turned from an evening meeting
frightened the intruders, who left a
pile of silyerware and jewelry on the
floor.
Kalamazo o-KalamaZoo's milk
strike lasted only one day, being
called off after the Dairymen's Milk
Co. accepted the price of $3.50 a hun
dred weight, which was the demand
of the Southwestern Milk Producers
Association.
establishment of a state
park at Wamplers' Lake, Lenawee
county, was authorized by the state
administrative board on recommends
ton of the state conservation COM
mission. A tract of 80 acres was &C
quired for $4,000.
Owosso-Shiawasse county road
commission has issued notice to truck
drivers, that the law requiring that
drivers, to reduce loads by half dur
ing the time the frost is coming out
of the ground and the roads are soft,
will be enforced here.
Owosso-Frequent robberies on
farms in the northern part of Shia-
wassee County in the last two years
have been cleared by the arrest and
confessions of Clinton ]. Gould, 81;
Nelson Esseltine, %, and Everett
Smith, 3S, of Saginaw county, officers
say.
F1int-Peter Rizzo, 10 years old,
Maltese, admitted that music hath
charms, until he faced Judge Fred w.
Brennan, and pleaded guilty to steal
ing the mechanism of friends phon-
ograph, and 10 choice records. Peter
was sentenced to the Ionia reforma-
tory for three to five years.
Kalamazoo-Fo the first time in
nine years, Kalamazoo will be with
out public market this year IL the
recommendations of Clarence l.. Mil
Ter. city manager, are adopted by the
city commission. The recommends
lions are based on the claim that the
public has shown a lack of interest in
the enterprise.
alamazoo-Diedrich j. Schlobohm,
Justice Of the peace, who has SEN
fenced more than 200 automobile
drivers to pay fines for various in
fractions of the traffic code, headed
the list of Fl who were brought into
court on a charge of violating the mo-
tor regulations. He was fined 81 for
overtime parking.
Sturgis-S turgis' school tax-rate is
the lowest of any city of its size in the |
state. The tax for the past year was
s12.45 per $1,000 of assessed valua-
ton. The next lowest rate is that OF
Lapeer, 1884 per $1,000 Other cities,
the size OF this, have as high a rate
as $40 per $1,000. The board Of edu-
cation has accumulated enough funds
20 erect a new four-room building to
replace the two-room west ward build |
ing.
Grand Rapids-Harry Davis. 30
years old, New York travelling sales
man, has asked police to find a wo-
man, who he believes is en- route to |
Albany, ~ Y, and who, he charges, /
is responsible for destruction Of his
entire wardrobe. They met at a
dance, he says, and later the woman.
according to his story, followed him !
10 his room in a blackmail attempt /
He escaped, but left the woman there. |
When he returned, he found she had I
IL.