The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1922-02-16
STATE NEWS


reau at the annual meeting.
Bay City-Henry Eickemeyer, Ga,
we'll known hardware merchant died
at his home on Madison avenue, after
a lingering illness. lie was born in
Bay City and was an early pioneer.
Muskegon Heights-With the light
est city election held in 10 years, the
new Muskegon Heights charter was
adopted with a vote OF 1SS TO SO. The
new charter embodies practically ev-
cry feature of the present charter of
the city.
Lansing-Thefts of automobiles de-
creased 33 per cent last month, accord
ing to a report made by Charles j.
Deland, secretary OF state. There were
SO thefts of autos during January,
wherNs 131 were stolen in December,
according to the report.
Ann Arbor-Michigan was sixth of
all the states in the Union in the in
crease of electric light and power
users during 1921. figures just com
pleted by the National Electric Light
association and received by the public
utilities information bureau here show.
Ann Arbor-The trial of Peter Or
lando, Detroit. taxi driver, charged
with completely in the murder OF
George Berg, Saline farmer, and
Henry Fulmer, farm hand, in August.
has been postponed. Prosecuting At
torney Fahrner leaves for Florida next
week.
Lansing-If Michigan is to have a
new prison it should be in the Upper
Peninsula, where the inmates can be
made to work in stone quarries TO
turn out highway material, Gov.
Groesbeck, told members of the State
Administrative Board and State Pri-
son Commission.
Saginaw-One of the strangest ac-
cidents on Pere Marquette railroad
records occurred near Farwell when
a car of potatoes jumped the track 10
feet clear of the right of way and
burned up, but the rest Of the train,
as If by human hands. coupled togeth-
er with no damage.
Pontiac-Oakland County Farm Blu
reau has begun civil suits against b.
c. Mills and V. G.. Mills. White Town
ship farmers who failed to pay their
annual membership fees Of SO in the
bureau. If the suits are successful
the bureau threatens to bring others
against delinquent members.
Ionia-The home of Edward l. Piv
ouitz, manager of the Ionia Metal &
Iron Co. was entered while the owner
was out of the city and a stronghold
containing about $4,000 in bonds and
other valuable papers was carried
away. Deeds to property and insur
ance papers were with the bonds.
Dowagiac-Abner Moon, former
drain commissioner, and E. j. Nc
Elhenry, Dowagiac drain contractor,
convicted OF conspiracy in connection
with a 100000 expenditure in the
Dowagiac river drain construction,
have appealed their cases to the SUI
preme court Circuit Judge White de- |
ferred sentences until April II.
Saginaw-Damage estimated at
$13,50O was caused by fire of undeter-
mined origin which destroyed the
-~Old Mill" and several concession
buildings at Riverside park, a summer
amusement park on the outskirts of
the city. Firemen had to chop through /
IA inches OF ice in the Tittabawassee |
river to get water to fight the blaze.
Neutrality-suspicious. and Daniel Bo- |
bare are held here as suspects in con-
nection with the binding and beating |
10 death of Butolph Nordberg, dairy
farmer. near here. Fingerprints will
be taken and compared with finger
marks found on furniture in the kit |
chen where the body was discovered. /
Robbery, it is said, was the crime
motive.
Houghton-Arrivo Pyokkynen of /
Pelkie, Houghton county, has been
selected by the state of Michigan to |
take charge of the reindeer nerd, be- |
ing brought here from northern Eu-
rope as an experiment in game propa-
CATION. Pyokkynen had experience |
with reindeer in Finland. The state |
has as yet made no decision as to |
where the herd is to be located.
Houghton-The Michigan Fixes as
sociation will include the Copper
country in it's tour this year for the
first time in the history of the or
ganization. Several hundred mem
bers will spend an entire day in this
district visiting points of interest in
Houghton and Kewanee counties.
They will arrive the afternoon of July
IL and leave the morning of July IA.
Albion--A 6O-year-old tract of sec
ond growth oak is being removed by
George Ewing Of Jonesville from the
farm of A. J. Howell, south OF Albion,
and is yielding logs so and 70 feet in
length The land, which has been in
the Howell family since the present
owners grandfather A. A. Howell,
took Il over from the government, as