The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1922-06-22
Michigan
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Legal action has been started in
the United States district court, at
New York, by James oliver Curwood,
OF Owosso, against the Affiliated Dis
tributors, Incorporated, Edwin Carewe
Pictures, Bernard Fineman Charles
C. Burt and Associated First Nation
al Pictures of New York, Pittsburgh
and Washington, for alleged illegal
use OF his name as the author Of a
picture entitled II Am the Law" and
for infringement OF the rights Of his
novel, "The Valley of Silent Men"
Curwood Is suing for 100000 in adj
dition to all moneys earned by Y Am
the Law" and for all property rights
In the production.
Bertha Nash, an 1s-year-old Kala-
mazoo telephone operator, was re-
fnanded to jail to await trial after
she pleaded not guilty to charge OF
killing her child at the home of her
father four weeks ago. The girl was
.arraigned following the verdict of the
coroner's Jury which charged that the
infant died from exposure and wounds
IN the neck caused by sharp instru-
ment
Representatives of all the railroads
operating In the state have notified
the state public utilities commission
that they will file reduced schedules
for intrastate traffic to meet the recent
rate reductions ordered by the inter
state commerce commission for inter
state traffic. The cut will average
about 10 per cent on all freight rate
schedules.
Although a mans money may be
deposited in his wife's name, It still
belongs to him, according to a deci-
sion OF Circuit Judge Weimer. The
court returned to Charles Nurrie the
$685. which had been deposited in
Kalamazoo bank in his wifes name.
Half of the money was willed by the
wife, who died recently, to her rela-
.dves.
Joseph Hebert, Grand Trunk en-
lgineer, lived up to the tradition OF
his calling although 1t cost his life,
when his engine jumped the track
near the foot OF Hastings street in
Detroit and overturned. Thinking only
OF the passegers in the cars behind,
he chung to his post and died, his hand
.clutching the throttle.
John Hilliker, 16 years old, was
brought to the county jail at Ionia
and turned over to Sheriff Hoppough
by his father. Louis Hilliker, of
Greenville, with the remark, 'T have
done all that I can for him, it is your
turn now" The boy had forged
check for s47.50 with his name to It,
the Gather said.
John Weddel, pupil in district No 2
fractional Burlington township, will
attend the state fair at Detroit this
year at the expense of the fair society
as result of having received highest
standing in recent rural school, eighth
grade, diploma examinations. He re-
ceived 9O.7 per cent.
The will OF Noah Bryant, founder
sof the Bryant Paper company, Kala-
rmazoo, dividing an estate valued at
5000, 900, has just been admitted to
probate. The bulk of the estate was
Left to his daughter, Elizabeth J. Mil
Lham-
According to reports current in
state circles, the candidacy Of Con-
gresham Roy o. Woodruff, Of Bay
City, to succeed Senator Truman H.
Newberry in the United States SEN
ate, will be announced soon.
The action of the officials Of the
State Normal college in banning
smoking among female students, was
endorsed by the boards OF the w. G.
r. u, of Michigan, in a post-conven-
ton session at Muskegon.
William Engelman, So years old,
business man at Howard City for
many years and a former member of
che city council died June IL. He
had been Ill two months.
The First State bank, Of Hartford,
opened June II. The former Ameri
can bank building has been purchased
by the new institution, and has been
completely remodeled.
Third and fourth class postmasters
and rural mail carriers of Bay county
have organized county welfare coun-
ell Of the Bay County Postal Workers.
Fifty-fve students, the largest class
"A the institutions history will be
graduated from Hope college at Hol-