The Owosso times., 1922-02-17
|. STATE NEWS


was elected president of the North
eastern Michigan Development bt
reau at the annual meeting.
Bay City-Henry Eickemeyer, 81
we'll known hardware merchant, die,
at his home on Madison avenue, afte
lingering illness. Ee was born il
Bay City and was an early pioneer.
Muskegon Heights-With the ligh!
est city election held in 10 years, tn
new Muskegon Heights charter wa
adopted with vote of 1873 to 50. Th'
new charter embodies practically ev
cry feature of the present charter o
the city.
Lansing-Thefts of automobiles de
creased 33 per cent last month, accord
ing to report made by Charles j
Deland, secretary OF state. There were
96 thefts OF autos during January
wherNs 13l were stolen in December
according to the report.
Ann 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 Dy 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 1t 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 IL by human hands, coupled togeth-
er with no damage.
-Pontiac-Oakland County Farm Blu.
reau has begun civil suits against b.
9. Mills and V. G. Mills, White Town
ship farmers who failed to pay their
annual membership fees Of $40 in the
bureau. II the suits are successful
he bureau threatens to bring others
against delinquent members.
Ionia-The home of Edward /. Piv-
,uitz, manager of the Ionia Metal &
ron Co. was entered while the owner
vas out Of the city. and strong-box
about $4,000 in bonds and |
,ther valuable papers was carried |
way. Deeds to property and insur-
nee papers were with the bonds.
Dowagiac-Abner Moon, former
Train commissioner, and e. j. Nc
Ilhenry, Dowagiac drain contractor,
onvicted OF conspiracy in connection
With 100000 expenditure in the
)OYagiac river drain construction,
AVE appealed their cases to the SUI
reme court. Circuit Judge White de-
erred sentences until April II.
Saginaw-Damage estimated at
i13.5O0 was caused by fire of undeter-
mined origin which destroyed the
Old Mill and several concession
buildings at Riverside park, a summer
park on the outskirts Of
he city. Firemen had to chop through
A inches of ice in the Tittabawassee
liver to get water to fight the blaze.
ManistiQue-Edgar and Daniel Bo-
are are held here as suspects in con-
ection with the binding and beating
0 death of Butolph Nordberg, dairy
armer. near here. Fingerprints will
e taken and compared with finger
larks found on furniture in the kit
hen where the body was discovered.
tobbery, it is said, was the crime
active.
Houghton-Arrivo Pyokkynen Of
'elkie, Houghton county, has been
elected by the state of Michigan to
AXE charge OF the reindeer herd, be-
ng brought here from northern Eu-
ope as an experiment in game propa-
alton. Pyokkynen had experience
nth reindeer in Finland. The state
as as yet made no decision as to
yhere the herd Is to be located.
Houghton-The Michigan Pixies as
will include the Copper
ountry in its tour this year for the
irsf time in the history Of the or
Several hundred mem
,ers will spend an entire day in this
listrict visiting points of interest in
Ioughtnn and Kewanee counties.
they will arrive the afternoon Of July
2 and leave the morning Of July Ia.
Albion-A 60-year-old tract Of Sec
nd growth oak is being removed by
GEORGE Ewing Of Jonesville from the
arm of A. j. Howell, south of Albion,
nd is yielding logs 60 and 20 feet in
ength. The land, which has been in
he Howell family since the present
wner's grandfather, A. A. Howell,
ook II over from the government, as
'irgin land, in the "thirties," was first |
leared by the latter six descadeS ago. |