The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1922-05-18
Michigan
Happenings


asity OF Michigan. the freshman who
was kidnapped by q group OF young
men said TO be the vigilance commit
tee, taken to oeddes dam, four miles
out In the county, bound. gagged and
his hair cut When his tormentors
were through with him, they put a
pillow case over his head. tied his
hands and let him 60. He managed
to work himself loose from the pillow
case, found a farm house some dis
tancs away and was directed back to
Ann Arbor.
DIR. Clarence W. Green, formerly Of
Albion college and now president of
Hedding college, Abingdon. ILL.,, re-
signed as president of Bayview Sum-
mer university and president Of Bay
view assembly OF Bayview camp
ground association OF the Methodist
Episcopal church, at meeting OF the
board OF trustees and educational CON-
mittee at Petoskey. DR.. Hugh Kenne-
dy, of Detroit, will direct assembly
work this season, and DR.. Hempt, Of
Albion college, Bayview university.
Circuit Judge Vanderwerp OF Muske-
gon, ruled that the law providing
that the owner Of an automobile Is IL
able for damages done by the vehicle
when driven by any member OF the
family is constitutional and as re-
suit jury granted William N. Swart7,
of Montague, $4,000 damages. Ernest
Smith, sr., and his adult son, Ernest,
are held liable. The suit grew out
OF injuries received when Smiths car.
driven by young Smith, and a motor
cycle on which Swartz was riding
collided
That the accident was unavoidable
and that there was no evidence of
criminality on the part Of any per-
son. was the finding of the coroner's
jury at Grand Rapids investigating
the accident in which an automobile,
driven by Theodore Peters, 10 years
years old, and Jean Meyer. years
old. OF Calvin college, mounted a curb
and fatally injured Ann Van Eek, 10
old, who were standing on the side
walk.
John @. Stone, Houghton county at
4orney was appointed Judge of the
twelfth judicial circuit, to succeed
Patrick H. O'Brien, resigned by Gov
ernor Groesbeck. His father, the late
Justice John w. Stone, of the state
supreme court, was former circuit
Judge In the same district which COM
prises Keweenaw, Houghton and Bar
aga counties.
Michigan's Prohibition Navy" is
In commission, with orders from Col.
Roy c. Vandercook, commissioner of
the State Department of Public Safe
", to patrol Detroit River for liquor
smugglers and to chart the lanes and
fnlets the smuggiers use in their
journeys between the Canadian and
American shores with contraband
liquors.
DR.. Jesse II. Beckwith, prominent
Flint dentist, clubman, and civic lead
er, was granted an absolute decree of
divorce from his wife, Ann, by Judge
E. ID. Black, in circuit court. DR.. Beck.
with, in his testimony, named Wallace
II. Willett, president and general man
ager OF the Durant corporation OF
Muncie, Ind, as the "other man"
The bureau OF foods and standards
OF the department OF agriculture, has
started a drive to rid the state not
only OF dealers In spoiled preserved
Woods, but has enlisted the aid OF the
federal government to end the practice
of sending spoiled food from Michigan
into adjoining states, to have it doc
tored, and returned here for sale.
Ralph o. Tucker, fruit and vege-
table dealer OF Grand Rapids, testi.
Ned at the freight rate hearing before
the public utilities commission, that
the upper peninsula fruit and vege-
table wholesale business has been TAX
en- up largely by Milwaukee and Chi
cago because OF the high freight rates
In Michigan.
Commencement exercises in the
University of Michigan will mark the
presentation OF diplomas to about
1,500 students, the secretary's Office
reports. commencement to take place
IN Hill auditorium June 10.
The state conservation commission
has underway the construction OF a
fish hatchery for the protection OF
brook trout, two miles north OF VOL.
VERNE in Cheboygan county.
Sale Of stock in the Detroit Rapid
Transit Co. was stopped by the Mich