The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1922-03-16
| STATE NEWS

drank quantity OF toilet W. -er pur-
CHASED in local drug store.
Ludington--Thieves broke the back
window Of the X. l.. Asbbacker cloth
Ing store IN this city and stole goods
worth more than $1,000. Clothing was
chosen from certain sizes.
Cadillac-Perry T.. Powers, former
aulltor general, quaiih, i az mayor Of
Cadillac. the first civic office he has
ever held in his long public career.
he vas elected UNANIMOUSLY.
Ann Arbor-Funeral services for
James . Kane one OF the four original
letter carriers appointed here SO years
ago. We're held. In all these years he
had never lost day because of sick
ness.
sion IS circulating q clifton in Orion
ASKING Improvement OF Flint, Wash
lAs on ana Nam streets ana the ter
.1,orIal road to the east boundary
Jf the village.
kalamazoo-The fire department es-
AdDl4SuGu ~ new NilCH IL
swered two calls from the plant II the
narrow Spring Co. within an hour.
The last resulted in several humid
led dollars damage in the office rooms.
Birmingham-H. II. WilDraham, %,
2693 Northlawn boulevard Detroit, re-
ceived a fractured skull when his
automobile was struck by ID. L. h.
car two miles south of Birmingham.
lie was taken to Providence hospital,
Detroit.
Grand Rapids-Sheriff Peter Vierg
ever is bemoaning the increased cost
OF foodstuffs which has boosted the
average cost OF the prisoners meals
to 1921 cents. But he possesses a
certain amount of pride in the records
which show that the average prison
er gains 4 2-10 pounds while in Jail.
Fliut-A $4,000 addition to the
Genesee county, jail, to make it es-
cape proof, if possible, is planned by
special supervisors committee, ap-
pointed to investigate Jail conditions.
John s. Chestnut, sheriff, appealed to
the board for new building after six
deliveries, in which % prisoners es-
capped.
Lansing-Five OF the 70 persons
whose drivers licenses should be sus-
pended according to recommendations
OF Police Commissioners Inches, De-
troit have no licenses, records of the
department of state show. Indications
are that licenses have been loaned"
to them by others, Deputy Secretary
Frank d. Fitzgerald says.
Kalamagoo-West street, one of the
main streets in Kalamazoo, will be
named Westnedge avenue in honor OF
Gel. Joseph Westnedge, commander of
the 126th Infantry. The regiment,
composed of former Western Michigan
National Guards. saw service at Cha
-eau-Thierry, Argonne Forest, the
Mouse and at Sedan. Col. Westnedge
died at Nantes, France, Nov. 20, 1918
Port HuIon-C. Harold Wills Of De.
troit, of the Wills-Lee corporation,
which is carrying on the construc-
lion enterprise at Marysville, Is to
have one of the speediest boats on
the lakes. Contract for building the
craft has been let to q Marine City
shipbuilder and call for boat cap
able of making better than 60 miles
an hour. Its builders claim it viii
travel between Detroit and Marysville
in IS minutes.
Grand RaplGs-Claiming that the
order will practically paralyZe carload
shipments from Grand Rapids and
western Michigan, the Grand Rapids
Association OF Commerce has sent
protest to Congressman Carl e. Mapes
against the order of A. T. Hart, OF
New York, regional director for rail-
roads, that all empty box cars, except
those for perishable freight or for
less than carload merchandise, be for
warded to Chicago
Iron Mountain-Joo Mirell, a pneu
monia patient in st. Georges hospital
here, heard the doctor tell the nurse
to give him shot" OF vaccine. Joe
didn't know what vaccine was, but the
word shot conjured up visions of the
COiu gray udWh anu IlhSS pOlHIlh6 a.
his breast. He decided 10 beat it, and
when the nurse left the ward, hurried
~ left the hospital, clad only in his
paJamas. He gave The hospital attend
ants good run before he was recap
,ured.
DAY City-In a report to ne trans
mitted to the council, Frank A. Gauze,
superintendent or schools, will point
out mat the cost OF operating schools
IN 1880, is Al per cent higher than
Al 1915. An expenditure OF sI,zOO our
ing the year for School gardens, re-
suited in the raising OF $4,000 worth
oil vegetables by the school children.
Minimum salaries have been raised
from $3.50 to $3.50 and maximum sal.
aries from $3.50 to $l,2O0. lie urges an
additional increase.