The Owosso times., 1922-03-03
STATE news

meeting of the Kent County Boys
conference will be held in Kent City,
March Is and 19.
Muskegon-William Nj. Connolly
bounty road commission. has an
nounced his candidacy for the state
senate from the Ottawa-Muskegon
district. He served one term in 1918.
Hudson-Earl Rinehart, % years
old, riding a bicycle on footpath OF
bhe G. N. railroad trestle, went over
the side to the ice 20 feet Delow'
Struck on his head and was instantly
killed.
Ypsilanti-The Rev. FIR. Frank Ken
nedy, pastor of st. Johns Catholic
Church here for the last 20 years.
died at his home Feb. lS, at the age
OF Sc. He is survived by three sisters
and brother, all of Detroit.
Iron Mountain-The proposed char-
Ter for the commission form or gov
ernment was buried under landslide
OF votes at the polls. being defeated
by a majority of 1.147 The vote Tor
the charter was 721, and against 2,loo.
Monroe-The city commission has
commenced revision of the city char-
tar. necessitated by vote, authoriz-
ing a seven member In place OF
three member commission. The pro-
posed changes will be submitted 10
the voters in August
Battle Creek-Kenneth Wine, ~. IS
In Jail, charged with entering dweil'
Ing in the night time, with intent 10
hommit murder. The complainant Is
his former sweetheart, Olive McCarey'
II who says she told him two weeks
ago that she did not want to see him
again.
Kalamazoo-The entire estate or
the Rev. Father III. Frank O'Brien. for
R8 years rector of st. Augustine
Church here, was left to the Naz'
nreth Academy for Girls, one OF the
many institutions he founded IN THIS
city The estate is valued at from
$4,000 to $4,000.
Niles-Francis p. Kane, 70 years
old. son of James and Mrs. Katherine
Kane. died from complications result
tng from having been gassed at the
Xrgonne front in the fall OF 1910
while he was a member OF the Amer
lean expeditionary forces. Mr.. Kane
was student at the University o'
Notre Dame.
Owosso-There are 46,447 members
OF the Michigan State Grange, In goot
standing, according TO A. B. Cook o
Maple Ridge, state master There
are about 100000 in the United States
he said. The state grange treasur,
shows a balance Of $4,000 and tina
of the national grange 100000. ac
cording TO Cook.
Monroe-The huge brick stock barr
of George II. Wood, president OF th'
River Raisin Paper Co., o! Monroe
which was destroyed by fire OF unde
termined origin, will be rebuilt
Among the 22 head Of cattle burned
was a bull worth about $4,000 and
heifer valued at $500. Damage !
Estimated at $4,000.
William M. Lovelant
president OF the Watervliet Pape
Company, faced the second diyorc
auit within a year when his wife
Helen Mills Loveland, fled a suit TO
divorce in which she charged extrem
/, cruelty and non-support. Lovelan
was divorced by his first wife, Mr.
Adah c. Loveland, on March 2S. 1872
Lansing-A survey OF the instit'
fional farm at tho School for the Dea
at Flint. was requested from tho stat
department Of agriculture by the stat
Administrative board. Governor Ale
i. Groesbeck said the farm has neve
paid and probably never will. Supe
fntendent of Public Instruction Joh
xon suggested that 1t might be aba
doned.
= East Lansing-That the agricu
tural outlook for Michigan Is one tn
should not discourage farmers, d
spite current talk Of depression. wi
the statement made by Professor
r. Cox of the farm crops departme
Of the Michigan Agricultural colleg
Current farm product prices, he sal
Although low, compare favorably wi
the average prices in the last
years.
ROmeO-After 80 SucceSSlNe yea
as clerk Of the village of Richmond,
n. Seaman will not be a candida
again, having been defeated for no
lnation on the Republican ticket,
which he has run SO often. Seam
was candidate in the annual pal
caucus, but a movement was launch
nv friends of George Heenan to
him into the place and Heenan
+ nominated by small majority.
saginaw-That the Saginaw c
Dealers association is not violat
any law in its functions, that 8
20 test its legality is welcomed
that the members cannot and III
not the right to drop the price OF 8
coal to the consumer 81 ton, Is
answer of the association to Pre-
cutor r. l.. Crane, in response TO
demand that they dissolve, as
suit of the John Doe investigation
ried on in circuit court
r.ansing--The validity OF the Z