The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1922-02-23
Prescott-verne Hayes, %. was kill
ed while cutting ties near Twining. A
piece OF wood fractured his skull.

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Commission rejected the petition Of
800 club women for local motion
picture censorship.
Grand Rapids-The city commission
will be asked by City Manager Fred
ii. Locke TO limit the number OF pool
rooms in this city to so.
Bessemer-Earl Davis, IL, playing
in the basement OF his home, was
strangled when he was caught in a
piece OF rope. fastened to joist. He
was found by his mother when he
failed to answer when she called to
him.
Kalamszoo-Two sleepers of Mich.
gan Central pa Isenger train No. 10,
leaving Detroit at 1890 a. m. and due
here at 4:02, went into ditch two
miles east OF this city at a. m. Feb
Is. None of the IL passengers was
injured.
Grand apids-Postoffic Inspector
Ray Laforge took into custody, near
Belding Charles Stanton, 20, OF Raw
emma, and Vernon Winer, a youth res
iding at Decker, on charges of break.
ing into a mail receptacle on rail-
road train.
Muskegon-Alfred Sanders, SO, OF
Whitehall. who died in the Muskegon
county home was one of the few re-
naming ex.slaves. He was trans
ferred as a chattel several times, es-
Gaping from the south by the under
ground" route.
Grand Rapids-Furniture shipments
during the last four weeks have been
so per cent greater than for the same
period in 1921. according to c. p.
Thomson, manager of the carloading
department of the Furniture Manufac-
turers' association.
Lansing-The state administrative
board placed ban on the practice of
permitting institutions to spend
money in lump sums. Detailed ac-
count of the uses to which money is
to be put must be submitted before ex-
penditures will be allowed
Flint-Fire caused by the explosion
of a gas engine destroyed several
buildings in Lonnon, near here. The
loss was $4,000. The lint fire de-
destruction Volunteer firemen were
slightly injured ny falling tih5ers.
Observation-Disclosures Gram, 81 years
old, wealthy and pioneer lumberman,
~ FOL
three days illness with pneumonia Mr..
Gram had lived here so years and was
identified with the building Of the
lumber industry in Northern Michi-
gan.
Big Rapids-Represent A. w.
Miles is organizing "moiety clause"
clubs throughout the county for the
purpose of cooperating with other
clubs in opposition TO plans formulat-
ed by Detroit leaders TO change the
basis Of representation in the legisla-
ture.
Mackinaw City-The ferry Wawa-
tam was trapped Feb. II, third
time this winter, in heavy ice two
miles from this shore. Crews are pre-
pairing to blast a channel to release
her. The ferry was on her way to
st. Ignace with passengers and
freight.
Alma-A resolution requesting The
appointment of Circuit Judge Edward
j. Moinett, OF st. Johns, to the new
Federal judgeship in Michigan, was
adopted unanimously at a meeting OF
the Gratiot and Clinton County Bar
associations at Ithaca Judge Moinett
presides over the Gratiot-C Clinton cir
cult.
Flint-Herman Corrington, local
real estate dealer, who was arrested
recently on a charge OF embezzlement
on complaint Of Mary e. Horn, OF
Highland, was discharged by Justice
Elwyn Tanner because Of insufficient
evidence. Corrington has brought suit
to collect $4,000 damages from Mrs.
Horn for alleged malicious prosecu-
ton.
Owosso-The owner OF a dog on
which the license has not been paid,
cannot recover damages from anyone
who Injuries the dog, according to a
ruling by Judge Collins in directing
verdict of no cause for actor in
the case Of Arthur Brown, Of Owosso,
against George Aiken, Caledonia farm
err Brown was suing for 800, claim.
inf that Aiken shot leg off his dog.
East Lansing-That the agricul-
tural outlook for Michigan is one that
should not discourage farmers, de-
spite current talk of depression, was
the statement made by Professor J.
F. Cox OF the farm crops department
of the Michigan Agricultural college.
Current farm product prices, he said,
although low, compare favorably with
the average prices in the last 10
years.
Grand Rapids-Because, he says,
blank" piece OF paper, on which
he was induced to sign his name, that
the signature might be compared with