Mayor Verifies Veto Power In Budget Victory At City Meeting
TERRE HAUTE IND Strike conditions ease after a wage contract ends a dispute between coal operators and miners. The city budget was approved at the meeting with a $79,680 appropriation and raises for aldermen and public works officials. The council passed a 24 saloon limit over a veto threat and set salaries at 300 for the mayor and 200 for aldermen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. D. C. Germaine
Germaine
Goodrich
Fitch
Amilor
Smith
Langworthy
Kilbourne
Soule
Dyer
Simpson
Montague
Frank Brookmyer
Council
Board of Public Works
Water Works
Humane Society
George W. Gegner
Madison Street
Committee On
Terre Haute
Ind
Benzie Pomona Grange Meeting At Lake Ann Hall
On May 31 and June 1 Benzie County Pomona Grange No 75 met with Almira Grange overlooking Lake Ann. Six of eight granges attended along with Leelanau and Grand Traverse Pomona Granges. State Deputy N I Moore of Hanover spoke in the afternoon and evening. The evening program included the fifth degree conferred on a class of nineteen in a highly impressive ceremony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benzie County
Pomona
Almira Grange
Lake Ann
Leelanau County
Grand Traverse
N. I. Moore
Hanover
Jackson County
Four Graduates Elated by Commencement at St Francis School
The St Francis school holds its commencement at City Opera house this evening. Four literary graduates will receive diplomas along with eighth grade honorees. Palmer Method diplomas honor nineteen pupils for penmanship excellence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Francis School
City Opera House
Move to Consolidate Michigan School for the Deaf with Blind School
Lansing officials weigh moving the Michigan school for the deaf at Flint to Lansing and merging with the state school for the blind to save yearly costs. Officials indicate the plan and consolidation favor may be supported by some state officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lansing
Mich
Michigan School For the Deaf
Flint
School For the Blind
Memorial Day Observed In Traverse City
Fine Memorial Day weather brought veterans, school children, and civic groups to ceremonies at Oakwood cemetery and in the city. Mrs. J J Gray addressed veterans detailing slavery’s history from colonial times to Lincoln’s emancipation, with recitations and musical numbers at the City Opera House and a large Civil War survivor turnout.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oakwood
Soldiers Monument
Spanish War Veterans and Ladies Auxiliary
Traverse City
City Opera House
J. J. Gray
Pope to Celebrate Seventy Seven Birthday Privately
Rome reports the Pope will be seventy seven tomorrow born at Riese on June 2, 1830. He plans a private celebration with his sisters and a few invited faithful. Messages of congratulation pour in from around the world at the Vatican.
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Rome
Riese
Vatican
Fifty Year Anniversary Of Thacker In Traverse City
Quincey Thacker marked the fiftieth anniversary of his arrival in Traverse City with friends recalling an arduous 1862 journey from Defiance Ohio. The diary notes show a party of fifteen leaving Defiance for Traverse City, delayed by Chicago as the steamer Alleghany sailed, then boarding the Union to Northport and walking to Traverse City arriving May 31. Six original settlers remain in the county, and Thacker cherishes enduring friendships from that long voyage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quincey Thacker
Traverse City
Ohio
Mr. Thacker
Defiance
Ohio Town
Chicago
Thacker Boys
Union
Northport
County
Thacker
Cedar men jailed after spear fishing at Carp Lake
Mike Strank Willam Noulgin and John Horing of Cedar were arrested Thursday by Deputy Game Warden G Allen Smith for fishing in Carp Lake with a spear and jack. They pled guilty in Justice Gage's court. Strank fined 25 dollars plus 3 25 dollars costs and the other two 20 dollars plus 3 25 dollars costs. Strank faces stiffer sentence as a third offender. Smith vows to curb illegal fishing all summer with increasing penalties to end the practice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mike Strank
Willam Noulgin
John Horing
G. Allen Smith
Carp Lake
Gage
Strank
Smith
Woman crushed when clothesline toppled house in fatal accident
Mrs Olive M Lytle 75 died after a clothesline weight pulled a building onto her while she was in an outhouse. She regained consciousness briefly before dying half an hour later. Funeral held Sunday. remains sent to Breedsville for interment. She left daughters Nellie M Lytle and Mrs Wicksall, seven grandchildren.
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Olive M. Lytle
West
Ninth Street
Lytle
Alexander Lytle
Nellie M. Lytle
Elmwood Avenue
Wicksall
White Cloud
Michigan
Breedsville Mid
Severe Runaway Accident Injures Woman in City
A double runaway near Front street and the Wilhem block sent a wagon off the road. Mrs. Valley suffered multiple injuries including three broken ribs and a forehead gash. The wagon and harness were wrecked, and a second horse, the black gelding, dashed toward a store sidewalk before being halted.
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George Valley
Mrs. Valley
Front Street
Cass Street
L. G Fuller
Peoples Savings Bank
Hannah & Lay ‘Mercantile Co
Arizona for Champ Clark big plurality indicated
Phoenix Ariz May 31 Incomplete returns from statewide primaries show Champ Clark carried Arizona by a large margin. Clark will receive five delegates to Baltimore while Wilson gets one. The Republican convention is set for June 3.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Champ Clark
Clark
Wilson
Baltimore
Finish Fight Flares In Ohio Taft Roosevelt Clash
In Columbus on June 3 Taft and Roosevelt factions entered the state convention prepared for a hard contest. Leaders warned of a tense session as control would decide six delegates at large bound for Chicago.
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Columbus
Taft
Roosevelt
Chicago
Going after settlers to recruit in old country
Prof Peter H Brouwer of Zeeland met with the Western Michigan Development Bureau on a trip to the Netherlands to advertise this region. He speaks four languages and plans a two year stay in the old country to recruit settlers from Germany and the Netherlands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter H. Brouwer
Zeeland
Western Michigan Development Bureau
Netherlands
Brouwer
Old Country
Germany
Pathetic case of Theodore P. Bauer amid larceny charge
Theodore P. Bauer, district superintendent for the Anti-Saloon League in northwestern Michigan, faced a petty larceny charge after allegedly taking a small clock from a store. He confessed in time, severing ties with the league, citing morphine use under duress. Bauer had been a tireless, trusted worker whose prior record was spotless.
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Theodore P. Bauer
Anti-Saloon League
Northwestern
Michigan
Grand Rapids
Bauer
Young & Chaffee
League
Buner
Fish Seizure Leads to Fine for Purkiss in Elmwood Court
George Purkiss of Northport pleaded guilty in Justice Gage's Elmwood township court to possessing a large quantity of immature whitefish. Deputy G Warden G Allen Smith filed the complaint. Purkiss paid a $138 fine and $6.50 in costs. The seized fish were sent to Traverse City State hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Purkiss
Northport
G. Allen Smith
Justice Gage
Elmwood Township
Traverse City State Hospital
Roosevelt Bolts Threat Roils Convention Battle
Alexander H. Revell, Roosevelt committee chair, says Roosevelt forces may bolt the convention if Taft delegates are seated through unfair contest rulings. He notes a candidate who submits to unjust treatment earns no respect. McKinley arrives to lead Taft’s preliminary fight. Dixon slated to arrive tomorrow.
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Chicago
Alexander H. Reyell
National Roosevelt Committee
Roosevelt
Taft
Revell
McKinley
Dixon
Death of Morris C Wilder Washed Ashore Near Santa Monica
The body of Morris C Wilder, 33, a Los Angeles bookkeeper, washed ashore a mile above Long Wharf near Santa Monica in early May after about five weeks in water. Identification came via Ellis Lodge No. 323 Elks card and a picture of his father in his coat pocket, aided by his fiancée Mrs Ethel Smith. Wilder had suffered long illness and despondency, and previously worked as a timekeeper during the Traverse City State Bank's construction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morris C. Wilder
Santa Monica
Cal
Traverse City
Wilder
Ellis’ Lodge No. 323
Ethel Smith
Los Angeles
Companions Coming to Western Michigan I O F Assembly
The Companion Courts of western Michigan I. O. F. plan their twelfth annual assembly in this city on June 5 and 6 to improve ritualistic work and promote sociability. Drills by degree teams with prizes, plus social plans by a local committee, aim to welcome several hundred visitors over two days at the Majestic block. The event promises a general good time. The twenty fourth annual Tri County Soldiers and Sailors association reunion will be at Buckley June 26 27 28 1912 with entertainment and top state speakers. Old soldiers and sailors and the public are invited.
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Western Michigan I. O. F
Tri-County Soldiers’ and Sailors' Association
Buckley
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Benzie Pomona Grange
Almira Organization
Ruby Huellmantel
Grasshoppers
Quincy Boughey
Reapers
Hermia
Angelia
Edith Brown
Terrania
Margaret Huellmantel
Helen Dyer
Hope
Marion McCloskey
Josephine Kinnacan
Lillian Stampfer
Eugenia Holmes
Lillian Moble
Peaceful Isle
Jane
Marion Benda
Elizabeth Scott
Herman Schmaltz
Joseph Hewitt
Prof
Flagg
Emmet O'Reilly
John Madison Jennings
Herald
Dominic Boyd
Herald Jennings
U. S
Fred Hebert
Horatio de Alger
Leo Boyd
Fubbs
Skinner
Leo
Quincy Thacker
Fiiday
Cedar Men
Olive Lytle
Arizona
Prof. Brouwer
T. P. Bauer
George Purkins
Morris Co. Wilder
Elks’ Card
Traverse City State Bank
John Hoarsefield
Western Michigan
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