The Day Spring prints all of the Local and County News, and PRINTS IT FIRST. VOLUME XL. HARTFORD, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 1911. NO. 30. Popular Jurist Elected Electrification of Fruit Without Opposition. ANDEIISON WON WIMEB DREW NINETY ! NEW TELEPHONE LINE Belt Line ajCanard. That the K.L.S.& C. railroad has been FeilT PROSPECTS leased to the'Michigan United Railway DAYS FOR LARCENY BUILT I LAWRENCE company and will be transformed into FOn SyPERVISOR an electriiline, giving the latter com• pany a through line from Detroit to Hartford Boy Pleaded Guilty i New Mutual Company Will South Haven, is denied by Superin• and Was Sentenced Bid for Business in Nfeigh- tendent H. D, Swayze, II CLOSE MCE Mr. Swayze characterises the story, Last Friday. boring Village. which has-been going the rounds of the papers for several [days, as a canard. Republican Nominee Defeated Plarry VVimer, the Hartford boy A new telephone line is to" be con-1 This report has gained circulation Cool Weather No'w Means Democratic Opponent By who was arrested [^ten ^days ago on a structed in |Lawrenee, ow^ned by a several times during- the pa.<!t few Fruit Later, Say Local larceny chra-ge, was arra'gned in company to be known as the Lawrence jmonths , and it is known that the M. Majority of One. Justice Cochranes f'court 'last Friday Mutual ITelephone company. There •U . li. officials have made overtures to Growers. where he pleaded guilty to larceny, and are .at present 150 rstockholders ^in the ' acquire the line. "Nothing to it,"says was sentenced to serve ninety days in \ new entevprise, and it is lu'lieved tliat ' Mr. S'.vav'ze, and there you ire. UNOSUi^LLY LIGHT VOTE CAST the Detroit house of correction.. I fully GOO will subscribe before the e.\- ' . It is also denied that the Fruit Belt TREES IN BLOOM A YEAR AGO Y'^ung Wimer was charged withTliav-! change is ready for business, will use g'asoliiK', motor c.irs on its li'^e ing stolen some electric light fixt'dres | The contracts call for the payment from I'oquin to Paw Paw lake during Entire epublioan Towiiship Ticlxet from a housefawncd li;-' Chiirlcs 'Ander• of ?6,00 on demand ami ."ri.OO within the c<,!nin<v summer. Orchard Bnrners to Be. Testeed Here Eleiiod The Rosu.t in Town HON. L. lU K'Gn l->hS\OI(TNES. son last December and having sold .=iixty days after the lirst insr.ailiTifint. | a.s a Protection Against and Couniy. Kepublican candidate for Circuit them to a rieaicr in second hand goods, j The first payment of^six dollars has ; BmmkH mm \n %mm Late Fro.<l.s. dudge, who was elected without oppo• Hp declaredithat he. did fnot take the i beenjilemaTided. and the v,-ork of 'con | sition in the thirty-si.xth judicial circuit fixtures frott! tlie house hut found th^m ; structing the system will be be.eun at; A clofC raco for siiporvisor in wiiich One year ago tcfday Van Buren county at Monday's election. under Ihe^ironl.'porch. | once. i Defciited O'Hara for Circuit the lepidiiican nominee, Charles E. wfu; a flower garden. Ail fruit trees The \varrant for Wimer was issued ; I'he company proposes to .furnish its j Judge by Majority of 626. were in bloom and the smaller fruit Andersoi:, won over hife democratic op• second, with the majorities indicated on February 24, but^hc was not appre- i subscribers telephone service at from i v.'as setting. Then came the frost and ponent, tlowafd Lolciell. by a narrow opposite each : bended until March 24, He declared ! «2.50 to ?6.00 a year. They have al- ! Georg'e W. Rridgrqari, republican, of snow, and the entire crop was wiped STATE. he had just returnird from Oklahoma, • ready arranged for an outlet for toll • margi;; of one vote characterized the Benton nai'bor, was elected to the cir• out, bringing despair and blasted hopes Justice of the Supreme ('curt having str.rted for the southwest v.-ith j I township election in llarlf^ird Monday. business through both Bangor and ' cuit judgship in Berrien county Monday to the fruit men. ' ' Russell C. Ostrander 223—120 the intention of joining ;tlie jMe.xican ! by a majority of 626 over his demo• This year presents a marked contrast, it was a ni'ck and neck rare. Al- John E. Kinnane 103 army. He .-hanged his mind, however, | Dowagiac. ' j cratic opponent, James O'Hara of St. and there is evf ry reason to anticipate tlioiiph the eTection was a tjuict one, the Justice of the Supreme Court- and returned to Michigan to fall into' Joseph. that the fruit crop wi'l b(* abundant fight cei tered around the candidates John E. Bird , , ,220-117 the meshes of the law. | E WARDEN HAS ThCiJudicial contest was one of the the coining season. Groweis who -lost for supervisor and the vote, 214 for Herbert A. Sanford .;,.. ,103 A letter from Sherilf Shuter of; most strcrjuous ever waged in Berrien thousands of dollars when the crop was Kegeiit of the University- Traverse City stated that Wimer was; Anderron as against 213 for Lobdeli. county, and tbe campaign waxed.tx- wiped out by frost a year ago will not Benjamin S. Hanchett .. ,220--117 wanted],there for|]arceny,and requested; EYE ON VIOLATORS proved ti;at even quiet woric can be ce'edin.Qly warm ^during the closing become too sanguine thus early in the John W. /Anderson ..103 that he be^turned over t.i the iTraverse made effective. ^ days. season, but the present indications Regent^f the University City authorities when the Van Buren Mr. Biidgnian will succeed Judges augur well. Orchards are in exeePent Durinit the progress of the'eounling Lucius L. Hubbaard .221-118 courts w-?re jthroufrh with him. It is Popular Paw Paw Deputy Coolridjro of Niles on January 1, 1912. condition. They have withstood the aflei' the closing of the polls tl.a elec• Henry Kremers 10& probable ihat Sheritl' Shuter wilPbe on is Watching Lakes for winter well, so the growers declare, tion of Lobdell was freely predicted, Superintendent of Public Instruction- hand to greet himjjwben he' completes i Illegal Spearing. and all that is needed is favorable as be made remarkaiile gains in the Luther L. Wright 221—119 his present se-:itence ^in the Detroit i weather to develop an exellent setting checking of the "split" ballots. Be• John B. Cleveland ...102 prison. I m' DREW fore the conclusion, however, Lobdoll's of fruit. Member of the State Board of Deputy Game Warden Charh's ,Leach lead w-as wiped out and the final result Education — The cold snap of last w'eek and which IMP of Paw Paw was in Town Friday, and gave .'\ntlersun a majtMity of one, A IE TO TEN YEARS is still lingering throughout the fruit Thomas W. Nadal 221- -117 EYT declared he Was intending to use extra recount was immediately taken at the belt was a boon to the grovi^ers. The James A. King 104 vigilance this spring to stop the prac• request of friends of the democratic only buds which were ref.dy to burst .Member of the State Board of tice of spearing, fish in the inland lakes ' candidate, but it failed to change the John Cox Acquitted of Hen- when the storm came was. the ^cherry, Agriculture - HIGHWAYS IS VOTER and streams. result as at first announced. trees,but even these were, not .sufficient• John W. Beaumont 221-119 It is a little early for the "sport" to ioiis Charge- Court is Tiie ba.ance of the republican ticket ly advanced to be materially injured. John A. \\^eston 102 commence as yet, but the game •warden was elected by majorities ranging Adjourned. The sudden freeze undeniably did an Memlier of the State Board of Tax Was Ordered at "Town expects that with the advent of warm• from -IS to 15c;, while an average Agriculture imnien.se amount of good, for it will Meeiing" LaSl Monday er weather ".h.e first dark, still night majority ol IIV was returued for the Jesse Hale, the Covert lad who was put the ;season back to such an extent Jason Wocdman 219—117 will see thi-! lalcesjighted with "jacks" republican state nominees. last/wcek convicted in the circuit court that when conditions arc ii'ight for the Albert E. Stevenson. 102 4lternoon. as has been the case almost every The vo:e in HaUford was unusually of burning a house near that village, budding fruit the danger of a freeze is JUDICIAL, spring. light. Only 433 voters out of a total Circuit Judge 36th Judicial Circuit ' was on Thursday sentenced to serve likely to be past the point where it will Money .was voted with liberality for Dept!uty Leach has already been regi-^trat on of nearly 700 visited the from one to,ten years in the state pris• do a great amount of damage or ruin L. Burget Des Voignes 227 the improvement of the highvvaya by skirmiiihinjir about on favorable nights, poll.s during the day. Of this number on atMackson, with.a recommendation crops. COUNTY. the 100 voters, a maJDrity of whom bat has failed to discover violations in 152 depo.sited straight republican tick• that hp, yerve eighteen months. His Much attention has already been be• Co.iimission'er of Schools— were farmers, who atteiided the annual ^Va n Buren county. He tripped up ets and Oij straight democratic tickets, brother, Roy H.ile, who pleaded guilty stowed upon the orchards in thevicini- Vtilncy R.