The Courier Wishes You All Lei Us All Do Our Bit Toward Making The Coming New Year A Happy New Year ColDtua Courier A Happy and Prosperous One For Ail VOL. 36 COLOMA, MICHIGAN. FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 1937 NO. 24 ARSON CASE WITNESS iiARBOR MAN FRIENDS PRESENT SHERIFF-ELECT CUTLER FEW CHAN^ ARE MADE IN NewYear Bells SAYS HE LIED ON STAND By Lalia Milrhell Thornton KILLED AT PAW PAW WITH BEAUTIFUL STAR AND WRIST WATCH HEN'S OFEIdL EMY in Ohio Farmer EuKene I.. Furkas of St. Joseph Re- Roy White Struck by Car as He Was Recipient ConipJelely Overcome by; ^ING menily. oh. New Year belUl pudiates Testimony Given at Trial of (lutuging a Tire by Side of Highway Exprnision of Frieiuiship ami Tokens, nold; suiM'rintendents of the poor—L "V. When white the mowi we gliilening. Youi muiic on (he daikne« wells. Fred Cutlflr Succeeds Fred Bryant as E. Merchant. A. <}. Haslett and D. F South Bend Men Charged With Burn- —Driver of Death Car Made lli> (liven Him Monday Evening Sharp; memlHTs of County Farm Bn And all ihe wodd it Ltlemog. SherifT—Two New Coroners and One reau Jesse Boyle, president; H. J ing Paper Plant Ring merrily I Each note it filled. Escape Fred J. Culler, sheriff-elect of Ber- I.urkins. county agricultural agent; J With hope and promue glorioui. rien county, was given a lesilmonlal Circuit Court ConuniMsioner Will be Another Christmas day tragedy was A. Richards, secretary: Umrd of conn* Eugene L. Furkas, who was em With doubt* diuolved and terron itilled. party by a number of bis friends at the ployed at the plant of the old Mullen enacted last Thursday evening when Only New Officers Aside From the ty canvascers Max P. Groat, John And courage over fean nctonoua. Premier Hotel In BetiNui llarltor. paper mill In St. Joseph, which was Roy White uf Benton Harlior, aged 4.*> Butter and Charles A. Clark. which convinced that ollichil of the con- Sheriff's Force years, and Ihe father of three children, burned two years ago. ami for which Ring Merrily, oh. New Year belli! fidence bestowed upon him and assured Deputies Retain Their Positions was Insianlly killed when he was Maurice L. Hurwlch and Claude F. Again the dawn u bnghteaing. him of the warm friendship in which Nicely. South Bend business men. and Shall grief forget that time dupeli, struck by an automobile when he had With no changes in the personnel of he is held by a large circle of friends part owners of the burned plant, were Or wrrow flout the New Yeai'i lightening. parked bis car by the side of the road HRRRIFVS OFFICIAL KOSTKK the officers who have their offices In the frum all over the county. About ^<11 convicted of arson, has admitted to at- to change a tire. The driver of the car courthouse, it is announced that there Ring manly for all to hear. people, representing evey walk in life. torneys fur the two convicted men that which struck While slopped only long .will probably be no changes made in Since need knowt no dapanty; Republicans and Democrats, (jeutlles he perjured himself in giving testimony enough to pick up Ihe victim and assist "MH1 deputies that have rendered sucli Bring to each wul your nole of cheer. and Jews, white and blacks. Protest- Circuit Judge—Charles E. White of at the trial and tln.t the testimony was his wife In placing Ihe body uf the man go^d services In the various deaprt- Since cheer it Heavea't charity. ants and Catholics, made up the gather- Niles. false. In his own car. meats. Following are the deputies, ex- ing which met al the hotel fur a smok- ProsecutinR Attorney—W. M. Cun- In the trial of the South Bend men While was accompanied by his wife «-ept In the sheriff's office Assistant er and to express to .Mr. Cutler their ningham, iientou llarlKir. at the November term of court. It was and children, enroute to the home of prosecuting attorney, E. A. Westln warm personal findings and Ibelr cou- largely the testimony of Furkas that relatives to spend Crhlstmas evening of the Republican friends of the new County Clerk—Benjamin II. Bittner, court stenographer. Arietta L. Sllcox fldence that he will make an excellent resulted in the conviction of the pair, and when about three miles from Paw sheriff, presented blm with a large star, Bod UK. deputies in the county clerk's office- official. as Furkas was the chief witness for Paw on I'. S. 12 they stopped to change brilliantly studded. Other speakers County Treasurer—Kittle II. Fuller. Edward Dellaven and Mrs. Mabel 11 the state. Now he makes a complete a lire on their car. Their machine was George Slaughter, coroner. o|iened called uiHtn were Fred Franz of "Niles. Pipestone. Baker; deputy county treasurers—Mrs. SEEK LOCATION FOR denial of the anon conspiracy chart's driven off Ihe paved highway and park the meeting by calling npen a quartet former sherlfT. and Mayor John J. Frances Frlcke, Clara E. Wagner and Sheriff—Frni J. Cutler, Benton Har- he made against Hurwlch and Nicely, ed. with While working next to the of colored gentlemen who rendered a Slerlinc of I ten ton Harltor. The climax Frances L. Stelmle; probate register. number of pleasing selections, and then bor. declaring that he does not want to sec roadway, when the driver of the death of the evening came, however, when Judge of Probate—Wm. H. Andrews, Mllla U. Sprague; juvenile con ft clerk. LARGE STATE PARK Introduced Mayor Fred Cook of Niles, Mayor Cook presented Ihe sheriff with two innocent men go to prison for car approached al a rapid speed and Jane 1). Jackson; probate '-ourt clerk, who presided as chairman of the meel- Benton Harbor. something they did not do. struck him forcing White against the a lieautlful gold star with a diamond Florence Ladwlg; deputy register (»f Register of Deeds—Don It. Pears, Furkas went to Attorney Charles F. back of his own car with such force lug. Mr. Cook Introdtn-ed Attorney center, bis official emblem of office, and deeds Mrs. Mary K. Yore and Mar Buchanan. Gore, one of the attorneys for the two ON NEW U. S. 31 that his neck was broken and his head Frank L. Hammond, former probate IliN token so look Sheriff Cutler by sur- caret Rupp; clerk In drain commission Drain Commissioner—George W. Sat- men. and declared that he wanted to almost severed from his body. After Judge of Berrien county, who presented prise ihat be was rendered completely er's office, Florence Ijidwlg; clerks In tler, Benton HarlM>r. repudiate all that he bad said in the helping Mrs. While lift the body of his .Mr. Cutler with a Iteaullful wrist speechless, but expressed his thanks school commissioner's •»llit»'—Cora watch In behalf of bis friends and County Surveyor—James Hampton, trial, and In the presence of these men victim Into the car. the driver of the and iippreclaiioti. declaring that he Wilson and Claire Holm. Between iteuton Hariwr And South admirers: Atloruey Charles W. (lore, Benton Harltor. he swore under outh that be did nol car Is said to have admllled that he would perform bis new duties to the Circuit Court Commissioners—Stuart hail lieen drinking heavily and drove former prosecuting attorney, in liehalf best of his ability. » Officers Have Taken Oath set the Mullen imiier mill on tire; Haven. B. White. Niles; and-T. J. Hammond, away without giving his name and that be committed perjury when he ac- Mr. P. J. Hoffmaster. head of State Benton Harbor. without Ihe license number of his car The above officers have been sworn cused Hurwlch and Nicely on the Parks, and Mr. Roy L. Hogue. chief County Coroners—Marion A. Uutber- being secured. Mrs. While and her in for their various offices and on Jan- stand: and that he committed black- of land acquisitions and both of the ford of Niles and Louis Kerilkowski of children were left alone with the re- mail. after the fire, when he tried to Conservation Department at Lansing. ST. JOSEPH TP. TARMER AGED CALIEN COUPLE St. Joseph. uary 1st assumed their duties. Circuit mains of her husband until they were get money out of Hurwlch and Nicely Michigan, guided by Mr. Rice, surveyor County Road Commissioners—Loren j Judge White and Probate Judge An- enabled to hail a passing motorist who "to keep still." of the re-located U. S. 31 along the Snyder, Benton Harbor; C. E. Uen-j look them to Paw Paw. A physician drews did not take a new oath uf of- Attorney Wore filed a motion in the shore of l^ike Michigan, huvd just barger, Niles; S. M. Merrltt, TbrtM-; reported after an examination thai WAS SUICIDE VICTIM E BY GAS fice as they are hold-overs and were circuit court ou Monday of this week spent two days going over the -100 Oaks. Claude A. Baker is the see- j death bad lieen Instantaneous. Besides not re-elected last fall. Don R. I'ears involving Furkas' statement and asked acres of Michigan Forest Dunes, three re tary of the conoty road commission. ^ the widow and children, the victim Is sets a new precedent as holding the of- that Hurwlch and Nicely IK- discharged. miles west of Covert. •survived by his father. Edward While, Other OfBcesr Hold Over fice of register of deeds for the third The hearing of the motion will prob- This inspection was made by these Micliael Dougvilla, 36.