The Yale expositor., 1909-12-31
MICHIGAN BREVITIES.

The IS inmates OF the bliad insti-
tute were given Christmas tree
celebration by Saginaw people Thurs
day night.
Forty Ferris institute students, In
night shirts and pajamas, gave pa
rade through the downtown streets at
Big Rapids.
Sheriff Wagenseil, Of ST. Clair coun-
ty, is contemplating the purchase Of
pair of bloodhounds for running
down criminals.
Several Detroit men have been In
Vernon looking over the ground with
view of organizing and establish
ing a new bank here to replace the
defunct Sergeant Exchange bank
John s. Barrit, II, former promi-
nent lumberman of Saginaw, and for
45 years a resident of Saginaw county,
died last night after a long illness. He
is survived by one daughter and one
son.
With an eight-penny nail in his
throat, point down, Charles Odette, a
farmer near Clare, Is recovering and
1t is believed the nail will not seri-
ously affect his health. He swallowed
the nail while talking to his son.
Mrs. Hanna Beal, ~, wife OF Prof.
Beal, professor of botany at the Michi-
gan agricultural college, died Thurs
day morning. She, came to Michigan
in 1S47 and had resided at the agricul-
tural college for the past 40 years.
The Whistler Manufacturing Co., of
Port Huron. capitalized ut 100000,
Of pa1n tail ar
Walter Robinson and William Baker,
all of Detroit, has filed articles of in
corporation and will begin the manu-
facture Of the Whistler magnetic,
Franklin Smith, a Grand Traverse
farmer, was thrown in front Of pas.
senger train by runaway team and
the engine and two coaches passed
over him, but he escaped injury.
Smiths horses became frightened and
he was thrown lengthwise between
the rails.
Horrible" impossible to examine"
and very bad" are some of the terms
used by Special Auditor Walter H.
. Shultus, in commenting on the con-
| dition of the books in several of the
city offices, in Grand Rapids in which
he has just completed an investiga-
ton. While there is no hint of any
intentional wrongdoing the condi-
lions resulting from the loose methods
of bookkeeping are very deplorable, he
says.
While w. c. Durant head of the
General Motors Co. was being shaved
in a Lansing hotel, a man asked for
10 minutes of his time. The request
was granted and after a short CONVEX
sation Durant signed his name to two
papers the other presented Then he
told the barber to go ahead with the
shaving. 1t was later learned that
by affiXing his signature to the pa
pers Durant had closed a $1,000,000
business deal.
When local option petitions are pre-
sented to the board of supervisors of
Van Buren, county at the January SEES
sion they will contain over 400 names,
more than are required to nave the
question submitted. Advocates OF To-
cal option are now making an effort
70 have a large number of the signers
ask the county clerk to erase their
names from petitions before they are
presented to the board of supervisors
and notices to this effect are being
published.
Last year a meeting Of the school,
officers of Ingham county was held
in Mason which proved very benefi.
cial to all in attendance. On January
Z similar meeting will be held at
the court house in Mason. The speak.
ers for the occasion will be J.. l..
French, superintendent OF public in
struction, his assistant, Fred J.. Keel.
err, and Walter S. Foster, prosecuting
attorney all of Lansing. School laws
will be fully explained and perplexing
questions discussed.
Because c. II. Barrett refused to ac-
cept $1.700 in settlement. In the suit
brought against III. n. Ainsworth, for
an alleged violation Of construct, Judge
Judge Kelly Scarf, who is filling Judge
Miners place in the circuit court at
Owosso, this week, granted Ainsworth
a new trial. The trouble began when
G. H. Barrett. Of Detroit, purchased a
grain elevator some time ago from
Ainsworth with the understanding that
Ainsworth would not again engage in
the grain business in this part of the
country.