The Yale expositor., 1909-09-10
MICHIGAN 3REvITIES.

Inc lV,VUO new Lincoln pennies
stolen by Pennsylvania train robber
were being brought to the First State
bank Of Holland for distribution.
The lid was on tight in Detroit Sun
day and Monday, and the thirst was
great. with only water TO slake it,.
The police pulled off the stunt in
artistic style.
Five thousand acres OF land in Sas-
katchewan province, Can, have been
purchased by George Hoyt, l.. ID.
Allen, Wright Fenley, William Will
Hanson and William Kirby, all Of
Pontiac.
]. Herbert Ferris. Detroit artist and
his brother, Prof r. II. Ferris, of the
Chicago Theological seminary, spend
ing their vacation together in Hills
dale, are constructing an experimental
aeroplane.
The Kellogg Toasted Corn Flake Co.
of Battle Creek, with a force of 600
employees, announced last week that
hereafter Sunday would be observed
as day of rest instead of Saturday,
as has been the custom.
Because the city clerk OF Marshall
refused a license to Ethel Peters, a
16-year-old Rexford township girl, who
with her mothers consent, wished to
marry Franklin Race, %, the couple
started for Windsor to have the knot
tied.
W. o. Gaffney, a Cadillac attorney,
and his partner. Henry Miner, of Lake
City, are working hard in Wexford
and Missaukee counties against local
option, and they have announced that
the liquor question will surely be re-
submitted TO the voters at the next
election.
Kent county is getting short of
funds, and it seems probable that the
treasury will be fat before the super
visors' October meeting, when a loan
is planned The big contagious dis
ease expense this year and the short
age in liquor license money is re
sponsible.
William Blasen, a Grand Rapids fac
tory hand, has reported to the police
that he was called from his room at
midnight Saturday and attacked by
four men, who beat and robbed him
Of $32. Later he says he received
Black Hand letter which warned
him not to marry the Chicago girl
to whom he is TO be united Septein
Der Is.
Though his father threatened TO dis
inherit him il he married the girl
OF his choice, Louis Sander, only SOL
of prominent Grand Rapids clothier,
who went to Montana and opened a
store of his own after the quarrel, has
sent for Miss Leotah c. Halliran, his
sweetheart, and they will be married
when she reaches the west. Reports
from young Sander state that he is
prospering.
Nathan A. Cole, OF Peoria, Ill., d.
rector of publicity for the United
States Manufacturers and Merchants
association, claims he has formed a
nucleus OF prominent business men of
Grand Rapids who will fight the at
tempts TO make the city dry. He de-
clares he has between $4,000 and
$4,000 back of him and will work
from the standpoint that liquor Is a
good business stimulant.
According to n statement made by
Rev T. c. Thomas, a full blood Chip
pewa Indian, there was no "Hia-
watha," the hero OF Longfellow's
poem "Minnebooshoo." whom, &C.
cording to the Indian belief, was the
creator of the earth and a very great
man. was the person the poet had in
mind. The name Hiawatha came
from the white mans pronunciation
OF "Kit-he-wah-s which TO the red
man meant far of. and which was
given as the residence OF the great
man.
Although 40 years old, Ira Schautz.
prosperous farmer of New Haven
township, took his first ride on the
steam cars last week. when he jour
neyed to Lansing His only other
ride on rails was a short time ago.
when he travelled to Corunna on an
electric car. He was born on the
farm he operates.
Frank Smith, paroled from Ionic
and Just convicted OF threatening tn
life OF Henry Hodge in Jackson. de
clares that he is innocent. He says
that Hodge, a rival for the Affection
OF Smiths sweetheart. plotted TO have
him arrested and sent back to Ionis
to get him out OF the way.