The Yale expositor., 1910-01-28
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

Homer has a warm fight for the
postmastership, with four candidates
hustling for the appointment.
Members of the Grand Rapids Re-
tail Grocers' association have agreed
to boycott meat and other food supplies
controlled by trusts, until such time
as the prices OF these articles are low
cred.
The Michigan State Beekeepers' as
ISOLATION will meet at the Hotel Went
worth in Lansing Feb. 20, for two
days session. President George w
York, of the National association, will
be present.
The Owosso council has ordered
that the peddlers' license ordinance
be lived up to by the numerous FAR
mers who have been selling meat on
the streets of the city. Local dealers
made the complaint.
The famous old drop-curtain in the
Academy OF Music. painted by Robert
Hopkin. the noted Detroit artist, has
been rescued from the rubbish heap
by the Saginaw Womans club and
will be preserved by the society.
Many speakers have been obtained
for the Lincoln banquet at Jackson,
Feb. IA. The four gubernatorial can
didates, Osborn, Montgomery, Kelley
and Musselman, are expected, also
Congressman Townsend and James e.
Watson, OF Indiana.
George l. Hauser, OF Charlotte, chief
clerk in the department for the four
past years, will become deputy audi
tor to succeed Nathan Simpson. accor-
%
Hauser has been connected with the
department for some time.
DR.. ID. T. Smith, of Ann Arbor, per-
formed the difficult operation of tre-'
phining the skull OF s. ID. Becker, OF
Kalamazoo. Becker was thrown from
buggy in November and since that
time has lost his power of speech, and
last week paralysis Of the right side
set in.
Rt. Rev. Charles d. Williams, bishop
of Michigan, in an address before the
various Episcopal clubs at Saginaw,
declared that the spirit of democracy
in America was being rapidly de-
stroyed by a feeling of class distinc-
ton that is even worse than that in
England
A warrant has been issued for the
arrest of Walter Pierce, the Ypsilanti
policeman who figured prominently in
the murder of Henry c. Minor, charg-
ing him with fraudulently obtaining
possession of property belonging TO
Charles Bell, who died in the asylum
at Pontiac.
There is at present much sickness
in almost every part of the upper
peninsula, with smallpox and typhoid
fever given as the chief diseases.
Samples OF drinking water from Calu-
met, Houghton, Hancock and Mar
quette have been examined once a
month for two years and with but
one exception have been found to be
pure. so it is evident that this is
not the cause for the epidemic.
Applications for hearing on the
tentative valuation of railways, tele-
phone and telegraph properties are
beginning to food the state tax COM
mission. The Citizens company of
Grand Rapids is the first of the big
telephone companies to ask that a
date be fixed. Under the law these
corporations have until Feb. Is in
which to present reasons why the
tentative assessment should be
changed.
Reports are heard that an injunc-
| ton is to be served on the board of
! education OF Muskegon to allow the
seven students suspended on account
of connection with fraternities in the
high school to attend their classes.
| In the various chapters of the Beta
Zeta Phi each member, and there are
over 1000, has agreed to pay in 81 to
general fund for fighting the case,
and it Is very probable that the Mus
kegon boys will take advantage OF the
offer.
The Bay County Construction Co.
has been organized for the purpose
of doing general engineering and
railway constructing business. The
company consists of John II. Aller-
dyce. of Detroit; Chas. W., Thos. L..
Geo. w. and Frank 8. Handy, and
Chas. S. Ruttle, of Bay City. The
new company will build and equip
the new railroad which Handy Bros.
are building from Bay City into the
Thumb coal fields, grading for which
| is now progressing rapidly
With their return to Battle Creek
| i'm charge of an officer, Helen Raynor,
| Is, and Bertha Clement, 16, who dis
appeared from their homes a month
| ago and we're found in a Chinese
! laundry in Ann Arbor, unfolded re-
voting tale, showing Battle Creek
to have been the center of Chinese
white slave traffic of statewide pro-
| portions. The girls story has already
resulted in the arrest Of three China
men at Ann Arbor who we're in the
girls company at the time they were
taken into custody.