The Yale expositor., 1910-01-14
MICHIGAN BREVITIES.

The members of the boards Of the
state asylums will hold a meeting in
Kalamazoo Jan. 20.
The officers and business men of
Owosso are trying to get a place to
confine the young boys who are being
caught daily stealing goods. The
juvenile law will not allow them to
be sent to Jail.
The International Fanciers' assOci-
alton will hold an annual poultry ex-
hibit at the auditorium in Port Huron
Jan. 10 to 23. 1t is expected that the
number Of entries will be between
$500 and 1000.
The jury in the case of Mrs. G. E.
Spencer, who. it is believed by the
Battle Creek police, was murdered,
brought in a verdict of cause of death
unknown. The police will now in
vestigate further on the murder
theory.
The board of education has forbid
den fraternities in the high school OF
Grand Rapids and placed penalty
of deprivation of diplomas on those
joining after Nov. 1, 1909. The COM
promise offered by the students was
ignored.
Several bean picking establishments
Of Saginaw, employing 100 girls. have
been closed because Of a scarcity Of
material, caused. the dealers say, by
the railroad strike in the west aud
northwest. Many beans ordered from
Duluth are held up.
Atty.-Gen. Bird has announced that
all land used as homesteads by SOL
diers and sailors who served in the
federal army during the civil war, to
a value not exceeding $1,000, will be
exempt from taxes. Widows of sol.
diers and sailors will be given the
same privilege.
Since tho new law, which requires
substantial end platforms aud steps
on all cabooses and way cars, went
into effect the state railway commits
sion has been busy looking for often
dors. Any road which fails to COM
ply with tho measure is subject to
O. fine of not less than 800 and not
more than $500.
The Caro- and Blissfield sugar COM
panies have offered TO pay the eX-
pepses OF man the state may choose
for a trip to Germany to investigate
the methods Of disposing of the re-
fuse from the factories there, with
out killing the fish in rivers and 9th
er streams. The companies have had
considerable trouble i'll Michigan and
they are evidently as anxious to rem
edy the matter as is the state.
, Grand Traverse farmers have paid
as high as 81 per day and board and
lodging for ordinary farm laborers,
and this amount has been paid TO
boys, and even women and girls,
when the latter we're strong enough
to go into the fields to harvest the
potato CROP" said prominent Trav-
erse City produce dealer, in discuss.
ing the high price of foodstuffs. This
certainly has bearing on the high
cost OF living
The board OF supervisors is in a
jangle over the payment of the bills
amounting to between $4,000 and
$4,000, which were sent in for SER
vices and supplies during the recent
smallpox epidemic at Flint. While
some Of the supervisors claim that
physicians have in bills for six calls
per week on some Of the patients,
which they declare were unnecessary,
others say that the bills are correct
and should be paid.
When the house of A. F. Burbank,
OF Ypsilanti, which had been set afire
by candle on belated Christmas
tree. was burning fiercely, Mrs. Gene
We've Perrien, one Of the guests,
rushed into the building and. at the
risk OF her own life, rescued her Z
year-od son, who had been left be-
hind in the scramble for safety She
was severely burned about the hands
and arms, and one Of the boys ears
was badly scorched.
The board of supervisors of Jack
son county is puzzled over the ques-
ton Of what to do with a bequest OF
81 500 left the county in the will Of
William Wooley, recluse who died
a few weeks ago. Many Of the mem
bers favor turning the money over TO
two great-nieces Of Wooley, but as
the will has been probated and the
cash paid over this cannot be done,
according to law. The money may
be used to establish a contagious dis
ease ward in the county hospital and
for the purchase of sanitary drinking
fountains.
According to a Bay City authority.
the d. e. c. Navigation Co will
abandon the route between Detroit
and Saginaw, which has been covered
by tho steamer State Of New York.
The reason given Is that the war de.
partment has refused to improve the
Lake Huron harbors at which the
boat touched. and these. because OF
their shallowness and rock bottoms,
are dangerous.
West Side Y NJ. c. A., Saginaw, to
which the late Arthur Hill left $685.
600. will be revived, as over 100 mem.
bers attended meeting Thursday
night and made plans for the new