The Yale expositor., 1912-03-21
s. WOLVERINE
NEWS BREVITIES

Battle Creek. Ministers should
get I'm politics-and they probably
will in Battle Creek this spring.
This was the decision OF the Minis
terial association meeting in the Y. M.
C. A. here, after listening to a near
political address by Rev. Charles
Nease, pastor of the Upton Avenue
Methodist church, and well known
about the state. Ministers should
have a part at the primaries as well
as at the polls" said Doctor Nease.
I'VE men of the ministerial profession
should put the weight of our influence
in the right place and should take our
place among the men OF the world as
citizens. We should prove to the
world that ministers are not imprac-
tical men,"
Battle Creek.-Every girl should
stand on her head at least twice
a day, says DIR. Mabel Howe
Otis of the sanitarium medical staff,
and in the presence of an astonished
audience of Y. w. c. A. girls, whom
she was addressing, she Topped over,
stuck her feet in the air and stood on
her head to show how it should be
done. Now local women are doing
considerable talking about the incl
dent. Standing on ones head is
preventive, if not cure" said Doc
tor Otis. 1T gets the weight off your
feet and puts more brain in your
head"
Hancock.-Mrs. Selma Maklinen.
wife OF Finnish farmer near
Aston, is believed to have been
killed and eaten by wolves. Shortly
before dark she set out on skis for
neighborng farm. She failed to re-
turn and searchers found her skis and
parts of her clothing. Tracks indicat-
ing large pack af wolves were seen
by the rescue party.
Traverse City.-Oficials of the
Oval Wood Dish company, after
holding out for three days, have given
in to the 1000 strikers OF the plant
and granted them a minimum rate of
$1.60 a day. No violence was shown
during the tine the men and women
were out on strike. The company Off
GERS saw that they must run in order
to fill contracts.
Charlottesville funeral of Fire
Chief Donovan held here was the
largest ever witnessed in the city.
All the officers of the Michigan State
Firemen's association and so out OF
town firemen were in attendance. All
business was suspended during the
hour OF the services. Chief Donovan's
death is the first in the history OF the
Charlotte fire department.
Kalamazoo. The first suit to
come to trial as result OF the
East avenue grade crossing accident
of November II, 1910, in which seven
persons were killed and more than a
score seriously injured, will be called
in the circuit court. The suit is
brought for $4,000 damages by Mrs.
Sarah V. Norman against the Michi-
gan Central railway.
ST Clair.-Charles F. Moore, one
of the organizers OF the Diamond
Crystal Salt works here, and
former mayor OF this town, died
OF heart trouble, aged sixty-nine. Mr..
Moore was one of st. Stairs most pro-
gressive business men. He was for
mer member OF the state board OF ag-
riculture, ex-legislator and alderman.
Allegan. Joseph Anderson,
well-to-do Watson farmer, fifty-tive
years old, committed suicide. He
rose, went to the kitchen and shot
himself in the stomach with a shot
gun, dying instantly. He was a
widower and the father of seven chill
dren, six OF whom lived with him.
charlottesville teaching a class
in dancing at Pitchers hall Mrs.
Mae Roe dropped to the floor, dy-
ing instantly of heart failure. When
her aged father, Truman Hollenbach,
was brought to the hall in a carriage
he nearly tainted and had to be car
ried into the hall Mrs. Roe was forty
eight years old, and had lived all her
life in Girard and Coldwater. She
leaves one daughter, Mrs. Robert Cor
nell, Of Adrian.
Brighton.-G. A. Bidwell and
Hans Risdell, two prominent farm
ers, were seriously injured by
runaway team attached to a sleigh on
Main street. Risdell sustained three
broken ribs and internal injuries. Bid
well received scalp wounds and in
jured legs. They were crossing the
street when struck and knocked
down by the team.
Monroe.-Chicken thieves visited
Mrs. X. Soleau of Stoney Creek
and cleaned out her coop. TAX
ing 30 birds Far from feeling bad
over the incident, however, Mrs. So
leau is congratulating herself. for in
the coop she found roll of bills con-
tanning $50 which the thief had evil
IDENTIFY dropped while at his work.
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