The Yale expositor., 1913-11-13
MICHIGAN NEWS IN BRIEF

Laying the stone on Petoskey's new
100000 postoiiice and government
building has begun.
An eye test for the pupils of the
Tecumseh public schools has been in
troduced by Superintendent Reed.
An effort is being made to develop
large summer resort on 400 acres
being plated near Houghton lake.
The government has begun trans
forming the lighthouse reserve at
Port Huron into public playground.
The Grand Haven Poultry associa-
ton is figuring on one of the largest
; shows in Western Michigan for Dec.
1919.
Rev. A. S. Donat, pastor of the Con-
gregational church at Cadillac for two
years, has resigned, to take effect
April 80.
1t is estimated that $4,000 copies of
the teachers edition of Public
Health" will be needed to supply the
demand.
Delophus Labeau, SO, OF Menominee
met death when grain stored in the
garrett of his home broke through and
suffocated him.
The annual convention of the Retail
Implement and Vehicle Dealers con-
vention will be held in Grand Rapids
November 1920.
Frank Doves, wanter in Jackson on
an embezzlement charge, was found in
Kalamazoo hiding under a mattress
and nearly suffocated.'
The new $4,000 Church of the
Swedish mission at Cadillac, one of
the oldest church organizations in that
part of the state, was dedicated Sun
day
Special officer Summerfield, of the
Shiawasse and other coal mines in
the valley, was chased from the mine
by coal thieves armed with pitch
forks.
Eban Rees, So, was caught under
falling slate at Robert Gage mine, No.
5, at Auburn and so badly injured he
died In a few hours in Bay City
hospital.
The eighteenth semi-annual meeting
of the Michigan Whist association
will be held at Charlotte November
1920. Play will be held in the Ma
sonic temple.
AT meeting OF the executive board
of the Michigan Association of Elks
at Grand Rapids, it was decided to
hold the next state convention in
Petoskey. June 25-27.
Deputy Game Warden w. C. Kidder
arrested a band of Indian trappers in
Missaukee county for violation of the
state game laws. About 200 muskrats
were taken from them.
Rev. B. II. Einink. pastor of the
First Christian Reformed church of
Muskegon, has received a call from
the Sixteenth Street church of that
denomination, at Holland.
State Treasurer Hearers monthly
report shows a balance of $S49,4S5 in
the general fund. For the last month
the receipts of the fund were $165, 1923,
and the disbursements S610.466.
Fifteen were injured. one thought
fatally, when a northbound Grand
Rapids & Indiana passenger train
went into the ditch at South Board
man, north of Cadillac, Friday after
noon.
Warden Simpson, of Jackson pris-
on, broke both bones of his right leg
Friday, when he stepped from a plat
form near the binder Irvine warehouse
while showing some visitors through
the penitentiary.
Deputy Fire Marshal MarQuard has
ordered three moving picture houses
closed until the buildings have been
remodeled TO conform with the law.
One is in Paw Paw, another in Law
renee and the third in Hartford.
A machine gun may be added to
the equipment of the Grand Rapids
battalion of the NJ. N. c., and reso-
luton has been passed by the board
of control making application for the
mastering in of a machine gun COM
pany.
The Presbyterian church parsonage
and four adjoining residences at Bea-
verton we're destroyed by fire Satur-
day night, which broke out in the
church The loss is placed at $4,000.
The fire originated from a source not
known.
Battle Greek has been awarded the
1914 convention OF the Michigan State
Retail Lumber Dealers association,
the dates to be Feb. 2, 3 and 4. In
addition to the Michigan Travelling
Lumber, Sash and Door Statesmen will
meet there.
The Houghton Land & Drainage
company has been enjoined from cut
ting a canal into the Sturgeon river
to drain the Sturgeon swamp. by
Judge O'Brien, of the circuit court.
The injunction was granted after far
mers convinced the court that the wa