The Yale expositor., 1914-12-10
MICHIGAN NEWS BRIEFS

borrow $4,000 for the purpose of COM
plotting roads started during the sum-
mer.
The charter providing for a COM
mission form of government in Chesa-
ming was defeated, 165 to SO. A new
charter will be drafted for submis-
sion.
Leonard Eronoel, Is years old, of
Koss, Menominee county, was instant
ly killed Saturday while hunting. His
own shotgun was accidentally dis
charged.
II. w. Boorn, deputy warden of the
Michigan state prison. has resigned
and w. e. Hilinrake, secretary to the
warden, has been appointed to fill the
vacancy.
In an opinion addressed to State Oil
Inspector Barron, Attorney-General
Fellows rules that gasoline, benzine
and naphtha must be kept in red col
ored cans.
The Bay Shore hotel, owned by
John Rabior at Wenona Beach, burned
to the ground Thursday morning with
loss of $4,000. The fire was of
unknown origin.
pastor of st. Patrick's chnrch, North
field, has been presented by his par
ishioners with $1,000 with which to
purchase a motor car.
AttOrna,, Caporo1 L1oIIouys hoe ru1od
that churches do not need to furnish
individual drinking cups for commun-
ion services. The opinion was asked
by Rev. Chalker, of Fowlerville.
The proposition of granting the
Flint Electric company a franchise to
furnish electricity for power and light
for Mt. Morris was carried Saturday
by a vote of 100 to 2. ThiTty-seven
women taxpayers voted.
The state board of pardons, acting
as a board of transfer, Saturday or
dered 20 prisoners sent from Mar
quette is only 80 while there are $40
prisoners there. No lifers or long
termers were transferred.
Governor Ferris has. named John
c. Ketchum, Hastings, G. II. Hagger-
son, Menominee, and James Couzens,
Detroit, members of a commission TO
investigate a proposed branch of the
Lincoln highway in Michigan.
One of the most successful conven-
tons ever held by the Michigan State
Horticultural society came to close
at Kalamazoo Thursday afternoon.
Muskegon was selected as the next
meeting place of the fruit growers.
The Gobleville State bank with
reserve of 100000 opened for business
Saturday Philip Bush is president,
Howard Allen vice-president and L. o.
Graham cashier There are 80 stock
holders all residing in that vicinity.
William Elkins was drowned when
his row boat overturned, 20 feet from
the dock. He was resident of AL
gonquin, near Sault Ste. Marie. His
son, Clyde, was with Mr.. Elkins in
the boat, but was unable to save his
father, The body was recovered.
Angry because his wife had him ar
rested for non-support and was leav-
ing him with her parents for her home
in Milwaukee, Peter Tonari, a Calumet
miner, shot the woman three times in
the head, inficting fatal wounds and
made a futile attempt to take his own
life.
Atty-Gen. Fellows has returned
from Washington with ruling on the
new federal stamp tax as applied to
state documents and certificates. The
ruling is that certificates issued by
the state in discharge of its official
functions need not be stamped In
other words, the state does not have
to pay tax to transact its necessary
duties.
A. L. Hopkins, of Bear Lake, was
Saturday reelected president of the
at the closing session of the delegates
Michigan Potato Growers Association
at Kalamazoo. Other officers reflect
ed are Secretary c. w. Wald, East
Lansing; treasurer, Ernest A. Bessey,
East Lansing; members of executive
committee, F. ]. Stafford, Elmira, and
Jason Woodman, Kalamazoo.
Saginaw was first choice as the
place for the holding of the State
Teachers convention in 1914, at
meeting of the executive committee
In Lansing Friday. Should Saginaw
fail to make proper showing as to
auditorium capacity, hotel accommoda-
tions and financial backing, the de-
cision will be between Detroit and
Lansing in the order named
Melvin Baker, aged IL, son of ]. d.
Baker, who lives about four miles
south of Grand Blanc, was accidental
ly killed Saturday afternoon while
hunting. Baker, in the absence Of his
family, had taken his fathers gun
and had gone into swamp near the
house with Charles Scott, aged IS.
While they were climbing a fence the
gun was accidentally discharged.
Charles E. Platter, 80, baker, Mon
day night called at police headquarters