The Yale expositor., 1914-01-15
MICHIGAN NEWS IN BRIEF

All records for attendance at NJ.
A. c. were broken at the commence.
ment of the winter term at the col
lege. The attendance went above the
1000 mark.
o. +. Wilson, OF ST. Johns, claims
the distinction of being the county
officer with the lowest salary in Mich.
igan. The board of supervisors, at
its January session, paid Wilson s.
for acting as secretary of the soldiers
relief commission the past seven
years.
But two persons i'm the state of
Michigan died from smallpox during
the year just closed, according to the
report of the state board of health
There were 1,613 cases OF smallpox
during the year and of this number
the records show that 1,444 had never
been vaccinated.
Edward Sawdon, conductor on a p.
NJ local freight, was burned to death
near Atkins in a fog late Thursday
afternoon when light engine ran in
30, wreckeG and set fire to the ca
bose on a heavy grade. Three other
cars were piled up. The other oc-
cupants OF the caboose escaped.
A movement is under way TO bring
to Whitehall a summer chautauqua,
the first entertainment of the kind
ever attempted here. 1t is figured the
hundreds Of resorters who will be at
tracted BY such an event will make
possible the billing OF numbers OF I'M
usual attractiveness for a place the
size OF Whitehall
]. Hamilton, of Newberry. baseball
captain and football star, won the
Olivet annual oratorical medal. Scarth
Inglis. Of hillside, near Petoskey, won
second place on his Grafton, "The
Church" Hamilton will represent the
college at the annual state oratorfcal
college contest at Albion. His ora.
ton was entitled. THE Laws Delay"
A suit to collect fees amounting
to $4,000 has been started by Robert
=. 'Wolter former county clerk
against Grand Traverse county. When
Walter was clerk the supervisors in
creased the salary Of the clerk $500
per year with the stipulation the clerk
was to turn all fees collected over to
the county treasurer. Walter now
claims he is entitled to these fees.
II farmers in the vicinity of Ches-
aiming will guarantee the Towar
Creamery company 10000 gallons of
milk daily, the comDany will undoubt-
eddy build a large condensed milk fac
tory to cost more than $4,000. J. n.
Jones, an agent of the company, is
now canvassing the territory to as
certain how much milk the farmers
will pledge The proposed factory
would employ more than 80 persons.
Tentative plans for the nine story
hotel TO be erected on the site Of the
present house at Genesee street and
Washington avenue IN Saginaw have
been drawn. The cost of the new
structure will be in the neighborhood
Of 100000 A committee of the board
OF trade has been appointed to confer
with Architect Harry Alleyn, OF Gin
cinnati. 1t is planned to lease the
structure to a hotel operating COM
pany.
The state railroad commission has
ordered the Pere Marquette railroad
o reduce it's chair car rates as fol-
lows Detroit to Lansing, As cents;
Detroit to Howell, 80 cents; Detroit
% Grand Rapids, so cents; Chicago
Michigan City, 30 cents; Chicago
to Benton Harbor, so cents; with the
anne rate applying through to Grand
Rapids. Grand Rapids to Holland
will be % cents instead of so; Detroit
D Bay City, so cents; to Flint, 40
cents; TO Holly, Milford and Ply
mouth, 25 cents. Detroit to Monroe. rs
jents; Lansing to Grand Rapids, 35
~rs~
Owosso school boys caught smoking
cigarettes will be arrested, If the chief
OF police obeys the instructions given
to him by Mayor Bradel. The mayor
says too many youngsters are eeen
about the streets putting away at
pills" He has demanded strict en-
forcement of the law.
Mrs. James G.. Blair, of Kalamazoo,
has accepted the craftsmanship of the
publicity committee of the Michigan
Suffrage association and also the task
OF raising the money needed for her
work. She is one OF the most active
suffrage workers in the state. i