The Yale expositor., 1914-06-25
MICHIGAN news BRIEFS

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ment, to be held at Manistee, July
! 1919.
Another building belonging to the
/ Standard Paper Co. at Kalamazoo
burned Friday night. The loss is
$4,000.
Mrs Joseph Solgate, 50 years old,
Of Reese, is dead She was the
mother of 20 children, Is of whom
are living.
For the sixth time John b. Nc
! Twain, of Port Huron, has been elect
ed attorney for the Ladies of the
Modern Maccabees.
Mrs. Emma c. Mills, II years old,
of Saginaw, formerly an authoress,
is dead. A son, James Cook Mills,
writer of Saginaw, survives.
While taking an insane patient to
the Newberry state hospital Daniel
/ Flynn, under sheriff of Menominee.
died suddenly from heart disease.
The supreme court has refused to
review the decision of the Wexford
circuit court, in which a recount CIV
ing the county to the "drys" was held
/ legal.
/ Fifty-nine graduates of the Detroit
College of Law were admitted to the
bar before the supreme court, after
Chief Justice McAlvay delivered a
short talk.
A dozen families were driven from
their rooms in scanty attire early
Tuesday morning when fire partially
destroyed the grocery store of Chas.
Suley, at Saginaw.
/ Frank Mack. his brother, Ben, their
/ team of horses and pet dog were kill
ed by the same bolt of lightning at
their farm. seven miles northwest of
Monroe late Thursday.
The conference Of Swedish Baptist
churches of the lower peninsula of
Michigan at Muskegon Saturday elect
ed Rev. Detlof Lofstrom, pastor of
the Muskegon Swedish Elm church,
president.
William d. Dunbar, who fell from
scaffold at the Kellogg Food Co. s
plant at Battle Creek several days
ago, is dead from paralysis. He was
4S years old and is survived by a
widow and five children.
The grist mill of George Sheeler
and Frank Gallup, in Ousted, burned,
causing a loss of $4,000. Fire apar-
atus from Adrian was sent, but too
late to save the property. The fire
started in the engine room.
Arthur Weedfall, II years old, grad.
uated from Arthur Hill high school
at Saginaw Thursday with honors
that few high school students obtain.
/ He has attended school for the last
II years and has never been absent
or tardy.
The body of Ottie Kelley, 46 years
old. an inmate of the Soldiers Home
was found in Grand River near the
Home, north of the Grand Rapids.
Kelley, who was a veteran of the
! Spanish-American war, disappeared
last Saturday. Whether death was ac-
cidental is not known
In an address to the West Michigan
Press club, Louis p. Haight, OF
Haight's demonstration farm in Mus
kegon county, asked the newspapers
to cooperate in establishing a vaca-
ton farm. He advocates a division
of land into 1O-acre lots to be rented
as an experiment to city men.
The Saginaw board of trade build
ing to be erected by subscription OF
members of that organization will
cost $3S0,000 according to the plans
that have been adopted. The present
plan of financing is to raise half OF
the money from the membership and
the remainder has been assured by
outside capital
Paul Anderson, aged five years, fell
/ from the dock OF his fathers boat
house at Muskegon, while fishing, and
was drowned. His brother, seven
years old, witnessed the drowning,
but not realizing the seriousness of
the situation, did not move until he
saw his brother sink, and then he
ran to the house and told his mother.
Miss Margaret Page, a junior from
Detroit in the literary department of
the state university, has won the
Stylus rhetoric prize. for the best
short story submitted by woman of
the university. Miss Pages story is
entitled They That Sit in Darkness" !"
Postmaster Harris has received no
tice from the office of the postmaster
general that the salary of the Cay
lord office will be raised from $1,000
to s1,70o. Business in March and April
was so much better than In previous
months that the increase was war.