The Yale expositor., 1914-07-16
MICHIGAN NEWS BRIEFS

Harold Beeler, ~, was drowned,
and John Blackwell rescued when a
launch was overturned by swells from
freighter at Port Huron.
Because of so many disastrous fires
in Port Huron during the last few
months, the city commission has or
dered larger water mains laid and
connected with every manufacturing
! plant in the city.
Mrs. Charles o. Burnham, of Ann
ArbCr, has filed suit against the De-
troit, Jackson & Chicago Railway Co.,
for $4,000 damages, because OF the
death of her husband in the recent
wreck near Jackson.
Bruce and Neil Mead, brothers,
drowned in Pine river near St Clair
Friday night, one in an unsuccessful
effort TO save the other. A third boy,
Roy Cleland, saved himself after he
had tried in vain to rescue the broth
ers.
Only go districts will be barred
from sharing in the primary school
funds this year because they have a
surplus balance of primary money.
| When the first apportionment was
made in 1912 492 districts were
barred.
Odd Fellows of Kalamazoo, Van
Buren, and Allegan counties will unite
in one association if plans under way
are carried out. 1t is believed an
improvement in lodge conditions can
be brought about by a more thorough
| organization.
A chair of social science as a me-
mortal to the late Gilbert Joseph Lit
tie Stark, of Saginaw, who was grad
uated from Yale in 1907, has been
founded at that institution. His ia
Their. a wealthy Saginaw lumberman,
founded the chair.
Because analytical tests made at
Lansing showed that "near.beer" sold
at the Lake Goguac resort on indie
pendence day was the real thing, one
man is under arrest and at least one
liquor retailer is likely to lose his
license. Battle Greek limits saloons
TO 10.
After several years fight the Mlchi-
gan Anti-Saloon league have been al
lowed the $4,000 legacy left the
Buchanan AntiSaloon league by the
late Sarah A. Hawley of Benton Har-
Dor Heirs fought the bequest on
the ground that the Buchanan league
was not incorporated.
Governor Ferris has been asked by
the sheriff of Oscoda county TO issue
requisition papers for the return of
William Scully, now under arrest in
Louisiana. 1t is alleged that Scully
disappeared in 1912 while he was
county treasurer, taking with him $500
belinging to the township.
Declaring that he would rather be
farmer than a business man, Frank
a. Cowlbeck, for 26 years owner of
one of Kalamazoo's best and most
successful clothing stores. has closed
Up his business and will move onto q
farm. Cowlbeck plans to run one o.
the ideal farms in the county.
Saginaw-Nineteen years ago Ir.
Whitney, a retired farmer of Saginaw
worked at Merrill as drain digger
He was given an order for $5225 fol
his labor by the drain commissioner.
There was no money in the drain
fund, and he could not collect his
wages. He put the order away and
Friday he cashed it.
If there are any political candidates
who desire to speak at the annual
picnic of the Kalamazoo Pioneer So
ciety, to be held August II, they can
do so by renting SO to the secre-
tary. But there is a restriction even
on this. No candidate can speak
longer than three minutes, decided
the executive committee.
Arrested for vagrancy, George
White, a Negro, Saturday bet Justice
Allen ID. Hart, of Battle Creek
nickel that the court would not send
him to Jail. While then argued that
the nickel was money, and, having
money, he was not vagrant. Justice
Hart. after listening TO his argument,
dismissed him-and lost his bet.
George Bell, 16 years old, OF Chi
cago, was drowned in st. Joseph river
when caught by an undertow and
carried out into a deep hole A COM
panion tried in vain to rescue him.
He is the third to drown in this river
within a week.
Paul Hartrig. about IL years old
was drowned in the Saginaw river in
the channel opposite Ottawa island,
the new city bathing beach, Friday
afternoon. He went in alone and was
missed, but divers couldn't recover
his body until an hour afterwards, A
nulmofor failed 10 reetore life