The Yale expositor., 1915-11-18
MICHIGAN NEWS BRIEFS

SIX tickets for 20 cents are being
issued by the Safety Motor Bus club.
organized by owners of Grand Rapids
"a jitneys.
Victor Norquist, of Bessemer, hunt
ing north of Wakefield, accidentally
shot himself Friday. Death was in
Simultaneous.
C. E. Millar, formerly connected
with Kansas Agricultural college, has
accepted a position as assistant pro-
fessor of soils at NJ. A. G.
Preliminary plans for the addition of
water softening plant at the city's
waterworks have been announced by
the water board of Flint. 1t is under
stood the cost will be about $4,000.
Arrangements are being completed
for the installment in the blue lodge
room of the Masonic temple at Lans-
ing of a handsome pipe organ, the gift
of r. E. Olds to Lansing Masonic
bodies.
BY vote of as to 81, the citizens of
iceland voted to sell the local light
and power plant to the Consumers
Power Co. for $4,000. The purchasers
must have the plant in operation by
July, 1916.
Albion college will have representa-
tiyes in both the mems and women's
state intercollegiate oratorical con-
fpcf. tbic vaor Tho IooaI y,nauSc cOn.
test will occur December 2 and the
women's December 8.
Mrs. Johanna Won Wagner, of De-
troit, has been named by Governor
mission to succeed Robert e. Todd.
Her term will expire at the close Of
the 1917 legislative session.
The Michigan Arbeiter bund will
at the East Side Arbeiter Hall in
Saginaw, December and 6. About
$500 members from all parts of the
state are expected here for the event.
The Upper Peninsula NJ. Z. Church
mems conference came TO q close at
Crystal Falls, Friday. Ministers and
laymen from all parts of the PENN
sula were present. 1t was one of the
most successful meetings ever held.
The Garland hotel, one of Boyne
City's landmarks, was burned Friday.
The brick building adjoining, owned
by the Petoskey Brewing Co, was also
badly damaged by fire and water. The
loss viii reach So 900, partially cover.
ed by insurance.
Fred Chapman, a farmer of Seville
township Gratiot county, lost leg in
bean thresher while assisting on
the farm of Charles Going. He stepped
from the haymow on to the top Of the
thresher and his foot went through
into one Of the cylinders.
Farmers of eastern Michigan who
have been raising sugar beets re-
ceived nearly 100000 Monday, at
the first pay roll this fall of the Mich
igan Sugar Co., which owns six of the
biggest plants in Michigan. The farm
ers this year are paid fiat rate of
So ton.
James Case, 70 years old, was in
stantly killed early Sunday morning
at Saginaw, by being struck by an au-
to driven by Nicholas Naumann as he
was crossing the street diagnoally.
Naumann had five members of the
Wattashefer family in the car with
him, three of them girls.
State Highway Commissioner F. F.
Rogers has concluded a tour of Sagi-
nav and Bay county roads that have
come under the state reward plan. In
Saginaw county he found conditions
such that unless remedied at once by
extensive repairs will cost the county
thousands of dollars, he says.
While drilling in a slope Just above
the eighth level in the Chaplin mine
at Mountain, Joseph Polkinghorne, 35,
a miner, was suffocated when loose
ground gave away, carrying him down
a chute and burying him. He had
worked in the mine for many years
and is survived by widow and two
children.
Auditor General Fuller received no
tice Saturday that the Germania Re-
fning Co., of Pennsylvania, had APP
pealed to the United States supreme
court from the decision of Judge
West, of the Ingham circuit, who up
held the constitutionality of the act
providing for tax on car loaning
companies.
Charles Hadley, one of the four
postoffice burglars sent up from Hills.
dale in 1909, has been pardoned by
Governor Ferris. The other three
were William Miley, James Burk and
James Freelmaine, and Miley is now
the only one left in prison. Freel-
names term expired and Burk ran
away and has never been located.
A S0-foot fall from a tree caused the
instant death of Lloyd Abbott, aged
Is, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Alb
bolt, living two miles south of Cad
mus. Abbott started on a hunting
trip shortly after breakfast Later in