The Yale expositor., 1915-01-21
MICHIGAN NEWS BRIEFS

TO the voters at the spring election,
without dissenting voice.
By a vote of 1911. the Lenawee
county board of supervisors ordered
the local option issue placed before
the voters at the April election.
The Grand Traverse supervisors ad-
iourned Saturday after making w. w.
Dean chaplain. This is said to be the
only board of supervisors in the state
having chaplain.
The electors of Berrien county will
vote on local option at the April cleo
ton. BY a vote of 25 to 5. the board
of supervisors ordered the submission
of the proposition at that time.
Frank Parker. aged 50, of Pittsfeld
township. while driving a horse hitch
ed to a buggy. was killed. three miles
southwest of Ypsilanti, at Parker's
Crossing. being struck by Lake
Shore passenger train.
The quarantine has been lifted in
Hillsdale county. and live stock can
now be shipped without inspection.
except within a radius of five miles of
the Randolph farm. where the last
herd of diseased cattle was killed.
The Shiawassee board OF supervis-
ors almost unanimously voted to try
the experiment of using county Jail
prisoners and the class of offenders
now sent to the house of correction,
for county good roads construction.
DR.. c. G. Parnall has been appointed
chief of the city health department by
the new city commission of Jackson,
and one of the first things which the
! reorganized department will under
take will be to war on unclean milk.
A Catholic central high school cost
ing $4,000 will be built in the spring
to accommodate the nine churches Of
! Saginaw and parish churches in sew
eral suburbs, it is announced. All the
churches will assist in the building
of it.
DR.. NJ. F. Hof, dean of the U. of NJ
medical college. has received word
that DR.. Bertrand Monk, who was
graduated in 1913, has been killed in
action while serving as lieutenant in
the British expeditionary force in Bel
GUM.
BY a vote Of 10 to G. the board of
supervisors in session at Standish vot-
ed to submit the proposition of bond
ing Arenac county for $4,000 for a
new sheriff's residence and Jail, the
| present Jail having been condemned
by the state.
For AZ years chief pharmacist at
! the Kalamazoo state hospital, A. NJ
| Mum, died Friday. He came to Kala-
mazoo when 20 years old from Scot
land and secured place in the hospi-
tai, where he remained until taken
i'll few days ago.
The head and stave mill of Watson
Pardee burned to the ground in
Reese, Tuscola county, Thursday 1t
had been operated 40 years with no
insurance and never had fire. Par
dee, loses $4,000. One man was
burned about the neck.
An effort was made at the closing
session of the board of supervisors of
st. Clair county Saturday to have the
proposition to bond the county for
100000 for good roads re-submitted to
the voters at the April election, but
the resolution was defeated The bond
issue was overwhelmingly defeated by
the voters last April.
A third local option fight will occur
in Kalamazoo county in the spring If
the vets are unable to stop it by legal
action. The board of supervisors has
decided to submit the issue, the COM
mittee in its report stating that the
irregularities pointed out by the wet
attorneys in the petitions are not suf-
ficient cause to reject the petitions.
Mr. and Mrs. Solomon Bracket are
dead at their home at Lemon. Two
weeks ago Mr.. Bracket was taken
i'll and his wife cared for him until
she was forced to give up by sickness.
Monday she died in his room and he
saw her carried out, and few hours
later expired The Brackets had
been married so years. They we're
each 80 years of age.
d. e. Turner, of Mosherville, was
awarded the Cleaners cup for the
most perfect 10 cars of corn submit
ted to the Michigan Experiment as
ISOLATION at the closing session of its
convention at East Lansing Friday.
Turner's son Glen won the cup for
the most perfect single car. G. b.
Scully of Almont was chosen president
of the association.
That Lenawee farmers are making
every effort to stock their farms with
feeding cattle following the removal
of the hoof and mouth quarantine was
shown Saturday, when a trainload OF
cattle was received In the county
Ten carloads from Omaha, Nebr,
were distributed in Blissfeld town
ship alone. 1t was here that the first
case of hoof and mouth disease in
southern Michigan was found.
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