The Yale expositor., 1915-06-17
MICHIGAN news BRIEFS

years old, met death Friday by fall
ing into the Grand river at Lansing,
while playing.
Houghton county board of super
visors Friday voted to double the ca
pacity of the county tuberculosis san
itarium which is over-crowded.
Field men will begin visiting prop
erty in Detroit to fix the valuation
thereof about July l, the state board
OF tax commissioners announces.
Summer activities at the Bay View
camp ground of the Methodist Epis-
copal church will open July Is, with
a lecture by Henry r. Pattengill.
Eastern time was defeated in an I'M
official voting contest held at Kalama-
ZOO. The council deferred bction
pending this expression of sentiment.
Or. Ward E. Giltner, of East Lans-
ing, has been appointed by Governor
Ferris as member of the state veter-
mary board, to succeed o. ]. How
ard, resigned.
Tony Cozzie, 13 years old, was kill
ed by a Michigan Central freight
train at Monroe, Thursday night. The
boy with several others, is said to
have been stealing a ride.
The Flint council Monday night fix
ed the tax rate at $11.S0 on $1,000,
which is 40 cents lower than last
! year. The assessed valuation is $751;
268,021, an increase Of 100000 over
last year.
The Pere Marquette has agreed to
permit the Grand Rapids e. Indiana
railroad to use its spur tracks to
manufacturing plants at Muskegon
Heights, ending a long conflict be-
tween the two companies in Muske-
gon.
Socalled diseases of Michigan
pickles are TO be investigated thor
oughly this summer by Michigan Ag-
ricultural College and United States
Agricultural college. The investiga-
ton will be conducted on experiment
tai plots at Grand Rapids.
Summer camp for the forestry de-
partment of the Michigan Agricultural
college, will be held at Dayhuff lake,
near Saginaw starting June Fl and
continuing for seven weeks. In addi-
tion to the forestry work time will be
given 10 rife practice.
William Storch, 16, of Saginaw,
while on h'6 way to his home from
the Arthur Hill trade school Wednes-
day afternoon en- a bicycle, was
struck by a heavy Standard Oil Co.
truck and was fatally crushed. He
died a few minutes after reaching the
hospital.
The board of trustees of Adrian col
lege, in session Friday, announced
that President B. w Anthony, IL
years president of the institution, had
resigned and the board had accepted
his resignation and elected DR.. J. c..
Hess of West Lafayette, Ohio, as his
successor.
Henry Nyenhuis, a young farmer
near Holland, was instantly killed
when his automobile plunged from
the floor of a basement barn to the
The machine crashed through the side
of the barn when young Nyenhuis lost
control OF 1t.
A disease known as hemorrhagic
septicaemia is believed by DR.. Hall
man, state pathologist, to exist among
cattle on a Wexford county farm.
The disease is said to resemble black
leg. 1t is quickly communicated to
other animals, affecting cattle, sheep,
horses and goats.
The city tax board has fixed the
valuation of Lansing property at $685.
100000, an increase over last valua-
ton. Factories which have not been
running full time have been reduced,
the cuts amounting to about 100000.
Downtown business property has been
greatly increased.
Submarine models for the United
States navy have been experimental
with in the marine tank of the Uni
versity of Michigan to determine the
resistance and the horse power neces-
sary to drive the craft Similar ex-
periments have been made before for
the navy department.
Michigan Auctioneers' association,
in session at Saginaw Wednesday af-
ternoon, elected officers as follows:
President, Sheriff George II. Suther.
land, Saginaw; vice-president, John
Rowell, Ithaca; secretary-treasurer ].
Holman, Alma. 1t was decided to hold
two days convention next year in
Saginaw.
Ground has been broken for the
S65, 900 addition to Gogebic county's
court house at Bessemer. The bonds
for this purpose were voted by the
people over year ago, but legal COM
plications had delayed the work.
When 1t is completed Gogebic will
have the finest structure of its kind
in the upper peninsula.
The famous Petoskey sea serpent,
which has been a feature of parades