The Yale expositor., 1915-05-06
MICHIGAN NEWS BRIEFS

of charge, the services of all Flint
dentists in a dental clinic.
w. p. Bates, of Hillsdale, has per
fected and obtained letters of patent
on a combination harvester which
cuts and thresher grain with one OPP
Grafton.
Walter Anderson and Lawrence
Smith, of Leland. young fishermen,
lost their lives Friday in Lake Lee
lanau, near Provement. when their
boat upset about a mile from the
shore.
The faculty of Hillsdale college has
elected Howard Hicks, 15, to the
scholarship in the University of Mich
igan offered to Hillsdale college, Miss
Grace Cone, IA, has been chosen alter
nate.
Burns caused the death of Mrs. Mar
garet Reddington, sc years old. of Kali
amazoo. Mrs. Reddington was light
ing an oil stove when her dress caught
fire and before help could be called,
she had been fatally burned.
Lester Dehn, 10, Battle Creek press
man, fell under a Michigan Central
freight train at Albion Friday and was
fatally mangled, dying five hours later
in the city hospital. He was the
youngest of a family of nine children.
The affairs of the Battle Creek
Building & Loan association Friday
night were officially placed in the
hands of Attorney w. S. Powers. His
recent appointment as conservator
was approved by Secretary of State
Vaughan.
With the exception of few addi-
tional arrests for drunkenness Friday
night, stranger in the city would
not have known that Kalamazoo had
passed from wet to a dry territory.
Those who had expected a night OF
carousing were disappointed.
The Detroit & Mackinac Railway
Co. is defendant in a suit for $4,000
brought by the Richardson Lumber
Co. for alleged overcharges on freight
on logs from 1909 to February Is,
1915, when the road put in effect the
tariff on logs ordered by the state
railway commission.
Fully 10000 men are benefited by
the 10 per cent increase in wages
granted by the Calumet & Hecla to
the employees of it's mills and smelters
and three of it's IL subsidiary COM
panies. The increase puts the wages
back onto the same basis as before
the strike of two years ago.
Donors of $4,000 for a road between
Birmingham and Pontiac have agreed
to have only one and one-third miles
of the highway built this year. Resi-
dents of outlying sections of the coun-
ty protested that to build the entire
road would have deprived them of
needed highway Improvements.
William F. Brownhill, 16 years old,
OF Grand Haven, charged with high
way robbery, was sentenced to Jack
son to serve from five to Is years,
with a recommendation of the mini
mum sentence. Brownhill, with
Frank Dawson, are alleged to have
held up and beaten John Kemp, bridge
tender at Holland.
The board OF trustees of Olivet col
lege has elected as president of the
board A. w. Shaw, who will begin at
once a reorganization of the college.
Next year courses Of more practical
nature, embracing commerce and in
dustry, are to be introduced. Exten-
sive repairing and rebuilding of the
college buildings is to begin at once
Henry Coburn, Jr., a young farmer
living near SCOTS, in Kalamazoo
county, is dead as the result of an au-
tomobile accident. His machine
turned over while he was driving rap
idly towards home, and it fell on him.
burn was one of the best known far
mers in the southern end of the
county.
The Saginaw county auditors have
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looks as If Birch Run would soon have
deputy sheriff to quell over-zealous
Flint "thirsties." Two saloon men in
the village have put in 5000 each and
will also contribute something to-
wards a village bastile. Citizens of
Birch Run will make up enough to
pay the deputy $500 yearly.
During March, 257 persons in Mich
igan died from tuberculosis, according
to the monthly vital statistics report,
an increase over the number of deaths
in February. Pneumonia was the only
disease which caused more deaths
during March than tuberculosis, it's
total number of victims being 554.
There were 41S6 deaths from all
causes in March, and $3.50 births.
At the second annual meeting of
the Association of superintendent of
! Buildings and Grounds of Universities
at Ann Arbor, ]. M. Fiske, of Iowa
State university, was elected presi-
dent. The other officers follow: Vice