The Yale expositor., 1915-12-30
MICHIGAN News BRIEFS

NbNShupNluS 10 SpllI uyndllllLO Cap
with an AK. Ben Price, 9-year-old son
OF Mr.. and Mrs. Martin Price, of In
verness township, was badly injured
Monday.
Muskegon must pay $1,S15 damages
to the widow of former city employe
as the result Of the supreme court de-
cision placing municipalities under the
workman's compensation act.
The largest sum of money for 1916
automobile licenses received thus far
came last week from the Detroit Edi-
son Co. The request for the new tags
was accompanied by a check for ST.
6S3.3O.
The appeal of the city of Detroit
for taxes for the year 1913. paid under
protest by ST. Joseph's Episcopal
church, was granted by the supreme
court and the action of the court be-
low reversed
Four Flint men, John Roney, Mike
Evanoft, William Cascades and John
Russell, have been sentenced to to-
tai of 210 days in Detroit house of
correction on conviction of violating
the local option law
Petitions are being circulated in
Boyne City to have all business places
closed on Sunday, following granting
of requests of church people that card
playing and punchboards be ordered
out by county officials
Sixty members Of the Girls Glee
club of University of Michigan, garb-
ed as monks. sang Christmas carols
outside the homes of DR.. Harry b.
Hutchins, president, and other mem
bers of the Michigan faculty.
State Highway Commissioner Frank
Rogers is asking support for a law in
congress providing for a federal APP
preparation Of $25,OO0,OOO for roads.
The law was drafted by the American
Association of State Highway Off
Gals.
Governor Ferris has rewarded with
a parole Charles Smith, who saved
Jackson prison from probable destruc-
ton by fire. Smith was attacked and
seriously cut by Daniel Sutton, an Ing
ham convict, who is alleged to have
started the fire.
Seventy-fve farmers of Parma and
Sandstone townships met in Parma
annual stock sale or series of sales in
Jackson. The sentiment was distinct
ly in favor of an organization being
formed for this purpose.
Alger county. which voted on local
option last April, will remain wet an
other year. The first count gave the
drys two majority. A recount reversed
the majority into the wet column The
circuit judge upheld the board of can
vassers and the supreme court has
affirmed the lower court.
Chemists at the laboratory of the
Dow Chemical company at Midland
have developed a process for making
indigo blue dye. This week half-ton
shipment was sent to the Pacific mills,
at Lawrence, Mass. This is believed
the first manufacture of this dye on
a commercial scale in this country.
Gladwin county road commissioners,
Midland county officials and represen-
tatives of the Tittabawassee power
interests met with the state highway
commissioner in regard to a dispute
over the route of a road which could
run through the site of a proposed
dam. After a stormy session it was
voted to make a detour of the road.
Paid for chiefly by penny contribu-
tons by the 1000 school children of
Jackson, 1925 diamond ring was
Christmas morning presented to Ed
ward Page Cummings, city superinten-
dent of schools, who shot himself ac-
cidentally some days ago while clean
ing his shotgun. The physicians have
pronounced Mr.. Cummings out of dan
ger.
Michigan Central railroad has spent
ing the track facilities of the Jack
son yards. The action was taken af-
ter the traffic committee of the Cham
Der of Commerce represented to Off
Gals that the yard facilities were in
sufficient to take care of the freight
and local manufacturers were COM
planning.
A jury in circuit court, after being
out five hours, awarded judgment
for $4,000 to Miss Lillian Boyle, of
Leslie, Mich, who was injured about
two years ago at Thompson, Mich, a
junction point of the Pere Marquette
and Ann Arbor railroads, while chang
ing trains at that place. The verdict
is the result of joint suit for 5000
against both railroads.
James r. Henry, of Indianapolis, ap-
pears to be the latest victim of Char
ley Ross" known by name only, to
Felix H Flynn, county clerk, as a
land shark. Henry's inquiry about
"land" he bought" in Liberty town
ship, is the eleventh Mr. Flynn has re-
ceived since he has been clerk and
each time Ross" has been the seller
Henry is said to have exchanged $500
cash and city property for the