The Yale expositor., 1915-10-21
MICHIGAN news BRIEFS

est member fthe Lenawee county
bar, is dead at the age of 7S years.
Lake county supervisors have order
ed the local option question submitted
to the voters at the spring election.
Kent county is now $4,000 in debt
and will be $4,000 behind before jan
uary l, according to the treasurers
report to the supervisors.
Hillsdale college is making prepare
ton for triangular debate with Hope
and Kalamazoo, a debate with Albion
and debate with Ypsilanti.
Fred Rich, heir to an estate OF ST.
51O, at Bedding, has been missing since
1910 and the money has been de-
posted with the county treasurer.
Governor Ferris will be the prin-
cipal speaker at the annual meeting
of the Northwestern Ohio Teachers
association, at Toledo, October 20 and
30.
Members of the Joyians, an electri-
clans social body from Michigan
cities, met and decided to hold the
first state gathering at Saginaw
Dec. /.
The county road commissioners
Will recommend to TIE board Of super
visors at the October session that
bonds be issued for the building of
good roads.
]. Frank Quinn, OF the staff of the
Grand Rapids association of commerce
has been elected secretary Of the
newly organized chamber of commerce
at st. Joseph.
Costing over 100000, a new foun.
dry for the Campbell Wyant Cannon
company will be erected at Muskegon
Heights Immediately, officials OF the
concern announced Thursday.
DR.. A. L. Tiffany, veterinary sur
geon Of Monroe and secretary of the
driving club, was Thursday appointed
by the board of supervisors as live
stock inspector for Monroe county.
The Albion Federation of Women's
clubs has started a movement for a
! Carnegie library for Albion. The AL
already Endorsed such a proposition.
The Rogersville rural school, north
east of Mt Morris, has been ordered
closed by the health authorities be-
! cause of two cases Of infantile par
alysis in the family of Howard Cox.
VIM. II. Halstead, 70, a rural carrier
and pioneer resident OF Owosso, was
killed by a Lansing interur-
ban car, which wrecked his motor car
! FIVE miles south OF Owosso Friday.
Halstead's body was carried $50 rods.
State Veterinarian DR.. Dumphy Sat
urday said that the infection in herd
of cattle near Adrian is not the foot
and mouth disease. He said there was
some irritation in the mouth which
was caused by change OF feed from
short dry grass to a long wet pasture.
Robert L. Durkee and Zellard Shift,
the two young men who walked to the
! San Francisco fair, have returned to
! their homes at st. Louis. They were
presented with homeward bound trans
portation by Harry K. Thaw, whom
they met at Reno, New, while on their
westward hike.
Edward r. Loud, of Albion, was
houn County Coal Co., at a meeting
of the creditors held at Albion Friday.
! This concern, which operates the coal
mine north of Albion, was declared
| bankrupt October 2, in the United
States district court. in Detroit.
Raymond ]. Lake, 80, of Montrose,
was killed by a Pere Marquette train
at Newark, Mich, Saturday. His
mangled body was found beside the
tracks by section hand. Lake left
Montrose Thursday to look for work.
He leaves a widowed mother and a
young daughter His wife is dead.
Henry. 7-year-old son of State Sen
ator Henry E. Straight, of Coldwater,
died Friday of infantile paralysis. 1t
was first diagnosed as appendicitis. A
Toledo specialist arrived just after
the boy died. A post-mortem deter
mined the case as infantile paralysis.
There are several cases in the city.
The spread OF hog cholera in Clin-
ton county is causing considerable
alarm among the farmers. AS a pre-
cautionary measure. George w. Dun
ply state veterinarian, has ordered
quarantine placed on all dogs in two
townships. The official believes that
the dogs are spreading the disease
Grasping an electric wire over his
head as he worked on pole belong
ing to the Consumers Power Co., at
Battle Creek, late Saturday afternoon,
David DeVoe, lineman, 30 years old,
was electrocuted. The accident oc-
cured in the heart of the Maple street
mansion" district, in front of Brain
ard T. SINNERS home.
Escanaba has begun a campaign
against outside canvassers. Mayor
MacMillican and Prosecutor H. G.
Rushton, Of Delta county, have IN
structed the police to arrest agents
nursuinR their traffic within the city.