The Yale expositor., 1916-06-08
MICHIGAN NEWS BRIEFS

The Pere Marquette will establish
four additional trains on the Ply
mouth-Toledo branch.
Suppression of profanity and the
elevation of the movies are sought
by a non-sectarian movement Of 500
Ionia men.
Allen Dorsey, born in slavery, died
at the age of 70. He escaped to Tor
onto in 1S49 and had lived in Sagi-
nav rs years.
The supreme court has given the
Port Huron Engine & Thresher Co.
Judgment for $4,000 for highway taxes
paid under protest in 1918.
The Bay City council Of Knights
of Columbus became the second larg-
est in the state Sunday when a class
OF 142 was initiated by a Port Huron
team.
Philip Sorlis, OF st. Clair, an alleged
deserter from the United States navy,
is held in Port Huron for burglarizing
the George Gordon Moore and Crosby
cottages at st. Clair.
Gov. Ferris is rot disturbed by re
ports that petitions in his behalf may
be filed for the gubernatorial race.
He declares he will forbid use OF his
name on the primary ticket.
A tabernacle seating $500 people,
and costing $4,000, is to be erected on
the Lake Michigan State Holiness
camp grounds at Eaton Rapids for the
thirty-first annual Today meeting
which begins July p.
The Saginaw board of supervisors
has started suit for $4,000 interest
money alleged to have been paid for
mer county officers against the Com
mercial National bank. which refused
to pay the previous amount claimed,
SO, 24O.95.
Capt. Christian A. Rath, aged sc,
who as provost marshall at Washing
ton sprung the trap and selected the
ropes for hanging the conspirators
who brought about the assassination
of President Lincoln, marched at the
head of the Memorial day parade in
Jackson.
Country ministers will hold a con-
ference at Michigan Agricultural col
lege July 1922 to consider problems
of rural leadership in connection with
the college summer school. Subjects
TO be taken up include agriculture,
rural education, health, economic
problems. and the church.
William Sulzer former governor of
New York, prohibition candidate for
president, spoke under the auspices
Of the University of Michigan chap
ter of the intercollegiate Prohibition
association Sunday. He declared him
self in favor of woman suffrage and
discussed preparedness extensively.
Fourteen persons were burned and
injured and six lives were lost as the
result Of fires in Michigan last month
according to the report of State Fire
Marshal Winship. Three children I'M
der FIVE years of age were burned to
death playing with matches and two
others were seriously burned from
the same cause.
One of the busiest men in Hillsdale
for the past 43 years has been d. B.
Kinyon, aged 60 years, for he has been
engaged in 81 different businesses, in
addition to having plated Kinyon's
addition and building five houses on
it and running, with hired help, 10
large farms. Mr.. Kinyon was born
in Washtenaw county. He came to
Hillsdale county in 1867.
There was a balance OF s5,O49,-
805.91 in the general fund of the
state treasury at the beginning OF
business June l. The total in all funds
was S11, $50, 9S4.1S. The balance in
the primary school fund was $6,433,-
1851. During the month of May the
expenditures from the general fund
amounted to $500, 663.53, while the re-
ceipts for the general fund totalled
81, 1853, 936.10.
Three people were struck by bullet
which accidentally entered the home
of Joe PonoZZo, near Atkinson. A
boarder slipped and fell on rainy
walk and the weapon was discharged
A 5000 soft-nosed bullet broke a win
dow, struck Joe Ponozzo. Jr., 12-years
old. in the shoulder, SCATTERING the
bone. 1t also struck a 6-year-old
sister in the elbow cutting the skin
and grazed the head of another board
err before burying itself in the wall
The boy will be crippled, but will not
lose the arm.
Hiram Godfrey is the only Onondaga
civil war veteran VINO belongs to a G..
A. r. post, being a member OF the post
of Big Rapids. This year, as in the
past he arranged the ceremonies for
the Memorial day services. He Sc
cured a speaker, hired the band and
had complete charge of the ceremo-
MES, including the suitable decoration
OF every soldiers grave. Each Decora.
ton day he marches at the head of.the
nrocession from the church where the