The Yale expositor., 1916-12-14
MICHIGAN news BRIEFS

George Dufrense was struck by an
old. of Grand Rapids. was burned To
death when her clothing caught fire
at kitchen stove.
The Bay County Dry campaign COM
mittee spent $3,338.94 in the recent
campaign, according to a statement
filed by its treasury.
The chamber of commerce has ask
| ed James Mcbride, state market di-
rector, to survey conditions looking
to a public market at Adrian.
Thirty cases of chicken-pox have
been reported TO the health depart
ment since last Thursday and there
are now over 90 cases in Kalamazoo.
The Barry County Farmers feder-
alton met and passed resolutions ask
ing the board of supervisors at the
coming session to employ a farm
agent for the county.
Emil Robichaud, 26 years old, en-
| ployed as a switchman by the Chica-
go G. Northwestern, accidentally shot
and killed himself while hunting rab-
bits in Florence county, Wisconsin,
near Iron Mountain.
Fire Marshall Winship notified
Michigan chiefs to take every precau-
ton against fire and panic and to see
that all exits are unobstructed during
the holiday season in stores where
large crowds congregate.
Warden d. J. Fogarty, OF the Indiana
state prison at Michigan City, with
committee OF four state senators,
visited the Jackson prison for the pur-
pose of investigating the prison farms,
projects, canning and brick factory,
and the tannery.
| Dean Bates, of the University of
Michigan law department, believe the
Adamson law can be upheld if its ap-
! plication Is not unreasonable TO oper-
ating conditions He also says con-
gress can regulate pay of employees in
interstate business.
The huge plant OF the Louis Sands
Salt & Lumber company. of Manistec,
when, at the hight of a furious wind
storm, fire broke out in the yards
where millions of feet OF dry lumber
| are stored. In a freezing tempera-
ture, fremen saved the plant.
F. Carew Martindale and David II.
! Crowley, assistant attorneys-general,
will not be members of the states le-
gal department after the first OF the
year. Martindale plans TO leave the
| department this month, and Crowley
says he will engage in private practice
either in Detroit or Lansing after jan
uary 1.
Robert Smith, publisher and foun-
der OF the Robert Smith Printing COM
pany, Lansing, died early Saturday.
| He had been i'll for several years.
During the Civil war he published a
paper at st. Johns, and later was at
] Jackson and Ithaca. During the early
'90s he held the state printing con-
| tract and was a dominant figure in
state politics.
The shortest campaign of the Con-
tinental Sugar Co. is nearing its close
in Blissfeld. Sunday will complete
the slicing Of beets. The company ex-
pected over 100000 tons OF beets, but
owing to climatic conditions, only
about half this was realized. The
beets, however, have contained 16 per
cent OF sugar, gain of nearly 2 per
cent over former years.
The tuberculosis clinic held at Ionia
many cases in the city and county.
Throughout the county there were 502
persons examined. or the positive
cases Belding contributed 27, Ionia
46, Lake Odessa 16, Portland 25, Sar-
anac IA, total of 12S. There were
also Sc suspicious cases. Plans are
drawn for a four-county sanitorium.
The Cleveland Cliffs Iron Co. has
announced an increase in pay for en-
ployes of 10 per cent beginning De-
cember 10. The increase will affect
| 5000 men and was made because OF
| the increased cost of living and for
the reason that the company will re-
ceive a higher price for its ore next
year. This is the third increase grant
ed by the company in the last two
years.
Relatives are searching for Conrad
Finkbeiner, farmer, who lived not
far from Grant for many years and
who disappeared more than six years
ago. After the Travis murder had
been uncovered here recently the viii
layers were reminded OF Conrad's my
sterious disappearance. They began
circulating rumors which may cause
the authorities at White Cloud to be-
gin search to learn II Fainkbeiner is
living or dead
One Of the largest deals ever made
in Canadian pulp plants was Just COM
pleted when the Bryant Paper COM
pany, Kalamazoo, and the Oxford Pa
per company of Rumford Falls, Me-,
closed a deal for the purchase of the
Edward Partington Pulp & Paper COM
pany, Of ST. Johns, New Brunswick.
The consideration was s3,000,000 and
the deal followed negotiations pend
ing more than three months. A total
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