The Yale expositor., 1916-05-25
MICHIGAN NEWS BRIEFS


Lakes of Johnson and Baltimore
townships have been planted with CO.,
900 trout fry.
Acknowledgement Fellows has ruled
that state game wardens have the
right to cross private lands in patrol
ling streams.
The court has ordered the affairs
of the defunct Richmond Elevator Co.
wound up. Trustee b. G. Preston has
$4,000 which will be distributed
among 20 creditors.
The jury In the $1,000 SANDER suit
brought by Miss Hazel Hastings
against Mrs. Hazen A. Horton was
tried in Marshall but was unable to
agree after 20 ballots.
Neil McDougal, year old, of North
Branch, Mich, died of a fractured
skull received when his machine turn
ed over on a sharp corner near
Frankenmuth Sunday morning.
The annual encampment of the
Michigan national guard will be at
Grayling, August to IL, according
to the decision of the state military
board at meeting held in Detroit.
June / a plan goes into effect in
Grand Rapids whereby persons who
perform heroic deeds will be reward
ed with a suitable medal which is to
be issued by the Association of
Commerce.
The receipts Of the postoffice at
Durand have passed the $4,000 mark
and the Office will be advanced July
l from the third to the second class.
This will place employees of the Office
within the civil service.
Alexander Sarrell, fireman in the
employ of the Detroit, Monroe & To
ledo Shore Line railroad, was serious
ly, If not fatally, injured when Caro-
line Balkie, a 19-year-old Wyandotte
girl, struck him with a stone, thrown
in fun.
Judge Louis H. Fead, Chippewa
county circuit court, has denied a
motion OF the defense for a new trial
in the case OF William S. Lalonde,
lately convicted of committing crimi-
nal assault against 15-year-old Edith
lines.
Charged with having in his posses
sion a gill net within one-half mile OF
a lake. Traverse Rose, farmer of
Orangeville, was arrested by Deputy
Game Warden Millenbacher and fined
by Justice Madison. The net, which
was $50 feet long. was confiscated,
State officials drug the claim OF
Prof. p. S. Lovejoy, of the University
of Michigan forestry department, that
fires in forests could be prevented for
two cents an acre. The state fire mar
shall wants the university professor TO
contract with the state to prevent fires
at this rate.
Grand Rapids Memorial day parade
will not be patterned after the great
preparedness demonstration of New
York but will solely be a tribute to
the nations heroes, living and dead.
Plans to follow the New York idea
were first adopted but the opposition
changed the plans.
The police of Grand Rapids are
searching for the driver OF the car in
which rode Miss Iva Ford, %, of Low
ell, who died of injuries sustained
when the auto collided with a street
car after a visit to a road house. Two
men and two girls in the party gave
fictitious names and fed.
The Michigan statute imposing
high license tax on public employ
ment agencies and forcing them to
give bond to the state and submit
to strict regulations by the state COM
missioner of labor, was held constitu-
tional by the supreme court.
Threatening vengeance when he re-
gained consciousness after being
struck by an automobile, Arthur Cam
pion, a Denton farmer, was left on
the road by Negroes driving the ma
chine which collided with his pony
cart and was not found until early
Sunday morning. His condition is SER
ious owing to exposure.
A photograph was taken in Hastings
recently to illustrate a snake story.
The proprietor of candy store found
Is large snakes summing themselves in
vacant lot near the Buxton block.
Some OF them we're more than two
feet in length. No one suspected
there were so many snakes in town,
as Barry is local option county.
Law officers have traced the burn
ing of the school books In the Rey-
nolds school house, Concord township,
Jackson county, to Clifford and Har-
mon Rogers, aged Is and IL years.
They burned their own books with
the others in the furnace. The parents
of the boys probably will have to stand
the expense of supplying the pupils
with new books, pencils and tablets.
Five generations are living in the