The Yale expositor., 1916-06-15
MICHIGAN NEWS BRIEFS

Inc grape crop Is tApSONSN ~ ~
below normal this year.
Agitation has been started in Three
Rivers for a manager-commission
form of government.
Gerrit S. Ward, "a, president OF the
First State bank of Alma, dropped
dead at Big Rapids Friday.
Alma is planning ON the biggest
Fourth of July celebration ever held
in this section of the state.
The Kalamazoo Gazette, claiming |
to be the Oldest newspaper in Mlchl-
gan. has become an afternoon paper |
]. Walter Wood, who is mayor pro
tenn of Niles is expected to succeed
his father, l.. E, Wood, who died re-
Gently, as mayor.
Adam H. Wagner, 80, pioneer resi-
dent Of Sturgis is dead and Is sur
vi-ed by widow, nine chil1ren and
Is grandchildren.
Construction work on the new
million dollar Michigan Union CLUB
house. Ann Arbor, will be started at
formal exercises to be held June 2S.
Charles M. Dargis. 81, Bay City,
brakeman on the Michigan Central,
fell under a train at Roscommon FRI
day and was so badly mansled that he
died
Desertions are growing numerous
on lake freighters. so much SO in fact
that it is becoming quite problem
for vessel masters to keep their crews
to full quota.
The body Of Aviator Stevenson Mac
Gordon of Menominee, who was
fatally burned in an explosion oil his
aeroplane at Newport News, Va, VIII
be brought home for burial.
Four of the six members of the
Lansing police and fire commission
have resigned within a week as
result Of differences with Mayor
Reuter- over appointment of members
OF the board.
Albert Seitz, 55 years old, was found
dead in his room in Detroit board
ing house. Although he had S5,573.l2
in cash and bank deposits, he lived on
stale buns and other food cooked over
an old oil stove.
Alma high school will graduate 40
seniors this year, the largest class in
the history of the school. President
Harry Means Crooks, of Alma college,
F will give the commencement address
TO the graduates June p.
Claiming that it is within 400 feet
of a church and that the license was
} issued to a man now dead, the "drys
have started legal action to close the
l only saloon in Redford, opened with
2 the BEDFORD hotel, on June l.
The Michigan Authors association
elected Chase S. Osborn, Sault Ste
Marie. former governor of Michigan
president and LAonell Scott, Detroit
, poet and author, first vice president
at the annual election Of officers.
y Emerson A. Gordon, q years old
e who is said to have confessed to
absconding with $4,000 from the
: Simon ]. Murphy company OF Detroit
g waived examination and was held &c
e the next term of recorders court.
/. Pontiac charitable workers, through
J. the Association for Charity and Civic
o Service have reduced to a business
system the gathering of old papers fo
I the purpose of raising funds TO con
$ tinue the work of aiding needy people
While Mrs Nick Lafata of Ypsilant
was cutting from a stalk Of bananas
D above her head Saturday the knife
slipped, and fell on her face. cuttin!
one eye badly. 1t is hoped to saw
. the sight. She was taken to the Uni
verstiy.
Charles A. Thompson, former loca
resident. was killed at Fort William
le Mckinley, Rial. Philippine islands
is May 6, when a horse he was breakin
,e reared and fell on him. Thompsoi
IS served with Company NJ during tn
1t Calumet strike.
n The great lakes face the RECORD
In breaking year, according to WilliaI
re Livingstone, president of the LAX
Carriers association, who says tina
of fully quarter as much business agai
IS as was done last year will take plac
lg during the 1916 season.
d. Fifty thousand dollars worth
IS bonds we're burned in South Have
rs city hall upon order of the council b.
as cause city officials discovered that
al was possible to issue four and on
N. half cent bonds instead of five pc
ed cent bonds. The money when secure
I'D from the sale of the four and ha
M per cent bonds will be used in II
erection Of a new city hall an
armory
Although Miss Mary K. Spauldin
of Grand Rapids posed for lifesizt
RS photograph in nothing but tights,
nd Jury in the circuit court has awarde
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