The Yale expositor., 1916-01-20
MICHIGAN NEWS BRIEFS

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The government has purchased the
V. S. Moloney site in Cheboygan for
federal building.
Michigan State Horticulturist SO
ciety will hold its mid-winter meet
ing in Pontiac, Feb. 1916.
The village OF Allen has a new
electric light plant, which is nearly
ready for operation. Nearly all Of the
town houses are being wired.
The 10 per cent wage increase an
nounced to take effect February l for
employees in iron mines will affect A.
46l miners in the upper peninsula.
John McGinnes, a Grand Trunk con-
ductor, was run over by an engine Fri
day night at Flint, and both his feet
were so badly crushed that amputa-
ton was necessary.
Because the epidemic OF grip has at
tackled the attorneys in charge of the
remaining cases on the calendar, the
circuit court in Saginaw has been ad-
journed for several days.
Mrs. Claude Lonergan, Grand Rap
ids, Ia expected TO recover from burns
she suffered in the fire which cost
the life of her son, years old. She
was unable to attend the boys fun
eral.
According to d. l.. Davis, president
OF the Oakland County centennial,
which will be held at Pontiac the week
OF August 20, it is necessary to raise
$4,000 to defray the expenses that
will be contracted during the week.
Simplifed spelling won further in
dorsement from the NJ. A. c. faculty
when members of the faculty refused
to condemn Sammy Langdon, alumni
secretary, for his use of it in the
alumni publication, the M. A. C. Re-
cord.
The prevailing epidemic of grip
caused these four deaths in the last
"a hours in Portland. Mrs. Elizabeth
Eddy, 76; Mrs. Eunice Brooks, 6S;
Mrs Mary p. White, So; Mrs. Kate
Young, 81, all lifelong residents of
the community.
The forestry department of the
Michigan Agricultural college is fos-
tering a movement for organizing far
mers into community "woodlot asso-
Citations" The aim is to secure great
er profit for farmers from sales on
timber cut from the farm woodlots.
When Robert Edgecomb, who lives
in the west, dropped in Unexpectedly
on the family OF j. B. Haynes in
Camden, and met his sister, Mrs. Lee
roy Hickox, whom he had not seen in
2S years, she collapsed completely
over the surprise. She had supposed
him dead.
Stanilaw Ferret, 81 years old,
brought back to Flint from Youngs-
town, o., TO face a charge Of killing
Stanley Vancowskey, IS. is said to
he shot in self-defense when Vancow-
skey attacked him with knife. TEa
staying occurred year ago.
An attack OF heart disease, said to
have been partially induced by ex-
citment in viewing motion pictures at
the Soldiers Home, caused the death
OF William Chatterdon, SO, an inmate
of the institution. Chatterton came
to the home in 1911 from Allegan
county. He leaves a son at Jonesville.
Proposed tariff and regulations
changes on the Pere Marquette and
Ann Arbor railroads which would in
crease domestic and export grain
freight rates from Chicago, Milwaukee
and Manitowoc, Wis, 10 eastern and
Virginia points, were found not justi-
fed by the Interstate Commerce com
mission.
A woman ''trusty" at the Genesee
county jail prevented a serious fire
which she discovered in the kitchen
and extinguished the blaze with sew
eral pals of water before the fire de-
partment reached the building. The
fire started from the cook stove. Off
GERS at the Jail feel that her sentence
ought to be commuted.
Oscar Maeyens, who resides near
OOdls bION6s hONhih6 AAOAh
his family in Belgium in over year
When he started for this country
several months before the war broke
out he left in Ursel, Belgium, his par
ents, nine brothers and four sisters.
Since the conquest OF the country by
Germans, the silence has been bro
ken only by the news, heard indirect
ly, that one of his nine brothers had
been killed while fighting with the
Belgian army.
Alfred Mines, ~, former lieutenant
governor, congressman and mayor Is
} dead. Mr.. Mines had a notable ca
reef in the public service. He was
born in England in 1914 and came to
this country with his parents in sail
ing vessel They moved to Coldwster
in 1861 and year later Mines enlist
ed and served through the Civil war.
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