The Yale expositor., 1916-03-23
MICHIGAN NEWS BRIEFS

Menominee voted Thursday TO bond
the city for 100000 to build new
schools.
Nearly 200 local citizens of Muske-
gon have organized business mems
battalion.
| Fire destroyed the Methodist church
OF Marion, with loss of $4,000, fully
covered by insurance.
Sanilac county opened its new $780,
600 court house with a disagreement
in local option case.
Morenci defeated bond issues aggre-
eating $4,000 for lighting plant and
water system by to l.
Traverse City voters will decide on
a proposition to issue $4,000 in bonds
for garbage incinerator.
A scarlet fever epidemic has forced
the public schools of Camden TO close.
There are about dozen cases.
White Cloud citizens are advocating
the proposed bonding proposition for
the erection of new court house.
w. w. Burgess, former sheriff OF
Saginaw county, and one of the pre-
sent county auditors, died Thursday.
A fire drove Is nurses from the
boarding house of ]. l.. Broughton, OF
Grand Rapids, in their night clothing.
The Scottville council has authori-
zed a vote on bonding the city for
$4,000 for a new city hall, at the
April election.
Burglars blew open the safe in Nit
chell's billiard room at Battle Creek
and escaped with $a65. The building
was damaged 5000.
While discussing an invoice with
Asa Sage, foreman, L. ID. Woodwork
suddenly dropped dead Friday in the
Hillsdale screen factory.
An anti-tuberculosis campaign I'M
DER the auspices of the state board Of
health will be conducted in Saginaw
during the next three weeks.
Lieut.. Vaidercross, of Detroit. has
been appointed captain of the new
machine gun corps organized at Flint
in connection with the NJ. n. G..
A course in chemical engineering
will be established at NJ A. c. IN
April. The degree of bachelor of
science in chemical engineering will
be awarded.
The U. of NJ. senate council, highest
faculty body, has gone on record as
favoring the summer military camps
for students, and Michigan men will
be urged to attend.
That many of the supposed cases
of scarlet fever in Muskegon are not
scarlet fever is being revealed by
detailed examinations of some of the
cases by local physivians.
The L. S. & |. railroad is rebuilding
many of its bridges and culverts, at
St Ignace, following its recent order
for four large engines for April de-
livery, which will weigh 10000
pounds.
Joseph Broda. of MuskegOn, was
taken into custody by inspectors fight
ing the local scarlet fever epidemic.
He is the second alleged quarantine
breaker captured. There are two cases
in his home.
High cost Of labor and scarcity of
beet seed has caused the Michigan
Sugar Co. to cancel contracts for l.
900 acres of sugar beets with farmers
between Peck and Sandusky. More
cancellations are anticipated.
coniov -, ID oor;no c4,,do,te 90 A.
University of Michigan will visit
manufacturing plants in Youngstown,
Pittsburg, Philadelphia, Washington,
New York. Schenectady and Niagara
Falls, on their annual inspection trip
during spring vacation.
An undated and unsigned letter,
postmarked Detroit, is further mysti-
flying relatives of Julia Haska, of AL.
pena who has been missing for seven
months. The letter, which is not in
the girls handwriting, urges the rela
tives to abandon the search.
Several citizens of Scottyille and
Ludington appeared before the state
railroad commission at a hearing on
the petition of the United Home Tel
ephone Co. to increase its rates in
the rural districts from 81 to $15 per
year, and protested againt favorable
action by the commission.
Navigation will open late for the
ports in the upper part of the south
ern peninsula. The northern areas
of Lake Michigan and Lake Huron are
covered by extensive ice fields. In
Lake Huron there is no open water
north of Thunder bay. In the straits
the ice is Is inches thick and Is not
windrowed. st. Mary's river aver
ages six inches more ice than the 10
year normal.
Six amateur wireless telegraph
operators of Port Huron have re-
ceived first class amateur licenses to
operate their apparatus. A few days
ago a government inspector came TO
investigate charges that many anna
teurs were operating instruments with