The Yale expositor., 1916-12-21
MICHIGAN NEWS BRIEFS

" poHu lOT S4o,UOO 10 Dullu u new
school building.
Daniel Christie, 81 years old, died
at his home in Muskegon. He was
the owner and manager of the largest
grocery in Muskegon.
Examinations at the Michigan lAgri-
cultural college have been started, fol-
lowing which fully $4,000 students will
depart for their home on December
22
Dr. William II. Cressy, colonel in
the Russian medical corps and serv-
ing in the European war, is visiting
his mother and sister in Grand Rap
ids.
After residing in White Cloud for
80 years, Mrs. p. j. Youngquist. wife
of local shoe dealer, was found dead
of heart disease beside her chair, from
| which she had fallen.
One OF the biggest drains ever at
tempted in Oakland county is the
dredging of Paint creek. which ex-
tends for seven miles through farming
country in Orion and Brandon town
ships.
There were 231 permits issued for
new buildings, in Detroit, the COM
bined cost estimates of which totaled
Sl,00S,S2l, against 1872 permits and
$6O0,96O for the week before, and "a
permits and $3O4,OOO for the week nj
| 1915.
The Godfrey residence OF Monroe
was estroyed by a fire which caught
apparently in the kitchen roof and
was well under way before being dis.
! covered. The place was occupied by
Fred Milligan. The cold hindered the
fremen.
Upon arresting Joe Cook for purse
snatching, Detective Peter b. Hymer,
OF Battle Creek, learned he was want
ed at Saltwater, Mimi, for breaking
parole. Cook will probably be taken
back to Saltwater instead of being
tried here.
Members OF the executive commit
! tee of the Real Estate association of
the state of Michigan held their regu-
lar monthly meeting in Bay City. Sew
eral matters of statewide Importance
to realtors were discussed without def.
mite action.
While fire broke out in the Grand
Rapids Italian district the residents
! did not know how to turn in an alarm,
so a group of them began shooting
revolvers. The police soon arrived TO
quell a supposed riot. The officers
called the fire department.
Vincent Blomstrom was given a sen.
tence of life Imprisonment in Jack
son prison in Jackson circuit court
on conviction of assault with intent
TO murder He shot and wounded
Tony Bozaconeki during a fight in Lit
| tie Poland at Jackson recently.
Kalamazoo first organized drive
against poverty will be made Decem.
ber 81, when nearly 700 volunteer
workers plan TO raise in a single day
sufficient money to finance all chari-
ties of the city for the year. No other
appeals for charity will be made dur.
Ing 1917.
President F. S. Kedzie has a plan
Ter instilling the Christmas spirit i'll
the Michigan Agricultural College
studentsby fitting up a Christmas tree
on the college campus and holding d
Christmas celebration just before the
students leave for the vacation on Fri.
day, December %.
Quincy Mining company announces
an increase in bonus payments of 25
cents for every day worked until July
/, in addition to the wage premium
OF Is per cent which has been effective
six months. Two thousand men are
affected and the bonus payments are
now so cents a day.
The farming management depart.
ment department OF the Michigan Ag.
ricultural college has completed an in.
vestigation of farm conditions in Sag.
inaw county and reports that farms
ranging from 100 to TIA acres were
found to be most profitable, netting
S614 as an evarage labor income, com.
pared with S4S5 for farms of so to 90
acres. Farms less than so acres were
found Improbable.
Harry Fiel, who broke his parole
by attempting to kill his employer in
Berrien county, faces the possibility
of half-century term in Jackson pris
on, according to the face of the com
mitment papers. He received a sen
tence of five to Is years for assault
but the "15" appears in the commit
merit papers as $50" through mistake
evidently The 50-year term will stand
on the prison books unless the sen
tencing Judge orders the commitment
corrected.
On evidence which has been secured
by the prosecuting attorney within
the last three weeks, the arrest oil
Jonathan o. Strong. of Eagle, has beer
made upon the charge of numbering
his nephew. The complaint was made
by Orlando l.. Eddy, the father of viii