The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-07-27
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Four cases of infantile paralysis
have been reported at Grand Rapids
within a week.
r.. II. Bugee, electrician at Britton,
received shock of 23O0 volts, but
is expected to recover.
William j. Bryan will speak at the
Eastern State normal Saturday, July
20, on War and It's Lessons"
Mrs. Shaw of Blissfield, has won the
first legal step towards the recovery
of 100000 fortune left by her moth
err
The state board of health is in.
vestigating possible cases of intantile
paralysis at Ionia, Greenville and
River Rouge.
More than 1000 miners are out on
a strike at Menominee and 80 have
already been deported. Troops may
be asked for.
Grand Rapids, Meat and Milk In
| spector Eldon Smith confiscated more
than 1000 pounds of spoiled meat
| from local markets.
James Allen, IS, is in a hospital at
Bay City paraly3ed as result of a
fractured vertebrae sustained when
he dove into shallow water while
bathing.
A Hillsdale college romance will
reach a climax August 6 when Miss
Flo Cessna and Earl o. Wilson will
wed at the u. S. consulate in Yoke
homa, Japan.
Floyd Fox Is years old of Adrian
was killed by lightning while working
in a field Sunday afternoon. The
binder he was riding was wrecked and
the team stunned.
While Mrs. Tracy Six of Orange
township went to call her husband
from the hay field, their home caught
! fire and their 10-months-old baby
persisted in the flames.
More than 500 foreigners have de
clared their intentions OF becoming
citizens of the United States, in the
last two years in Genesee county as
a result OF the European war.
Invitations have been sent to Vice.
| President Thomas Marshall and Char.
les w. Fairbanks TO address the an
nual picnic OF the Kalamazoo County
Pioneers association in August.
By an almost unanimous vote of the
tax payers OF Flint an $4,000 bond
election for a 16-room addition to the
bort high school was carried. The
building is to be completed by Sept.
l, 1917
Failure to pass the physical exami.
nation at Camp Ferris, II members OF
! Co. + have returned to their homes
in Pontiac. 1t left Co. E with a muster
roll of So. None of the officers were
disqualified.
George Upper of Caro-, 55 years old.
candidate for treasurer OF Tuscola
county, was instantly killed when he
was crushed under his automobile in
ditch at the side of hill, one mile
west of Caro-.
Two new cases of infantile para
lysis have been discovered in Michi-
gan, according to reports received by
Secretary Burkart of the state board
Of health. One case has been re-
ported from Ida. Monroe county, and
the other from Coldwater.
Auditor. General Fuller says that he
will not change his mind on granting
the increase in Warden Simpsons
salary at Jackson prison despite the
flood Of criticism which has appeared
in the state press since his refusal TO
pass favorably on an increase.
The mother and step-father OF Ed
ward F. Martin, of Tecumseh, private
in Company B, Thirty-second regiment
NJ. N. G., have received notice of the
boys death in the base hospital at
Fort Bliss Tex, from pneumonia. He
was Is years old. He leaves, also two
brothers and three sisters. He is the
first Michigan guardsman to die on
the border.
The United States government will
make a sanitary survey in Michigan.
The government wants to know all
about the water which the various
railroads of the state put in the cool.
ers of their cars. To this end Harry
Pike Lytton, one OF the u. s. sani-
tary engineers, has visited Lansing to
get official information regarding the
sources OF this water supply.
Infantile paralysis has caused 13
deaths in Michigan since Jan. 1, two
Of these occurring in June, according
to the monthly mortality report is.
sued by the secretary of state. This
report is based upon reports sent in
by PHYSICIANS and until il was made
public no one appeared to know that
the disease had claimed so many
children this year in the state. OF
4 the 3,174 deaths reported during June
tuberculosis claimed the most vic
tins. 236. while cancer was second
with 211, and 200 died of violence
The number OF deaths for June cor