The Yale expositor., 1916-06-01
MICHIGAN NEWS BRIEFS


suit of stepping on rusty nail
One thousand persons attended the
dry rally in Muskegon when the
flying squadron OF the state antisa-
loon forces visited the city.
Observation-Disclosures Three Rivers,
ciyal war veteran 70 years old,
claims the distinction of being the
oldest school examiner in the country.
The Holstein Friesian association,
composed OF 5000 cattle breeders in
all parts Of the country, will hold
its annual convention in Deroit June Z.
An aggravated case of chicken pox
enormously diagnosed as smallpox,
caused excitement in Adrian, and all
officer OF the state board Of health
was called.
Congress is expected to vote favor.
ably upon a proposition TO buy a
site for new post Office in Marshall.
The office has been a first class of.
fee for 20 years.
Robert Mikels. IA years old, has en-.
listed in the Canadian overseas ex-
peditionary army, and his parents. Mr..
and Mrs. Owls Mikels are doing their
best TO arrange his release.
Michigan college women will march
in the suffrage parade at Chicago
June 7, in honor OF the fact that
their state was the first to open the
doors OF its university on equal terms
TO women
A number of Detroit suffrage lead.
ers will 90 TO Chicago June on
special train TO present to the conven-
ton of the "Womans Party" the
needs and desires of the suffrage fol
lowers in Michigan.
According to annulment action for
a divorce granted Battle Creek mar,
he served the papers on his mother
instead of his wife. The action was
not contested but now that his wife
has learned of the divorce she has An
stituted action to have It set aside.
Flowers frozen by liquid air. eggs
fried on a cake of ice by electricity,
a ball which hoated without visible
means of support or air currents, and
bottle from which poured q con-
tinual stream of liquid were features
of the recent exhibit of the engineer
ing department of the University OF
Michigan.
The annual seior reception will be
held June &c. For the first time
in the history OF he University OF
Michigan it will be informal, and
sport coats and fiannels will be
worn. For the first time the dance
will also be staged off the campus,
the armory having been chosen in.
stead of the gymnasium.
Former Mayor Ellis of Grand Ra.
pids, will carry his contest on the
recent election into the courts. The
recount proceeding under direction OF
the council has given him a gain OF
three votes in 16 Of the IL precincts,
including the one in which Ellis al
legged so many fraudulent registra.
tons Of CALVIN college students.
Snake killing is becoming quite a
pastime in Allegan county this spring.
Leo Decker, nine years old, killed a
rattlesnake by jumping on i aver II
had struck at him in the woods. He
secured the nine rattles and button
as a trophy. Mrs Clara Gorton an
other Allegan county resident, killed a
blue racer four feet long which she
found Summing itself on her porch,
John n, Anhut, former state senator
from the Fourth district. Detroit, and
promoter of the defunct Arhut Motor
Co., who, in May, 1913, was sentenced
to from two TO four years in Sing
Sing prison for offering a bride OF
$40, 900 to superintendent Russell, OF
Matteawan asylum to allow Harry X
Thaw, slayer of Stanford White. to
escape from the institution, was pa
rolled from prison Thursday.
Daily outdoor exercise will be a
part of the routine at the county jail
during the pleasant weather, accord,
ing 10 Sheriff Oakman, of Wayne
county, who supervised the first ball
game Of the season Wednesday, in
which many of the inmates took part.
The sheriff maintains that the jail
is not a prison and consequently
more liberty should be allowed the
men than If they were criminals.
Lee II. Pryor. head of the corpora
ton department of the secretary Of
states office, has his troubles, but IL
was not until recently that he says
the extreme limit was reached. A
certain party in upper Michigan
applied some time ago for incorpora-
ton blanks for a cemetery. They were
sent and answer come back thus: 81
want to get blank to incorporate q
cemetery for myself" said the letter.
Arthur Stephenson, a Bay City
messenger, was run down by an auto
mobile nearly three years ago and
suffered a crushed leg. Despite an
operation here and treatments at Ann
Arbor, including the use of a portion
of the bone of the other leg for