The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-11-01
MICHIGAN NEWS BRIEFS

October %.
The municipal coal yard at Port
Huron started off last week with ten
cars of hard coal
o. e. Williams, OF Ann Arbor, was
killed at Mobile, Ala, when he fell
with an airplane, according to reports
from the southern city.
Mrs. Olmstead, of Ann Arbor, aged
81, totally blind, has completed a
dozen sweaters, which she has knitted
for the American soldiers and sailors.
James Smith, of Ionia. was found
dying near Saranac after he had been
put off train for being intoxicated.
1t is believed he was struck by another
train.
The 11.months-old child of Mr.. and
Mrs. Stanley Mathews of Alma, was
drowned when it fell face first into
a tub Of water when alone for a few
minutes.
1t is expected that with the plan OF
the government to pay dependents In
the armies, both regular and conscrip-
tive, state aid on the part OF Michigan
will cease.
The rise in the price OF potatoes in
the northern part of the state is caus-
ed by an over-estimate of the crop,
according to State Market Director
James N. Mcbride.
Private stores of coal, carefully put
away in cellars for hard winter, will,
If necessary, be taken in charge by the
state fuel administrators and distribut-
ed to those who have none.
Mrs. Will Myers. of Charlotte, has
received word that her nephew,
Christy McGiness, was killed in
France. He lived here with his aunt
before enlisting in a Canadian infan-
try.
The student council of the Univer-
sity of Michigan has passed resolu-
tons recommending that the annual
81" hop be given in much expurgated
form this year. This has been rec
commended as a war measure.
County Clerk Cady of Calhoun coun-
ty has refused several applications for
marriage licenses to soldiers at Camp
Custer because they nor their brides
were residents of the county. He is
supported in this action by the attor
ney generals department. Mr.. Cady
holds that soldiers at Camp Custer are
not permanently domiciled in Calhoun
county.
c. w. Wald NJ A. c. potato special
list, has asked Michigan housewives
to ask for U. S. grade No. l and
U. S. grade No 2 in buying pota-
toes. The purpose of this grading,
said he, is not only to establish stand
ards for dealings but also to enable
growers to receive a premium for
quality and consumers a greater value
for their money.
Measures have been adopted by the
Michigan Agricultural college to pro-
tect the state from the imminent
shortage of seed corn. By means OF
a campaign the state is being combed
for every available bushel of grain
suitable for seed The combing has
been undertaken by squad of five
scouts" recruited from the ranks Of
Michigan corn growers.
That men should help conserve
grain by observing peerless day each
Wednesday while their families keep
wheatless day and conserve tobacco
for the soldiers by going smokeless
each Tuesday, while their families abb
stain from eating meat, was urged in
resolution adopted by the fourth dis
trict, Michigan w. c. T. U. convention
recently held in Bangor.
Twenty thousand bushels OF pota-
toes on the farm of T. w. Carpenter
of Ward, Dickinson county, have froz-
en- in the ground and are not worth dig
ging. His loss is about $4,000. He
had already harvested 10000 bushels,
but because of shortage of labor had
not been able to harvest the crop from
the last los acres. His potato farm
was the largest in the upper peninsula.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gottlieb Weber, Of
Hastings, Germans, are the only par
ents in Barry county to give more
the one son for service in the ma
tional army. They are proud of the
fact that neither Of their two sons
drafted for service asked for exemp-
ton. II these young men face the
troops Of Duke Albrecht of Wurtem.
berg, they will be opposed in the
enemy's ranks by three cousins.
Because of the high price of pota-
toes last year, many householders are
putting in a supply for the winter this
year. Some, however, hesitate in the
fear the tubers will spoil. Good
sound potatoes, stored under the prop
er conditions OF heat and moisture,
will keep sound and firm until spring"
plant disease specialists at the Michi.
gan Agricultural college advise. Late
blight, which is the common cause of
rotting in the cellars, is entirely abb
sent in Michigan this year because of