The Yale expositor., 1917-05-24
MICHIGAN news BRIEFS

ior use as an army aVlatlOn training
station.
Grand Rapids retail municipal mar
ket will be officially opened July
when produce will be placed on sale.
If is proves successful others will be
opened.
A Veterans of Foreign Wars post is
to be organized in Grand Rapids, to
be composed of Spanish war veterans
and all other men who have fought on
foreign soil
A violent electrical storm left Ben
ton Harbor paralyzed for seven hours
as result of a short circuit at the
lighting plant. Electric car service
was stalled and interurbans held up.
1t will be close shave if Michigan
doesn't go broke" before January l.,
according to Auditor General Fuller.
The sale of war bonds is the only
thing that can prevent such a dis
aster.
The generator of the River Raisin
Hydro Electric Co.'S plant at Carleton,
was burned out by lightning and Garlic.
ton, Scofeld, Maybee and Ida were
without electric lights for several
days.
Using a rail for a pillow, James
Monahan of Holland, laid down in the
Holland Furniture company yards to
sleep. A switch engine came along
and cut off his head. He was So
years old
Mrs. Norman Grassley, of Monroe,
30 years old, was killed when light
ming struck a wire clothes line from
which she was removing clothing. The
current, travelling along the wire, kill
ed the woman instantly, and burned
the shoes from her feet.
Nearly 900 u. of NJ. students have
left college at Ann Arbor to enlist in
the service. OF the coo from the lit
erary college 300 have enrolled in mill
tary work, and the other half in farm
work. The engineering college has
lost 200 men. Every other department
has lost students through eIlistments
Ten members of the faculty have en-.
listed. Several fraternity houses have
been forced to shut down completely
and others have discontinued board
ing tables. Fraternities have lost at
least so per cent of their members.
Michigan Agricultural college will
graduate 25S students June l.
Serious forest fires are reported from
number of upper peninsula coun-
ties.
The ban has been officially placed
on all high school fraternities by the
Port Huron board of education.
Oakland county will be organized
by the Y. NJ. G. A. to raise $4,000 for
Y. NJ. c. A unit in TIE field of war
as part of the plan to obtain $3,000-
900 in the nation for this work.
Buried beneath big load OF saw.
dust in the shaving loft of the ALA.
din Ready-Cut house factory, at Bay
City, Joe Dombrowski, 26, was suffo.
Gated before his fellow-workmen dis
covered his plight.
About 20 summer cottages at Point
Lookout, which divides Saginaw Bay
from Lake Huron, were destroyed by
forest fire. Most of the cottages were
owned by Saginaw people. The loss
is estimated at $4,000.
The state board of agriculture has
increased the salary of practically ev.
cry member of the teaching staff of
the Michigan Agricultural college ex.
cept the heads of the departments.
The increases total $4,000
Clarence Elliott, "a years old; Jerry
Bokomey, %, and Sandy Alexander,
II, were drowned in Adams lake, four
miles from Charlevoix. They were fish.
ing and the boat capsized. The
bodies were recovered by Charlevoix
coast guards.
While insane, Mrs. Nora Samine, of
Portland, attempted to cut her heart
out with a butcher knife. She had cut
cash on her left side, sawed through
one rib with a meat saw and pene-
trated a lung when relatives who
broke into her home discovered her,
knife in hand. She had recently di-
vorced her husband Dr. Lewis Sa-
mine, of Lansing.
Arthur Teats, of Harrison town.
ship, was painfully injured in a PEE
culiar accident at Mt. Clemens. Teats
was driving a steam tractor when the
pavement caved in and dropped the en-.
CINE about 10 feet. The pavement had
been undermined by a sewer carrying
off quicksand The tractor crushed a
gas main and the gas caught fire
Teats is burned about the body and
head. William Carlo, who was also
on the tractor, saved himself by jump.
ing.
First steps in training nearly 1000
Detroit high school youths in elements
which will fit them to become officers
in Americas future national armies
were completed with the organization
of 81 companies of high school volun-
teers. The refusal of the war depart
ment to supply these companies with
arms will not halt the work. Plans
have already been put under way, both