The Yale expositor., 1917-08-16
MICHIGAN NEWS BRIEFS

| pleted in November IL is expected that
500 men and their families will move
to Port Huron.
Otto Damrow, of Kinde, was re-
jected by the exemption board because
he is too tall. He is more than six
feet tall and weighs 100 pounds.
The quartermaster's department OF
the Michigan-Wisconsin cantonment at
Battle Creek has advertised for bids
on 4,166,OOO pounds of hay, 3,125,000
pounds of oats, $4,000 pounds of straw
bedding.
Crops in Kalkaska county are being
much damaged by grasshoppers. Prac-
tically all the oats and new seedlings
are total loss. Acres of beans and
even the late potatoes are being cut
off by them.
The National Biscuit company plans
the construction in Dtroit, of a plant
costing about $1,5OO,000, which in size
will be the company's third largest,
! exceeded only by those in New York
and Chicago.
Lewis II. Jones, 70 years DID, presi-
dent of the Michigan State Normal
college at Ypsilanti from 1902 to 1912,
and widely known as an educator and
writer of school text books, died UNI
expectedly from apoplexy.
Three persons were injured, one
perhaps fatally, when an automobile
driven by William Rehm, skidded from
the road and overturned three times
down an embankment. Rehm was SER
iously injured and Mr.. and Mrs. Rob-
ert F. Miller were badly hurt. The
three were returning to Lansing, where
! they, reside.
Valuation of the Ford motor plant
was raised $35,OOO,OOO above the esti-
mate of the Hamtramck township, tax
board by the state board of review
sitting in the Highland Park munich
pal building. The township board
rated the plant at $42,50000 and the
state board raised it to $77 500, 900 ac-
cording to o. f. Barnes, chairman 70
the board.
The working force at Camp Custer
near Battle Creek has been doubled
to rush the cantonment to completion.
This means the employment of 5000
more men.
Six people narrowly escaped death
when lightning struck Charles Reeds
home at Sturgis, stunning the occu-
pants, tearing the chimney off, and
tearing out the plumbing.
Glenn Carney, of Sandusky, 81 years
old, who had been accepted for the
officers training camp, fell dead on
the streets. He underwent an opera
ton for appendicitis recently.
Lorenzo T. Durand, for Detroit can
didate for governor and widely
known throughout the state for his
political activity, died while being car
troit, following a seizure of heart
trouble. His home was in Saginaw
and his Detroit trip was a business
one.
The l. w. w. has forsaken the Goge-
bic iron range. Men who were car
ried away by the smooth-tongued agi-
tators and the glowing pictures of Sc
for six hours work are today working
at their old positions in the mines on
the eight-hour shift and at the same
standard Of wages that existed before
the strike was called, July 29
A near-tragedy occurred at Pine
Lake, near Pontiac, when big touring
car carrying a man, woman and two
children ran over an embankment
and fell into the lake. A small boy
fell from the machine as it toppled
and was slightly hurt, but the others
escaped injury. The steering gear OF
the automobile had broken.
Battle Creek dentists have agreed
to do the work of their fellows who
have gone to war and to save a per-
centage, of their earnings for them.
Men who fail to appear for physical
examinations on the first call for draft
will be automatically drafted into the
national army, officials say.
The thirteenth annual encampment
of the Tri-State Soldiers and Sailors
association, representing Michigan,
Ohio and Indiana, will be held at Camp
Miner, Montgomery, August 1924.
The Pontiac Board of Commerce
dining room was adopted the meatless-
day plan advocated by Herbert Hoov.
er. On one day a week menu with
out meat of any kind will be served.
Fresh from the scene of Germany's
submarine warfare, Thomas Wander
wall a machinist on one of the traw-
lers of Dutch fishing company, has
established his home in Muskegon.
Vanderwall has seen 30 of the COM
pany's vessels sunk by German sub
marines, but each time has escaped
himself. Repeatedly vessels on which
he sailed have struck mines or been
torpedoed, going to the, bottom in
short order. The submarines invari-
ably submerge and disappear after
they have hit these trawlers. Wander
wall says. offering no assistance what
ever to the crews of the vessels rap
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