The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-08-30
MICHIGAN news BRIEFS

IHot hau uecn DuIleu ABOUT oV years.
Members of the Twenty-second vol
unteer infantry held their 50th an
nual reunion at Pontiac, Aug. 2S and
30.
Fire starting from spontaneous
combustion destroyed all the buildings
on the farm of Wallace Bryant, at Sen
eca, near Adrian.
William Conya, 81 years old, was
found lying under the wreck Of his
machine, near Flint, with his chest
crushed and one lung punctured.
Harold, 19-months-old son of Mr..
and Mrs. John Miller, of Saginaw,
was instantly killed when he toddled
on to the Michigan railway interurban
tracks.
John Smith, 20, who claims residence
in Grand Rapids, was arrested In
Niles, charged with wearing an army
uniform when not belonging to the
service.
r. l.. Winslow. Hastings farmer, I'M
able to hire teams for farm work, put
120 bushels of wheat on two wagons,
attached them to his touring car and
drew them to town.
Hundreds of bushels OF berries are
reported to be going to waste in the
vicinity of Standish and Gaylord be-
cause there is no one to pick them
Farmers are gathering their other
crops.
Changers OF Gepesee, Oakland,
Lapeer and Shiawasee counties at
picnic in Flint addressed a resolution
to congress asking that further in
roads on farm labor through the draft
be stopped.
Residents of towns on the road be-
tween Grand Ledge and Lansing, COM
monty known as the Saginaw street
road, are considering petitioning the
state highway commissioner that a 16-
foot concrete pavement be constructed
on this highway.
With the completion of large ele.
vator and warehouse being construct
ed by the Michigan Bean Co. at Port
Huron, capacity OF $4,000 bushels
will be available. The new elevator
will be able to handle 1900 bushels OF
beans an hour.
Tom Nickles, Ann Arbor capitalist,
suffered a fractured skull when he
drove his bicycle into the automobile
driven by John Bigelow son of Prof
S. Lawrence Bigelow. Nickles glanc-
ed behind him and turned the bicycle
into the machine going the opposite
way.
Wexford county is using road pa
trolmen on some OF their state reward
roads to keep them in condition
These patrolmen spend their full
time on the road, one man taking care
of six-mile stretch. Equipped with
a horse, wagon, road drag and small
tools one keeps the holes filed up
and the road smoothed off at cost OF
about 500 a mile year.
Men who are sent to the Battle
Greek cantonment camp by the local
draft boards must have identification
tags attached to their coats and their
hand baggage, according to ruling
by Gen. Crowder, provost marshal. 1t
will be up to the local draft boards to
provide the Identification tags bearing
the name and number of the draft
district from which the man is sent.
A number of young married farmers
of Shiawassee county, and fathers OF
unmarried men whom they feel they
cannot get along without in farming
operations, are delaying work pre-.
paratory to putting in winter crops
until the uncertainties of the selec.
tive draft are cleared up. Some Of
these men have asserted that because
of the high price of seed and the
difficulty in getting farm labor, they
prefer to leave their ground unculti-
waited than entrust it to the uncer-
tain care of hired help
Struggling to release his wife and
sister-in-law who were pinned beneath
an overturned automobile on the Mil
Ter road, west of Flint, Frank ]. Pow
ers, 6S years old, suffered a cerebral
hemorrhage and died instantly Mrs
Powers and her sister, Mrs. w. NJ.
Smith, of Battle Greek, we're both
badly hurt. Powers had driven to
Swartz Creek with his son. Pearl
who was returning to his home at
Quincy, Mich. On the return trip, a
tire exploded as he turned out to pass
a machine, going in the opposite
direction and the auto overturned in
the ditch
Wheat growers in the southern half
of the lower peninsula should seed
wheat from Sept. 10 to %; in the
northern half, from Sept. l to Is, and
IN the upper peninsula, from Aug. 20
to Sept. 5, a wheat bulletin issued at
the NJ. A. c. advises farmers. The
bulletin says that in many instances
wheat growers have seeded their grain
too late for best results. The bulletin
admits that the Hessian fly occasion.
ally will damage wheat sown too ear
ly, but maintains seeding at the
proper time will control the fly and
rive suficipnt time for a strong