The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-11-08
MICHIGAN NEWS BRIEFS

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Light refreshments took the place
of the roast at the annual barbecue at
the M. A. c.. as a conservation
measure
The Rev II. w. Jerette of Plainwell
has opened a free employment bureau
to provide help for farmers 10 harvest
their bean and potato crops.
There were S,2S7 deaths and 1926
births in Michigan in September
Wayne county led in births with a
rate of 46.3 per 1000 population.
A girl, weighing IL pounds. ar
rived at the home Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Berrien Hart, OF Albion. The baby is
normal in every other respect, and is
thriving.
Hearing before the railroad com
mission on the proposed increased
freight rates of carriers scheduled for
November 6 has been postponed unit!
November 26.
Thousands OF acres of unharvested
week, according to reports received
from towns in the upper part of the
lower peninsula.
A campaign is on in Genesee county
for $4,000 for the Y. M. c. A., $4,000
for the Y. w. c. A. hostess homes
fund and $4,000 the war camp re-
creation fund
The Port Huron Gas & Electric Co.
threatens to close its plant following
the refusal of citizens to grant it an
increase from So cents to 81 per thou
sand cubic feet.
w. j. Orr, of Saginaw, chairman of
the national bean committee, has been
invited to Washington to take charge
of importations ana study world con-
ditions as they affect this crop.
Charles w. Watson, Detroit, has
been appointed assistant to Frank
Ellsworth, state fire marshal. Fred
w. Hext, Grand Rapids, is examiner,
and Leonard T. Hands, Sandusky,
chief clerk.
The defense that he had opened his
saloon on a Sunday so government
officers could take an inventory caus-
ed the acquittal of Joseph Petlewski,
Calumet, when tried for keeping open
on that day
Barry county supervisors author
ICED the completion in that county OF
the Grand Rapids-Battle Creek road.
The work will cost $4,000, OF 'Thich
the federal government will pay $12,'
900 and the state $4,000.
Mrs. Geo. Wallace, who lives near
Cadillac took her first train ride in 46
years last week. Mrs. Wallace has
lived on the same farm since 1871.
She drives an automobile to market.
The railroad trip was taken to Big
Rapids.
Bayard S. Starke, superintendent of
the Robert Gage Coal Co. mine at st.
Charles was killed by falling timber.
Starke was overseeing the raising of
a tipple when gin pole broke, falling
timber striking the superintendent,
killing HIM instantly.
Derne Shafer was arrested in the
Presbyterian church at Flint on a
charge Of desertion from the Cana
dian army. Shafer, had been sleeping
under the rostrum of the church and
had broken into the kitchen and eaten
lunch prepared for the Young Peoples
society
James N. Mcbride, state director of
markets, is recommending to growers
of beans that they save all of their
crop which may have been frosted. 1t
is probable, he said, that an outlet
for them will be found abroad. 1t is
hoped to establish a special grade of
frosted stock that will eliminate the
expense of picking and realize their
food value.
Preliminary work is under way for
construction of an enormous manufac-
turing plant for Dodge Bros. at De-
troit The plant is to occupy a site
of 40 acres and is to be used in the
manufacture OF products essential to
the governments success in war 1t is
expected it will be ready for operation
early next spring and will employ
about 5000 men.
President Hutchins, of the University
of Michigan, is in receipt of letter
from Major King, OF the surgeon gen.
erals office, Washington, that he will
come to Ann Arbor within short tirne
to look over the university hospitals
with probability of locating one of
the government reconstruction hospi-
tails at Ann Arbor for the care Of
wouned soldiers sent back from
Europe.
The three-yeal Did daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Peter Smith. living near Port
land, was burned to death and the
mother and another daughter are in a
serious condition resulting from burns
in fire which destroyed their farm
home A can of tar was being melted
on the kitchen stove preparatory to
painting a silo when it exploded and
threw it's burning contents over the