The Yale expositor., 1917-03-29
MICHIGAN NEWS BRIEFS


considering the purchase OF grist
mill in Sault Ste. Marie.
Knights of Pythias of northern
Michigan will have a jollihcation and
field day meet in Traverse City, May 4.
The Menominee County Cow Test
Ing association, the first one OF its
kind in the upper peninsula, will be
organized at Daggett in few days.
BY taking charge of motion thea
tre for day, the Kappa Delta liter
airy girls of Holland high school rea-
lized $50 for the Belgian relief fund.
One man was killed and several
injured in a wreck near Waterloo.
The wreck occurred on the air line
of the New York Central. A freight
train jumped the track and ran into
the wreckage, killing the fireman and
injuring the engineer and a number
OF passengers.
The. Union Telephone Co., which
recently voted to increase it's capital
stock from $1,000,0O0 to $1,500,000
has decided to rebuild it's plants at
Corunna, Mt. Pleasant, Alma and
Lakeview. The cable system will be
/ used. The company has just COM
pleted the rebuilding of it's system at
Owosso.
For the third time in as many years
Livingston county has been the first
10 hn faf m hn CT "a a
+. N. Braley, county treasurer, has
received a letter from Auditor Gen
eral Fuller congratulating him. Wm.
Peavey Howell township treasurer,
collected every cent of the taxes as
sessed against his township
NJ. A. c. students who take their
meals at the colleges boarding clubs
i'm East Lansing were fed during the
last three months at cost of slightly
less than 10 cents a meal, notwith-
standing the havoc which the high
cost of living has wrought, These
low rates were achieved practically
without stinting students in any di-
rection, though an experiment of sub
stituting rice for potatoes several
times week in one of the women's
clubs has been successful.
The engineering faculty of the Uni
versity of Michigan, at Ann Arbor has
petitioned the regents to tender to the
gosernment all the facilities of the
different colleges and schools of the
| u. of Nj. in case of war. The chem.
istry department of the engineering
! college could, under the proposed plan
be used as a source of supply of ma
terials needed for explosives, the en-.
gineering college could turn out am
munition on whatever scale is adap-
table to it, and other schools and
colleges could contribute also. All
branches of the university could, ac-
cording to the engineering faculty,
contribute in some direct way for the
benefit of the country.
Home and school gardens will be
undertaken this summer by pupils OF
the Escanaba schools.
Postal savings in Pontiac have in
creased from $4,000 to $4,000 in the
last IL months, according to Post
master E. Z. Hymers.
The first wolf that has been killed
in Genesee county for more than 30
years was shot by William II. Rose,
about two miles south Of Linden.
The railroad commission authori-
zed the Pennsylvania Detroit Railroad
company, the new line which the
Pennsylvania intends to build into De-
troit, to issue and sell S., 100000 worth
of stock.
Samuel G. Bittle, So years old, well
known throughout the sporting world
for his successful bare fist. battle with
Harry Gilmore on Harsen Island, be-
dow Algonac, 80 years ago, died at his
home in Detroit.
Alfred Hall, a 14-year-old school
boy, residing near Buchanan. Berrien
county, shot himself just above the
heart. The lad had been asked to go
to the school superintendent office
and feared beating.
An epidemic of smallpox caused the
closing of the Argentine schools and
the suspension of public meetings.
The first case was not diagnosed as
smallpox, it is said, until the patient
had been i'll several days.
In view OF the threatening war stu
alton, a movement was launched for
a strenuous membership campaign for
the Saginaw Red Cross throughout
! the city and county. 1t is expected
to secure $500 or more members.
Joseph II. Meade. well-known far
mer of Kalamazoo county, who be-
lived himself the nephew and sole
heir to the estate of the late James
G. Long, and who was given the es-
tate, must relinquish every cent of it.
The bulk of the estate goes to Wal
lace l.. Long, an inmate OF the Mich
igan Soldiers Home, Grand Rapids,
and the rest to two half sisters.
James G. Long was the son Of Luman