The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-04-26
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gone to Lenawee county where they
will work on farms.
Stump lands of the upper peninsula.
most of which now lie idle, producing
little more than brush and mosquitoes,
can be made to provide Michigan with
big part OF it's beef, in the opinion
of W. F. Raven, livestock extension
man for the Michigan Agricultural col
lege.
Eight thousand Kalamazoo people
pledged themselves not to eat another
potato until the 1917 crop is in the
ground. The city agricultural extern
sion committee offered to purchase
at market price all potatoes now In
the possession of private families, to
be used as seed.
Noble Ashley. ST., of Detroit, Sd,
years old, for years a prominent fig
ure in state politics, died suddenly
in Boston, following an operation.
Governor Sleeper has appointed
Richard II. Fletcher, of Bay City. as
state labor commissioner The gov.
ernor also appointed James G. Fisher.
of Laurium. as a member of the state
board of corrections and charities.
In order that Monroe county would
be fifty represented on preparedness
day John Caldwell, so, a telephone
! lineman of indianapolis, climbed the
40-foot flag staff on the Monroe court
house and placed a pulley in position
in the face of heavy wind Caldwell
was presented with a purse by the
county officials for his service.
In the final rehearsal of a play to
be given at Traverse City. Clayton
Spaulding practiced shooting his rival.
Clarence Balm. The 32calibre revol-
for play purposes happened to he load
ed and at the first shot Balm sunk to
the floor with bullet through his
shoulder. The play was presented
with an understudy taking the part
of the hero while the real hero is In
the hospital, seriously wounded.
G.. w. Dickinson. manager of the
Michigan state fair. will make every
effort possible to stimulate a greater
crop production among its members
and the farmers of the state generally.
Earnest cooperation to this end will
be given the committee recently APP.
pointed by Gov Sleeper to take charge
OF the states campaign in this patrio-
tic movement The state fair will
award substantial cash prizes to farm
ers grwoing the largest crops on
given acreage.
In one OF the most spectacular fires
in years, Saginaw's historic theater,
the Academy of Music, was totally
destroyed. With the theater was de.
stroyed the famous curtin. one of the
few painted by the late Robert Hop
kin. and one of the finest in Michigan
In the auditorium banquet hall were
gathered 500 members OF the Saginaw
and Bay City Girl Cooperative clubs
A near panic resulted. the girls rush
ing frantically towards the exits. No
one was injured.
Celia Kaminski. IA years old. of Man.
istee. was drowned and Jennie Stacho
WAX, IL years old, was rescued by
Emil Reck. 10 years old, who, despite
a broken leg. managed to tow the girl
to the dock at Manistee lake. Reck
heard the cries of the girls and plung
ed into the water and grabbed the
Stachowiak girl. He pulled her to a
log rollway. The logs were released
and the two were knocked back into
the water Reck's leg was crushed
between two logs. Several spectators
attracted to the shore were too con
fused to aid.
Dr. b. G. Mattson. pastor of the
Congregational church of Owosso.
has taken the initiative in a movement
for the cultivation OF commons and
vacant lots to add to the nations food
supply. He is promoting an organi-
cation to promote gardening activi
ties. DR.. Mattson's plan is to induce
members of the organization to agree
to give several hours of their time
each week to civic gardening, the
crops or proceeds of the crops to be
turned over to some state or national
organization that will use them to
best advantage.
Charged with being a spy l.. u.
Rethy, aged 20, Hungarian, was ar
rested at Iron River and turned over
to the federal authorities. Rethy came
to Iron River several days ago, did
not seek work and when the chamber
maid in hotel was moving his bag
gage she noticed the great weight of
a suitcase. officers were notified and
1t was found that the case contained
two bombs, of the time type, and sew
eral shells were in his trunk. He said
he was carrying the explosives as SOU
venirs of the explosion of a New Jer-
sey munition plant. He said he pick
ed them up.
Following the advance of flour to
S12 a barrel bakers of Port Huron
have raised the price OF bread to 12c
a loaf.