The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-10-25
MICHIGAN NEWS BRIEFS

WIN " C"hauiAh AN6ihAO"N N"o NAiASN
in Francs.
! Battle Greek boasts a highwaywom-
an. A shop girl. Miss Ethel Duncan,
was the first victim.
Michael Lynch of Flint suffered
| fractured SOUL when he fell trying to
board a'moving street car.
This was an off year for county
fairs in northeastern Michigan. Rain
spoiled the programs at nearly all the
! events.
Commissioner Green OF Port Huron,
plans to ask the city commission to
pass an ordinance for permanent mu.
nicipal coal yard
The Trenton village council has
passed resolution increasing the wa.
ter rate in the village from a fiat rate
to IL cents per 1000 gallons
Inmates of the state prison at Mar.
quette subscribed for SO ,450 in Liberty
bonds, following a meeting of the
Forum. prisoners organization.
requests that extra guards be placed
at all elevators. -four mills and food
warehouses, both day and night, to
guard against incendiary fires.
The first marriage of a student avia.
tor stationed at Selfridge field. took
place when John Hullinger. 10 years
old, of Large. Ind. married Muriel
Godfrey, of Mt Clemens. II years old
Capt. Philip G. Wrightson, retired.
U. S. A., has been assigned as profes-
sor of military science and tactics at
NJ. A. G. He is Al years old and has
masters degree in science from Chi.
/ cage.
Christopher Wilson, 81 years old.
an employee of the Superior Sand G.
Gravel Co, Detroit, was caught by
cable and wound about the cable
drum. He was killed, every bone in
his body being broken.
Judge futile in federal court at Bay
City. sentenced Edward Cross 10 six
months and Harry Cook TO one year
in the Detroit house of correction for
selling liquor TO soldiers while they
were encamped at Grayling.
Eight Detroiters, deputy state labor
commissioners. have been commits
stoned to enforce the federal child
labor law The law forbids the EN-.
ployment of children under IL on any
products to be transported in inter.
state commerce
HowarS Carr. of Flint. pleaded gull
| ty in circuit court to charge of TAX.
/ ing an automobile unlawfully and was
sentenced to two and a half to five
years in the Marquette reformatory.
He was 10 have been married the day
he was sentenced.
Fire which destroyed the $4,000
power plant at Traverse City, owned
by the Boardman River Power com
pany practically left Traverse City
without any electrical power or light
ing facilities An explosion caused
by hot box set the building afire..
In an audit of the Royal Oak town.
ship books il was found that Oakland
county owed the township several hun
dred dollars of which the county had
no record AS a result steps have been
taken to make complete audit of the
county treasurer's books. which proba.
bly, will go back 25 years.
Quartermaster Sergeant Robert Hor-
rine. of Saginaw who gave up a A.
500-a-year position as travelling sales
man, early in the summer and drove
q
private in Company n. Thirty-third
Michigan infantry. OF Owosso: has been
recommended to the war department
for a commission.
The University of Michigan campus
has seen the last of the flag rushes
and push-ball contests between the
freshmen and the sophomores. Bo-
cause these games had broken up so
many prominent families in the past,
the senate council decided they should
be dropped. and some other manner
OF showing the physical supremacy of
underclass men substituted In their
place.
Notwithstanding the great increase in
male employees in Detroit factories
( the number of women engaged in in
| dustrial occupations is increasing
three times as fast. according TO sta
! tistics compiled by the state labor
commissioner. Richard IT Fletcher.
which include only shops employing
more than 500 laborers The number
of women in higher positions has in.
creased proportionately. as have te
male wages
All branches of educational work
will be discussed at the sixty-fifth an.
nua institute of the Michigan State
/ Teachers association which will open
three-day session October 81. in
Grand Rapids. Several thousand teach
ers are expected. more than 800 going
from Detroit by special train. Includ-
ed in the program are addresses by
prominent speakers, discussions on
various subjects, exhibits Of school
work and musical concerts. Principal