The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-05-23
City News in Brief


Now We have 20 coax the furnace
alone on low rationE until June.
and just now II is going fun blast
poor woman with q 5O-cent piece
with which 20 feed her family
and grocery store Tuesday after
noon. and one BY one rejected the
things she wanted 10 buy. Pota-
toes2 80 Meat? No. Flour Green
vegetables? out OF the question.
She hnaliy took some sausa ges. a
loaf of bread and pint OF milk
and let ~ 80 At that
Ira W. Jayne, supe rim trndent OF the
recreation com mission, notified the
council TUESDAY night that he has
appointed . Fred AAhe tempo
rarily as superintendent Mr.. Jayne
viii leave shortly for Fort Niagara.
where he will direct the recreation
al activities Of men being trained
for the officers reserve corps He
Is member OF national board
81 / 3 men that have charge OF that
work
David Parry petitiobed JadEe Law
Tuesday, 10 set aside the decree
~ divorce granted 20 hts wife,
Mrs Edith Parry IA declared. won
decree By trickinE m with the
promise 90 reinarry after the suit.
Mrs Parry Is coat girl at the
Tulier Parry says ne has a de-
Tense 20 tho charEea he allowed her
20 make IN court without contest.
He was formerly waiter IN tho
Statler. but is now in an automo-
bile factory
Coroner Parker will preside at the
hrst might inquest In the coroners
court tonight Seven turies have
been drawn 20 make possible night
sessions. which the coroners de-
clare tho large number Of deaths
under circumstances demanding in
quests has made necessary The
inquest tonight viii be into the
death OF Thelma Maclait child
killed Sunday by On automobile
driven BY walter Gaish. 81 No. 2436
Jefferson ave. The accident hap
pened a. St Jean ave. and Elbe-st
The annual meeting Of the Detroit
business NomRn's club will he held
IA Dixie Land No. 646 Woodward
ave Thursday evening. Dinner
viii be served az $50 o'clock. af-
ter which election OF officers will
be held and the annual reports VIII
be- reod. During the past year the
club has been divided into groups,
each group being responsible for
an evenings entertainments At the
annual meeting tho group which
secured the largest attendance OF
memhers viii be specially enter
tanned
A letter from DIR. Charles y. Aked.
who Il In Riverside, Cal. says that
the people Of that state are more
interested IA raising oranges than
IN the war and that they seem 10
fail 20 realize that II has anything
much 20 do with them Everything
IL exactly as usual. he says. and
one does not oven hear the war
discussed on the other hand
charles T. Fox who has just re-
turned from Roston. saws tho In
hahitants are IN state ~ constant
fear lest German war vessels bonn
bard the town.
Preparations for the establishment
OF state constabuIhry to do home
guard duty during the war nave
been halted The war prepared o.
ness board had planned on body
OF 200 mounted men 20 draw $50
month and all expenses. but after
"a portion ~ the equipment was
purchased tho board discovered the
expense would be more than $500 ~
600 year As result u has heen
Eo FOR the present. horses for this
number of men already having
been purchased.
Miss E.iva FRrr. daughter OF Mr.. and
Nr~. Merton r.. Fnrr. No. 40 Put
nam ave. has undertaken rigorous
Red cross training n the hope that
she VIII be able 20 pass the mai
cNami nations for "a nurses aide. 50
that she may enlist and go with
Harper base hospital unit SO. q,
Ni WiitN i'IL aux ~ EhDA+,'o'
head Miss Farr has one brother IN
tho offcer~ reserve camp at Fort
Sheridan and another who is
student in Williams college VIII
take tho special military training
course at tho college this summer
Because he had heard that Detroit
was very wicked city, William
Harris - years old. told Judge
Jefrics he had armed himself with
loa ded revolver for protection
Harris came hero from his farm
home IN upper Michigan As Harris
stepped from train ~ the Union
depot h- WAS spotted nv patrol
man and arrested lie pleaded
guilty 10 carrying concealed
weapon Judge TeTriss suspended
sentence and told the hov IA had
better 60 back TO his home on the
farm