The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-05-17
MICHIGAN NEWS BRIEFS

The Hancock Manufacturing Co, of
Charlotte, has announced 1t will fill
vacancies with women wherever pos
sible to permit men to go to war.
The Cass county annual track and
field meet at Cassopolis has been can
celed owing to the enlistment of the
majority of athletes entered for the
events.
George e. Holbein, SO years old,
editor of the Manistique Pioneer Trib-
une for more than 25 years is dead. He
was confined to his home more than
a year, editing his paper frequently in
bed.
The work of taking the school GEN.
sus of the state is under way. The
census enumerators must take the
name Of every person between the
ages of five years and 20 years. Boys
under 20, who have enlisted IL the
army, will be- registered
Christian Smith, of Chicago has pur-
chased the Shafter homestead and
the birthplace of the late Gen. William
r. Shafter near Kalamazoo. The farm
was purchased for $4,000. The $4,000
monument, recently provided by act
of the legislature, will be unveiled in
Galesburg, near the farm this summer.
Albert X. Roof, 76 years old, ex-
senator and one of the first white chill
dren born in Ionia county, died at his
home in Lyons. He was a represen-
tative in the lower house in 1871 and
senator from 1877 to 1883 and was
member of the house when the appro-
state capitol
Actual work on several miles of
roadway has been started in st. Clair
county. A stretch of three miles on
the Stone road, leading toward Yale
will be 16 feet wide Of concrete con-
struction. The road between Port
Huron and st. Clair is being graveled
and will be in first-class condition
within 80 days.
Reports from the state labor COM
missioner's office on the number of
women employed in Michigan indus
tries, place Detroit first with 31,02S,
out of population of 100000, or one
woman for each 81 workmen. Grand
Rapids has 5000 women in factories
Saginaw $500; Flint, 1,471 Bay City,
1871; Kalamazoo, 2,460; Jackson l.
573; Muskegon, 1908, and Battle
Creek 1886.
Pontiac firemen have had the vacant
space about the fire hall plowed and
will plant potatoes.
The Hastings Chamber of Commerce
has placed at the disposal Of residents
for gardens 80 acres purchased for
factory sites.
Ground has been broken for the first
building in a factory group for the
manufacture of the General Motors
tractor in Pontiac.
Nashville home guards hold drills
in the Nashville opera house, the use
of which has been donated for this
new military company.
Bread prices have advanced in Kali
amazoo. Six-cent loaves sell for eight
cents, 10-cent loaves for II cents, and
12-cent loaves Is cents.
AS the result of injuries received sew
eral months ago IN an elevator acct
dent in hotel at Chattanooga, Tenn,
former Justice Elmer Z. Rosenberg
died at his home in Muskegon.
Only 10 hogs out of so owned by l..
c. Bennett, living north of Augusta.
In orNfd 10 ~ hne
cholera. All animals found suffering
of the disease were slaughtered and
buried.
Detroit high school pupils who be-
long to secret fraternities or sororities,
which in the judgment of the school
principals are made up of pupils
of the public schools" will be liza
BILE to suspension in the future.
1t is expected by Grand Trunk me-
chanical department officials that the
big car repair shops being construct
ed at Port Huron will be in full oper-
alton in so days. About 1000 men will
be employed.
The farm-home. harm and large root
cellar of Albert Miller, near Cadillac
were destroyed by a mysterious fire.
The loss is $4,000. Seven hundred
bushels OF seed potatoes, with guam
tity of grain, were destroyed.
The Flint Manufacturers associa-
ton will undertake the organization
and equipment of motor ambulance
unit. II is planned 10 build the am
balances in local automobile factories
and recruit the ambulance company
In Flint.
The directors of the blind babies
home OF Monroe have decided to trans
fer the children to the state school at
Coldwater, July ], where they are to
remain until a Kindergarten is estab-
lished at Lansing state school for the
blind. The Legislature recently pass
ed a law whereby blind children OF
six years old or under are to be under
state control The board also has de-
cided to dispose OF the property at
Monroe and will give the surplus of
the sale to the proposed local hospi-