The Yale expositor., 1917-05-03
MICHIGAN NEWS BRIEFS

Herbert M. Peterson, a Battle Creek
recruit of three weeks. was found dead
on the Mexican border He had been
doing sentry duty and 1t is thought
he was shot by a Mexican.
Two more Michigan men with Cana
dian troops are listed as wounded in
the great Arras drive. They are: r.
s. Dupres, OF Bay City, and Il. w.
Shirley, of Sault Ste. Marie.
The University of Michigan is to
have two hospital units with the Am
erican ambulance corps in France.
The ambulance company must be sup
ported and maintained by the alumni.
While lying on the moor OF an au-
tomobile truck during a ride between
Wayne and Detroit, Joseph Conner,
40 years old, and Henry McNally. SO
years old, both of Detroit were asphyx-
lated by gasoline fumes escaping from
the muffler on the truck directly I'M
der where they were lying
Fire did $4,000 damage to the Ho-
tel Irwin at Bad Axe.
The Standard Oil Co. has purchased
10 acres at Utica for an oil refinery.
Saginaw proposes to raise $4,000 a
month for the relief of children in
Belgium.
Owosso doctors have given notice Of
increase in fees ranging from 200 to
1000 per cent.
Howard Crull. young farmer living
near Armada, slashed his throat. He
had been brooding over the war.
While sitting in her chair, Mrs. w.
II. Norton, Of Washington. GO years
old, died suddenly of heart disease.
Attorney General Alex Groesbeck
and Major Roy c. Vandercook at
tended the meeting OF the National
Council of Defense held at Washing
ton.
Clocks of Iron River will be set one
hour ahead this summer in order that
the workingmen may have one hour
more of daylight to work in their gar
dens.
An eight-hour day for all men en-
ployed by the city street department
with the same pay now given for nine
hours, was voted by the Bay City
council.
Fifty members OF the home guard
unit of Iron River have been muster
ed into the federal service, becoming
members of Company l.. Michigan Ma
tional Guard.
Mrs. Louis Odette. of Avoca, St.
Clair county, last week observed her
101st birthday anniversary. She re-
tains her mental faculties, although
her health is feeble.
Applications at the rate of so a
day, for enrolment in the aviation
corps of the U. S. army are being re-
ceived by Secretary w. c. Cole Of
the Detroit board of commerce.
A parade in which will march Civil
and Spanish war veterans, members
Of patriotic bodies and more than
1000 school children. will feature Me.
mortal day exercises at Hastings.
AS a war measure the faculty of
Hillsdale college has adopted a rule
that a student may be excused from
classes to assist in the planting and
tilling of increased acreage to enlarge
the supply of food.
Farmers clubs in st. Clair county
will ask the new Port Huron cham.
| Der of commerce to aid them in get
ting potato seed. 1t is suggested that
the potatoes be obtained in carload
lots and sold at cost
Lawrence Raffler. q years old, of
Woodland, has been committed to the
Kalamazoo State hospital on order of
Probate Judge Hyde. Raffler, was a
former employee of the hospital. When
he resigned he said that he would go
insane IL he had to work there any
| longer.
Arrested in Laporte, Ind, on sus-
picion of being connected with theft
OF butter from freight trains running
out of Chicago, Jack B. Kelley, a
cles there, has been identified as Ar.
thur Reid, convict who was sen.
fenced from Oakland county on a
charge of larceny in 1911. II is said
he made a practice of throwing tubs
Eof butter from the trains and then
removing and selling the material to
grocers. Arthur Reid was sentenced
from Pontiac to spend two to five
years in Jackson prison and escaped
Working night and day, convicts at
Jackson prison are doing their bit to
increase the food supply of Michigan
by preparing 100 acres of land for
crops, besides the fruits that will be
raised. Three tractors are kept going
continually blowing the land and $50
convicts are now working on the pris.
on farm. That number will be in.
creased to 800 men as the need in.
creases. Last year only 175 convicts
were employed on the farm. The to.
tai acreage to be planted this year
is 40 per cent more than year ago