The Yale expositor., 1917-12-13
MICHIGAN NEWS BRIEFS


stead of ton weight.
Wrapped in bed clothes to keep her
warm. the four.day-old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Hessan, Detroit, was
smothered TO death.
Ten dollars ton for sugar heets is
expected to be the price which will
be set at the annual meeting OF the
Michigan State Beet Growers assocIa-
tion in Saginaw January 6.
According TO the monthly report
from the state free employment bure-
aus, 10,2S7 applications were received
for positions during November, while
jobs were furnished 1926.
Disappointed by his rejection at
Camp Custer for physical disability,
Abram Byrd, 80 years old. killed him
self at his home in Vermontsville.
Byrd had served seven years in the
army and wanted to re-enlist.
William Altman and sons. Ben and
Tyler Altman, of Grand Rapids, each
paid fines of $50 in Justice Cresswells
court for feeding hogs and chickens
on the carcasses OF horses at their
slaughter house, south of the city.
Kenneth Slime of Altoona. near Big
Rapids, while bringing home the cattle
after he had been hunting. struck q
calf with the but OF his gun. the calf
kicked and discharged the gun. The
bullet went through Stine's left hand.
Alice Bergsma. So, committed 70
Kalamazoo state hospital for the in
sane from Grand Rapids about year
ago, escaped from the institution.
The following day his mangled r.
mains were found on the Michigan
Central railroad tracks.
Though seriously injured when their
automobile got out OF their control
and plunged over a 90-foot embank-
ment, Ralph Case, wealthy former
lumberman, and r. Fl. Meyers, banker,
both of Kinsley, near Traverse City,
will live The machine was smashed.
A school for efficiency" whers
creamery men, buttermakers and
cheesemakers will be shown how to
make appetizing food products out OF
what has been factory waste in many
establishments, will be conducted by
NJ. A. c., December 1922.
George Phillips, IS years old, of
Cladwin, dropped dead in an attack OF
apoplexy on train coming from
Gladwin TO Bay City He has been a
Michigan Central engineer for 40
years. Phillips was the second oldest
engineer in service on the Michigan
Central.
Norman f. Buckner, Pontiac real
estate and insurance man, pleaded
guilty in a Birmingham justice court
to conducting a loan agency and
charging usurious rates of interest,".
He was fined the maximum. 800. or
ficers allege they found evidence If
interest as high as 1OS per cent year
being charged.
To enable the University of Michi-
gan TO prepare teachers Of vocational
training to meet the needs OF Michi.
gan manufacturers, the industrial edu-
cation department at the university
under Prof. George f. Myers is con-
Quoting a survey of Michigan industry.
The university is also preparing to
give industrial training in extension
courses.
Loren English, former Flint police
man, now a Canadian soldier. escaped
the Halifax disaster by a few hours.
English, whose regiment was in Hall
fax waiting for orders to go overseas.
got a four-day furlough the night be-
fore the disaster. Before leaving Can
ad he was informed that $50 members
OF his company, who were working on
the docks in Halifax. were killed by
the blast.
DIR. Frank Rice, of Owosso, medical
member of the county draft board,
fell and broke his right leg while max
ing a call. The leg was broken in
two places last spring when a street
car hit him. He now has $4,000
damage suit pending against the Mich.
iean Railway company as a result OF
that accident. The physician was GO
ing to see the same patient who called
him when he was injured the first
| time.
The national society Daughters OF
the American Revolution is already
planning for the third Liberty loan
bond issue, according TO Mrs. w. H.
Matt OF Ann Arbor. state regent. and
chairman OF the publicity committee
OF the national organization. The ma
tionaI society is asking each member
OF the d. A. r. to contribute 81. and
the total sum collected will go to buy
a 500. 900 bond of the third issue for
the national society.
Because the entire city of Grand
Rapids has been made barred IONA
farmers in Kent county and in ada
cent districts. who visit Grand Rapids
will beforced to obtain a permit to
enter the city unless they are citizens
of this country The same rule will
| annlv IN travelling men and others