The Yale expositor., 1917-09-27
MICHIGAN NEWS BRIEFS

of hot water and died from the burns
! When a rear wheel OF his motor car
collapsed Frank Kelch, milkman OF
Port Huron sustained a fractured
skull.
A campaign to get farmers to pro-
duce RED Rock" wheat in Michigan
has shown results and a record yield
of an improved cereal grain is ex-
pected.
Don MCGEE, Saginaw aviator, has
been attached to Selfridge field as an
instructor. Recently he flew from
Saginaw to Mt. Clemens, 100 miles.
in Is minutes.
Latin w. Merritt, "A, a resident OF
Albion for 60 years, is dead. He and
his father, when he was IL years old,
drove through from New York with
team and wagon.
Because Oakland county failed to
find eight applicants TO attend
county normal training class, Commits
sioner A. l.. Craft had to abandon the
class for another year.
A notice to report for military SER
vice was all that identified a man
struck by the Traverse City, Leelanau
a. Manistique train as Peter Michael
Zielinski. 2S years old of Traverse
City.
Because the regular man who feeds
the mules wasn't on the job, workmen
OF the Bliss mine at Saginaw refused
to go down into the shafts. They
couldn't decide who would feed the
animals.
Fire destroyed the Citizens Tele-
phone Office at White Cloud. No water
was available las the water works
! flume was undergoing repairs and
steam had been allowed to go down
in the auxiliary.
Prosecution of the milk trust at
ing statement to the grand jury that
the organization would dissolve and
that the price of milk would drop
to 10 cents quart
Barney NJ. Laing, of Tawas City,
was taken to a Bay City hospital for
treatment for a broken leg. Laing
weighs 3S5 pounds and was walking
along First street, Tawas City, when
he fell from the sidewalk.
Lee Foy and Lee Sun Wing may be
some American soldiers bunkies in
the camp at Battle Creek and in
10. Hr.,r
men of Pontiac who were drafted and
refused to claim exemption.
Grand Rapids is making money off its
hide dealing establishment. When the
new form of government took effect it
was decided soon after that instead of
burning cats and dogs the animals
be first skinned and the pelts sold. So
far 202 cat hides and 1875 dog hides
have been disposed of.
Northern Michigan's apple crop is
reported failure this year. Buyers
say the crop is only 20 per cent nor
NAL Heavy snow storms last spring
are responsible, it is said. Plums and
peaches were unaffected by the storms
and the crop will be normal Early
varieties are being marketed now.
I'D rather shoot myself here than
be shot over there" was the note left
beside the body of Russell Logan. %
years old, found dead on the road be-
tween Buchanan and Niles. Logan
had gone from Niles to Buchanan to
be examined for the new national
army. On the way back he shot him
self
Detroit's population, according to
estimates made by the city assessors,
is 904,134. This total is reached by
adding the normal increase to the last
years figures of the water board and
checking them with other figures gath
cred by the assessors themselves.
They believe the estimate is as nearly
correct as any that has been made.
Mrs. Clister Sherkey, OF Marine
City, widow OF Benjamin Sherkey. at
tempted suicide by cutting her throat
with a razor. Mrs. Sherkey Is the
mother OF six children. Two years
ago her husband committed suicide
by cutting his throat. Mrs. Sherkey
had been for some time confined in
a retreat, but recently was allowed
10 return home.
when you said good-by a week ago,
you told me ] would never see you
alive again. Now find you as lively
as cricket" said neighbor woman
to Mrs. Mary Hanson, Ludington, SO
years old Mrs. Hanson became angry
and upon retiring that night hanged
herself with a. cord suspended from
the ceiling, which she used to raise
herself in bed She was in feeble
health.
Judge Horace s. Maynard, 81 years
old. former prosecuting attorney and
mayor. and one of the most prominent
Masons in the state, died at his home
at Charlotte after a long illness. Judge
Maynard was grand lecturer for the
last IL years of Royal Arch MasOns,