The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-05-10
MICHIGAN NEWS BRIEFS

Nearly rs per cent of the automo-
biles manufactured In the United
States are made in Michigan.
Hal H. Smith, Detroit attorney, has
offered a half acre near a school in
lonia county to pupils for gardening
purposes.
Mike Taylor of Cadillac. fireman and
city weighmaster, was suspended for
30 days for giving incorrect weight
on horse to help horse dealer.
Joe Badgley, 76, a veteran of 81.
climbed a 50-foot pole and placed
rope through a pulley SO Old Glory
could be flung to the breeze at Clay
ton.
A. G.. Fayban, Lansing fruit dealer
his wife and brotler-in-law escaped
without serious injury when their au
tomobile plunged over an embank
ment into the Grand river, a drop Of
25 feet.
Porter w. Hill, of Ionia, bigamist
years. Hill is rs years old. He broke
down before the court, but it was
shown that he had had eight wives
without the trouble of divorce.
Boys at the Michigan school for
deaf at Flint are taking up military
training. although it is not expected
they will ever be called into service
Supt. l.. l.. Wright decided upon the
training to develop the students men
tally and physically.
Attendance in the University of
Michigan is 1917, an increase of 303
students over that of last year, ac-
cording to enrolment figures. The
enrolment includes students from all
states in the union except Delaware
and from "a foreign countries.
Captain Cleary, of the Thirty-first
infantry machine gun company, will
upon invitation of Professor Alfred
II. Waite, of the department of chemi-
cal engineering of the University of
Michigan, deliver a lecture before the
class at Ann Arbor Thursday evening
May "a, his subject being Machine
Guns" He will take with him a ma
chine gun and the following day will
give practical demonstrations to the
interested students.
Calvin college,, Grand Rapids, the
Dutch theological seminary. will close
three weeks earlier this year on ac-
count of the war. Theological stu
dents are desirious of serving their
country. Scores are going to work on
farms, while others are going to the
training camp at Fort Sheridan, Ill.
Several have enlisted. Special dis.
pensations are made enabling stu
dents to serve their flag without dan
ger of losing their standing in theolog-
| ical work.
Members OF the Saginaw Rotary
club and prisoners at the county Jail
will work adjoining tracts of land of
| 10 acres each.
An Italian at work paving on the
! Thirteen-mile road south of Birming
ham. was badly burned when he was
struck by an auto driven by Mrs. E. NJ.
| Davis, of Detroit and thrown against
barrel of hot tar which upset on
him.
The Bryant Paper Co. Of Kalama-
zoo announced increases in the gen.
eral wage scale for its 1900 employees,
which will aggregate slightly more
than 100000 annually. The mini
mum for women employees will be
/ fa h.n
second in nine months.
Sebastian S. Kresge, of Detroit,
chain store merchant, was the sub
| ject of one of the most radical revi-
sions in tax returns which the state
board of review has returned in re-
cent years. The amount of his person
al property on which he will be call
ed TO pay taxes was raised from a
nominal sum to S3,O00,OOO.
Dr. Bernhard Friedlaender, of Sagi.
nav, who has received his commission
as lieutenant in the medical staff of the
officers reserve corps, was born and
educated in Germany, but declares he
was American before he left there
because of militarism. Il am willing to
shed my blood, If necessary" he says,
ITO aid the United States in forcing a
Republican form of government upon
Germany"
One hundred delegates attended the
twelfth annual convention of Michigan
| jewellers at Jackson.
Students OF Saginaw high school
have applied to Principal w. w. War
ner for the establishment of a course
in military training at the school,
Six hundred persons have applied
to the Flint farm and garden commit.
tee for seed potatoes, which are be-
ing furnished at cost by the city.
The Northwestern Michigan Bank.
ers club and group two of the Mich
foan nankars asconiafion held their