The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-09-06
MICHIGAN NEWS BRIEFS

ported wounded.
A mad dog at Carleton, bit two per-
sons, team of horses and eight dogs
before it was killed.
The Flint Board of Commerce
adopted resolutions urging suppression
of "pro-German publications"
]. N. Wyllie OF Sault Ste. Marie,
fighting with the Canadian army in
France, was killed by German poison
gas.
Klass Tanis, of Kalamazoo, fell 40
feet off a scaffold, striking on his nose.
Physicians say a broken nose is his
only serious injury.
DR.. Nellis Foster, of the u. of NJ,
has been detailed to cantonment work
and will not go to Serbia with a Red
Cross unit as planned.
Leonard Halstead Is years old,
caught in a whirlpool while swimming
at Eagle lake, near Lawton, was car
ried out into the lake and drowned.
A. Lupo and wife and three dau-
ghters, aged S, IL and Is, lost their
lives in a fire that destroyed frame
building on the main street of Pad
Axe.
Nearly ton of tobacco has been for
warded to members of the Muskegon
and Grand Haven guard companies at
Grayling as the gift of muskegon citi-
Zens.
The Kalamazoo chapter of the Red
Cross is planning to establish can
teens at all railroad stations at Kala-
maZoo, serving soldiers and sailors en-
route to camps.
A great winter pageant, along the
same general line as ST. Paul's annual
carnival, but on a smaller scale, is
being planned by Traverse City for
the coming winter.
Pinned under an automobile which
upset in the road at Highland village,
Leslie Bowen, of Pontiac, was partially
paralyzed. Two girls who were with
him escaped injury.
Sixty cents for butter and Is cents
quart for milk is the toll Detroit
will pay this coming winter, according
to Dairy Expert NJ. d. Wendt, of the
state dairy and food department.
The State Federation of Women's
clubs will hold its twenty-third annual
meeting in Traverse City, October 16,
II and Is. Jane Adams, of Hull
House, will be one of the speakers.
A burglar broke into the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Butler, North
vile, when they were away, and stole
jewels and $247 from the family safe,
which they broke open with an AK
Seventy-five of the 200 survivors of
the Eighteenth Michigan Volunteer in
fantry attended the fiftieth annual re-
union at Adrian. The attendance rep
resented one-twentieth the original
strength.
John Beaton, travelling salesman
of London, Ont, addressed a young
woman on the street at Port Huron as
chicken" She turned him over to
a policeman. Beaton was fined $3.50
in police court.
Mayor Balch of Kalamazoo, has
called a meeting of retail milk dealers
and the city council to reduce the
price of milk, which has advanced
from so to rs per cent the last year.
Sheriff Cronenwett of Monroe pro-
poses to furnish a gang of workmen
composed of tramps, drunkards, vag-
rants and minor offenders confined in
the county Jail, to work on county
roads.
Express companies nave made no
quick move to establish stations in
side the Camp Custer reservation and
with about two carloads of express
coming each day it must be hauled
overland from Battle Creek.
When the fast Wabash freight No.
81 left the track at Britton, near here,
the fireman and head brakeman were
killed. They were crushed beneath
the engine as it rolled into the ditch.
The engine and 10 cars left the track
The engineer escaped
Patrick McNichols, laborer on sew.
ct COuSJTuC.lOu at lamp CuSIeT, met
death when a trench caved in. Fellow
workmen labored desperately to reach
him, while a pulmotor was rushed to
the scene, but McNichols was dead
when fourc half hour later.
Mrs. Il. H. Leonard, of Durand, is
on the verge of nervous prostration
because no trace can be found of her
boys, Earl, Is years old, and Homer,
IL years old, who left home on the
night of July 10. The parents propose
to make the search a nationwide af
fair. my wife fears they are dead"
and we would welcome any tidings of
them, good or bad" said the father
George Dufour, of River Rouge, ia
Their of five small children, waived
exemption claims and certified a will
ingness to serve his country in the
new national army. Dufour, who is a
mechanic at the Great Lakes Engineer
ing works, Ecorse, declared to Wyan.