The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-06-07
MICHIGAN NEWS BRIEFS

ty, has been appointed secretary of
the Saginaw board of trade at a salary
of $500.
At least 500 inmates of the State
hospital for the insane at Kalamazoo,
were registered for military service.
A special officer was deputized to reg
lister the insane men of military age.
Officials of Berlin township, north of
Monroe. have taken steps to secure a
new name for the township. The
greater number of people in the town
ship are of French descent and object
to the Germanic name.
President Milton ]. Hoffman, head
OF the department of Latin at Hope
college at Holland, has accepted the
presidency of Central college, at Pella,
Iowa. He is a graduate of oxford uni
versity, in England, and a Michigan
Rhodes scholar.
e. d. Campbell, of Port Huron, brig
adler general of the Uniform Rank of
the Woodmen of the World, has been
informed that the annual encampment
of the order which was to have been
held In Mobile, Ala, next month has
been called off because of the war.
Commencement at the Michigan
Agricultural college was crowded into
two days of simple exercises instead
of the usual week of festivities. The
college graduated 258 students a
month earlier than the usual time to
release students for work in Michi-
gan's food drive.
Rollin II. Person, &c years old, JUS
tice of the supreme court from July
1915, until January 1, of this year, and
one of the leading democrats and
lawyers of the state. died suddely at
his home of acute Indigestion. Judge
Person had been one of the most fore
most figures in Lansing and Ingham
county for 40 years and for the last
eight or ten years had been state
parsonage.
James Morrison Taylor, son of Mr.
and Mrs. C. V. Taylor, of Pontiac. has
cabled his safe arrival in Bordeaux,
France, where he went with other stu
dents from the U. of M. to enter the
American volunteer ambulance SER
vice.
The report of the state fire marshal
for May shows IL persons were killed
and IA seriously injured by fires and
explosions in the state during the
month. Eleven building used for pub
lie purposes, five hotels, two churches,
two theatres, one school and one hos
pital burned or were partially destroy.
ed in May, causing a property loss of
100000.
The police have been unable to
solve the mystery shrouding the STAY
ing of Philippe Panteleone, of De-
troit, into whose body 10 bullets were
fred by three assailants. An empty
revolver was found near the scene of
the fight, and police have adopted the
theory that the Staying grew out of
a grudge against Panteleone. The
latter was go years old, and a widow
and child survive him in Sicily.
The Michigan w. c. T. U. conven-
ton at Kalamazoo named Mrs. E. L.
Calkins it's president The other off,
GERS reelected are: Honorary presi-
dent, Mrs. A. S. Benjamin. of Grand
Rapids, -president-at-large, Mrs.
Stella B. Roben, of Big Rapids; CORE
spending secretary. Mrs. Norma F.
Nudge, of st. Louis; recording secre-
tary, Mrs. Myrta Lockwood, Holly;
treasurer, Mrs. Matte w. Jones, Of
Detroit.
Hurrying to catch an interurban on
a sharp curve of the track at the San
comb road near Ecorse, Benjamin
waiter, living in Toledo,
was struck and hurled 80 feet, suf-
fering injuries from which he died
one hour later. Harry Kopp, motor
man of the car, picked up Greenstein
and took him to Wyandotte. Police
rushed him to Gilbert Memorial hospi
tai. A broken left leg was the only
injury visible on the body.
Eighteen Negroes were arrested in
Flint, in a raid, the biggest since the
war campaign to end liquor sales in
dry Genesee county.
John Russell Smith, of Detroit, was
drowned at Lake Orion when he
changed seats in canoe. The canoe
upset in 40 feet of water.
An appropriation of $4,000 for the
use of the committee on national de.
tense and preparedness Of the city OF
Flint was made by the common com.
ell.
Men at the Jackson state prison are
boosting the patriotic cause of the
Red Cross and the Liberty loan. Sew
eral thousand dollars OF inmate saw.
ngs will go into the Liberty loan.
A substantial wage Increase was
granted to motorman and conductors
by the arbitrator in Detroit United |
wage controversy. Thee in
,rease will cost the ID. u. r. about
5000, 900 a year.
Ethel Bloomfield, S-year.old daugh
er of James Bloomfield, of Cedar Rap
DIS, was killed when she fell under the |