The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-07-05
MICHIGAN news BRIEFS

DOdTu Oh lTuSle6S IOT the IONA state
hospital for the term ending January
81, 1923.
Michael McGrath, a member of the
Michigan Railway section gang, was
electrocuted at Bay City when he fell
ON third rail in trying to board an
interurban.
AS 40 per cent of those enlisting are
Of Catholic faith, Knights of Colum-
the plan of the national council to
spend S1.000,O0O for recreation for sol
diers at training camp.
A humble bee stung Christian Her
mann, Lansing business man, on The
ankle when he was motoring. He
steered the car into ditch where it
overturned. His sister, Miss Marie
Hermann. suffered fractured arm.
Saginaw's Red Cross war fund cam
paign closed with a parade and a
meeting at which the subscriptions
total was raised to $200,1SS This is
more than three times the allotment
fixed by the national headquarters
and double the quota set locally.
Pontiac officers called to the Orch
ard Lake road when thieves took an
automobile belonging to Roy Bentley.
of Pontiac, met the pair speeding to-
ward Pontiac with the stolen car.
jumped from the machine when pur-
sued and escaped in the fields after
a hard chase.
Figures announced last week at the
recruiting stations showed that Kala-
mazoo had enlisted 45S of her sons
in the several branches of service
since war was declared. Including
the two Kalamazoo guard companies
the total is 566, more than 10 per cent
of the population.
Port Huron bankers find themselves
in a curious predicament. When the
Liberty loan was first announced, each
bank subscribed for several thousand
dollars In bonds and acted as an agent
for the public. Now most of the banks
have sold more bonds than they had
subscribed for.
The Pontiac commission has found
it impossible to get contractors to
build walks under the existing ordi-
nance which requires a five-year guar
antee and a bond of $1,000. The city
attorney was instructed to draft
amendments making the time two
years and the bond $500.
The state supreme court held inva-
lid section 3 of the law of 1913 which
broadened the definition of pandering
to allow prosecution on less evidence
than originally required. The court
held that the conviction of Ben Lyons.
Detroit, who was charged with taking
So from his wife, was invalid, as it
was not covered by the original title
Of the act.
William o. Lee of Port Huron was
elected department commander Of the
Grand Army of the Republic at the
state encampment at Battle Creek.
William H. Vetingle, of Saginaw.
ready to depart for Columbus, Ohio TO
enlist, was held up and robbed Of
500 by a masked man with a gun.
James C. Broderick, a fireman for
so years and for more than two de.
cades chief of the Detroit fire depart.
ment, has resigned. He is 70 years
old.
William Blackmore, of Goodland
township, received $1,S55 for one load
of wool. which is the most ever re-
ceived in Lapeer county for one load
of farm products.
Olney Butler, night operator, and
Isaac Kempfer assistant, at the Ann
Arbor e. Wabash stations, in Milan,
were held up by two strangers and re-
lieved of $40 at the point of revolvers.
Three Allegan youths drove an
automobile alleged to have been stol-
en- to Lake City and stopped the first
man they met on the street there, ask
ing him to buw the machine The man
was Sheriff William Brown, who ar
rested them.
The Patriotic League Of Lenawee,
acting as fiscal agent for the Red
Cross and all other patriotic activi-
the form Of regular monthly subscrip-
tons, pledged for the length OF the
war. At least 100000 year is expect
ed to be pledged in this manner. Out
of this regular revenue the county's
allotment for the Red Cross, the army
Y. M. G. A. and other objects will be
paid. Lenawee county is the first
county in Michigan to merge all patri-
otto activities in a single countrywide
organization.
Lapeer experienced its first bomb
plot when somebody planted a suit
case of explosives" at the rear of
pool room, leaving long fuse sput-
tering out one end and a time clock
ticking within. There was also a for
midable spherical bomb" about five
inches in diameter with fuse attached.
Front exits Immediately were at a
premium Lee Middleton hurled the
case and bomb through a transom
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