The Yale expositor., 1917-07-12
MICHIGAN NEWS BRIEFS

port the appearance of the bean mag
got in Isabella county.
Hog cholera was found at the James
Westoby farm, east of Lapeer, by Ar
thur Dodds, county live stock agent
Battle Creek and Kalamazoo citi-
zens met to form a vigilant commit
tee to prevent the formation OF vice
district in the vicinity of the new
army cantonment.
Myrtle May Ames, daughter of Geo.
Ames, employe of the city Of Durand,
who was kidnapped from her home in
Grand Blanc when one year of age,
has been restored to her parents after
IL years absence.
A collar button swallowed by Eu-
gene Thompson Minchin, 1S-month-old
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Eber Minchin, of
Pontiac, lodged in the child's wind
pipe and could not be moved by local
physicians. The infant was rushed
to Shirley hospital. Detroit, as a last
effort, to save its life, but death came
a few hours later.
| William Berwick, 80 years old,
resident of Hillsdale 60 years, is dead.
Russell Judd, inmate of the county
home at Marshall, has celebrated his
one hundred first birthday.
An appropriation of 5000 month
was set aside by the Grand Rapids
city commission for the war aid COM
mittee in aiding dependents OF sol
diers.
LIMA Tobias, of CheDoygan, 65
years old, was seriously burned when
his clothing caught fire from cigar
cite he was smoking when he fell
asleep.
Joseph F. Kelly, 20, pioneer bridge
tender of Saginaw, was drowned when
he slipped from the edge of the small
boat dock beneath the interurban
bridge.
More than $4,000 was realized for
the Flint ambulance at a farewell
benefit given at Oak Grove hospital
grounds. Governor Sleeper was guest
of honor at the reception.
Lenawee county this year will COM
plete 20 miles of improved stone
roads
After a weeks search, Victoria and
and Barbara Malanka of Detroit
were found by an aunt at Muskegon
Heights. The girls came to Muske-
gon marked with tags that gave only
their addresses. They could not speak
English.
Asking Detroit to take part in re-
building that part of France devasta-
ted by war by adopting" scissors
and its 40 dependent communities, in
habited by about 10000 persons,
James Heating, president of the
French Restoration Fund, inc, come
to that city to organize a campaign
to raise $25O,OOO.
The state securities commissions
more difficult by the Red Cross and
Liberty loan subscriptions. There
is hardly any market for securities.
Changes in freight rates which have
caused numerous complaints from
shippers have increased the work of
the railroad commission.
Fifty-nine years ago a ragged little
newspaper boy Of Port Huron dropped
his newspaper sack and hied himself
off to war after bidding his mother
farewell He went with Company A,
Michigan volunteers. Last week the
same "newsboy," Charles Hitchings,
of Marine City, stopped at the tent in
front of the Port Huron postoffice and
asked the officer in charge of the re-
cruiting station if he could be accept
ed.
In the center 'of Michigan's fruit
growing region, 300 housewives at Ben
ton Harbor have made the following
pledge in an effort to lower food waste
in this country: I'VE promise to can
fruit the way we have never before;
we, further, promise to be economical
in eatables of all kinds, to plant and
replant vegetables, to use every bit
of soil available and to work together
in the one sole object, to be economi-
CAL"
A telephone pole near st. Joseph
is responsible for saving the lives of
five people who were motoring from
Kalamazoo. G. G. Heal, accompanied
by r. d. Hail. brother; Miss Esther
Tunk and Mr.. and Mrs. ]. c. Dreher,
all of Kalamazoo, are the persons
who feel that this pole saved their
lives when their car made a headlong
dive down a 35-foot embankment on
the lake shore drive. The telephone
pole caught the car, allowing the &C.
cupants time to jump, and then top
pied to the bottom. The machine
was completely wrecked.
Justis ]. Tyler, Grand Rapids car
penter, who ended his life few days
ago, left a will in which specific d.
,rections are given for the cremation
of his body and the scattering of the
ashes to the four winds. He request
ed that no portion of the ashes be
covered with earth and that the place
of scattering be kept secret. His
daughter Mrs. Jennie A. Hatch, Of