The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-08-23
MICHIGAN News Briefs


associations for filling land.
George b. Andrews. assistant chief
of the Lansing fire department, re-
signed after 26 years of service.
r. w. Mckenzie, of Sandusky, was
appointed agent of Provost Marshal
General Crowder for Sanilac county
district.
| Jams, jellies and preserves are be-
ing packed by the Red Cross commit
tee at Romeo for American soldiers in
France.
o. w. Hayes, 50 years old. who In
! 1860 erected the first building and
conducted the first grocery in Manton,
is dead.
Charles Scheffer, OF Freedom, near
Ann Arbor, met instant death when
he fell from the top Of a windmill
on his farm.
Albert Reetinger, of Greenyille,, was
killed at Crystal Lake, Montcalm coun-
ty, when he dove into shallow water
and buried his head in the sand.
Directors of the Sanilac county Red
Cross have started a campaign to raise
5000 within the next six months, OF
at the rate of $4,000 month.
Nine chicks Matched out in a case
of eggs sent from Kinde to New York
city and labeled strictly fresh" The
chicks were discovered at Brown City.
One-third of the men examined in
Flint were accepted for the draft
without claiming exemption. Seven
ty per cent were found physically
! fit.
Charles G. Hansen of Menominee
and Perry F. Powers of Cadillac have
been appointed on the Michigan agri-
cultural farm commission by Cover
nor Sleeper.
The thirty-seventh annual reunion
of the veterans of the Sixteenth Mich
igan Volunteer infantry was held at
Pontiac. Fifty veterans and their
wives were in attendance. Fifteen
members have died since the last
meeting.
John Dalzell, widely known Michi-
gan lumberman, died at his residence,
in Detroit. He was 81 years old. He
was connected with the Skillingg,
Whitney Barnes Lumber company
for many years, being especially well
known in the upper peninsula.
Frank G. McGrath who has been
an assistant instructor in the physics
depart nent OF the University OF Mich
igan has gone tc Washington to do
military research work in the bureau
Of standards He is son of II T.
McGrath, publisher of the Charlotte
Republican.
Mrs Chas. Green, 3S, who lived
three miles north of Davisburg, was
instantly killed when she drove on
crossing of the d.. G. II. & M. railroad
directly in front of a west-bound train.
Her body was carried 40 rods and
was badly mangled. The horse was
also killed and the buggy wrecked.
Farmers of Hillsdale, Jackson and
Lenawee counties will attend the an
nual picnic of the Farmers Picnic as
ISOLATION at Manitou Beach. Devils
Lake, August 30. Speakers will be
Governor Sleeper, N. p. Hull, of the
state food preparedness board. and A.
r.. Ribbins, Lansing, federal agent.
Peter N. Cook, rs years old, former
regent of the university of Michigan,
died at his home at Corunna after an
extended illness. He was a retired
farmer and Ann Arbor railroad attor-
ney. lie was captain of a company of
Shiawassee and Livingston county
volunteers he organized in the civil
war, during which he rose to major.
Four persons were injured in a
wreck on the Michigan Railway near
Bridgeport. The coupling between the
trolley and two trailers parted and
the latter were left some distance be-
hind. When the car which was sup
plying the power stopped, the trailers
crashed into it. The trolley and one
trailer were deraiIed. The fact that
the cars were steel is believed to have
saved passengers.
After having passed through the
the Belgian army, received thrust
in the right lung with a bayonet in
the hands of German soldier, sue
cessfully undergone an operation, and
finally landing safely in America,
Leopold Dillen, who has lived at Port
Huron little more than year, APP
peared before District No. l board for
physical examination and was reject
ed.
All members of Owosso Lodge No
81, +. a. A. M, on entering war SER
vice, will give information to the lodge
as to dependents and state whether
there is any business they desire the
lodge to look after In their absence
They will receive lodge passports
printed in French, English and Ger
man. vouching for their Masonic
standing, commencing them to broth
ly Masonic care I'm time OF distress,
and guaranteeing payment by the
lodge of necessary expense incurred