The Yale expositor., 1917-03-01
MICHIGAN NEWS BRIEFS

Farmers Institutes were held at
Sterling and Arenac last week. More
than 200 farmers were present at
Arenac.
Dr. j. II. Suydam. of Alma, is TAX
ing his first vacation I'm SO years. lie
has gone to California to remain three
months.
Work on a $1,0OO,OOO building to
house the district headquarters or
the Bell Telephone Co. in Detroit will
be started this spring.
Welcome II. Young, SO years old.
retired farmer, who Is well known
about the state because OF his activity
in Methodist church and Sunday
school work, died at his home in Pom
tiac.
A boom for William Fl. Loutit or
Grand Haven, president of the West
Michigan Pike association, as Demo
cratic nominee for governor In 1871
was launched at the annual meeting
of the organization at Muskegon.
The Northern hotel at Roscommon.
one OF northern Michigan's Oldest ho-
tells, was completely destroyed by fire.
The fire was caused by an overheated
stovepipe. The Bresnahan saloon
building was also destroyed. The loss
was about $4,000.
Beans are being retailed at SO a
bushel at Saginaw, the heart OF the
bean production of the world. Onions
are selling for four times the price
asked in 1916 all over the state, and
canned goods have advanced to more
than twice the price of a year ago.
Mayor Ira II. Mckinney has left a
$4,000 a year job to work unhampered
as mayor of Alma at $50 per year.
Mckinney is candidate for re-elec-
ton in the spring and he wants to see
certain legislation inaugurated. He
was superintendent of the Alma plant
of the Michigan Sugar Co.
The family of George Chilcote, at
Owosso, came near being asphyxiated
by coal gas. The son, Harry, came
home late, and laid down on a couch
in the living rom. He shut the stove
off tight. The father arose in the
morning, i'll, but was able to call
doctor for the son, who was uncon-
scious.
About $50 prominent Michigan
democrats will comprise the Official
Michigan party" which will attend the
Inauguration of President Wilson at
Washington, March 5. The special
H.. l. he Int
depot, Detroit, Sunday at noon and
will arrive in Washington at S:45
Monday morning.
Bert w. Kennedy, of Grand Ledge,
has the distinction of being the oldest
man in point of continuous service
connected with the national house Of
representatives, having a record of q
years as an employee of that body. No
sitting member of congress except
Uncle Joe" Cannon was there when
he started in as a page.
Cadillac home owners, inspired by
the high cost of potatoes, have decid-
ed to turn their flower beds and all
other available space on their lots in
to potato patches this season. A con-
certed movement is on foot to bring
Cadillac householders to realization
Of the fact that some such method
would cut down the high cost Of liv-
ing.
Sensational charges were made rela-
tive to the coal shortage situation at
meeting of the Saginaw Federation
of Labor. Resolutions were adopted
calling on the city administration for
decisive and prompt action to relieve
the conditions, and a committee was
appointed to confer with Mayor II. F.
Paddock and city officials. The estab-
lishment of a municipal coal yard was
suggested.
Miss Dorothy Pawloski, of Ruth,
won the bean prize offered by the
Boys and Girls club department of
M. A. c. this year. Her sister, Miss
Martha PawloslSi, took the same hon.
ors last year. In addition to raising
the best acre crop in competition with
5000 Michigan young people, an essay
describing the manner of planting,
cultivating, harvesting and marketing
the crop was considered.
Again prospects of a food famine
in Detroit have given rise to a move.
ment to convert vacant spaces in the
city into garden plots in a revival of
former Mayor Pingree's memorable
potato patch solution of the hunger
problem % years ago. If the plan.
now headed by Mayor Marx, is car
ried out, next spring will find vacant
lots and subdivisions under cultiva-
ton by Detroit's poor. who will raise
much Of their food and gain part in
dependence from the corner grocery.
Although officials of the Goodrich
Transit Co., at Muskegon, refuse to
give out any details on the deal. II
has become known that the rugged
utility steamer Nevada has been sold
to the Russian government. The YES
sci is now in drydock at Manitawoc
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