The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-10-11
MICHIGAN NEWS BRIEFS


burns suffered when he used gasoline
to light the kitchen fire.
The postofice at Monroe has been
made distributing center for the 10
other postoffices in Monroe county.
Michigan will be asked to raise ST..
100000 toward $25,000,000 Y. M. c..
A. army fund to be raised in the Unit
ed States.
Lower Michigan's share OF the sec
ond Liberty loan is $124,500,000 al
lotted to the 6S counties that comprise
the lower peninsula.
A bulletin issued by the NJ. A. c..
urges greatest care in conserving the
entire Michigan apple crop this fall
owing to the scarcity.
Seventeen persons lost their lives
and 13 others were seriously burned
in Michigan in September from care
less use of gasoline or kerosene, w. T..
Shaw, deputy state fire marshal. re-
ports.
Two Detroit and three Ann Arbor
boys, each less than 10 years old were
injured, when an automobile they
were driving skidded and overturned
three times, one-half mile west of
Ypsilanti.
Lee Dillenbeck OF West Branch, ar
rested at Cheboygan on charge of de-
ceTtion. was taken to Fort Brady.
Dillenbeck, who enlisted in Cheboy-
gan's Company X. says he didn't Ike
the service, so skipped out.
Kalamazoo and Grand Rapids are 20
be on still easier speaking" terms
b. f. Sunny, president of the Michigan
State Telephone company. has auth.
orized the expenditure of $4,000 for
additions TO the toll lines between
these two cities.
Speaking at the farewell meeting for
Romeo Red Cross Unit No. 45, Con-
gresham l.. c. Cramton urged citizens
to get behind the sale OF Liberty
bonds. A spc edy and heavy subscrip-
ton, he said, would be one means OF
insuring the success of this country
in the war.
A masked bandit entered the Super.
ior Lumber Co. office, at Munising.
and beat the cashier, Miss Viola
Gariepy, Is years old, into insensibility
when she refused to turn over the
money. He overlooked the envelope
containing the monthly pay roll and
secured less than $25.
Port Huron has completed the task
of raising $4,000 to insure bringing
the plant of the Mueller Manufacture
ing company to this city. Mueller
company officials say work on the
plant will begin at once and will be
ready in 80 days. The cost of the
plant is placed at 100000.
Part of the equipment for the two
regiments of the Michigan state
troops located in Detroit has arrived
and been issued. This is the first
equipment the Detroit soldiers have
received from the state. Many of the
enlisted men were losing interest in
their work after drilling four months
in their civilian clothes.
In the face Of all the obstacles
raised by wartime demands, the re-
tired preachers endowment fund COM
mission of Detroit conference has sue
ceeded in raising 100000 This is
the largest fund raised by any con-
ference of the Methodist Episcopal
church in the United States for pen
sioning OF old preachers.
At the celebration in Port Huron,
concentrating the twenty-fifth ami
versary of the Women's benefit asso-
citation of the Maccabees, Miss Bina
M. West supreme commander of the
order, was presented with $500 silver
dollars as a token of appreciation for
her services in building up the order.
She was also granted years vaca-
| ton.
Edsel B. Ford. vice-president, Sec
rotary and director of the Ford Motor
company, was denied his claim of ex-
emption from the draft army on the in
dustrial clause, by the Detroit exemp-
ton board. Unless Mr.. Ford appeals
to the president Of the United States
the only course left to follow, he will
be called TO service In the second
draft.
During the month of September, u.s.
869 visitors were shown through the
Ford Motor Co. plant at Detroit. The
company maintains a corps of from
10 to 10 guides solely for the purpose
of conducting visitors around the build
ing. Two hundred and thirty-six cities
of the United States we're represented,
in addition to Canada, Mexico, and
Japan in one days inspection tour.
Charles Stevenson. formerly an EN-
ploye OF a farm near Pontiac, was
awarded a military m sdal for bravery
in the attack on Messines, June z,
and was advanced from lance corporal
to sergeant Despite heavy artillery
fire. he led pack mules with ammuni-
tion and food TO the first line of attack.
An account of his bravery is given in
a Cookstown, Ireland, newspaper. His
narente live I'm that CITY