The Yale expositor., 1917-01-04
MICHIGAN news BRIEFS


from 81 to $3.50 year, commencing
January Is.
Leroy II. White, real estate dealer.
of Kalamazoo, and former pastor In
the Baptist churches at Romeo and
Manistee, died of cancer of the stom-
ach.
John Bruinger, living four miles
southeast of Dexter, dropped dead
few minutes after he returned home
from helping his brother-in-law butch
er hogs.
Two hundred milk producers OF Mus
kegon county will meet to enforce a
demand for 20 cents a gallon for milk
delivered to local distributors, the con-
tract to run for all 1917.
Representative-Elect Fred l.. Eaton
of Saginaw is preparing a bill to be
introduced in the next legislature pro-
viding for the censorship of moving
pictures by the state.
The teachers retiring fund board
will meet in Lansing to appoint
secretary and to plan ways to put
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operation as soon as possible.
Mrs. NJ. Grodi, 62, wife OF David
Grodi, farmer of Berlin township,
was found hanging dead from rafter
in storeroom adjoining her home.
Dependency over i'll health II Is
thought caused her act.
The proposed bill will authorize the
appointment by the governor OF one
OF the existing state boards as board
of censors, to have the power to re-
quire the submission to 1t OF all firms
TO be shown in the state and TO pro-
hibit the exhibition of such pictures
as II may deem Objectionable.
Leo Rockland, S5 years old, of Flint,
was killed by a Michigan Railway
company interurban car near Birch
Run. Saginaw county. He was lying
on the track when struck. An un'
stamped postcard in his pocket was
: addressed to a brother. Dick Rock
land, 2S7 West Garfield avenue, De-
troit.
Eight recent burglars and two hold
ups in Grand Rapids are cleared up
, with the arrest pf Verne Stoddard
2 Gerrit Renslar and James Lee, all
= former convicts at Ionia reformatory.
l Stoddard maintained headquarters just
a across the street from the local police
station, and much Of the loot was
: found there.
: A warrant has been issued for the
arrest of Edward Guild, manager Tor
Armour & Co., of Battle Creek, charg'
ing him with selling cold'storage eggs
Il as fresh. The eggs are believed "a
c he some of the 70,O00,000 "cornered'
8 bv James f. Wetz, Chicago egg king
d They we're sold by Mr. Guild, the com
. plant alleges to l l.. Webb, grocer
;. When Mrs. Ralph Belmore of Mar
= ouette, awoke December 27, she found
= her nine children unconscious as tht
:, result of escaping coal gas from
- stove. She dragged the children out
= side and fell unconscious. The chill
- dren soon recovered, but Mrs. Bel
. more's condition is serious. The fami
= ly had a similar experience two weeks
n ago.
al Hitching his Christmas sled to th'
front runner Of bob-sled, loaded witt
w hay. which passed his home, Edwin
n. Maher. years old, of Pontiac, fel
ID under the rear runner and was rui
10 over. The child was rushed to tn
"a City hospital where no external injui
vs les could be found. but he died. Col
al oner o. c. Farmer will hold an IL
is quest.
to Nearly 1000 automobile licenses 70
he 1917 were issued at the Detroit offic
of the secretary Of state, in the Nj
iestic building, December 2S, an
- when the office was closed at 3 p. n
- every available inch of space in tn
big office was used for the storage
ri. of waiting applicants, and then tn
doors closed upon a long waiting lin
in the hall.
II Battle Creek decides that 1t wan
tuberculin tested milk, farmers wi
tie object unless the price is raised, a
re- cording to a statement issued by &c
he Writ, president of the Calhoun Cou
he ty Milk Producers association.
st, cording to Mr.. Writ, members OF II
or association will refuse TO submit the
Ieu nGr0S 10 lue luDOlNuAih Wv NNN'A =,
&C. measure becomes state law.
ill Major Samuel d. Pepper judge-a
) a vocate of the Michigan National Qua
zen left for FL Paso to resume bord
the duty. He is the judge-advocate on &
a staff OF Major-General George Fl. BE
ary Jr.. commanding the Eleventh divisi
and the department of El Paso.
has has been on leave of absence
md more than a month to attend to
ar duties as an assistant attorney-gt
ess- eral.
the Resolutions favoring the adopt
ner by the state of all Michigan tru
highways were unanimously adopt
at a meeting at Sault Ste. Marie. T
meeting was called as the result OF
report that State Commissioner RI
ers intended spending 100000 in f