The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1918-07-04

Marshal.--Women in short skirts
and overalls are cutting weeds on
railroad property near here for $2.72
a day.
Eaton Rapids.--Sunday, June %, to
Sunday, June 80, will be dedication
week for the new Methodist church
in Eaton Rapids.
Pontiac.-A campaign will be start
ed here to raise money to pay full
time boy scout commissioner TO take
charge of activities in the city.
Grand Rapids.-Thousands of dol.
lars worth OF potatoes and corn were
seriously damaged Saturday night by
a severe frost in Kent county.
Lapeer.-Arthur Carmody, former
local resident, lieutenant in the
British flying corps, has been given
an indefinite through because Of
heart trouble, after TWO years OF
service in France.
Ann ATbor.-Wallace Trabbe, three
years Old, was run over and seriously
injured by an automobile while the lad,
dressed In soldier suit, was
watching the drills of the U. OF M.
auto mechanics unit.
Ferndale.-The vill4ge government
has exhausted its initla. .-an of ST.
500, from the First State commercial
bank OF Royal Oak, and has passed
a resolution asking for another $1,000
pending the collection OF this year
taxes.
etoskey.-Wesley E. Herr. "a
years ola, who was to 90 to Camp
Custer with the next Emmett county
contingent, has disappeared after not.
flying Sheriff Miller that he intended
10 take his own life TO avold the
draft.
Saginaw-The Saginaw Shipbuilding
Co., launched the first OF "a steel ships
1t is building on the Saginaw river at
noon Sunday. The second one Will be
launched the Fourth OF July. The To-
cal yards are seeking additional con-
tracts.
OnVet.-Seventeen b. A. degrees
were conferred upon seniors OF Onvet
college at the commencement eXer-
clses. DR.. Edwin w. Bishop, pastor
OF the Plymouth Congregational
church of Lansing, delivered the
address.
Port Huron.-Eighteen Questionair-
es in local draft board offices are now
being revised, and men who were TAX
en- out of Class / and given deferred
classIncations, will De re-eXamined
and many OF them brought back to
Glass l.
Detroit-Minnie Denton has been
sent TO the detention home by federal
officials for aiding her son, William r
Denton, to escape the draft. She ex-
plains she is not pro-German but simp-
ly conscientious" director. Her case
is being investigated.
Grand Rapids-Oakley c. Johnson.
principal OF the Grant high school.
near here, is being sought by federal
agents as a supporter OF the l. w. w.
Police say Johnson had receipts for
contributions for the defense OF the
/. w. w. members on trial in Chi
cago.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS of the Holland
high school, both boys and girls, will
wear regulation uniforms next year.
A committee, including Mayor Bosch
and Superintendent K. K. Fell, selected
the uniform. Blue cadet uniforms
were adopted for the boys, the design
similar TO that of the West Point
fatigue uniform.
Albion.-E. l.. Moore, druggist, paid
TO the local treasurer of the Red
Cross a $500 fine imposed on him by
the Michigan state fuel administration
for illegally filling out three appli-
cations for hard coal. He has turned
back to o. II. Gale, local fuel admins
traitor, all the hard coal he had on
hand and this will be distributed to
the poor.
Houghton.-The Greenwood Lumb-
er company, operating in Ontonagon
county, was ordered to sell so barrels
of boarded -four, by G. w. McCor-
mick, upper peninsula food admins
traitor, including one barrel found IN
the home OF X. III. Bice, the manager.
and one found in the home OF his as
sistant. The company also was fined
$50 for the benefit OF the Red Cross.
Ann Arbor-In an effort to find
slackers, between $50 and 400 men of
draft age were rounded up recently
in draft raids in Washtenaw county.
But eight or nine of the men taken
to the armory were unable to prove
that they had classification cards at
home. They were sent to the county
jail. Members of the sheriff's and POI
lice forces, and One Hundred and
Seventy-fourth company Michigan
State troops made the raids.
Ann ArDor.-After the city alder.
men voted TO allow poolrooms to be
operated on Sundays in this city, Cir
cult Judge George Sample called
County Prosecuting Attorney Carl
Lehman, and City Attorney Frank
Devine to his chambers for a confer