The Yale expositor., 1918-04-11
Michigan News
Tersely Told


is asking local young men to go to
work, to war or to Jail.
Saginaw-Mrs Anna G. Smith, run
down by an automobile while watch
ing selected men leave for Camp Gus
ter, is dead.
KalamaZoo.-While laughing over
an after dinner joke told by his wife,
Emerson b. Harter, &c years old fell
dead or heart failure.
Grand Rapids-The body OF Edgar
Brockett, Sc years old, cripple, was
found hanging from tree near the
edge of the city. He had been in i'll
health.
Flint. Dallas bort, automobile
manufacturer. has offered his son.
Ralph now in France. $1,000 for every
German helmet he brings home. Mr..
bort is chairman of the county Liberty
loan committee.
Camp Custer Sixty men from the
various division units have been de.
tailed to take two months course
in the cooks and bakers school, or
this number so are taking instruction
in cooking and 10 in baking.
Hillsdale.-Litchfield township re-
sidents voted unanimously to raise
money for war activities by direct
taxation. The township treasurer will
collect this tax, which will probably
be about seven-tenths of one per cent
st. Johns.-Eleven thousand bushels
OF grain valued at 100000 were de.
stroyed here when the John Hicks
elevator burned The property was a
total loss before the Owosso fire de-
partment could reach this city. Total
loss is approximately $4,000, partly
insured.
Grand Rapids.-Federal officers here
have rounded up members of the Sons
of Lithuania Aid society, an organiza-
ton whose personnel is alleged to
have attempted to evade the draft. IL
is alleged the society members have
taken pledges to swear that each was
above draft age and to have failed to
register.
Camp Custer.-Orders have been
posted in the camp that every soldier
was to be given try-out scaling on
eightfoot wall and jumping a seven
foot ditch, carrying full equipment.
Every man is to be scored by his show.
ing along these lines and will be given
training until he can accomplish these
two feats.
Bay City.-Henry V. Lafrance. up
to year ago a prominent and pros
porous undertaken, was sentenced to
serve from FIVE to ten years in Jack
son prison by Judge S. G.. Houghton
for defrauding insurance companies
by firing a building and for fraud in
burying a nude body in a rough box
after securing money for a decent
burial.
Flint.-The teaching of German in
the Flint public schools will be dis
continued after the present semester.
the school board has decided, in re-
spouse to numerous protests received.
Already textbooks have been expur-
gated of considerable German prop
uganda by teachers, but it was thought
advisable to finish the semester, IN
order that students might not be de-
prived Of credits.
Kaamazoo.-Second Lieutenant r.
Van Ranney, member of the Grenadier
guards and a we'll known Kalamazoo
voting man, has been killed in action
according TO word received by his
mother, Mrs Frank M. Clark, from
the war department. Ranney was in
London the day war was declared and
after many futile attempts 20 enlist,
he changed his citizenship that he
might get into the fray.
Camp Custer.-It has developed that
the intensive training given at the
training camps has developed what
medical officers call an irritable
heart. This is especially true of men
who in civilian life were not injured
to violent exercise. Medical officers
have been warned to watch for these
cases and when located the victims
will be placed in a company which
takes it's work more gradually.
Caro.--Andrew Anger. a farmer who
lives near Watrousville. Tuscola coun-
ty, whose pro-German utterances have
been resented, was called from his
home by party of Americans, who
persuaded him to march harefcoted
for some distanced between the lines,
cheer the president, kiss the flag,
promise to donate to the Red Cross.
buy Liberty bonds and concluded by
shouting ITO h with the Kaiser"
after which he was allowed to return
to his home.
Grand Rapids.-The annual report
Of the Grand Rapids & Indiana rail
road. presented at the annual meeting
OF the stockholders here, stated the
prospects for increased settling ~
northern and western Michigan dur
ing the coming year were better than
ever before. The report shows the
number of settlers during the past
year was a decided increase over the