The Yale expositor., 1918-07-18
MICHIGAN
BREVITIES

mate OF Kalamazoo state hospital
hung herself Saturday evening, using
an !mprovised rope made from q
sheet.
Pontiac-Roland Weir, Is years old
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles t. Weir
Detroit, was drowned Sunday after.
noon while swimming in Commerce
lake in Commerce township.
Muskegon-This city will have its
second eight-story building soon. The
Occidental Hotel company directors
determined Saturday to add four
stories to the present structure.
Muskegon-Muskegon has contract
ed for 5000 cords OF hardwood for
fuel purposes. This amount of fuel
1t is believed, will take the place of
an equal number of tons of coal.
Hillsdale.-A total of 900, re-
presenting 1918 subscriptions, has
been pledged here by war savings
stamp purchasers. This per capita
amount, nearly 5000, is the largest
SO far recorded at state headquarters.
Misunderstanding Attorney j.
Clyde Watt, OF Ionia county. Friday,
reported to Secretary Richard NJ. Olin.
of the state board OF health, that DR..
John G. Fleming, of Pewama, had
pleaded guilty In justice court to fail
ure to report q case of chicken pox
and had paid Inc of SIS.
Port Huron-Forty-three Serbians, a
coach load in charge of Kansas City
police, are detained here by draft Off
Gals pending orders from Washing
ton. 1t is alleged that the men, many
of whom have first citizenship papers,
are being "railroaded" to Canada for
military service. The party was head
ed for SUSSEX, New Brunswick.
Mt. Clemens-A plane at Selfridge
field fell into Lake st. Clair at
o'clock Friday morning and its occu-
pants, Lieutenant Cakes and a cadet
observer, are in the field hospital.
They were doing a nose dive when the
plane fell, striking the lake in shall
low water. Their injuries are not ser
ious.
Standish-Natural gas has just been
struck north of here In Altoona coun.
ty. While drilling a well on the farm
ranch of John Carroll OF Bay City, on
Pine river, there was a roar, followed
by a rush of gas when the drill was
down 10 feet. The first flame shot
over the derrick 20 feet and then low.
cred and spread out
Jackson-Harry Bushnell, Pontiac
man who escaped from the north farm
of the Michigan state prison here Fri
day, is being sought as the slayer of
Mrs. Tillie JenkinJ and Walden Bord.
ner, missing since Tuesday night,
whose bodies were discovered Monday
morning near the Root farm six miles
north of this city, another prison
farm.
Lansing-The food administration
has frowned upon the old-fashioned
threshing dinners. while plenty of
food must be provided for threshers
because their work is hard, it must be
well cooked, properly seasoned and
palatable, and endless variety is in.
appropriate and unnecessary just at
this time" says Food Administrator
George A. Prescott
Lansing-Two more county war con.
ferences, similar to the one held a
couple of weeks ago at Escanaba, have
been tentatively decided on. One is
to be held at Bay City, July 80 and 81,
for the county committees In the south
ern part of the lower peninsula, while
one for those in the upper half will
be held at Traverse City one week
later, August and z.
West Branch-Grocerym of Oge-
nav county have organized an asso.
citation to cooperate with Food Ad-
ministrator X. G. Mckay in conserva-
ton of food and securing uniformity
of prices. A committee was appointed
consisting of A. c. Nelson, West
Branch; j. G. Weinberg, Prescott; Guy
Starke, Rose City; X. o. Carscallen,
Selkirk; A. S. Andrews, Edwards.
MISUNDERSTANDING OF the Kali.
amazoo Industries corporation to
include factories in five other
counties in southwestern Mich.
igan is a possible outgrowth OF
the organization of the Kalamazoo
zone of the Regional Industrial com
mission. The organization meeting
was held in this city. A c. Barley,
president of the Barley Motor Com.
pany, was elected president; w. c.
HOBBY, Benton Harbor, vice-president,
and Harry H. Freeman, of this city,
secretary and treasurer.
Ann Arbor.-The state war board
has appropriated $4,000 to be spent
for the care Of tubercular soldiers.
The sum will be used to complete
a building at Howell sanitarium
which was being erected for use as a
children's ward. DIR. Albert Warthin
and DIR. w. d. Hinsdale presented the
matter 10 the board at Lansing and
obtained the appropriation. There
will be 40 beds. and unless the next
legislature makes provision for the
care of tubercular patients the war