The Yale expositor., 1918-02-21
Michigan News
Tersely Told

nounced they Will pay per cent inter-
eat on savings deposits after March 1.
Coldwater-William Abbott, aged
so, a civil war veteran, shot and killed
himself. Poor health and dependency
probably caused the act.
Camp Custer, Battle Creek-Wet
feet should be a discomfort unknown
In camp hereafter. Thirty-one thou
sand pairs of arctics arrived last week.
Grand Rapids-A new dog quaran-
tine has been established in Lowell
and Cascade townships. Many dogs
have bitten live stock, spreading ra-
bies.
stroyed a section of the Rex Paper Co.
mills here. Fifty girl employees had
left only a moment before the lightning
struck.
Petoskey-Fresh lake trout and
perch are being shipped by express
from this city TO markets south. The
fab are bringing 20 cents per pound
wholesale in some instances.
Grand Rapids-Jesse B. Davis, prime
pal of Central High school, in an ad-
dress to the Rotary club, advocated
keeping the schools open the year
round for greater efficiency.
Flint-Flint bakers, are making all
bread with 20 per cent wheat substi-
tutes of rye and barley -four, and on
Mondays and Wednesdays absolutely
wheatless bread being manufactured.
Camp Custer, Battle Creek-A mill
tary exhibition similar to the one
staged this week by the 339th regi-
ment will be put on in Milwaukee,
March I, 2 and by picked teams of
the 340th.
Flint-Dr. VIM. DeKleine, health Of
ficer, has asked the common council
TO pass an ordinance requiring inspec-
ton of all meat sold in Flint and for
the killing of all animals for food in a
central slaughter house.
Fremont-Fully 200 persons escaped
death or injury when the old skating
rink, used as a basketball court, col
lapsed just after the Newaygo-Fremont
game. The fans had just left the hall
when the roof toppled in and one wall
fell.
Lansing Ten-dollar-a-ton sugar
beets do not mean an increase in the
price OF sugar to the consumer, in the
opinion of those who had to do with
the agreement completed here between
the beet growers and the sugar manu-
facturers.
Muskegon-That the Continental Mo-
tors corporation must soon change the
location of its drop forge plant, the
result of other nearby buildings set
Ting, from the terrific shock of the
gigantic hammers, has just become
known here.
Manistee-Arthur Gudart and Louis
Gering, out on bail and bound over TO
the federal district grand jury on the
charge of stealing naval pump plans
from the Manistee Iron Works and
forwarding them to the German gov.
eminent are back at their old jobs at
the iron works.
Flint-More than so families were
Creek, ordinarily a small stream, be-
came a raging torrent, overlooking its
banks and inundating lowlands for a
distance Of two miles through the west
ern and southern parts Of Flint Po-
licemen carried numbers Of women and
children TO safety after the creek left
its banks.
Ann ArborA-Stanley r. Tugspurger,
who graduated from the University of
Michigan last year was drowned when
the British transport Tuscania was
sunk off the Irish coast by a German
submarine. He was a member OF the
10th Engineers (Foresters), and last
year was captain of the senior track
team of the university His body has
been buried on the Scottish coast. He
came here from Dayton, Ohio.
Ann Arbor-Injuries sustained
when an electric shock suffered at the
plant of the Argo Power company,
threw him from a ladder, his head
striking against an iron post, caused
the death OF Alderman Isaac L. Sherk,
aged 5s, representative of the Fifth
ward for IA years. A fractured skull
was the immediate cause of death. The
accident occurred on the twenty-fourth
anniversary of his coming to Ann Ar
Dor.
Lansing-Soldiers and sailors in fed.
eral service, who have not made ap.
plication for government insurance,
and have thus left their dependents
unprotected in case of wounds or
death. have been given additional time
for filing their requests. The expira-
tion date was February u, and the new
date is April IL. The council Of ma.
tional defense, however. warns soldiers
and sailors who have not applied that
automatic insurance which applied in
the case Of the victims of the Tuscania
has entirely ceased,
Observation-Disclosures telegraph, tele