The Yale expositor., 1918-04-11

Lansing.-Detroit is getting bis
proportion of the anthracite coal ship
ped into Michigan at present, accord
ing to reports received at the office OF
the state fuel administrator
Grand Eapids.-Fred l.. Woodwork
state food and dairy commissioner
called a meeting of all state prosecu
tors here April 10 to discuss the new
dry law which goes into effec- May l.
Pontiac.-Frank Smetzer put on pro
baton for stealing an automobile, and
who later repeated the same offense
was sent to Ionia for from six months
TO five years with recommendation OF
enc year.
! Flint. Frederick Wilhelm Gustave
Ehlen. German army reservist. about
As years old, was taken from a de.
partment of justice operative here,
tarred and feathered, and returned to
the Genesee county jail by mob OF
citizens.
Ionia Mysterious kilograms are be.
ing received in Ionia, asking for money
and purporting TO come from lonia
soldiers. AS the boys whose names
are signed to the kilograms are sup
posed to be in France, federal officials
are conducting an investigation.
Detroit-Eight million dollars worth
OF three-inch guns for the United States
army will be manufactured by the
Chalkis Manufacturing company, 6G6
Mack avenue, under contract just
awarded by the war department. The
company was organized last Septein-
Der.
Bay City.-Hilbert Brenier, 10, and
Melvin Hart, IA. were taken to their
homes in Onaway after spending a
night and day in the county Jail. The
boys had paid their way to Pinconning
and were in search of work when
found by Deputy Mahoney. They had
set out to see the world.
Lansing.-Every township in the
United States is to have its honor roll
showing the names OF subscribers to
the next Liberty loan, and each town.
ship exceeding its quota, will receive
third Liberty loan honor flag, award
ed by the treasury department, accord
ing TO information received by the war
preparedness board.
Owosso. The choir OF the Salems
Lutheran church here voted to discon-
tinue the use of the German language
in its meetings. Recently the church
adopted the plan of having one service
in English every Sunday instead of
monthly as in the past. The church
has the largest congregation of any
German church in the county.
Monroe.-Monroe county will estah-
lish sign boards along the Dixie high
way, setting forth the legal speed for
motor vehicles as fixed by the state
and also will send circular letters to
automobile manufacturers warning
them that the law will be rigidly en-
forced in Monroe county as a means
of securing better enforcement.
Sault Ste. Marie-Deeds held by 10
Detroit and Lansing people, mostly
women, to land bought for summer re-
found to be worthless, following an
investigation by T. j. Green, prose
cutting attorney. The land lies in the
middle of a swamp on lower Sugar IS
land. No more deeds will be record
ed for this land
Camp Custer.-That the entire S5tn
division, made up of Michigan and
Wisconsin troops, will be out of camp
by August 1, was the statement OF one
of the staff officers. The impression
gained was that the entire division
would be moved late in the summer to
France. This does not mean, he said,
that the camp would be vacant by that
time, as he expected the camp would
be filed up by selects.
Camp Custer-Close companions in
life, Private Chas. j. Hoefiin and
George Heller, Detroiters, died at the
base hospital With ma few hours OF
each other. Both men came to the
army at the same time and were as
signed to the headquarters company.
S30th field artillery. They had adj
JOINING anu bONh WOihSN eAhN
played together. Heller died from
pneumonia and Hoeflin from empy-
erina.
Muskegon.-An Irish jury ousted
the Rev. Tony Oldenburger from the
parsonage of the First Neder Deutch
church. The trouble started three
months ago when a church officer
drove the pastor from the Pulpit and
sent the congregation home disap-
proving Cll,nburEer's teachings. The
pastor refused to leave the parsonage.
Aside from the siX Irishmen serving
on the Jury, all persons connected
with the case were Hollanders.
Camp Custer.-Loyal men of Ger
man or Austrian birth who have elect
ed to stay in the national army. re-
port to division headquarters that they
are being threatened by aliens who
we're discharged from the service
some weeks ago. A number of men