The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1918-09-05
STATE NEWS
IN BRIEF

Standish-Prizes for the Arenac
county fair, September 1920, aggre-
eating $500, have been announced.
Reed City-Lou B. Winsor, grand
secretary of the Masons of Michigan,
is about to move his Offices to Grand
Rapids.
Eaton Rapids-Because OF the
drought farmers say that the late
potato crop will be but so per cent of
normal yield.
Dor Springs, is In a French hospital.
slightly wounded, according to word
received by his brother, Clare Nc
Bride.
Muskegon-Max LANCE, charge with
pro-German utterances and held on
$1,000 bail to the district court at
Grand Rapids, has vesigned as presi-
dent of a local insurance company.
Grand Rapids-Former Fire Mar
shall Henry Lemein, "a years old, Is
near death with hardening of the
arteries. He has been fire marshal
of this city for more than thirty
years.
Eaton Notwithstanding to letters
just received by w. e. Hale from his
son Ralph, serving in France, he and
all Of the other Eaton Rapids boys Of
Battery c. field artillery, have seen
considerable action.
Eaton Rapids-A school for mill.
tary instruction without fee Is to oe
conducted here by officers of Company
8, Michigan state troops. Captain
Clark l.. Belnap of Company 8 will be
one of the instructors.
Reed City-A tug of war between
railway locomotive and 100 men will
be feature during Reed Citys three
day celebration August 81 to Septem-
Der 2. The Pere Marquette has loan
ed the locomotive for the purpose.
Kalamazoo-Dorothe Wilma and
Alice Cross, aged II, and 21s respec-
lively, were run down and perhaps
fatally injured by an automobile driv-
en- by Marcus Gibbs, of Oshtemo.
Gibbs will be taken into custody, off,
GERS declared.
Albion-Corp. w. c. S. Pellowe,
former orator and Albion college
graduate, who waived the exemption
given ministers and went into the SER
vice at Camp Custer, has just receiv-
ed the commission of first lieutenant
and chaplain at the chaplains' school
at Camp Taylor, Louisville.
Escanaba-Henry Schultz, section
laborer, of Nahma, an Indian settle
ment, near this city, was killed when
struck in the head by bullet from
a rife in the hands Of Tom Bayson,
an eight-year-old Indian. Schultz fell
from the moving handcar. The boy
said he was shooting at bird.
Corunna-Mr. and Mrs. B. S. Lyman,
of Corunna, have received a cable
gram from their son, Lieutenant
Pliny Lyman, in France. that he had
been wounded in action. but is rapidly
recovering. Lieutenant Lyman was
graduated from the second officers
training camp at Fort Sheridan and
went overseas last winter.
Lansing-Michigan has $40 standard
schools. Allegan County leads with
e. Other counties with ten or more
are: Berrien, IL: Cheboygan, IA; Dick
inson, 16; Genessee. ID; Ingham. 10;
Ionia, 10; Iron, 10; Kent. 10; Mason,
"a; Muskegon. IT: Newaygo. 16; Oak
land, %; Ottawa, 80; Saginaw, IL;
Van Buren,. 16. and Wayne, IL.
lansing - Sixty-two accidental
drownings during July helped to boos:
gan last month to 156, which is a rec
ord for any month Of the present year.
Railroad accidents caused 81 deaths
and electric lines caused the death of
20 persons. There were 81 fatalities
from automobile accidents, 20 suicides
and 3 killings.
Port Huron--A. K. Stevenson, chair.
man of the district draft board, said
that many claims for exemption are
made simply because of ignorance. He
adds that the board is investigating
many complaints regarding those who
have not subscribed to the Red Cross.
In Oakland county the claims for Ok
very numerous.
Bay City-After three years of con-
troversy involving supreme court law
suits, the council has accepted a COM
promise agreement through the bridge
commission whereby the rental of
Taird street bridge Is placed at $500
per year. The bridge was rented to
the Traction company for 20 years at
an annual toll of $500. An injunction
followed the attempt to raise three
years ago.
lansing. Arthur Boice, member
of Ingham county draft board, has
been chosen by General Crowder
provost marshal general to act as his
personal representative in superintend
ng draft activities in Michigan, Wis.
consin and Illinois. Seth Pulver. of
Owosso, assumed duties of chief legal
adviser of the supply division OF mill.
tary aeronautics department of he
arunv HIS work will he suuerviainc