The Yale expositor., 1918-10-10
STATE NEWS
IN BRIEF


Hastings-One hundred pheasants
raised from eggs provided by the
state game department have been re.
leased in Barry county woodlands.
Adrian-Paulina Mulcamith and
Mary Serville, both of Jackson, were
under arrest. charged with having
three gallons of whisky in their pos
session.
Hastings-T Thirty pupils of the Has
der the state law for the establish
ment of military training course in
the school
O Saginaw-Harold Bachman. aged
%, formerly of Ridgeway, who enlist.
ed at Saginaw. died at the Great
Lakes Naval Training station at Chi
cago of pneumonia.
Algonac-Farm implements, grains
and other crops in storage and wiz
ter's fuel supply were destroyed when
a farm building owned by Ben Brow
er, who lives near Algonac burned.
Flint-Alfred Penny, son of Mrs.
Robert Wright of Linden, was &C.
cidentally killed at Raymond, Wash,
where he was working with a spru -
gathering unit. He formerly was en-
ployed in Flint factory.
Muskegon-Mrs. Bert Atkinson Sat
urday received word that her hus.
band, Lieutenant Colonel Atkinson
had been awarded the Legion OF
Honor cross by the French govern
ment for bravery in action.
Houghton-An explosion believed to
have been caused by dynamite wreck
ed the automobile Of Richard Rourke,
Franklin supervisor, the machine be-
ing blown into fragments and win
dows in the neighborhood of the
Rourke home shattered.
Saginaw-W H. Rust, of Merrill, of
Company X. One Hundred and Twen-
ty-fifth infantry, has been killed in
France, probably in fighting around
ST. Mihiel. Lieutenant Rust was a
graduate of the first officers camp and
was commissioned first lieutenant
overseas.
Standish-When Will Lentz, a pro-
miment farmer, awoke Saturday
morning he found his granary, barn
doors, part of his house and his auto
painted yellow A warrant was sworn
out for the arrest of Frank Sales. The
latter is in the draft to go to Camp
Custer soon.
Hastings-Otto Miller, of Thornap-
pie township, has been informed by
the war department of the death in
action, August 20, of his son, Leo Mill
er, of the One Hundred and Twenty
sixth infantry. Miller, so far as is
known, is the first Barry county SOL
der to fall in battle.
Hastings-Sergt.-M Major George NJ.
Bessmer, Hastings man in the reg.
ular army service since the Spanish
American war, and Curtis Bottum,
student in the engineering depart
ment of the University of Michigan,
are the latest Hastings residents II
obtain commissions as lieutenants in
the army.
Bay City-Word was received from
Columbia, s. c., that the passenger
in the ill-fated Liberty loan aeroplane
was Lieutenant Roy Thomas, of Bay
City. The pilot, Lieutenant Goldman,
of Oregon. was killed, while Lieu.
tenant Thomas escaped with minor
injuries. The latter 10 a brother-in-
law of County Auditor and Mrs. Frank
II. Davis.
Ann Arbor-Beginning October :
and continuing till December 20 O
course in elementary drafting for wo.
men will be given by the departments
of engineering and architecture at the
University of Michigan. IL is war
emergency course and open to all wo-
men Of II. Seven hours a day for
the first five days each week will be
devoted to the work.
Kalamazoo-For the part they took
in the great drive against the Ger
mans in July and August, four KaIa-
mazoo soldiers have just received
promotions. Lieutenant Otto Buder,
who commanded Company c., One
Hundred and Twenty-sixth Infantry,
has been made captain and Second
Lientenants James Wilson, Michael
O'Flaherty and Victor Brady have
been advance to first lieutenants
Lieutenant Wilson was decorated a
second dme for bravery in battle.
Ann Arbor-The University of Mich
igan is under contract with the gov.
eminent to give course in general
drafting to members OF the Students
army training corps. These men will
be taught in groups of 40, the period
of instruction of each group being
two months. The work begins Octo
Der Is. Instruction will not be giver
by the collegiate staff but by men Of
practical experience selected from
applicants physically unfit for active
military duty, or who are in deferred
/ class.