The Yale expositor., 1918-07-11
MICHIGAN
BREVITIES

trout will be planted by Ray Waters
in Cedar creek and its tributaries.
Croswell-John r. Davidson, this
city, has been cited by French Off
GERS for bravery in action at Cantigny.
Hastings-Miss Eliza Knowlton, 81
years old, pioneer school teacher, and
a resident of Hastings for 60 years, is
dead.
Bay City-A. Joseph Miller. this city.
has been arrested in Cincinnati, charg
ed with completely in Detroit automo-
bile thefts.
Marquette-LeoE Debois, this city,
has been cited by the French COM
manding general for bravery in action
at Cantigny.
Muskegon-The Muskegon Railway
& Navigation Co. has begun work on
belt line around Muskegon and
Muskegon Heights.
Central Lake-Pte. Chris Empey, 2S
years old, son of Mrs. Elsie Empey,
this city, is dead in the base hospital
at Camp Macarthur, Waco, Texas.
Kalamazoo-An enrolment of 872
In the summer session of the Western
State normal is the largest in the his
/ tory of the school Most of the stu
dents are women.
Alma-Francis Zone, of Lansing,
who enlisted here under the name of
John T. Andrews, accused of deserving
In Grand Rapids after robbing a COM
panion of $40, has been arrested here.
Flint-Fire in a large barn of the
Flint Spring Water Ice Co. destroyed
many tons of hay and gave the fire.
men a hard fought battle. The loss
is $1,000. The cause was not learned.
Manistee-A banquet of officials of
the Consumers Power Co. and local
citizens celebrated the big power dam
at Junction lake. The dam has been
under construction for more than three
years.
Ferndale-The Ferndale commission
has adopted the report of the board of
review fixing the assessed valuation at
S2,500,140, which will mean tax rae
of $40 a thousand to meet the 1918
budget of $4,000.
Port Huron-Following the death of
Miss Matte Balmer, who was run over
by an automobile driven by Henry
Hentzman, Fair Haven farmer, war
rant was issued charging Hentzman
with manslaughter.
Sandusky-Almost simultaneously
fires destroyed $50 tons of hay in the
barn of George Mcpherson, of Oar
sonville, and 200 tons of hay in the
barn of f. w. Burdwick, at Apologize.
Arson is suspected.
Grand Rapids-Felix Wyhowski,
Muskegon youth, was held for the fed
erai grand jury here on the charge of
giving a drug to friend to impair his
heart action to prevent his passing the
national army examination.
Flint-Sheriff John S. Chestnut has
appointed Willard l.. Johnson, of Fen
ton township, as undersheriff to take
the place of A ]. Huff, who resigned
to take a place as chief special officer
of the Chevrolet Motor company.
Port Huron-By purchasing $500
tons of coal, taken from the steamer
Australia which was sunk by COLI
sion in the st. Clair river recently the
city commission has obtained enough
| fuel to run the water works next win
ter. The price of the coal was $4,000.
Mt. Clemens-Second Lieutenant
| nj xy
when the plane which he piloted in a
practice flight fell from a height of
about 1000 feet. Second Lieutenant
Allen B. Ebey, who was the observer
on the same machine with Boyle, was
| fatally injured.
Port Huron-Two huge hay sheds at
Carsonville, housing $4,000 worth o:
hay for the allied governments were
destroyed by fire. The sheds were
part of an elevator owned by Samuel
Leonard. The main building, in which
thousands of bushels OF wheat were
stored, was saved.
Grand Rapids-Lieutenant Sidney
Eleveld, Of Grand Rapids, a member
OF Company K of the One Hundred and
Twenty-sixth infantry, now stationed
on German soil with five other men
from Grand Rapids, has received the
French war cross for bravery in ac-
ton, according to letter from Lieu
tenant Carl A Johnson, OF the One
Hundred and Twenty-sixth infantry.
Howell-Gladys Milton, aged IA. and
Jennie Hanna, aged 13, alleged runa-
ways from Lansing, are detained here.
According to the story they told How
ell officers, they walked to Waynesville
Saturday, June %, slept in the woods.
continued their hike to Webbville
Sunday, where they slept in vacant
house. and Monday walked to Fowler
Vile, where they since had slept In
a lumber yard, coming to Howell We'd
nesday noon. The girls hau a 32-cali-
bre revolver.
East Lansing-The levying by the
| foderal government of an income tax