The Yale expositor., 1918-10-10

Dowagiac-Kenneth Porter is among
American aviators given official credit
for having brought down one German
machine each.
Albion-Classes in four-minute
speaking will be held at Albion Col
lege to meet the Governments request
propaganda workers.
Adrian-Sugar cards good for six
months are being issued to grecers
throughout Lenawee county, and res
idents expect the rationing.
Mt. Pleasant-There are $50 appli-
cations for admission to the Students
Army Training Corps at the Central
Michigan Normal School.
Bay City-Fred L. Clark and Mer-
tin Weinert, of Flint, were fined $25
and their guns confscated when ar
raigned for shooting ducks before day
light.
Pontiac-Charles b. Wilson, presi-
dent of the Wilson Foundry & Ma
chine Co., has been elected director
and vice-president of the Curtis Aero
plane Corporation.
Coldwater-Fire destroyed a barn
in the rear of the home Of J. b. Mont
gomery, superintendent of the State
Public School, together with a garage,
the loss being $4,000.
Greenville-LeO Fl. Johnson of this
city, OF flying squad at San Angeles,
Tex, has met with a serious accident,
breaking leg, arm and shoulder and
cutting his head badly.
Petoskey-An order of the Public
Domain Commission suspends deer
hunting in Charlevoix, Antrim. Kali
kaska and Cheboygan counties for
five years beginning next November g..
Ann Arbor-Francis Stiffler. direc-
tor of Y. M. G. A. work at the Great
Lakes Naval Training Station. will
head Y. M. c.. A. workers for the Stu
dents Army Training Corps at the u.
of NJ.
Adrian-More than 100 students are
expected to enroll for the Students
Army Training Corps at Adrian Col
lege, registration now being under
way. Lieut.. j. l.. Bate is comman-
dant.
Ann Arbor-Of 728 u. of M. stu.
dents examined, 20S were applicants
for the Navy section, $50 being pass
ed. Out of $50 students applying for
Army training, 20 failed to pass ply
sically.
standardization Coe, So, after
confessing to his brother, it is alleg-
ed, that he had killed his mother-in-
law. Mrs. Jane Shelton, at her farm
home. killed himself by firing a charge
from a shotgun through his heart.
Reed City-Gleaner representatives
are about ready to give Reed City a
cooperative elevator. Two meetings
have been held and a visit of both
Grant Slocum and Nathan Simpson
have brought the proposition to a
head.
East Observation-Disclosures bean grow
ers, who have been buffeted about by
wind, weather and war during the
past three years, will convene in Sag
NAV on October 10 and IL for con-
sideration Of some of the problems
confronting their business. To this
meeting bean farmers in every county
in the state have been invited.
Monroe-City commission gave per-
MT m "A H.
sion to house prisoners In the bull
pen" of the local police station. Pri-
soners unable to pay fines for infrac-
lions of the state dry law. and sent
enced to the county jail, will be put
to work on county good roads.
Houghton-A jury in the circu:;
court awarded to Alfred Anderson, of
Saginaw, verdict of $4,000 damages
against Abner Alley of the same place.
Anderson convinced the jury that
Alley hit him on the head with a rock
in December, 1916, inflicting an in.
jury that made Anderson insane for a
year. Both men are lumber camp op
orators.
AuTldn-mTS. w. III. DduBHey uhs
received official notice from the wal
department that her son, Corporal
Ward Benjamin Baughey, member OF
Company B, One Hundred and Twen
ty-sixth infantry, had been killed in
action in France. Baughey is the sec
ond Lenawee county boy to be killed
in France, and a third died of wounds
Baughey was FL years old.
Mattawan-Fire of unknown origin
destroyed four buildings in the heart
of Mattawan, and for a time threat
ened the entire residence section Fire
departments from Lawton and Paw
Paw assisted. The buildings destroyed
we're the Goodrich Hardware store
the Hosmer pool room, the Butler re
pair shop. and Joseph O'Hara resi-
dence. The loss Is estimated at $40.
600.
Lansing-Perhaps the largest liquor
haul since the state went dug wal
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