The Yale expositor., 1918-11-14
MICHIGAN
BREVITIES

Grand Rapids-Plans for the exten-
sion of motor express routes to benefit
many of the smaller cities are being
made
East Lansing-It is believed that
dies left in Michigan by the mild
weather have spread much OF the
Spanish influenza.
Battle Creek-Rather than call off
weekly drills, local untils of the State
troops are appearing in the Armory
With gas masks on.
Manistique-Streets have been
iprinkled with disinfectant and other
irastic action taken to keep Manisu
Iue free from influenza
Lansing-Claim is made by the au
thorities that aliens form the MAORI
ty whiskey runners. About 70 per cent
)f those arrested are said tc be foreign
born.
Monroe-Floyd Folsom and Elmer
Rice, of Detroit, were injured when
their automobile ran into "a ditch on
the Dixie highway as they were re-
turning from Toledo.
Hart-When Hart schools were
closed for two weeks because OF i'll
fluenza, the teachers went TO digging
potatoes, some of the women earning
more in this manner than they re-
ceiye tor teaching.
Flint-An airplane from Selfridge
Field was badly damaged when the
aviator made a start near the Buick
Motor Co, plant and made too sharp
A turn TO avoid striking dwelling in
the path of the machine.
Houghton-Work OF students of the
College of Mines in local copper mines
has been temporarily halted because
Of fear that influenza nnsht be com
municated TO the miners getting out
copper needed in the war.
Flint-Quarantine on account Of
hog cholera has been established by
DR.. c. c. Schafer. county veterinarian,
at the plant of the United Recovery
and Disposal Co., which handles Flint
garbage and is feeding more tnan
1000 pigs.
Lake Linden-While schools OF the
Copper Country have been closed be-
cause of Influenza, hundreds of stu
dents have been aiding the farmers
harvest their crops. Boys of the Lake
Linden High school are employed as
street cleaners.
Lansing-The National Council of
Defense has notified the Michigan
War Preparedness Board that more
than 10000 nurses will be needed for
army nurse corps January l, and an
other $4,000 will be needed by the
first of next June.
Detroit-Four safe robbers obtain
ed $4,000 from the Mills.Fox Baking
company, 961 Fourth avenue. at an
early hour Sunday morning after they
had blown the safe open with three
charges of dynamite, having pre-
viously bound the watchman securely
10 a chair.
Lansing-Thanksgiv week this
year is set aside for food conserva-
ton. not for feasting. The United
States food administration asks the
stores on every business street in
the United States to picture, in their
display windows, the prodigious task
of feeding the allied world through
| 1919.
Camp Custer-A campaign will soon
be instituted among the soldiers to
raise funds for the various civilian
activities which are carried on in
camp Brigadier General Laubacn
has appointed Capt. Paul II. Davies
as chairman and Capt w. T. Tabor
as treasurer of the committee which
will have charge of the work
Muskegon-George W. Stone has
been named as a military Bombing
aviator. He is a graduate of the o.
). army school of military aeronau-
tics at Cornell university. and has
been stationed at Ellington T.eld,
| Houston, Texas, for some time pa {,
following a brief stay at the aerial
gunnery school for bombers ct ST.
Leon. Texas.
oldwater-Resentmen for treat.
ment she is alleged to have received
at his hands prompted Irene Riffen.
berg, 20 years old. of Batavis sta
ton, to shoot and kill her father, IS
he lay asleep alone in his bedroom.
The girl is now in the county jail
and frankly admits killing her father.
Mrs. Riffenberg says her husband
had for a long time treated the fam.
lily very meanly, especially the daugh-
ter
East Lansing-An effort to interest
the federal department. of the inter
lor in the muck lands OF Michigan is
being made by the Michigan Agricul-
tural college. in conjuction with the
public domain commission OF the
state It is believed that IL Michigan
can present a strong enough case, 1t
can secure as colonists many of the
soldiers to whom the government