The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1918-06-20
STATE NEWS
I'm BRIEF

the French faculty or the u. Oh M
has been appointed director of French
instruction at Camp Custer this sum-
mer.
Muskegon. Stephen Skendrovic,
this city, fireman on the torpedoed
transport President Lincoln, is safe,
according to word received by his
parents.
Algonac.-William Roberts was ar
rested here and taken to Pontiac on
warrant charging him with obtain
ing $500 from q Pontiac lady under
false pretense.
Port ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS William ID.
Thompson, of this city, is said to Dc
the first Michigan man cited for gal-
lantry in action in France. He mas
been awarded the French Cross or
Valor.
Easl Lansing-A training school for
community leaders will be conducted
during the summer term at the M. A
c.. K. G. Lindmann, state leader OF
boys and girls club work, will be In
charge.
Hastings-Nearly 800 rural school
pupils who passed the eighth grade
examinations attended the annual Bar
ny county school rally and received
certificates from the county commits
sioner, e. J. Edgar.
Flint.-Michigan Gun Club league
will hold its annual shoot in Flint,
June IL, IL, l3. This is the first time
in 10 years Flint has had state shoot
One hundred and fifty marksmen are
expected to participate.
Lansing-With the exception OF An
trim, every county in the lower PENN
sula will be closed to partridge hunters
this year and with the ban on quail,
the bird hunters will have little sport
next fall unless they cross the straits.
Lansing. hundred bus
hels of wheat are reported as being
held by Pat Callahan, of Hubbardston,
Ionia county. The state food admin
istration has notified him II he did not
market it by June IA, it would be con
hscated.
Saginaw-M. c. Barney, Of Detroit,
who has served one year as senior vice
commander and three years as patri-
otto instructor, will be a candidate for
department commander of Michigan
when the G. A. r. holds its annual
state encampment here June 1921.
Ann Arbor.-Sixty-hv seniors in the
medical college of the U. OF M. have
received internships or have notified
the government of their willingness to
enter active service in the army or
navy medical corps. They are mem
bers of the enlisted medical reserve.
Holland.-The Hope College council
elected Professor Edward ID. Dinnent,
instructor of Greek at Hope college for
20 years, president Of the college to
succeed DR.. Anne Vennema who re-
turns to the ministry. Professor Din
nent, aged 40, is the youngest presi'
dent Hope college ever had.
Pontiac-Because Ellsworth Marin,
so years old, of Ortonville, called him
a "pro-German Stacker" Benjamin
Honert, IS years old, of the same vii
lage, beat the older man on the head
with a heavy stable broom, iniicting
injuries which caused his death. Hon.
ert is held in the Oakland county jail
on charge of manslaughter.
Harbor Springs.-Iola Cole, of Bea.
yer island, who was wounded by q
shotgun set outside the door of re-
sort hotel on the island, died at the
| Petosky hospital. Miss Cole was en-
| tering the hotel to work. When she
charged. Jack Boyle, an employe OF
the resort, is charged with setting the
gun.
Lansing-The attorney general, Alex
]. Groesbeck is preparing an appeal
to the United States supreme court
from the decision of the federal court
in the Duluth, South Shore and Allan
| tic passenger rate case in which the
constitutionality of the state law Of
1911 cutting passenger fares on upper
| peninsula roads to two cents a mile
was not upheld.
Lansing.-Rev. Allan ]. Schultz, Of
Jackson, was arraigned recently be
fore United States Commissioner 10
seph II. Dunnebacke for alleged VIC
lation of the federal draft law. The
specific offense charged In the affidavit
is that Rev. Schultz did knowingly
and wilfully fail and refuse to present
himself for registration and submit
thereto" The accused man is q
years old and married. He did no
register June 5. 1917.
Ithaca.-Loren Baker, a yount
farmer of Fulton township, pleaded
guilty Friday morning to serious as
sault charge on Murl Peters, 1S-year
old girl of Fulton township. He wal
sentenced by Judge Monet to three
and one-half to 10 years with recon
mendation of five years at Ionia. Tn,
crime was committed on the evening
of last July %. Baker, while taking
the girl home from church in hi
buggf. turned of into a lonely and un