The Yale expositor., 1918-05-23


boy scout lodge on 160-acre tract
east of the city, to be used for camp
ing purposes.
Albion-The Tooth birthday anniver-
was celebrated in the Albion Methodist
church. A feature of the occasion was
the sermon preached by DR.. Seth
Reed, Flint, who is 95 years old.
Kalamazoo-Ann and Nellie Bosker
were seriously hurt when an automo-
bile in which they were riding was
struck by a Michigan Central switch
engine at the West street crossing.
Two other occupants of the car were
uninjured.
Monroe-The Monroe Workmen's
Benevolent society instructed dele
gates to the state convention at Mon
roe, June 10, to vote for the substitu-
ton of the English language for Ger
man. The society has $4,000 enrolled
members in the state.
Camp Custer-Thousands of rifles
are firing simultaneously on the rifle
range each day. The men are given
10 shots in the morning and 10 in the
afternoon as part of their course.
| Five thousand men are taking the
course and daily shoot away 100000
rounds of ammunition.
Flint-The Owosso Sugar Beet COM
pany will plant 81 acres at Swartz
Creek this season with sugar beets,
which have been kept in pits during
the winter, in an effort to raise seed
for use in Michigan. Heretofore the
country had depended largely on Ger
man seed for beet crop.
Bay City-Homes of several mem
bers of the local Bible Students cult
were visited by members of the Bay
county war board and a wagon load
of literature taken. The "conscien-
tious directors" agreed to desist from
further activities. They had dis
tributed their literature over the city
under cover OF darkness.
distinguishes the 100000 bush
els of potatoes are used before July
1, they will be wasted" according to
John c. Ketcham, of Hastings, master
of the state grange and national
grange lecturer, who Is interested in
pushing a campaign to use more pota-
toes and milk, the only two foods of
which there is a surplus.
Camp Custer-People of Michigan
| N 10 nil
unless they wish to feel the legal
wrath of the war department. Car
rier birds from Camp Custer have been
taken to many cities in the southern
portion of the state and released. Very
frequently the birds fail to return or
carry shot back with them.
Hastings-There is such a dearth of
rural school teachers in Barry county
that the county school commissioner
has advised officers in districts in
which there are not more than 10 pu-
pills to suspend school during the COM
ing year and to send the pupils into
other districts where they will have
the advantage of attending a large
school.
Lansing Eating new potatoes be-
fore July 4th will be considered un-
| patriotic by the Food Administration
of Michigan" declared Food Admin
istrator G. A. Prescott. when our
potato belt farmers, in response to
federal, state, municipal and civic
appeal raised nearly thirty-six million
bushels Of potatoes last year as a war
contribution it is the plain duty of the
people of this state to do everything
within our power to utilize this crop"
Lansing-The interstate commerce
commission, at Washington, has hand
ed down a decision in favor of the
| Huron Milling Co., of Harbor Beach,
which requires the Pere Marquette
Railroad Co. to make an allowance to
the milling concern of rs cents per
car for switching interstate shipments
between the railroad yard and the COM
plainant's plant at Harbor Beach and
of As cents per car FOR switching be-
tween loading and unloading points
within the plant.
Detroit-Word has been received
from an officer In the One Hundred
and Twenty-ffth infantry, now near
the firing line in France, that Major
Augustus II. Gansser, of Bay City, has
| been put in command of the first bat
talon of that regiment. which is made
up of national guardsmen from Detroit
and few selective soldiers that origi-
nally were sent to Camp Custer. Ac-
cording to the latest advice the One
Hundred and T'venty-fifth still is build
ing railroads back of the line"
Kalamazoo-Hiram ]. Guiding, 3S
years old. was instantly killed and
Lena Guiding, IL, Bertha Guiding, s.
daughters of the victim and two other
children, Betsy and Oracle Cramer,
were injured when limited car going
more than 40 miles an hour struck
the auto driven by Guiding. Guiding
was a celery grower living near Com
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