The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1918-05-25

BOyne Clty-rutten Sdiioouo Va
young cattle have been shipped from
Chicago to this city to be pastured
in the fields of Charlevoix county.
Howell-Forty registered Holstein
cattle brought s10,so5 under the auc'
tioneer's hammer at the farm OF ID. II.
Hoover. A dinner and collection by
the Red Cross in connection Melted
$40.
Lansing-The message of food con-
servation will be carried to Michigan
| this fall through the medium OF the
county fairs. The outstanding feature
of the campaign will be the use of sub
stitutes.
Pontiac-The board Of education Of
this city has decided TO raise the sal
aries of all teachers 5000 year, to
meet the salaries paid elsewhere. Supt.
G. l.. Jenner will receive raise Of
$1,000, to $4,000.
Members of the Minis
terial association of the Kalamazoo
Methodist Episcopal district, in ses.
sion here, adopted a resolution oppos-
ing the beer and light wine amend
ment to the state dry law.
Saginaw.-Saginaw county revenue
Office will lose $4,000 from beer
taxes, according TO figures given out
by the internal revenue collector, as
result of prohibition. No figures are
available on decrease in Jail and court
costs.
East Lansing.-lf possible Michigan
farmers who have been unable to Sc
cure help locally, will be supplied by
the federal farm labor bureau, accord
ing to A. B. Cook, federal farm labor
director, who has established his head
quarters here.
Saginaw-Plans are being consider
ed for consolidating this citys two
postofiices, since the recent death of
Charles +. Lown, postmaster Of the
east side office Saginaw is the only
city in the United States which has
two postoffices. -.
Benton Harbor-M Martin Collins,
aged 2S, son OF Mrs. NJ p. Goss, of
Benton Harbor, who sailed from Am
erica a month ago, died following
burns received when the Florence II.
was wrecked by an internal explosion
in French port.
Detroit,-Detroit's experiment with
feminine mail carries seems to be
working out satisfactorily. Reports
I received by Postmaster Nagel from
several stations where the young wo-
men have been assigned to routes is
most encouraging.
Grand Rapids--The first sheep to
reach Michigan under the plan of
leading financiers OF the state to make
the district the leading one OF the
country in this industry, have arrived
in Missaukee and Kalkaska counties
from New Mexico.
Camp Custer.-Supply officers have
been warned by the quartermaster gen.
eral of an acute shortage OF fresh beef.
This information includes an appeal
to make use of meat substitutes. such
as eggs, fish, vegetables and cheese.
This lack of meat is destined to en-.
dure for six weeks until grass-fed
cattle from the west can be received
on the market.
Lansing With approximately 1900
cars of Michigan potatoes still unmar-
keted, with a recognized countrywide
surplus, and with the 1918 Florida
crop, the greatest in that states his
tory, now finding Its way to the mar
ket, Michigan growers are facing tre-
mendous loss. according to a represen-
tative OF the department of agricul-
lures bureau of markets, who has just
completed a survey Of the states po-
tato belt.
Charlotte-Former Mayor Frank p.
Town must pay back to the old Du-
pick Power Car company. $4,000 and
the equivalent OF 1900 shares of stock
in the new Lansing Duplex company,
representing a market value at the
time of $4,000 according to decision
by Judge Clyde l. Webster, of Detroit,
at the conclusion of the arguments in
the case brought against Town by
stockholders for an accounting OF the
money growing out Of a transfer of the
business to Lansing capitalists.
| camp CuSteT-Cdmp custer mas the
rather doubtful honor of having SEN
fenced the first man in national army
to death by shooting" But the pris-
oner, Theodore Kallas. a Detroiter,
thanks to technically Of the law.
His commanding officer, Captain La
mar, who signed the charges, also sat
on the court-martial commission, so
the entire proceedings are void. Kallas
will be retired. He was a draft
evader and even after being appre-
hended and brought to Camp Custer
refused to serve.
Detroit-That the One Hundred and
Twentieth machine gun battalion, of
Detroit and Pontiac. commanded by
Major David E. Cleary, is in the front
| line trenches is the news conveyed to
a Detroit woman in letter received
from her husband, an officer in the
Thirty-second division. No indication
Of where the machine gun battalion is
stationed Is given by the Thirty.second
division officer. So far as is known
here Major Cleary's organization is
the first fighting unit from Michigan
to 20 into action.