The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1918-06-06
STATE NEWS
IN BRIEF


inmates of Jackson prison have pur-
Ing Warden Edward Frensdorf says
that the end is not yet.
Grand Rapids.-Fire of undeter-
mined origin destroyed a huge pile OF
straw at the American Box Board COM
pany. The loss is estimated at nearly
$4,000. The straw pile was 800 feet
long, 20 feet wide and 60 feet high.
Lansing-On Monday, July s, cleo
ton OF district school trustees will be
held in $500 district school houses in
Michigan. On the same day in all Of
these schoolhouses patriotic mass
meetings will be held at which promi-
nent orators will be asked 10 speak.
Lansing-Dr. George w. Dunphy.
state veterinarian, sees no difficulty
On producing brayless mules for army
service. A simple operation, the re-
moval of the vocal cords, would turn
the trick with no decrease in the
ability of the animals, says DR.. Dun
fphy.
Lansing.-Federal Food Administra-
tor Prescott has stated that unless the
situation as pertains to wheat, flour
and sugar shows marked improvement
during the next two or three months,
the use of these staples will positively
be prohibited to cOncessionaires in
fairs.
Kalamazoo-Carl Stewart, Is years
old, was drowned in Kalamazoo river
just south of the city Sunday after
noon when boat in which he and his
four brothers were crossing the stream
capsized. Stewards body was recov-
cred. The other occupants of the boat
saved themselves by clinging to the
limbs and bushes which hung over the
river.
Port Huron.-The angle in the state
game and fish law which prevented
st. Clair river fishermen from market
ing their catch of wall-eyed pike, COM
monty known as pickerel, was cleared
May 81, when Game Warden John
Baird notified Deputy Game Warden
Henry Radiki, not to interfere with
fishermen, but to permit them to
market their catch.
Battle Creek.-Gov. Sleeper in an
address before the Rotary club here
said that Michigan was not only send
ing men and food to France, but is
also furnishing iron ore and copper
vitality needed by the allies, shipping
automobiles and trucks in large num-
bers, furnishing salt and doing some
other things that should materially
help in winning the war.
Lansing Registration cards to be
filed out June 5, by young men who
have attained 81 since the registra-
ton one year ago, have been received
by Adjutant-General-Co Colonel John S.
local boards. With one or two minor
changes, the registration cards are
similar to those used at the general
registration a year ago.
Ann Arbor.-Miss Helen Fraser, of
England, speaking here on What wo-
men must do to help win the war"
said that more than 100000 women
in England were doing war work. One.
third of them had never worked be-
fore. She declared that women in
many instances ran war plants, max.
ing airships, dreadnaughts and mum.
itions with little aid from men.
Lansing.-The saving for food of at
beast three per cent of the total wheat
and small grain crop of the country
ordinarily lost in threshing, is to be
attempted by special threshing divi
sion of the federal food administra
ton. Under the general direction OF
Capt. Kenneth d. Hequembourg, U. s
r., with headquarters in New York
county organizations will be main
tanned to aid and advise farmers
More careful methods and better mech
anical conditions will be used to effect
the saving. s0
Alma.-Albert Eichorn, May p
started on life term at Marquette
prison for the murder here last Sep
TENDER of pretty II year-old Beatrice
lEpler, of Alma, who was found dead
in a road in front OF her home, having
been strangled to death by EichorI
during a struggle for her honor in 9
house Of i'll repute, where, the state
charges, she was lured by Mrs. Inei
Johnson, Eichorn and Joseph Brennan
a Flint actor. Two hours and fifteer
minutes the jury was in session be
fore reporting.
F1int-Fire destroyed the meat mar
ket of Roy Mcqueen, at Flushing. ear
ly Sunday morning, with loss of IS,
600, partly insured. The building wal
owned by John Farthing and was one
of the oldest in the village. 1t was
the first serious blaze Flushing hai
experienced in the last few months.
few hours later, during severe cleo
trical storm which swept the whole
country, the farm home of George SUIT
ton, near Flushing, was struck by light
ming and burned, only small part o