The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1918-11-28

Algonac-Allan Neal has been
commissioned All ensign and is an in
structor in aviation at the Miami, Fla,
Naval Station.
Albion-The Albion College grand
stand, which was burned following the
peace celebration, will be replaced by
one of concrete.
Hastings-City council has con-
tracted for the purchase of new
fire truck. which will be delivered
within a few months.
Cheboygan-The city of Cheboygan
has arranged to buy it's soft coal OF
M. d. Odds for $685. ton for mine
run and S5.S5 for lump.
Albion-After a months postpone
ment due to the influenza epidemic. Al
bion Boosters and Knockers have re-
sumed weekly luncheons.
Grand Rapids-Ensign Russell B.
Grotemat, known here as an athlete,
is in command of group OF sub
marine chasers in foreign waters.
Charlottesville city has purchased
a chassis which will be used for the
fire truck in order that the local fire
department may be completely motor
lied.
Lansing Michigans output of sug
ar beets this year Is more than twice
that of last year. 1t is estimated
that more than 1,OOO,O 900 tons of sugar
beets were raised.
Ann Arbor-The state OF Michigan
should give itself a thorough airing
at the influenza epidemic, is the ad-
vice given by the Michigan Anti-Tu-
berculosis Association.
Reed City-Martin A. Swanson.
wellknown merchant of Tustin, be-
came Ill with influenza while deer
hunting in the upper peninsula. He
returned to Tustin and died of pneu-
monia.
Flint-Rev. ]. o. Crawford. who re-
Gently resigned as pastor of Central
Christian church, has been assigned
by the Y M. c. A. to service in Rus
STA. He preached his farewell SER
mon Sunday
Hillsdale-Charles Earl Root, e
year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Root, of Moscow, this county, was
fatally scalded when he fell into a
tub of boiling water that his mother
had been using for washing.
Adrian-"Victory" is the name Of
a new chrysanthemum raised by FL
mer Smith. The new seeding burst
into bloom on the day the truce was
signed and the name was Immediately
registered with the Chrysanthemum
Society os America.
Albion-Lawrence Woodward of the
Albion college training unit has re-
ceived word from his home in Kansas
Of his appointment to Annapolis
Naval academy. He has been given
three months leave of absence to
prepare for examinations.
East Lansing-The call for the $50
men who were to have come to Mich.
igan Agricultural college November
10 for training in the operation and
repair of army trucks and tractors
will not be made on the date originally
set, the college has been informed by
the war department
Reed City-Word has been recelv-
ed by Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Patterson
that their son, Don, died in France
October IL of wounds. Don was In
charge of the Osceola county boys
who left here June "a and most OF
them were in Camp Custer but three
weeks before being sent overseas.
Ann Arbor--A wagon load of whis.
ky stored at the county Jail has been
confiscated by Deputy State Food
and Drugs Commissioner b. f.
Browne, and it is now stored in the
big vault of the police department.
This week it will be shipped to
Grand Rapids to the federal redistill-
ing plant for the extracation of al
cohol.
Petoskey-Miss Frances Buschert,
graduate nurse from BlOuBett nos
pital, Grand Rapids, is dead from in
fiuenza contracted while in charge of
the emergency hospital at Mt. Pleas
ant. Miss Buschert was at Camp
Grant, Rockford, ILL.,, during the cpl
demic there. and later was sent to
Mt. Pleasant TO organize an emery.
ency hospital.
Petoskey-The influenza situation In
the lumber camps near Mancelona is
very serious and already one. camp
where 35 men were housed has lost
10 workmen. Two state health board
officials found 10S cases in eight
camps. The family Of Charles Elan
lost FIVE members. the mother and
four children, this week. Mancelona
lost three others from influenza.
Adrian-All transactions for the
purchase Of Lawrenceville, a hand
some old homestead here for the
Michigan Eastern Star Orphanage,
ended with the payment of the pur.
chase nrice TO the owners Mr. and