The Yale expositor., 1918-06-13

elers of America will hold their TWEEN.
ty-fifth state convention here June Z.
Olivet-Approximat $1,100 was
realized from various events held in
Olivet Memorial day for the benefit Of
the Red Cross.
Traverse City-School credits will
be give1 for practical work done this
summer by the agricultural students
of the Traverse City high school.
Traverse City-City axmen will
spar no trees, according to the man.
date issued by Commissioner Codding-
ton relative to branches overhanging
sidewalks.
Detroit-Barney Olschefski, II years
old. was drowned while canoeing with
a boy companion in the Detroit river
near Belle Isle shortly after o'clock
Sunday afternoon.
Muskegon-The light & Traction Co..
has petitioned the city council for six
cent street car fare. The city opposes
the increase. The company is operat-
ing without a franchise, and giving %
working men tickets for a dollar.
Lansing-The Flowerfield -four mill,
at Flowerfeld, st. Joseph county, was
ordered closed during June, by George
A. Prescott, federal food administrator
for Michigan, on charges of having Ia
ken excessive prices for feeds and
general noncompliance with food reg
ulations.
Vassar-George S. Hopsipar, %
years old, an alleged deserter from
Camp Custer last February, and his
father, George Hopsipar, ST., charged
with secreting his son, we're arrested
in Vassar Sunday. The two are being
held in the Caro- Jail, waiting govern
ment action.
Jacksonville first liquor law vio-
lator to be sentenced in circuit court
since the statewide prohibition law
became effective was William Schmidt,
an Albion man, who pleaded guilty to
bringing liquor into this county from
Toledo. He was sentenced to pay a
fine of $3.50 or to serve 80 days in jail
He paid the fine.
Jackson-David Wise, who with his
brother Samuel was arrested in De-
troit recently on a charge of arson,
was released under $4,000 bond. bail
having been reduced from $40 1000. The
Wise brothers were implicated in the
Detroit arson ring and were charged
with firing their furniture store in
Jackson last January.
Grand Rapids-R. d. Graham, bank
er and fruit grower, one of the most
widely known fruit experts in this vi
cinity, predicts an extremely poor
peach crop for this district. He says
the severe winter is to blame. Indi-
cations are for a good crop of apples
and plums, he says, although cherries
will be a short crop.
Pontiac-The serious nature of the
fuel situation was told business men
at the Board of Commerce recently by
w. p. Prudden, state fuel administra-
tor Stating that Michigan's allot-
ment of anthracite is but 1,064,000
tons, he pointed out that people will
be compelled to use soft coal, and
urged that it be stored at once.
Ann Arbor-Col. r. ID. X. Austin
of the British army addressed the Uni
versity of Michigan reserve officers
training camp here on discipline, which
he said was the most important thing
in this war. The colonel told how l..
200 allied troops Of force of 1000
at Mt KENNEL were killed because OF
failure on the part of a private to
carry out an order with exactness,
Jackson-Employmen of convicts in
the Jackson coal mine has proven most
| fitable to both the city, which has
been unable to obtain free labor, and
to the prison inmate. One convict
during May, has received $105 over
time, this sum being paid him after
he had done 81 worth of work for the
, state.
Traverse City-Charles A. Emerson
, supervisor of Garfield township, Grand
Traverse county, justice of the peace
' for 20 years, township clerk at the age
of 81, organizer of the Growers anC
Shippers association of the American
1 Society of Equity and state secretary
, of the society for two years, has an
! nounced his candidacy for the state
. legislature from Grand Traverse coun
4 ty.
!. Traverse City-Because years ago
r city engineer built concrete culverti
and bridges of the Asylum creek, run
q ming through this city, too narrow ant
. two high. Traverse City will be forced
!. to spend at least $4,000 to remedy tn,
n blunder, and possibly a still large
8 sum. Property on the west side of tn,
;. city is inundated with every heav.
4 rain because the culverts will not han
g die the food.
e Saginaw-In memory of the lat
n Melvin ID. Brooks, e. G. Mershon ha
given the property known as tn
" MershoR apartments for free chi
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