The Yale expositor., 1920-07-29

lake.
Bay City-Albert Walkman. s, found
some pills at his home. After locking
himself in the bathroom he ate a num-
Der. He is dead.
Grand Rapids-Earle Cristy, %, re-
ceived fracture of the left leg when
his motorcycle collided with an auto
mobile at Comstock park.
Grand Rapids-S. T. Richards, OF
Johannesburg, South Africa furniture
manufacturer and dealer was in Grand
Rapids to observe local marketing and
manufacturing.
Detroit-Helen Setek, 3, OF 1l6
Thaddeus street, backed into kettle
of scalding water, which her mother
had placed on the kitchen floor. She
died few hours later.
Grand Rapids-Mrs. Anna Phelan,
60, OF Ludington, is in St. Mary's hos
pital with a fractured leg and other
serious injuries as result of an auto
mobile collision near Sparta.
Petoskey-Authoritie are unable to
find the mysterious Mrs. Josephine
Starks, summer resorter, alleged to
have swindled Petoskey and Boyne
City merchants out Of approximately
$500.
Ferndale-Charles Price of Detroit
was fined $40 by Justice Gordon for
violation of traffic laws. Reckless
I,.;t o,,I
also charged and he pleaded not
guilty, demanding a jury trial.
Grand Rapids-When the hydraulic
hoist, used to convey parcel post mail
from the basement of the postofice
to the loading platform dropped, Ray
F. Bates, truck driver, and Joseph L.
McKenna, were severely injured.
MISUNDERSTANDING struck the res
idence Of F. w. Wickwire, making
Mrs. Wickwire unconscious, and OF
John Tankalalis, damaging it; also
the barn of Milo Aldrich, burning it,
and killed a valuable horse on the
farm of NJ. A. Baker.
Bay City-,Because a car of potatoes
was delayed 10 days 1896 damages
was awarded the c. l.. Randall Co.
against the Detroit & Macllinac rail-
way. The railway will appeal. on the
ground that the shippers signed a
waiver Of damages.
Detroit-Doris Fletcher, IA, who
lives on the Eight Mile road and Van
Dyke avenue, was struck by machine
1.it hxr w
lad to the Samaritan hospital, where
he died. Kebbe, held by order of the
sheriff, says the boy ran directly in
front of his machine.
Grand Haven-Eastman Kodak Co.
purchased of ~ L. Brown, inventor,
an automatic kite camera device. The
company manufactured the product
during the war. Ii was used on air
planes, making it possible for an avia-
tor to photograph desired objects
without carrying a photographer.
Adrian-The Adrian school board
has announced a raise in tuition of
county students to SIS for the senior
high and junior high and $50 for all
grades under the junior high. The
highest rate was $40. Two hundred
and twenty-nine rural students at
tended Adrian schools last year.
Milford-For the first time in 33
years there has been change Of pas
torate in the Milford Presbyterian
church, due to the death of the min
lister. Rev. Alexander A. Wilson, who
has served during that time. The new
pastor is Rev. L. S. Brooke, who has
a long record in the Detroit Presby-
terry.
Grand Rapids-Owen ID. Pickard,
81, of Sparta, who has a wife and
child, has been sentenced by Circuit
Judge John S. Macdonald to the state
reformatory at Ionia for one to five
years for larceny Packard was re-
leased last year from the reforma-
tory after serving IL months and
placed on probation.
Manistee-Three hundred men
were thrown out of work as
the result of the destruction by
fire of the 81 100000 sawmill and salt
block of the Buckley g. Douglas Lum-
per 20. Inc nre InEaueu the resi-
dence section, nearly a dozen dwell
ings being destroyed. The plant was
the largest here, the sawmill relic of
old lumber days, but the salt block
was comparatively new.
Bay City-Mrs. John Volker was
fatally injured by an automobile driv-
en- by her son. The son, warned by a
policeman that his lights were out,
stopped to fix them. His parents
walked on. Unable to get his lights
going, the son started on in the dark
ness. At the first corner he ran into
man and woman. He did not know
until he stopped that they were his
parents. Mrs. Volker was so years
old.
Pontiac-Seeing little leg sticking
out of the water near the end of one
of the many boat wharves at Lake
Orion, Mrs. Frank Miller, of Ann Ar
Dor, who is spending the summer at
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