The Yale expositor., 1920-03-18
MiChig a n
Happenings

of the left hand Of MIS-. John Serg,
near Stanwood.
Port Huron-Frank Hoffer, Austrian,
was fined $500 with an alternative OF
from six months to one year In prison
for making raisin whisky.
Port Huron-PropOssd improve
ments to the waterworks plant rec
commended TO city officials by special
committee calls for an expenditure OF
$168,0O0.
Alma-The city commission has
voted to adopt eastern standard time
for the summer effective on April 8.
meeting with requests Of merchants
and factory heads.
Morenci-Elias Marks, prominent
farmer, living four miles east of this
city was fatally injured in an attack
by a mad bull. The bull recently seri-
ously injured Marks son.
Detroit--Street car motormen and
conductors are to be specially depu-
tized by the police department TO serve
summons on automobile drivers who
are drunk or who violate traffic rules.
st. Helen.-Miss Alice Marsh, an
employee OF the Roscommon County
treasurer's office for several years, has
announced her candidacy for the Re.
publican nomination for county treas
urer.
Cadillac.-A contract has been let
for the erection OF a $4,000 rural agTi-
cultural school at Hoxieville, to be the
first consolidated school In Wexford
county. There are six districts in the
new unit.
Caro-In an attempt TO break jail in
Tuscola county, George Trask, ~ OF
Cass City, assaulted Sheriff Morris
with a chair. The sheriff in the scuffle
shot Trask through the cheek. The
wound IL not fatal
Monroe-William Pupard, a mem
Der of the local police force, was APP
pointed sheriff OF Monroe County,
succeeding Joseph Barley, whose
custer by Gov. Sleeper was sustained
by the Supreme Court.
Cadillac-Potatoes reached the high
point OF the season when the Michi-
gan Potato Growers exchange made
many sales at S4.66 I o. b. for some
fancy stock and other cars were
placed at $4.75. The high prices were
due to temporary transportation
condition.
Pontiac-A club house for women is
Il lx.w fria ~
where members of womens clubs may
have rest rooms and club facilities.
There will also be community center
accommodations for young women
who come here to work and live in
rented rooms.
Ann Arbor-Bird experts here have
exploded the old myth that the robin
is the first bird back from the South
In the spring. The first robin Is
merely lazy hangover from last fall.
They say he stays until cold weather
catches him and then hides in
swamp coming out with the irst warm
sunshine.
Lansing-The epidemic OF influenza
igan since January is at an end, &C
eording to DIR. w. j. V. Deacon, cpl
6emic specialist OF the State Health
Commission. The two diseases caused
3,621 deaths from Jan. to March /.
The total number OF cases reported
was 1854.
KAlamazoo-Conditions at Jackson
state prison are far from being as
deplorable as they have been pictured
and are better than at any other prison
In the country which was built in the
heart of a large city, according to
Maude Darlington Booth, Little Moth
err Of the Prisons" who lectured to stu.
dents of Western State Normal school.
Kalamazoo-Thousan of milk bot
ties illegally held out by Kalamazoo
consumers, have been returned to the
distributors since two dealers filed
suits, to replevin their share of the
$1,000 bottle said to have been lost In
the last eight months. Further re-
plev1n suits will be filed, distributors
say, unless the rest OF the bottles are
returned.
Detroit-Detroit has had 125 cases
OF sleeping sickness since last Sep
tember. when the disease was appre-
hended In this country. This is the
nnding OF DR.. P. F. Morse, who, with
Dr.. 4. B. Crump, OF Harper Hospital,
has Published in the Journal OF La
boratory and Clinical Medicine the
first article on psychological and
pathological findings of the disease.
Grand Rapids-Michigan Socialists,
at their state convention in Grand
Rapids, passed a resolution demand
ing that the United States effect the
establishment of peaceful relations
with Soviet Russia and asserted that
the United States has no right to in
terfere In the internal affairs OF Rus
STA. Eugene " Debs, now serving a
prison term for alleged acts Of dis
loyalty, was unanimously Endorsed and
hailed as a champion OF the common
people, and as a prince of human
ity."