The Yale expositor., 1920-07-29
STATE NEWS

AQrlan-Wllllam Pate, FARMER, was
taken to the Bixby hospital, suffering
from a kick by a horse in the alb
domen.
Adrian-As 10000 gallons of oil or
dered had not arrived, the commission
gave up the plan of oiling the city
streets.
Grand Rapids-Oficers OF the Unit
ed States department of justice arrest
ed five alleged deserters from the
army and navy.
Hillsdale-John Borton, so, was
crushed to death by the slipping OF
the jacks under a barn which he was
moving, causing it to fall.
Albion-Three-yea son of Roy
Baker, Albion farmer, received a
compound fracture of an arm when he
fell from a load OF hay.
Owosso-Mrs. w. p. Parriman,
church and club worker elected to the
board OF education, is the first woman
to hold public Office in Owosso.
Big Rapids-Seven freight cars
were destroyed and II head of cattle
killed when G. II. & l. freight train
was derailed north OF Stanwood.
Grand Rapids-Local public school
teachers will receive bonus of 1888
because the primary money to be ap-
portioned is larger than expected.
acknowledgement E. Thurber, %,
died of injuries received when several
heavy beams fell on him at the Bliss
and Vanauken lumber yard, fracturing
his skull.
Kalamazoo-Arthur Mclaughlin
tried to crank his automobile while it
was in gear. The Car plunged forward
and Mclaughlin was crushed against
his garage.
Pontiac-Mrs. ]. B. Trember of
Commerce was pinned under car
which she was driving and which
turned turtle, suffering several severe
cuts and bruises.
Port Huron-Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert
Beane, 50, celebrated their sixtieth
wedding anniversary, when guests
from Detroit and other Michigan
points were present.
Ferndale-Justice Hooley fined
Charles S. Escador $40 and costs on
a charge of drunkenness, and fined
Floyd Young $75 and costs for driving
a car while intoxicated
Ann Arbor-Twenty foreign coun-
tries are represented among the 1920
students enrolled in the University
of Michigan summer session. Canada
leads, with China in second place.
Adrian-Hayes Bros, of Hillsdale,
will construct a stone road from
ogden station to the Blissfield Adrian
trunkline, through Palmyra township.
1t will cost 71,764.SS, and be 4.S4
miles long.
Bay City-Timber is being cleared
from 10000 acres owned by the Knee
land-Bigelow Co., of Bay City, in
Vienna township, Montmorency coun-
ty, for the opening Of a cattle and
sheep ranch.
Hastings-Edward Kingsbury, 40
years old, farmer, was hurled from
the wagon in which he was riding and
fell under a freight car being pushed
ahead of a Michigan Central engine,
when the train struck the wagon.
Kingsbury's legs were crushed.
Grand Rapids-Estimated cost of
widening Division avenue, one of the
business streets of Grand Rapids, is
S676,000, says City Manager Fred II.
Locke. Under the plan, 20 feet would
be taken from properties on one side
of the street. Another plan to widen
three streets eastward from the CEN
ter of the city would cost $395,000.
Camp Custer-Sergt Otto Hugh, Of
the 14th infantry, died as the result
of his pistol duel at Urbandale. with
Private Joseph Doyer, 14th Infantry
A charge of manslaughter has been
preferred against Doyer. This is re.
garded as a purely technical proceed
ing, however, as it is the opinion OF
the military authorities that both men
were acting within the line of duty
Ludington-Though playmate
made an attempt to rescue him, Saul
Homel, 8 years DID, was drowned
while swimming in Lake Michigan.
y,
narrowly escaped the same fate when
the boy grasped him as he tried to
bring him ashore. McElroy was
forced to strike the drowning lad to
free himself. Homel was the son of
Maurice Homel, Detroiter, who re-
Gently moved here.
Grand Rapids--Merl RAIDER, z years
old, who was cruelty beaten by his
stepfather, Jacob Nemire, died at the
home of DR.. William A. l.. Dursum.
after more than three months of suf-
fering. From a robust boy he had
wasted until he weighed only "a
pounds. An autopsy disclosed that
death was due to a tumor on the
brain. Nemire now is in jail serving
a 90-day sentence following a plea of
guilty in justice court to a charge of
assault and battery on the boy.
Detroit-Droga Belistic, who is a
ateadfast III unwelcome. admirer of