The Yale expositor., 1920-06-10


of Women's Clubs is paying school
children five cents a dozen for flies.
Boyne City-A chapel, to be known
as the Church of God" is being erect
ed. The sect has nearly 90 members
here.
Saginaw-Led by Is massed bands
of 500 musicians, the annual parade or
the Michigan plumed Knights was held
in Saginaw.
Petoskey-George Fineout, 80 years
old, war veteran, who was with Gen.
Sherman during his march to the sea,
is dead at his home in Harbor Springs.
Detroit-Charged with attempting to
hold up and rob a squad of h%sadquar-
tiers detectives, Danial j. Alters and
Walter Ryan, are held at Central sta
ton.
Rochester-By a vote of 100 to 20
Rochester refused to grant the Detroit
United Railway a 30-year franchise.
Their present franchise has nine years
to run
Scottville-Fourteen hundred Of the
1000 farmers in Mason county have
been enrolled as members OF Mason
county farm bureau as the result OF a
six-dsy drive.
Petoskey-Petoskey observed Me
mortal day with a monster parade in
which a thin column Of blue appeared
with a column OF service men OF
World war.
Owosso-Mansger form of govern
ment, with either five or seven com
missioners or directors, has been de-
cided on by the commission which is
drafting a new charter for Owosso.
Sand Lake-The Sand Lake farm
bureau members, who last fall organ
lied a livestock shipping association
and purchased a potato warehouse,
have acquired a grain elevator and
coal yards.
Lansing-The Michigan securities
commission will investigate activities
of real estate operators selling Marys-
vile land, at a public hearing. The
hearing is the result of charges of mis-
representations.
Allegan-A bronze memorial tablet
unveiled of the county men who lost
their lives in the World war was the
memorial gift of Hannah Mcintosh
lady chapter, d. A. r.. and contains
the names Of the dead.
Wyandotte-The population of wy
andotte, according to revised figures
of the Federal census, is given as 49,
ISL. This shows an increase of g.,
564 since the census CT 1910. The per-
centage Of increase is ST..
Ypsilanti-Ernest J. Wilson, 80
years old, a former slave, died at the
W~ashtenaw County Home. A year ago
his wife, whom he says his master
picked out for him, visited him. He
had not seen her for so years.
Gladstone-Fred Holmberg caught a
sturgeon weighing 100 pounds, and it
took two men almost an hour to get
the monster out Of the net without in
juring 1t. The fish measured five feet
eight and one-half inches in length.
Big Rapids-A survey by v. H.
Church, Lansing, farm field agent,
shows S3S of Mecosta county's farms
will be idle this season. Only $500
men are engaged in filling the soil
this year, as against 3,171 a year ago,
the report shows.
Grand Rapids-In arguing the case
Of a proprietor OF a candy company,
| ,h 0yffA hN, rdfOn Ctuor hafNra
the United States commissioner, the
District Attorney declared that large
sugar fear a fall in price
within four months.
Detroit-When the I25th Infantry
band marched at the head of the 32nd
division in the Memorial Day parade,
the event was part OF the first annual
reunion of the so band members since
leaving Germany a yea ago. Fifteen
different states we're represented in
the ranks Of the band.
Grand Rapids-According to a re-
port received from the department of
recreation, Russell Sage foundation,
Grand Rapids has a social center for
over 11,257 inhabitants. Jackson's
proportion Is one for every 10,477;
Battle Greek. s,317; Fort Wayne, Ind,
5,S13; Columbus, o., 90,755.
Grand Rapids-A conference was
held here on the cooperative buying
OF coal for threshers, fertilizers for
fall delivery and other supplies by the
agricultural agents OF Kent, Ottawa,
Montcalm, Muskegon, Allegan and Bar
~ counties. The director Of markets
for the state farm bureau was In at
tendance.
Grand Rapids-Approving reserve
stocks of sugar, District Attorney Ny
ron II. Walker says dealers Will be
permitted 70 retain a reasonable guam
tity. Walker has not censured a sug-
gestion by a Grocery company that,
as a panacea for the apparent sugar
shortage, local dealers be allowed to
accumulate q eserve stock here in
Grand Rapids.
Traverse City-Rural mail carriers