The Yale expositor., 1921-07-28


Hartford.-Blame for the death Of
Oscar Uhl, of Detroit, was placed on
Lewis Stratton, of Kalamazoo, in the
verdict rendered by the coroner's jury
which sat during the inquest here.
Fontiac.-Carl and Olive Rasmus-
sen, OF Seattle, formerly of Royal Oak,
have been put on trial in circuit court
charged with larceny of household
goods from Frank Briggs, of Royal
Oak.
Port Huron - Although Charles
Jack, Detroit Edison employe, had
$500 volts of electricity pass through
his body, he will recover. He took
hold of a live wire while working on
pole.
Northville-Dates for the Wayne
county fair at Worthwhile have been
set for September 20, 29, 30 and Octo-
Der 1. The fair will be run day and
night with fireworks as an added
evening attraction.
Vicksburg-Going to the rescue OF
his drowning niece at Pickerell lake,
Clyde McCausey, II, Pavilion town
ship boy, succeeded in saving the
girls life just before he sank back
into the water exhausted.
Benton Harbor-Benton Harbor
has adopted the ommission-manage
form of city government, electing i've
prominent business men commission
ers. The commissioners named J. N.
Klock, a manufacturer, as mayor.
Bad Axe-James Baldwin has been
unanimously elected to succeed him
self for his thirty-fourth year as
member of the board of education.
His years of continuous service on an
educational board is believed to be
state record.
Grand Rapids-Declaring some tax
icabs are rolling barrooms, Superin-
tendent of Police A. A. Carroll has
urged the city commission to adopt
a proposed ordinance to bring the
taxicab business under closer super
vision of city officials.
Battle Creek.-Sam Jones was SEN
fenced to a year in Jackson prison,
the longest sentence yet given a man
here for violating the liquor laws.
Sans arrest followed chase through
swamps and a fight in a river with
Undersherriff Tavern Fonda.
Ann Arbor.-The Rev. Lloyd G..
Douglas, for IL years pastor of the
First Congregational Church here, has
resigned to take up religious work in
industry at Akron, o. He also will
take charge of the First Congrega-
tional Church at Akron next fall.
Battle Creek.-John H. Patterson,
whose resignation as president of the
National Cash Register company, was
announced Monday, is in the city,
where he came for rest and recupera-
ton at a local sanitarium. He is ac-
companied by his personal physician.
Sault Ste. Marie-The Chippewa
County Historical society has erected
an 18-toD granite boulder marking the
spot where Governor Lewis Cass, 101
years ago, concluded a treaty with
the Chippewa Indians, giving this gov
eminent a tract of 16 square miles
within what is now Sault Ste Marie.
Adrian. - A change in the wind
saved the little village of Palmyra,
five miles east of here, from almost
total destruction by fire. A dwelling
house and store, another dwelling and
the Toledo & Western railway sta
ton had been destroyed before the
wind veered and turned the fire back
upon itself.
Adrian.-Mrs. Calvin Meyers, aged
So, drowned herself in the river Raisin
at Deerfield, IA miles east of here. She
left a note in her home advising sur
vivors to look in the river" Men
searched the streams for four hours
before recovering the body. Mrs.
Meyers is survived by her husband
and one son.
Lansing.-Another warning against
the spread of diphtheria has been sent
out by the State Department Of
Health in connection with the release
of figures on the number of cases in
Michigan in the first six months of
1921. There are 1000 child deaths
from diphtheria every year in Mich
igan. the board says.
Ida.-M. C.. Thomas will retain his
job as county agent of Monroe county,
despite action by the extension de-
partment of Michigan Agricultural
College calling for his resignation.
The county organization of the farm
bureau, at a meeting here voted to
continue Thomas in Office, by indoors
ing action to this effect previously
taken by the county executive COM
mittee, 80 votes to 10.
Port Huron. - Who says bathing
suits are too immodest to be worn on
the streets to and from the bathing
beaches? This question has stirred
whole sections of Port Huron, with
the bathing suit contenders in the
lead. Wasn't Eve attired in some
thing just little less than a bathing
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