The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1921-10-06
STATE NEWS

Battle Creek-Harry Hills, charged
with grand larceny, was acquitted by
circuit court jury here.
Port Huron-Holmes Foundry COM
panys plant No. has resumed oper-
alton and announcement is made that
plant No. will be in operation with
in 80 days.
Benton HarboT-Roy f. Wallace, AZ,
business man and for 10 years mem
Der of the Benton Harbor city council,
died at his home here, following a
general breakdown in health.
Battle Creek-The Battle Creek
Gas Co. has announced drop in gas
rates from $1.40 to $1.26 thousand
cubic feet, and has eliminated a SER
vice charge of 25 cents a month.
uskegon-Muskegon Chamber of
Commerce directors voted to discon-
tinue the Chambers financial support
to Camp Roosevelt, although the board
voted to pay for 1921 on a pro rata
basis.
Big Rapids-Arthur Smith, middle
aged, who has a wife and two chill
dren, was stricken here by infantile
paralysis. Mr.. Smiths home is in
Durand. He came here to attend the
Ferris Institute.
Mt. Clemens-In circuit court be-
fore Judge Sample of Ann Arbor,
John Frederick and Martin Hall, doing
business as Frederick & Hall, charged
with violation of the prohibition laws,
were fined $500 each.
Muskegon-George Abbott, vice.
president of the Hackley National
bank of this city, died of heart disease.
He had been connected with the insti-
tuition for more than 40 years and was
one of the city's best known bankers.
He was 20 years old.
Lansing--A campaign to abolish
malnutritiOn among school children OF
the state is to be started soon by the
home economics section of the Michi-
gan Agricultural college extension ser
vice. The children will be reached
through the schools.
Ann Arbor-The University of
Michigan began its Gath year with an
estimated attendance of around TO-
600. 1t is expected the attendance
for the year will go to 10000 within
another month. That would be an
increase of IL per cent over last
year.
st. Louis-At a meeting of good
roads enthusiasts from Alma, St.
Louis, Ithaca and Hamilton, COM
mittee was appointed to promote the
plan to raise 100000 in Gratiot
County for roads to be built next year.
If the county spends 100000, the
state will spend $1,500,000.
Kalamazoo-Severe condemning
the mothers OF Kalamazoo who allow
their daughters to attend movie shows
unattended by adults, Judge George
Weimer sentenced William Stevens to
80 days in the county Jail on a charge
OF molesting little girl who sat near
him during a recent performance.
Saginaw-The cornerstone of the
new Saginaw general hospital was laid
by officials of the Saginaw Welfare
league, the organization in which all
of Saginaw's charitable and welfare
bodies are affiliated The hospital
when completed and equipped will
represent an investment Of approx
mately $4,000.
Dowagiac-A coroner's jury return
Al. .,
Monroe and his wife and daughter,
who were found dubbed to death in
their beds were killed by "a person or
persons unknown" The Cass County
board of supervisors has offered a re-
ward of $4,000 for the arrest and con-
viction of the slayer.
Owosso-A judgment OF $50 has
been given Emil Moss, of Owosso,
against Henry Shellenbarger, for
mer Owosso special police officer, by
a jury in Circuit Court. Shellenbar-
ger arrested Moss last spring for vio-
lation of the prohibition law, but when
the Supreme Court ruled that the evil
dence obtained without search war
rant could not be used, the case was
dropped. Moss charged false arrest.
Battle Creek-Nearly two years and
a half ago Earl Williams, of the 63rd
Engineers, shipped home from France.
AS he deposited his surplus equipment
with the quartermaster at Havre, he
labeled the blanket with his name
and address. Recently Mr.. Williams,
whose home is in Albion entered an
army and navy store here to buy a
blanket. The one he received bore
the name and address which he had
placed on it in France.
Pontiac-Elizabeth Max, II, through
an interpreter. told in circuit court
the story of how she had been attack
ed by her stepfather, Frank Werner,
with the aid of her mother, on the day
of her arrival here from Alsace-Lor-
raine. The girl accuses the couple
of serious offense against her. She
was brought to this country, she said,
by false stories of the affluence in
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