The Yale expositor., 1921-06-09

Court.
Pontiac-Carl II. Pelton was named
city attorney to fill the vacancy caused
by the recent resignation OF Glen c..
Gillespie, who was appointed circuit
Judge.
uskegon-Alexande Bell, 60 years
old, was killed by electrocution at the
Muskegon Traction & Lighting Co.'s
plant while working on some ma
chinery
Pontiac-The resources of the Pom
tiac Commercial & Savings Bank and
the Oakland County Savings Bank
were merged, giving Pontiac bank
capitalized at $1,000,O00.
Big Rapids-Twenty students at the
Ferris institute, who played hockey"
have been expelled by Woodbridge N.
Ferris, who declares the students are
not going to run his school.
Harbor Springs-Charles Cableman,
70 years old, was killed when the
brakes on his automobile failed TO
operate as he entered the garage and
the car went through the building and
fell down 12-foot embankment.
oscommon-Drilling for oil in Ros-
common and Ogemaw counties VIII
begin at once by Fidwell Brothers or
California in Marley and Foster town
ships. A company has been organized
to back the oil-prospecting adventure.
Mancelona-Dick Lee, lumberman,
was brought to q hospital here with
wounds said to have been inflicted by
his wife. Lee said he was working in
the woods when a bullet struck him
in the shoulder. His wife accom-
panied him to the hospital and was
arrested.
Holland-The body Of Stanley
Pleume, 10 years old, son of l.. c.
Pleume, a Grand Rapids newspaper
man, was found hanging in a barn
here He had been ill for a year fol
lowing injuries received in a ball
game and is believed to have become
respondent.
Lansing-The Michigan Pioneer and
Historical society elected the follow
ing officers and trustees: A. l.. Saw
yer of Menominee, president; Edward
jerks of Port Huron, vice president:
Benjamin Davis of Lansing, treasurer.
and George N. Fuller of Lansing, exc
cutive secretary.
Manistee-The city commission has
adopted a new salary ordinance re-
ducing salaries of practically all de-
partment heads and employees. The
city manager was reduced $4,000, city
clerk and treasurer 500 each, health
officer $500 and chiefs Of police and
fire department S225 each.
Pontiac-Three department heads
of the Oakland Motor Car company
left the organization, the new man
ager, Charles H. Hannum, announced.
They are A. c. Hamilton, chief en-
gineer, w. II. Masten, sales manager,
and j. w. Young, assistant general
manager Benjamin Jerome, assistant
engineer, has been made chief.
Lansing-The primary scheduled for
June z, to nominate a Republican can
didate to succeed the late Congress
man William Fl. Frankhauser in the
Third congressional district, will not
be held as former Congressman j. M.
c. Smith of Charlotte is the only can
didate. Howard w. Cavanagh, Battle
Creek Democrat, will oppose him.
Flint-A log placed across the
tracks of the roller coaster at Lake
side park, at the bottom of a big dip
near the turn Of the device, was
pushed off the tracks with only slight
damage to the two-car train in which
four passengers were riding. They
escaped injury. No one has been
found who actually saw the obstruc-
ton placed on the track.
Albion-New members of the Albion
college student senate, the student
self-governing body, have been elected
as follows: Wilbur Harper, Calumet
Lucille Woodward, Elsie; Ronald PAIL,
Albion; Edwin Quick, Muskegon;
Eldon Sanderson, Quincy; Wanna
Wooten, Marshall; Clarence Weaver,
Albion; Catherine Sturtevant, Albion
Dorothy Graves, Parma, and Lurene
Smith, Albion.
Pontiac-A decision reached by
Judge X. p. Rockwell and handed
down, two weeks after his death, de-
MED a divorce to Mrs. Eva Union
from Harry Union. They had been
twice married, once in 1915, divorced
in 1917, remarked in 1920 and sued
for divorce the same year. The wife
is a burlesque actress. The decision
was found, signed, in the judges desk
and handed down by Judge Gillespie.
Owosso-Owosso and Corunna of.
fcials are trying to solve the problem
Of what to do with the Michigan Rail
way company which says it is finan-
cially unable to pave between its
tracks in the two cities. The state is
to pave three miles in the two cities.
the work to be started next month.
Corunna has decided that If the COM