The Yale expositor., 1922-08-24
Michigan
Happenings

: Happenings :
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"Dr." Irving e. Sanders, proprietor
OF an alleged baby farm" on West
Fort street, Detroit, was found guilty
of practicing medicine without Ii
cense, by jury before Judge Harry
B. Keidan. The principal witness
against him was Leola Sonnenberg
10 years old, OF Worthwhile, who testi
fed she took her two-days-old baby to
Sanders's' place for treatment for an
infection and in the expectation that
he would find a home for the infant
Galesburg. Kalamazoo county's au.
tomobile death trap claimed two
more victims, when two Camp Custer
soldiers, returning from a trip to
Fort Sheridan, were injured seriously
as the car turned turtle on the west
ern outskirts Of the village. The sol
diers, Sergeant Oren Pigman and
Louis Vickery, were pinned under
their car and were rescued by passing
motorists.
A recommendation from the state
department of agriculture that $4,000
be set aside for a survey of Michi-
gan's peat resources has been taken
uudar advisauoapt hv q ooD, iftaa ~
the state administrative board Ac-
cording to a communication receiv-
ed by the board there are extensive
areas of peat in the state which could
be developed into valuable fuel re-
sources.
Berrien County fruit growers are
shipping direct to Chicago consumers
with no middlemen to share the
profits. The gasoline boat Imperial is
hauling the fruit, fresh from tree and
vine, across the lake, making three
trips a week. It's carrying capacity
is 1900 bushels a trip. 1t is under
stood that Mayor William Hale
Thompson OF Chicago is sponsor for
the plan.
Mrs. Joseph Herman, of Ontario,
Calf, has written Kalamazoo officials
asking proof Of her wedding 20 years
ago for use in obtaining a pension in
Washington. She says she was mar
ried in Kalamazoo Oct. 8, 1856 The
records in the county office were de-
stroyed by fire many years ago. She
is too feeble to remember the name
Of the minister who officiated, the let
ter says.
Floyd e. Shook, "a years old,
Plainwell road worker, father of three
small children, dropped dead on a
township job within sight of his
home, the result of intense heat. He
had complained of feeling faint, and
as a fellow-workman aided him to his
automobile, he plunged from his
grasp to the highway, dead.
Several thousand Oakland County
farmers assembled at Maceday Lake,
where in a natural amphitheater a
pageant depicting the progress Of
farm organization was presented by
400 men, women and children. A
program of sports, followed by speech
es by number OF candidates for pub
lie Office, concluded the day.
In the final check at the office VI
the secretary of state three Democrats
who filed Aug. IL were disqualified.
They were Robert II. Rayburn Of
Alpena, for congress IN the Eleventh:
John p Faucher OF Monroe, for state
senate in the Nineteenth, and d. Van
oort, state senate in the Twenty-third.
Sale Of bad fish will be fought by
the state. An investigation reveals
that thousands of pounds of unfit fish
are sold in Michigan markets and a
thorough inspection of all commercial
fisheries in the state will be under
taken by the state bureau of foods
and standards.
Kicked by horse and trampled to
the floor as she directed her husband,
who was driving their automobile,
Mrs. A. d. Collard, Mendon, was so
badly injured that she lived only two
hours. The Collards had just return
ed from a pleasure drive to a lake.
The State Athletic Board of Con-
troll, of which Thomas Bigger was
commissioner was virtually wiped
out of existence by the State Admin
istrative Board when the board voted
to pay all outstanding debts of the de-
partment and close its accounts.
Irving Ayres, of Pioneer, o., is
near death in a hospital at Hillsdale
where his right arm was amputated
at the shoulder to prevent the spread
of blood poisoning. His arm was in
jured in friendly wrestling match