The Yale expositor., 1922-04-20
Michigan
Happenings
Observation-Disclosures

IL Happenings :.
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The feeding of school children UNI
der the direction of teachers incom-
petent to diagnose and pass expert
judgment on children's health was de-
cried as "a positive crime against the
| children" by medical men Of Michigan,
| Indiana and Ohio assesmbled at Lans-
ing for the forty-ninth annual meet
ing of the Tri.State Medical Associa-
ton. Discussion of the more techni-
cal side of the profession was dropped
when the subject of child feeding in
public schools was introduced by DR..
G. l.. Bliss of Kalamazoo. More
than an hour was devoted to consid-
GRAFTON of the subject.
Richard NPeckham. years old,
whose father is facing trial in circuit
court at Kalamazoo on charge of
torturing and cruelty and illegally pun
| fishing him. was made a ward Of the
| juvenile court lie was placed per-
manently in the Juvenile detention
home. The father. Frederick Peckham,
| professor in Il commercial school, is
said to have whipped him till the
| blood ran down his back and to have
hurled a chair against him, knocking
out one of his teeth.
Mrs Charity Wintergreen, of Kala-
mazoo. aged and toothless, unable to
eat the contents of the wellladen din
ner baskets sent to her home by the
| Salvation Army, wrote to the army Of
| ficials. asking them to send her set
OF false teeth. The letter was the
only acknowledgment received by the
army after distributing about 100 din
| ner baskets among the distressed
families of Kalamazoo.
Major McCord and Captain Lovett
| OF the army division of Chicago came
| TO Mt Clemens to make arrangements
| for removing all the army supplies
from Selfridge Flying field. The camp,
Major McCord says, will be kept for
training purposes for army reserves.
The field will not be sold. With the
removal Of the equipment and sup
| plies, the camp will be closed
The Kalamazoo county board Of SUI
pervisors has refused to allow a bill
of $91 .46 incurred by DR.. F. s. Collier,
former president of Vicksburg village,
during his stay in a Kalamazoo hos
pital last summer after he had been
| arrested on the charge of man
slaughter The bill was contracted
while Dr. Collier was in custody of
the sheriff. He was later acquitted
About 375 officers and soldiers sta
toned at Fort Brady, United States
army post at Sault Ste. Marie, will
leave there about May l for Camp
| Custer. Members of the quartermas-
ter corps, including two officers and
&c men, will remain at the post. The
departing troops will hike large por-
ton of the distance.
At a session of the circuit court at
Monroe, Judge Jesse H. Root allowed
a writ of habeas corpus, and ordered
the return of Cleobelle, 14-months-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey
Harms, to the maternal grandmother,
from whose custody she had been
taken by an order of the juvenile
court.
Part of the loot taken in the Malta
wan postofflce robbery several months
ago was found at Kalamazoo, buried
in the railroad yards, and has set
local police on a fresh search for the
bandits. John Zweedyk found the
loot containing 500 in postage and
revenue stamps.
Harry M. Slater, rate expert for the
Illinois Public Utilities commission,
credited with having rid Illinois of the
freight rate coming system, will be re-
tanned by the Michigan Public Utili-
ties commission in connection with
the statewide freight rate hearings.
to start at Lansing April 81.
Proposed charter amendments voted
down at the last spring election at
Grand Rapids, due to the manner in
which they were phrased, may be re-
submitted at the fall election or any
other time thereafter, according to a
decision of City Attorney Ganson Tag
gar.
An attempt viii be made to get suffi-
cient signers to guarantee at least
one hundred acres of Strawberries
and raspberries, so that Grand Trav.
erse region may branch forth into the
small fruit business with proper ship
ping and marketing facilities.
Fred Dernberger, of Addison, was
| elected chairman of the Oakland