The Yale expositor., 1922-09-28

| OI Lne organization 10 De Helu III
Grand Rapids. 1t had been proposed
that the convention should be post
poned until next Spring. Sessions
will be held at the Coliseum, where
one Of the largest exhibits Of road
machinery ever shown In the state
will be on display,
Pontiac firemen have a new task.
In addition to their regular duties at
the fire halls where they work every
other "a hours, they have been asked
by Chief Frank Kuhn to devote some
of their spare time to an inspection
of the business places and homes
with the idea of eliminating fires.
The firemen will look for fire hazards
which are unnecessary and will sug-
gest the removal of inflammable ma
terials from Easements or wherever
they are discovered
Joseph G. Gourlay, a teacher at the
West Junior High school, at Lansing,
who eloped last June with 14-year-
old girl pupil, was sentenced by Judge
Ibldilu W. CdTfl III the tuBHdIl OlI-
cult Court. to serve from five to 10
years In the Michigan State Prison
at jackson, Gourlay, 42 years old,
married and father of three children,
pleaded guilty to a statutory ohense.
IA hls own defense he declared the
girl had teid him thRs she was IL
Years old.
NJ, D. Crawford, Eaton Rapids
banker, has a freak In the grape
line, two vines. Concord (purple)
and Niagara tgreen) growing side
by side, Ia some manner bunch
from each vine became entangled
with tho result that they have devel-
oped and grown firmly together,
Iron county has purchased from
tho owners the Indian burylng ground
adjoining the old indian village site
ct Chleagon lake, IL has been tidied
UP, the houses over the graves re.
built where they were found to be
IN decay, and the tract dedicated to
tho use Of the public,
T. Leo Jones. Michigan district pres
itent of the United Mine Workers OF
America, has resigned to go on u
vaudeville tour with Saginaw or.
chestra, IN which he plays saxo.
phone, He has been succeeded by
George Toskey, st. Charles, district
vioe-president.
Members of the Sailors union OF
the Great Lakes have voted for
strike. Announcement OF this action
came to William Donnelly, business
manager Of the Detroit local In u mos.
sage from X. B. Nolan. OF Chicago,
secretary OF the Sailors union OF the
Great Lakes.
The open season for shooting game
birds, ducks, coots, snipe, galllnules.
geese and brant in Michigan opened
Sept. 16. The season remains open
until the first of the year. Hundreds
Of sportsmen throughout the state
have taken out hunting licenses.
The Byron council has decided to
allow pool rooms to operate in this
village this year. A motion that ali
applications for license be rejected
lost when H. G. Seaman, village pres.
ident, broke a tie vote with his vote
in favor Of the pool rooms.
DR.. Hugh Kennedy, Highland Park
has been elected by the Bay View
board of trustees as manager of the
Bay View assembly and president OF
the Bay View summer school and its
associated schools, near Petoskey, and
has accepted the position.
Milo Bott, SO years old, who fired
the first locomotive to make the
complete trip from Owosso to Frank
fort over the Ann Arbor road, died
at Owosso Sept. 16. He had been EN-.
ployed by the Ann Arbor road for
nearly 40 years.
Assistant Attorney o. L. Smith,
was appointed by Attorney General
Merlin Wiley to represent the office
in prosecution of the score Of COM
munists awaiting trial on a charge
of criminal syndicalism in Berrien
county.
NJ. II. Defoe and G. w. Ward were
reelected chairman and secretary re-
spectively of the Eaton county Re
publican committee.
Announcement was made OF
wage increase by the Copper Range
Consolidated. Houghton, averaging Is
per cent for all employees OF the
Champion, Baltic and Trimountain
mines and stamp mills.
Henry J. Cook, the oldest employe
in point of service at the Michigan
Reformatory at Ionia, has resigned
as record clerk. He is the Democratic
nominee for sheriff. Mr.. Cook has
haan omnloved at the raformatorv Al