The Yale expositor., 1922-11-09
STATE NEWS
IN BRIEF

Tney Will also enlarge ana mOueIHlze
the building.
Bad Axe-Two farmers, Jacob
Grimm and Edwin Steiner. operating
a farm, in partnership, near Port Aus
tin, Huron County, have filed petitions
in bankruptcy. They schedule their
liabilities at $4,000 and their assets
at $4,000.
Pontiac-Charging that Hugh Evans
a Ferndale police officer, shot him in
the leg after firing three other shots
dangerously close to him, Alfred c.
Btty, OF Ferndale, has begun $4,000
damage suit against Evans in Circuit
Court here.
Charlotte-Charged with the larceny
OF goods valued at $37.7S from the
store OF Clair c. Carpenter, at Millett
In the night time, Cecil Perkins and
Carlton Walters were sentenced by
Judge Smith, to Ionia reformatory for
six months to Is years, with recon-
mendation of one year.
Adrian-The Gregg hotel Of this city
was transferred to the Lenawee Hotel
Co., which plans to rebuild II into
$4,000 establishment. The hotel
will be managed by Birney Bros, hotel
men of Niles, but Adrian business men
and banks control the board Of direc
tors OF the new company.
Lansing-The inmate population OF
state institutions continued to in
crease during September, according
to a report completed by Mari T. Muir
ray, state welfare commissioner.
There were $50 more inmates at the
close OF this month than at the begin
ming. The increase in the penal in
stttutions was 50.
Mason--The annual meeting of the
Ingham county Farm Bureau held In
the courtroom here, brought out a
very small attendance. l.. T. Lasenby
was again elected president and Frank
Seely was reelected secretary. The
organization is In good shape fnan.
cially, having a substantial balance OF
some $500 on hand.
Battle Creek-The price OF milk
quart here by milk distributors, follow
ing raise in price by the Calhoun
County Milk Producers from $3.50 to
SO per hundred pounds. Producers
say that all supplies which go into the
milk producing business have recently
been raised around 80 per cent
Muskegon-The Crosby Transporta-
ton Co. will start work soon on two
large boats to be built for the Mus
kegon-Milwaukee run. George F. Mum
ger, traffic manager of the company,
was in Muskegon recently making ar
rangements for the placing of 100000
in bonds on the market in connection
with the financing of the project.
Cadillac-Though the local Michi
! gan Potato Growers exchange is
handling about rs carloads of potatoes
a day, it could ship many more if cars
were available. The delayed move
ment Of potatoes, however, is seen as
factor in the farmers favor. He will
receive more for his product when it
is eventually shipped, it was stated.
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unreasonable warning issued Nov
by the Muskegon Health Department
The department says 1t believes the
fly is the carrier of typhoid fever
germs in this city. There are now IL
mild cases of typhoid fever and the
department says a further spread is
not expected IL persons will swat the
hy."
Lansing-The State Administrative
Board authorized the purchase of two
tracts of land, as a site Tor the new
law building, by the University of
Michigan. The total cost of the prop
erty was given as $4,000. The
building to be erected is the gift of an
anonymous Michigan alumnus, an.
nounced some months ago. The cost
will be well over $1,000,000
Detroit-One local automobile manu-
facturer turned into the revenue COL
lector here for the month of October,
excise taxes on $60,000,000 worth of
cars sold during the month, Collector
F. l.. Woodwork announced. The col.
lector commented that the excise tax
payments from this and other sources
indicated clearly'to him that the coun-
try was in prosperous state. Octo-
Der levies on Injuries were greater
than for many months, he said.
Charlotte-After a a lapse OF more
than 80 years since his death, a petit
ton has been presented in probate
court here for the re-opening of the
estate OF Henry L. Robinson, Of Belle
vue, and the naming of Attorney r.
r. McPeek Of this city as administra-
tor. The reason for asking the con-
tinuance of the administration of the
estate is that the final accounting had
been made without any mention OF
the real estate being made OF the
heirs being determined.
Grand Rapids-Ray Judd, II. farmer
boy, living near Mesick, shot and
killed Loretta Redman, 16, shot and
seriously injured Nettie White, also