The Yale expositor., 1922-09-07

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| Sportsmen club, Petoskey. The res
olution' was introduced by George w.
McNabe, president Of the Petoskey
Gun club McNabe went on record
with a statement that the manufac-
! ture and sale of such spears should
! be forbidden by law. 1t also was re-
solved to investigate the Cheboygan
locks through which fish are passing
up.
Trapped in the upper story Of his
farm home in Beaugrand township,
near Cheboygan, by flames which
swept the place, John Heron, 73
years old, was burned to death. Eff
forts of .neighbors,, who heard. the
frightened yelps of Herron's watch
dogs as they sought to escape from
the furnace of flame, failed to reach
Heron before escape was entirely cut
off. All Of the buildings on the farm
were destroyed
A cut Of $5,O00,000 in the assessed
valuation Of Macomb county as car
books, has been obtained by members
of the county board of supervisors, in
a protest before the state tax COM
mission. The amount of reduction
equals the amount Of increase, made
by the state board this year, over
county assessment valuations.
Lieut. r. r. Fox, air service pilot
at Camp Custer, was commended by
Brig Gen. Moseley, camp commandant,
for risking his life to save members
Of the Citizens Military Training Camp
by plunging his plane nose down when
making a forced landing. Fox was
only slightly injured and his observer
Lieut.. L. q. Hitchcock, was scarcely
bruised
Swimming without pause for eight
and three-quarters hours, Miss Gene
We've Rowe, II, of Hillsdale, Mich,
swan the entire length of Crystal
Lake, near Benzonia, a distance of
nine miles. Miss Rowe did not leave
the water even to eat. Her only food
was raisins, which were handed to her
by persons who accompanied her in
boat.
Masked with rubber bathing caps,
pulled we'll down over their faces, two
armed thugs forced Arthur Corey and
Walter Street, Of the Standard Oil
companys branch at Owosso into the
cellar and cleared the till Of more than
$780, The safe in the Offices Of the
company was blown and looted by
thugs a few weeks ago.
Inventory Of the estate of the late
John F. Dodge, Detroit automobile
manufacturer, fled in probate court
sets the grand total at $36,S92, ,5SS41,
Of which $1,049,22S.6S is represented
by cash on deposit in banks. Other
cash in Mr.. Dodge's possession at the
time of his death was S1,124.
A new city ordinance prohibiting
the display Of fruits and vegetables
out of doors is to be tested in Flint.
A fruit merchant who placed toma-
toes outside and was arrseted con-
tends he has right to continue the
practice as long as hucksters carry
such produce through the streets.
The state prison commission will
meet the request Of inmates of Ionia
reformatory who filed formal protest
with Warden Thomas Burns, against
the policy Of the state in deducting 81
from their wages for work done on
contract in prison, and asked the cut
| be reduced to 75 cents.
Until recently Dowagiac people in
terested in marriage licenses had to
go to Cassopolis, the county seat, to
get them. Not 80 any more. Justice
Of the Peace Bilderback, Of Dowagiac,
announced that from now on he is
/ the license business himself.
Glenn Rider, 35 years old, formerly
Of Stanwood, was electrocuted, when
he came against a high tension wire
while at work on a pole for a Big
Rapids electric power company.
Rev. Caleb Rutledge declared from
the pulpit OF the Mt. Clemens Meth
odist church, that II he was elected as
sheriff his first work would be to close
Lake Shore roadhouses.
B. H. Custer. former mayor and
commissioner OF Eaton Rapids, and
prominent in religious circles, died as
a result of an attack of paralysis.
In the first two weeks Of it's use,
tourists from Ia states, from Oklaho-
ma to Maine, have visited Albion's
new tourist camp.
The large barn on the farm OF Mar
ion Merritt, Ypsilanti township, with
800 tons of hay, seven horses and a
large quantity of wheat and oats, was
burned to the ground. The fire was
caused by spontaneous combustion.
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