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# MICHIGAN NEWS BRIEFS Marquette county farmers have planted crops aggregating an increase of 376 per cent over 1916. Knights Templar of Michigan will send a hospital unit to France within the next 90 days. This was decided upon at the annual conclave of the grand commandery at Kalamazoo. The hospital unit will be composed of 91 Knights Templar. Conscription will leave Michigan with a shortage of male teachers, according to Fred L. Keeler, superintendent of public instruction. Mr. Keeler says most of the men are between 21 and 30, and because of the small pay few are married. All roads are to lead to Muskegon June 20 to 23, the days of the state convention of Elks. Road signs are posted between Detroit, Grand Rapids, and a number of the larger cities and Muskegon, in preparation for the trips of hundreds of members of the lodge. Three hundred of the 650 people who live in Vermontville belong to the Red Cross. Jew Young, a young Chinaman who runs a laundry at Durand, walked nine miles to Corunna to register for military duty. A few hours before Gov. Sleeper could get pardon papers made out for him. Herbert Casey died in Ionia reformatory. G. N. Nason, Chesaning banker, sold his 520-acre farm near that village for $60,000 and invested most of it in Liberty bonds. The Russian Jews of Shiawassee county, about 75 in number, met in Durand and pledged themselves to buy liberty bonds. Burglars entered six stores at McBride and stole $117. A reward of $100 was offered for information leading to their arrests. Gloria Peacock, 7 years old, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Peacock, of Corunna, fell on the sidewalk and died of concussion of the brain. Every man in Marine City-240 in number-who registered for the selective draft, was given a fine dinner at a banquet arranged by Marine City business men. As a result of the time lock on the big vault in the Romeo Savings bank getting out of order, employes were unable to open the vault for 24 hours. Business was suspended. H. N. Chute, for 50 years head of the physics department of the Ann Arbor high school, a Canadian, took out his final citizenship papers last week. His first were taken out in 1886. Michigan's war board has been asked to go into the road building business. Mt. Clemens has asked it to build a stretch of concrete road from that city to Joy aviation field. It would cost from $60,000 to $75,000. Highland Park village shows the highest percentage of exemption claims of any state district. Of 4,702 white citizens who registered, 4,534 asked exemption. Twenty-seven out of 30 colored citizens claimed releases. Twenty-one young Indians from the Mt. Pleasant Indian school have enlisted in Co. F, Saginaw regiment of the Thirty-third regiment, M. N. G., coming to Saginaw in a body for this purpose. While driving home cars for a garage at Marshall, Carl Schafer and Charles Weatherwax were seriously injured just west of Dexter, when they were hit by a tornado which turned both autos upside down. Hog cholera has been discovered in Saginaw and Chesaning townships according to E. P. Robinson, county agriculturist. In one herd, 66 hogs had to be sold for soap grease. Mr. Robinson has reported the cases to the state officials and a close watch is being kept of all herds. Wander-Merbelle Hengerveld, world's champion Holstein cow, owned by E. Le Roy Pelletier, of Detroit, has been sold for $18,300, the highest price ever paid for a cow. She and her two sons, one 18 months old, the other 4 months old, sold for $27,300. J. F. Shanahan and asscoiates of Buffalo, N. Y., were the buyers. Mrs. Minnie Chapman, wealthy Rochester woman, left her roadster with brakes off, in her driveway. The car started, ran 500 feet across the street and down a steep embankment into a deep swale. It took a gang of men and a team of horses six hours to get the car out. Aside from a broken wheel, the automobile was uninjured. Carrying $2,500, a portion of the payroll for acts working at the Temple theatre, Detroit, Charles G. Williams, manager of the house, was held up, robbed and badly beaten by three highwaymen in the alley back of the theatre, while hundreds of pedestrians were passing but a few feet away on brilliantly lighted Monroe avenue and Farmer street, and while policemen walked their beats within hailing distance. The robbers escaped with