May 27, 1921
Three state officials today are conducting a thorough survey of Cadillac in an effort to locate the source of the typhoid fever epidemic. The city commission may have a special meeting this evening to discuss any necessary steps which may be suggested by the Lansing officials who came here on the invitation of the city health authorities. The worse phase of the situation is the inability to definitely trace the source of the germs. The lake water is tested every week by the state and shows up satisfactorily. Most of the families with fever drink well water which might be contaminated but it would be queer if so many wells would become infected at the same time since the families having the cases are in different sections of the city. The local and state health men therefore generally incline to the theory that the milk supply is at fault and the local milk supply is being carefully scrutinized. E.D. Rich, state sanitary engineer, and Dr. Hill, also connected with the Mi
May 13, 1921
The Michigan Supreme Court has adopted verbatim as its own the opinion handed down by Judge Fred S. Lamb of this city on the constitutionality of the Covert Road Act. The case was argued at Lansing on March 30, last, and the decision is contained in the Northwestern Reporter for May 6, which just has arrived in this city. Judge Lamb, who is known among his associates on the bench as one of the hardest working and most conscientious jurists in the state, is frequently assigned to important cases by the presiding circuit judge of the state. Probably no other circuit judge in the state gets in as many weeks of work outside his own circuit as does Judge Lamb of Cadillac and yet the dockets in all his own counties are kept as clear as possible. In Detroit, particularly, Judge Lamb sits frequently, and the busy Wayne County circuit is a test, many upstate judges failing to stand the pace there. During the recent illness of Judge Tucker of Macomb County, the Cadillac jurist wa