The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-04-13

AcIlnP uuuer IL JolhL iCSOlubiOh VI
the last legislature, the state auditors
have allowed Private John ii. Bertram
of Owosso 81 500 for the loss of an eye
while on duty at Camp Eaton.
cement factory giving employment
TO $50 laborers will be erected near the
shores of Silver lake, "a miles east of
Linden. 1t is said the mari beds are
among the most extensive in the state.
Bad roads, shorten by years, the lives
of the horses, for which the farmers go
into debt; they permanently ruin car
riages and wagons, and are not with
out an evil effect upon Themselves
Cedar Springs Clipper.
Arrangements are already being
made for the picnic of the Modern
Woodmen OF Ionia county, which Will
be held at Saranac on August %, and
which is expected to be one of the big
gest picnics ever held in the county.
The village of Gaines, in Shiawessee
county, is liable to find itself without
Il lookup, tax title speculator having
announced to the village fathers that
he holds tax title to the property
| through the failure of the village to
! pay the taxes.
Col n. NJ. Richardson, who was re-
| lieved from duty as assistant adjutant-
! general without any explanation be-
! ing offered, says he has been given no
reason for his discharge, and is as
much in ignorance of the true cause as
the general public.
There are presented to the postmas-
ter at Allegan recently a draft of the
United States postofiice department
! which was A. years old. 1t bears date
of Nov. ), 1865. 1t has been lost for
many years The person to whom 1t
was drawn is dead.
At the city Jail at Niles "A record is
kept of the number of transient lodg-
ers accommodated each year. From
Oct. 1889 to April /, 1900, 263 tourists
were sheltered. During 1898, for the
same period, 472 were cared for, and in
1897, 555 were registered.
The police of Detroit raided a saloon
on Woodward avenue on the nth and
pulled in about so gamblers, who were
engaged in playing the horses.
Many of those who were taken prison
ers would not care TO have their names
published. All were released after
registering at police headquarters but
four. who were supposed to be the
owners and assistants.
Gen Durham, farmer near Sunfield
heard noise in his barn the other
night and went out, without lantern
TO investigate. When he entered the
building the thief gave him a shove
into hay chute, and when he came
out of the other end of it with three
broken ribs and minus most of his cut
iclc he had lost further interest in the
thief and the latter made his escape.
Reports to the state board of health
show that Influenza, rheumatism, bron
chitis. neuralgia and tonsilitis in the
order named, caused the most sickness
in Michigan during the week ending
March 81. Cerebro-spinal meningitis
! was reported at places, smallpox a
o. whooping cough at 16. diphtheria a
! 81, typhoid fever at %, scarlet fever a
81, measles at 112 and consumption a
/ 154.
When the electric road west from
Ann Arbor was first talked of DeXte
people were so sure that the promoter
would not dare to leave their villag
off the line that they failed to offer an,
inducements to them. Accordingly
the promoters went to work and hav
now secured the entire right of wa
direct from Ann Arbor to Chelsea an
e expect to commence construction wor
y upon the road right away, while tn
t over-confident DeXterites are begin
o ming to get their eyes open.
: South Havenites who have been OF
) serving Lent by abstaining from mea
l. and eating fish instead, have ha
/ things very convenient lately, the fis
being delivered right in their houses
d all hours of the day and night. Th
r screen over the intake pipes of the vi
:, lage water works have become broke
in some manner, and numerous sma
s fish have gotten into the pipes, wit
9 the result that every time hous'
Ie holder turns on the water tap tn
d chances are they get fish or two.