The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1904-09-23
MICHIGAN NEWS IN BRIEF.

About 1900 people attended the re-
union of the Berrien county battalion
at Galien.
The reunion of the Northeastern
Sailors and Soldiers association was
held at Otter Lake.
The fire which ragged in Luther Tues
day caused losses which will aggregate
not less than $4,000.
Three of the stores which were de-
stroyed in the recent fire at Carson
City. are already being rebuilt.
Porch climbers are around Muske-
gon, and several residences have been
entered and valuable property stolen.
Occasionally men are candidates for
office because they can't help il, but
usually it's because the people can't
help ii.
The thirty-third reunion of the
Eighth Michigan cavalry was held at
Davisburg, 40 veterans responding to
roll call.
The poisonous bite of a spider is
supposed to have caused the death of
little Harold Bernard, aged IA months,
of Delray.
The old hotel known as the Riggs
house on the Linden road in Fenton.
was destroyed by fire. together with
its contents. Loss, $1,000.
These Michigan postefiices will be
raised to presidential class October l:
Algonac, postmaster's salary 81 900;
Galesburg, $1,000; Wells, $1,000
The 2-year-old daughter OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Otto Hahn. of Harbor Springs.
fell into a boiler of water late Wednes-
day afternoon and was drowned.
About 800 delegates attended at Port
Huron the twenty-seventh annual re-
union of soldiers and sailors of San
lilac, Huron and st. Clair counties.
There were 2,593 deaths i'm Michigan
during the month of August. an i'll
crease of IS over the previous month.
The death rate was 12.1 per 1000 pop
ulation.
Adjt. Gen. Brown is now ready 10
receive applications for the volumes of
the civil war records for the Twen-
tieth, Twenty-siXth and Ninth Michi-
gan Infantries.
The cold weather means n saving of
thousands Of dollars to fruit growers.
as warm weather would have rlpened
fruit so rapidly that the market would
have been glutted.
While thrashing two miles north of
Avon OH the farm of Rengels. Edward
Lehr and Geo. Tossing were scalded in
the face very badly by the valve or
the engine blowing out.
In large majority of the districts
OF the state the demand for teachers
far exceeds the supply. Many schools
have not yet started. and the school
trustees are in quandry.
The Michigan Cooperative league,
the colored mems organization of the
state, will hold its state convention
and Lincoln memorial celebration az
Battle Creek September %
The 1-year-old child of Nicholas
Powers, Of Brookfield. drank a guam
tity of kerosene oil. The family doe
tor soon struck OIL with the stomach
pump and saved the child's life.
The counties of Alpena, Altoona.
Mcntmorency and Presque Isle will
hold four-county fair ut Alpena
September 2T-30. The fair is given
under the auspices of the Huron
Shore Agricultural Society, and tho
officers are untiring in their efforts TO
make the fist fair of the new organi-
zation success.
Walter Durell, of Munroe. has re-
ceived a gold watch as token Of graf
itude from Harry Rakestraw. the To-
ledo youth who was rescued from n.
watery grave in Lake Erie. off Monroe
Pier. August u. when his canvas
canoe was capsized and his partner.
Charles Niles, was drowned.
The remains of August Henkelman
shot by Detective John Buhr. of De-
troit, were buried Wednesday after
noon in n pauper's grave in Forest
Lawn cemetery. His stepmother has
no means. She says his mother died
when he was few days old. and
that he was never told OF her death.
His father died some years ago