The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1906-04-13
AROUND THE STATE.

Trainmen of the Grand Trunk will
| ask for an increase in wages within
the next two months.
n. B. Bradley, of Bay City, will do
nate handsome building site for y.
NJ. c. A. if $4,000 is raised.
Closing of the Pere Marquette shops
in Saginaw leads 10 a suspicion that
they may be moved to Detroit.
Josiah Hathaway, aged 81 years,
walked from Whtmanville to Dow
| agiac, distance of five miles.
William Lands, 11-year-old Sag
| NAV boy, found a purse containing
| 500 and returned ii TO the owner.
Mrs. .Elihu Ferrill fell down stairs
| in Hillsdale county and received in
| iuries from which she died. She was
| 80 years old.
Miss Jennie Bowman, whose father
was elected treasurer OF Flint, took
! active part in campaign and helped
him win out.
A herd of deer on the track at
Houghton blocked a train for Is min
utes. They had been driven from the
woods by wolves.
DR.. John w. Finch, aged 70, a resi-
dent of Adrian for half a century, is
dead. He was a past grand master of
the grand lodge of Masons.
A brush fire spread beyond the con-
troll of Albert Soules, of Leonidas, and
in fighting it he became exhausted and
fell dead in a fence corner.
Mayor d. ID. Aitken, of Flint, is au-
thority for the statement that the De-
troit, Flint River & Saginaw Valley
railroad will assuredly be built.
The Grand Rapids & Muskegon Wa
ter Power Electric Co. is preparing 10
put in a second 5000 horse power dam
at Croton, Newaygo county, 10 cost
$500, 600.
David Blgelow, aged &C, a one-armed
veteran of Standish, brooded over be
ing fined $50 for whipping an obstrep-
erous boy who annoyed him, and died
! of melancholia.
Edwin F. Swan for II years steward
of the Michigan School for the Deaf,
died very Unexpectedly at 2;30 this
morning after an illness of five days
| from pneumonia
One weeks misfortune for Charles
| Weaver, of West Branch: Little daugh-
| ter burned to death while visiting at
Vassar; grandmother. IA pioneer. aged
50, died; Weaver fell and broke his
arm.
The United States experiment sta
| ton at Agricultural college will be
able to considerably extend its re-
search work, with appropriation by
congress of SIS 900, 10 be used in six
years.
Mark Oviatt was whiting a shingle
| when his sharp knife slipped and
struck his right eye, slashing out over
half of the eyeball. The boy was nearly
| crazed by the pain until doctors admin
| istered opiates.
Saloons established in Port Huron
! residence districts must in future have
! the approval of the majority of prop
erty owners within 500 feet of their
location, and the applicants must be
approved as of good character.
Potterville will be dry this year. BY
| a vote of to l the village council vot-
| ed not TO accept the bond 70 Joseph
Geisen on the ground that one of the
sureties did not own sufficient property
in the village to qualify on the bond.
Charles r. Sigh, of Grand Rapids
who ran ISL votes behind Mayor Sweet
| in the mayoral election, will ask for
a recount. His hackers are said TO have
wagered $500 that he would beat
! Sweet, and he will try TO save their
money.
Pontiac's new liquor ordinance pro-
vides that all applicants for licenses
must make satisfactory showing of
good character, and the consent OF a
majority of the property owners with
| in 500 feet must be secured before a
new place can be opened.
War IL declared on correspondence
| school trained nurses" Miss Rose Gift
| ford secretary of the State Nurses as
ISOLATION. says. To protect legitimate
nurses from those who are graduated
by mail. she says the association de-
sires a registration law passed.
Ex-Congressman Henry w. Seymour,
OF Sault Ste. Marie. died in Washing
ton this morning. Death came sudden.
ly, the supposed cause being heart
trouble. Seymour was a pioneer lum-
herman and owned the first raft of
logs lowed on the great lakes. He
served in both houses of the Michigan
legislature in the eighties.
Last year the township OF Mayneld
spent 1925 in opening a new road and
for abutments for bridge across a
creek on the new highway. At a town
meeting the question of new bridge
was voted down by large majority
and Mayfield now has good, new
road, but it cannot be used for want
OF bridge.
Mrs. Sarah Whlpple, of Monroe, has
settled her suit against the Michigan
Central railroad for $1,000 after 1t has
been twice to the supreme court anC
sent back for a new trial. The cas-,
arose from the derailing of a Michigan
Central passenger train south of vi
emma November 8, 1899, In which she
! alleged she sustained permanent inju
ries.
The announcement OF the marriage o
Carlotta Medaris to Ralph c. Diggins
II. of NJ student in Detroit, ha
brought out the fact that several year
: ago the young lady was secretly mar
ried TO Stewart Sims. also an engineer
ing student. The wedding was neve