The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1906-04-27
MICHIGAN IN BRIEF.

Pontiac's bank deposits have doubled
in the last five years.
George Townsend, aged 20 years, for
23 years supervisor of Bruce township,
is dead at Romeo.
The nomination of L. H. Bishop as
postmaster at Grand Rapids has been
confirmed by the senate.
Michigan's State Sanatorium for the
treatment of lncipient tuberculosis
will be located at Howell.
Parmalee is to nave a beauty con-
test, the prize to go to the woman
with the most shapely nose.
Six-year-old Olive Burr, of Adrian,
was seriously injured by a boy bicy-
clist riding On the sidewalk.
Mrs. George Clifford, of Battle Creek,
was so seriously burned in a gasoline
stove explosion that she died.
Last seasons ice scale has been
adopted in Saginaw, the price being
$1.75 for 20 pounds of ice a day.
The 2-year-old daughter of George d.
Blgelow, of Flint, fell down a fight
of stairs while at play, and died in an
hour.
John G. Ravens has been appointed
postmaster at Mullet Lake, Cheboy-
gan county, vice c. H. Houser, re-
signed.
William c. Durant has given to his
daughter as a wedding present $780,
600 of stock in the Durant-Dort Car
riage Co.
The Logan Cement Co., of Fenton,
which closed about year ago, is pre-
pairing to start again. Detroit men are
interested.
Mrs. Mary Pung. of Westphalia,
aged 63 years, was found dead in bed
by a neighbor, who called to see her.
She lived alone.
Nine-year-old Blanche Foster, of
Tosco, fell from a beam while watching
men shear sheep and received injuries
from which she died.
An Eaton Rapids girl was badly
burned by her gown catching fire from
burning grass. She rolled in the dirt
and put out the flames.
The committee in charge Of the
semi-centennial celebration of Sagi-
naw's incorporation has recommended
its postponement until 1907.
Edward Sule, land locker, shot him
self through the side last week with
a revolver at Rapid River. He was en-
ployed by the Baker Lumber Co.
A large gang of men is trying to
round up the last one of the herd of
elk which escaped a week ago from the
Hill game preserve at Forest lake, near
Pontiac.
Pastor F. Coy, aged II, of Alpena, is
dead of pneumonia. His brother
Charles was sick in a San Francisco
hospital and may have persisted in the
fire there.
While a joke was being read to her
from the humorous columns of a news
paper, Mrs. John Klair, aged 80 years,
of Ann Arbor laughed and died from
heart disease.
The Lapeer water board turns down
the proposition of the gas company TO
furnish power for the pumping station
1t does not want to be tied up by a
contract to corporation.
The Modern Maccabees of Macomb
county formed a county organization,
with w. S. Stone, of Richmond, as
county commander, and L. Austin, OF
Romeo, as record keeper.
A 100000 DEAL involving the trans
fer of the village of Hiles, logging,
railroad, equipment and $4,000 acres OF
fine hardwood timberland, has been
consummated by Marquette man.
While in a drunken stupor John Nc
Nee was using a rail on the Ann Arbor
track for a pillow. Marshal Morris, of
Owosso, discovered him in time and
now he'll serve 10 days in the jug.
County Treasurer Robertson, of
Wayne has made return to the audi
tor-general on the tax roll for 1905 1t
is the quickest return that has been
made from Wayne county in many
years.
The Bar association committee will
recommend the purchase of marble
bust of the late Judge Isaac p. Chris
tiancy, to be placed beside that OF
Judge Campbell In the capitol law IL
brary.
After an absence of 80 years, Peter
and F. C.. Outline, of Kalamazoo, say
that they could scarcely persuade their
brother in Holland, whom they have
just RETURNED lTOlu NlSllluB, W UcliSNt
that they we're his kinsmen.
Edward Barber, of Alpena, now in
Jail at Everett, Wash, has confessed
that he murdered his brother 10 years
ago while the two were on their way
from Alpena to Black River. Nobody
there remembers of the murder.
Mrs. Jay W. Vaughan. the beautiful
wife of Banker Vaughan, of Eaton Rap
ids, who secured a divorce from him
last fall, receiving several thousand
dollars in alimony, is reported to have
been married in Toledo to Ed F. Wick
wire.
The state central committee of the
Prohibition party has decided to hold
it's state convention in Detroit July
3, to be followed with big mass meet
ing on July 4. 1t was voted to ignore
the primary election law as not neces-
sary In its case.
The state treasury Is likely to reach
it's high water mark when the rail
roads pay their millions in taxes, which
they probably will do before the end OF
the month. The balance in the treasury
at the close of business Thursday night
was about 100000.