The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1906-01-26
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

When man stands on his dignity
he ought to be we'll heeled.
Robert Hern, of Three Rivers, fell
from a load of hay and his neck was
broken.
Nearly 600 attended the annual ban
quet of the Lansing Business Mems
association.
The twelfth child has been born
within a week in the families or Geo.
Fuller and Of Chris Bostwick. OF Lam
sing.
John Thirteen, a Hollander living In
Grand Rapids, was stricken with heart
failure on the street and was taken
to hospital.
Mrs. James Pratt, of Fenton, Is SO
years of age, yet she does all OF her
own homework, and is as lively as
much younger person.
Alfred b. Trombley, aged 81,
farmer five miles east of Bay City,
committed suicide by taking Paris
green after a protracted spree.
While Agent Henry Schell was abb
sent from the Michigan Central ticket
Office in Dowagiac about 10 minutes
someone gained access TO the money
drawer and removed $50 in cash.
c. w. Post. of Battle Creek, has pro-
posed to the Business Mems associ-
alton the organization OF a county club
on a large farm he owns on Goguac
prairie, a high BLUM overlooking the
city.
Mrs. Matte Gilmore who was ar
rested on a charge of non-support OF
her blind husband and three children,
and was ordered to contribute So a
week for the children. is suing for
divorce in Grand Rapids.
Because United States Express Of
ficials at Bay City refuse to tell who
had consigned 900 pounds OF under
size pickerel seized by Deputy Game
Warden Trudell, the latter says he will
cause the arrest of the officials.
Detectives are searching for Rev.
Edward Chadwick, an Ontario preach
er. who is alleged to have disappeared
with a $125 diamond ring he secured
from a Sault Ste. Marie jeweler on ap-
prevail, and with $50 he borrowed from
his fiancee.
The old Donovan & OConnor saw
mill, in Menominee, is about to be dis
mantled and torn down. The mill is
one of the oldest in this region, being
| formerly known as the Detroit mill.
/ This is the eighth sawmill TO be torn
down there since the decline of the
lumber boom.
The denunciation OF public card
parties by Rev. Charles A. Lippincott,
OF Flint, has fallen on stony ground.
so far as the women OF Flint are con-
cerned. The prominent women's organ
ization aimed at is going on with its
plans for a series of public euchre par
! ties for prizes.
Railroad Commissioner Atwood says
| that before Senator Huntley Russell
threatened a mandamus he had ar
ranged for a hearing of the complaints
| of Mill Creekites, a suburb of Grand
Rapids, who are angry because trains
will not stop there. The hearing will
be held January 81.
Saginaw Board of Trade was organ
ICED April 9, 1863. Four of the thir-
| ty-two signers of the original charter
are still living in Saginaw: Dr. H. G.
Potter, Ezra Rust, George l.. Burrows
and ID. L. c. Eaton. For forty-two
years DR.. Potter has been an active
member of the board, having been on
its roll call since the day of its organ
iZation.
The farm OF VIM. II. Hoxie. who
died a few days ago, is to be dug over
for treasure Hoxie left a $4,000 es
tate and it Is believed he had much
ready money, which cannot be found
Hoxie lived as a miser and some time
ago when he was i'll and his nephew
F. c. Gardner, was caring for him
money was needed and he told his
nephew to dig in a certain spot and
a pot of coin was unearthed.
A splinter of steel three inches in
length was removed from the brain
of John Nall, of Winston, n. c., al
the Jefferson hospital at Philadelphia
An effort was made to draw out the
splinter by means of a powerful mag
net. but the steel was so firmly i'm
bedded that the surgeons were com
PEELED to resort to the knife. The
operation was successful and the pa
tient is reported as doing well.
Ralph Mott, OF Battle Creek, had hi.
wife and a man arrested in Lansinl
and then told the woman that ht
would get bail for her in case hcl
former friends did not. He said ht
had her arrestjn only to prevent hel
claiming part of an estate which haC
been left to him after she went will
another man.