The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1907-10-25
AROUND THE STATE.

injury Hluhle, 20 years Olu, OI GOIL
Huron, was stricken with paralysis
while painting his house and fell 20
feet. Despite his advanced years it is
thought he will revore.
Squirrels are said to be more plen.
tiful in Oakland county than in years.
Wednesday three hunters bagged 2S
and from all sides comes reports of
an abundance of the animals.
John Wilson,. aged 60, en- route to
Grand Rapids from Port Huron, said
at the breakfast table in a Flint hotel
that angels were reckoning to him
and a few minutes later was found
dead.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Parr celebrat-
ed the 63rd anniversary of their we'd
| ding at Marshall. He is 80 and she SO
and both are hale. They came there
directly from England after they were
married.
The eighteenth annual Michigan
State Christian Endeavor convention
is to be held in Grand Rapids, Mich,
November 81 to "a. IL is expected that
there will be from 500 to 1000 dele
gates and visitors.
While lifting a boiler of hot water
from the stove Mrs. Myron Van Al
stien, living on a farm few miles
from Big Rapids, slipped, throwing
the scalding contents on her 3-year-old
twin boys. One will not recover.
Byron S. Argersinger, of Jackson,
has been awarded $4,000 damages by
a circuit court jury, against the Com
| monwealth Power Co. Two years ago
Argersinger, an inexperienced line
man, was badly burned by a high ten
sion wire at Albion.
The board of cemetery trustees of
Big Rapids has raised the price of
cemetery lots from 10 per cent on
small lots to as high as 70 per cent
on the largest. The reason given is
that receipts were not large enough
to meet perpetual care and expenses.
Claiming that on January "a, d.
! u. r. car from which she was at
! tempting to alight started up, throw
ing her to the ground, and that she
received serious injuries, Mrs. Sarah
Buckner, of Port Huron, has filed suit
against the City Electric railway for
$4,000 damages.
Richland citizens have organized
the new bank to take the place of the
defunct Union bank. The new in
stitution will be known as the State
Bank of Richland and will have a cap
ital of $4,000. The officers will be
Il. G. Read. president; Milo A. Snow,
vice-president; Wilbur c. Whitney,
cashier.
The South Park district of Port HUI
ron is greatly stirred over the mys-
! ferrous disappearance of Miss Mary
/ Engelgau, l6, who has been missing
! since Oct. 10. She was employed at
the Office of the salt block company
and this is her first year out of
school. 1t was thought the first day
| she did not arrive at home that she
had gone to come girl friends, but all
search failed to produce her and now
the sheriff has taken a hand.
| Benton Harbor is to have a new
bank. making the third banking insti-
tuition in Benton Harbor The name
will be the State Savings bank. 1t
will be capitalized for $4,000, all of
which is paid in. John E. Barnes, a
! local furniture manufacturer, was
elected president, and Attorney II. S.
Gray ice-president VIM. e. Marsh,
of Lowell, Mich, was elected cashier
Mr.. Marsh is now cashier of the Low
ell State Savings bank.
Seeking to have set aside a divorce
that was granted in 1897 to his wife,
since dead, Sebastian II. Zimmerman
has filed a petition in the circuit
court at Grand Rapids. He claims he
never heard of the suit. The decree
was granted on the charge of deser-
ton. Mrs. Zimmerman died later i'm
the Kalamazoo asylum and Zimmerman
is bringing the action TO get posses
sion of her estate, amounting to 81 900
in personal property and $4,000 in
cash.
Claude Simpson, hired man for
Percy w. Parmenter, Royal Oak
| farmer, does not know what a narrow
escape he had from being arrested for
appropriating state property when he
married Mary Crimalo, 20, a charge
of the state school for girls at Adrian.
! The girl had been bound out to Par
menter until she was FL. Had Mrs.
Lucy NJ. Sickles, head Of the Adrian
Institution, decided to prefer charges.
| Simpson would have been liable to a
$500 fine.
many loyal admirers of the Detroit
Tigers as any in the state. AS an
evidence, one of the most enthusiastic
swan in the lake there for FIVE
minutes, when the temperature was
about 80 degrees, because he promised
TO do IL If the Tigers lost two games.
His Chicago friend, who was saved
from the stunt by the winning of his
favorite team, sat on the shore in
company with a few who knew OF
the bet and watched the Tiger admir-
er take his dip.
The little red school house on the
| hill i'm Green Oak township, near
Brighton, is going to open, though it
has but one scholar, George Rich
ards, Z. County School Commission
er Woodruff, of Howell. met with the
school board Of the district there and
the board was represented by one
man, Clarence Richards, father of the
lone pupil. After hearing the very
much interested member of the board.
Woodruff said that he would write the
other members of the board and tell