The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1908-10-30
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

f. c. Willis, Benton Harbor, has re-
signed as chief clerk OF the railroad
commission to return to his commits
| sion business.
Judge Kline allowed the Detroit
Trust Co. $4,000 as receiver of the
| Glazier Stove Co. and awarded $1,000
in solicitors fees.
Arthur Himebaugh, Matteson town
| ship farmer. pleaded guilty to keep
ing his 14-year-old son from school
and went to Jail for 10 days.
The Grand Valley Waterway associ-
alton, which proposes a canal from
Saginaw to Grand Haven, appointed
a committee to lay out the projected
route.
While the family of Luther Loer, in
| Rutland township, were away from
| home Sunday a can of gasoline ex-
| ploded, setting fire to the house,
which burned to the ground.
Lonesome without his mother who
still lives in Greece, George Konston,
| aged Is, employed in his uncle's
Greek candy kitchen in Grand Rapids,
| drowned himself in Reeds lake.
Following Judge Wiest's refusal to
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the sale of Armour e. Co.'S cereal
sausage, Pure Food Commissioner A.
c. Bird will take steps to prevent
their sale.
From my own personal experience
can say honestly. young man. keep
out of politics. You can't save if you
are honest" says City Clerk John l..
Boer, of Grand Rapids, who has with
| drawn as candidate for fourth term.
w. w. Wedemeyer, receiver of the
defunct Chelsea Savings bank, has
paid the state $70,S79.77 on the ac-
count of its deposit. The state has
now received $326,625.11, nearly half
of it's deposit in the bank when the
institution failed.
The supreme court has ordered a
new trial in the suit of Mrs. Jennie
Webb, domestic, for 5000 in wages
against Mrs. Francis Depew, of De-
troit, who has a summer home near
| Muskegon. The case will be tried a
third time.
Mrs. Fern Blunt, of Battle Creek,
whose husband shot and killed her par
ents and is now serving a Jackson
| prison sentence, was granted a d.
vorce. Blunt blamed the parents for
the filing of the suit and killed them
as they slept.
The postoffice at Thorpe, Wexford
county, was destroyed by fire Wednes-
day night. Mrs. Olive Lewis, the post
mistress, lost all her possessions T.
the attempt to rescue the government
property, but only succeeded in saving
| few stamps.
Robere Brisbane, VINO escaped from
| Coldwater jail, was captured late
| Thursday night at the home of John
| Elliget, one mile west OF Coldwater.
A $50 bill which he had given Elliget
| to purchase beer led to his detection.
Elliget has been arrested for conceal
| ing the prisoner.
Attorney General Bird has deliv-
cred an opinion to the effect that the
| United Christians, political party
which has nominated candidates in
several counties, is not entitled to a
place on the official ballot at the COM
| ing election unless IL files a party Wig
nette as required by law.
The grand lodge OF Rebekahs closed
its session in Lansing by electing the
following officers: President, Hannah
| B. Baillargeon, Port Huron; vice-presi
dent, Emma Miermann, Bay City:
warden, Hattie Jackson, Detroit: sec.
rotary, Ida NJ. Davis, Hamilton; treas
urer, Clara Slower. Grandville.
Mrs. Kidd, came in by another.
| Alpena, Pressure Isle and Montmo-
rency are not the only counties devas-
tated by fire. There is not county
north of Bay where there are not
| from dozen to 40 farmers who have
been burned out. In Gladwin county
| alone, IL is said that there are 80 des-
| titute families. The situation will be
| brought before the fire relief COM
mission appointed by Gov. Warner.
A row has been started by the sug-
| gestion that the u. of NJ. freshmen co
eds be compelled TO wear distinctive
headgear as are the men. The sophie
more girls insist that the lower class
men wear green hats, and the fresh.
men strenuously object.
Boat crews report that they find
many birds floating on the surface of
Lake Superior. Many wild animals
have also been driven into the lake
| by forest fires.
Some enemy OF William Scarlett.
wealthy farmer four miles from Ma
son, placed an internal machine" de
signed to set FIRE to his barn, in the
building. but II failed to work.