The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1908-12-04
MICHIGAN ITEMS.


Hog cholera is raging in Calhoun
county and already hundreds of ami
mails have persisted.
Jackson "drys" have started a
movement to place the city In the
local option column.
A heavy wind storm blew down the
cattle sheds of the Northern District
Fair association at Cadillac, 800 feet
long and 20 feet wide.
Sunday hunting in Oakland county
has finally been stamped out. The
farmers have banded themselves to.
gether to enforce the Seeley law.
A band of Flying Rollers" calling
themselves Children of Israel" have
bought 500 acres of land on Traverse
bay shore and will establish a colony
and sawmill there.
large meteor fell near Morrice
during a rain storm. The town was
wrapped In darkness at the time and
the place was brilliantly illuminated
by the falling body.
The Farmers State bank OF Athens
will be launched about Dec. Is. Ath-
ems has been without a bank since
the failure OF the Athens State and
OdNlHSS Dduk last August.
Walter @. Wilgus, of Ann Arbor, a
freshman and son OF Prof w. L. Will
gus, of the law department. has won
an appointment to the United States
military academy at West Point.
According to William b. Mershon,
timber expert and member of the
Michigan forestry commission, the
damage done by the recent forest fires
to trees alone reached $50.000,000.
Peter Adrianse, lying directly
across a Grand Rapids street railway
track, was run over and cut to pieces
by car. The tenders didn't work.
He was formerly baseball player.
The village OF Willis, Augusta town
ship, is practically in a state of quar-
antine. owing to an outbreak of malig
nant diphtheria. There has been one
death, that of Edward Pavelock. ageo
Is.
Marshall Hamilton, OF Grand Rap
Ids, is under arrest charged with at.
tempting to pass a bottle of alcohol
with long stick through the barred
windows of the county Jail to Frank
Paarch, a prisoner.
Dean John o. Reed. of the literary
department, Ann Arbor, with great
emphasis denies the rumor in circula-
ton about the campus to the effect
that the students of that department
would be given an extra two days va
cation.
Belief that underneath the city is
an immense natural reservoir of pure
water and that Flint can solve the
problem OF water supply by taking
advantage Of it, has led the common
council TO make an appropriation for
a test.
A drouth Of many weeks in the up
per peninsula. was broken Tuesday
by a heavy fall of rain which con.
tinued throughout the evening. The
rain was welcome. as the entire coun-
try was parched and all the rivers and
creeks were drying up.
Rev. Carl S. Patton, of Ann Arbor,
has been called to the Park Congrega-
tional church. of Grand Rapids, and
will assume the pastorate, If he &C.
cepts the call. on January /. Mr. Pat.
ton has the Endorsement of DR.. Angel,
OF the University of Michigan.
Municipal ownership of Escanaba's
lighting plant has netted the city of
Escanaba the sum of $4,000 during
the last fiscal year. The rates paid by
the consumers are considerably lower
than those in force when the plant
was owned by private corporation.
Alvan Wenzel, lineman employed
by the Manistee Light & Traction Co.,
on the very day he had intended to
quit, touched a live wire as he was
az 10 OH n M fol1
rs feet, striking on his head and
shoulders. He died at a hospital half
An hour later
Western Normal school. Kalamazoo,
is affected by the state treasury's
financial embarrassment. It's current
expenses are $1,000 month, which is
not available at present and neither
is the 100000 appropriated for com
pleting the new training school build
ing, only half erected.
Judge Perkins has granted a stay
OF proceedings till December in the
case of Felix Brooker and Wesley Nc
Coy, negroes, against the Grand Rap
ids Veterinary college, holding that
the boys had n right as citizens to en-.
ter the college. The case will be ap
pealed to the supreme court.
A delegation OF Lansing citizens, IN
GLIDING the common council, made
the trip TO Mason, on the first car run
over the new road OF the NJ. u. r. Reg.
ular, service will be established at
once. At Mason the party purloined |
from the county building a gilded |
eagle, three feet high, which had been
purchased for the dome OF the build. |
ing, but never put in place, because of |
a controversy regarding the authority |
for purchasing 1t. They bore it in |
triumph back TO Lansing and declare |
they will place II on the dome of the |
city hall.
The fish in Grand river are dying
at Grand Ledge, and hundreds OF |
black bass, pike and suckers are being |
washed upon the banks, both above |
and below town. The cause is attribut. |
ed to the waste that is dumped into |
the stream at the Lansing sugar fac |
tory, which contains some poisonous |
substance, probably lime. This same |
condition of things existed there a few |
years ago, when hundreds of fine fish |
Uara killpd and sinca which fima Tho