The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1908-11-20
MICHIGAN ITEMS.


The NJ. u. r. is preparing to erect
a Zig terminal depot at Jackson on
the site of the old Haymarket prop
erty.
The Petoskey Block & Manufactur-
ing Co. is about to erect new $780,
600 plant. in place of the one that was
burned recently.
Burglars overlooked $500 in an open
safe in the j. L. Mintline grocery store
at Kalamazoo and broke open the
cash register to get $50.
Rev. Charles Donohue. pastor Of st.
Paul's church. Grand Rapids, has re-
signed TO accept the pastorate of Holy
Trinity church at Manistee.
About 800 delegates attended the an
nual meeting of the Michigan Vehicle
and Implement Dealers association in
Kalamazoo and banquet held Wednes-
day night.
From returns now available from all
portions of the upper peninsula, ii is
found that in last weeks election the
Democrats accomplished the unusual
feat of electing the sheriffs in five of
the fifteen counties.
The steam tug Ellen Gertrude, which
has fished from Rogers City for nine
years, has been sold to the Au Sable
Fish Co.. the low prices paid for fish
by A. Booth & Co. making its main
tenance impossible.
The first hunting accident of the
season in Menominee county occurred
Tuesday morning near Stephenson
when Otto Sternhagen, aged II, was
shot and probably fatally injured while
playing near that village by a hunter
from Florence.
Following the decision of the coun-
Gil to see what can be done toward
cutting down the number of Battle
Creeks saloons to 35 or less warrants
were issued charging the proprietors
of the Bismarck hotel, William Man
ming and Macomber & Johnson, with
selling liquor on election day.
County Clerk Barnum, of Hastings,
had issued Go hunters licenses Tues
day, nearly double the number issued
last year. In the list were two wo-
men, Mrs. Robert Christie and Mrs.
Frank Herrick. Two veteran hunters,
William England, 70, of Orangeville,
and John Valentine. of Hope, aged Il.
A heavy snowstorm struck Muske-
gon early Saturday morning and tied
up traffic throughout the city and
county. Nearly IS inches of snow fell
between o'clock and o'clock. The
Muskegon Traction Co. was unable to
cope with the storm. as was also the
interurban line between Muskegon
and Grand Rapids.
Between o'clock Saturday morn
ing until 3 o'clock in the afternoon
10 inches of snow, government meas
ure. fell in the Grand Haven region.
Cars on the local branch of the Grand
Rapids, Grand Haven q Muskegon
interurban were from two to four
hours late. The snowfall is heaviest
ever recorded in Grand Haven in the
given time.
AS soon as the legislature convenes
Attorney General Bird will make a
report on the boundary line dispute
between Michigan and Wisconsin.
Prof ]. b. Davis has recently conclud-
ed a survey of the boundary line
which shows that the town of Hurley
and a number of iron mines in that
vicinity belong to Michigan. Upon the
recommendation of the attorney gen
eral will depend whether the state
starts proceedings in the United
States supreme court to obtain the
territory in dispute.
The suit brought by the supreme
tent of the Knights of the Maccabees
against the Port Huron Savings bank
will be heard before Judge Erskine, of
Mt. Clemens, and jury in the coun-
ell chamber at Port Huron. The case
hinges about the alleged defalcation
of Charles Thompson. now in Califor-
MIA. who was an official in the order
and also employed in the bank. The
Maccabees claim that Thompson re-
ceived $4,000 from it for deposit in
the bank, and the bank officials claim
that Thompson never made the de-
post.