The Yale expositor., 1910-12-30
STATEMENTS


tiers association of this city and pro-
prietor of the West Michigan Printing
company, is dead. He was a veteran
of the Civil war He leaves a widow
and son. Maurice Shanahan. treas
urer of the Bissell Carpet Sweeper
company and former president of the
board % public works, is believed to
be. dying of locomotor ataxia He Is
aged sixty-two.
Marshall.-Robert Hyslop, a con-
ductor on the M. u. r., fell from the
top of trolley car and received in
juries which may prove fatal.
Lansing the courtesy Of
the REQ Motor Car Co.. of Lansing,
the Michigan Corn Improvement AS
ISOLATION is enabled to order the youth
full Michigan farmers, under the age
of 20 years. who exhibit the best ten
ears of Michigan grown corn at the
annual corn show. to be held at M. A.
c., February 1921. two-cylinder,
four-passenger model touring car This
is the most valuable premium ever
offered in the annual contests. The
only qualification that the contestant
must meet is that the corn selected
and submitted to the judges must be
grown by men on their fathers farms.
The contestants for the touring car
may also enter the race for the many
other prizes which will be given.
Battle Creek.-When Patrick O'Con-
ner pleaded guilty to drunkenness and
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county jail, meaning free food and
lodging for the winter, he did not sus-
pect what Justice II. II. Battdorff had
up his lseeve. Battdorff, tired of hav-
ing tramps work their way into the
county Jail, sentenced O'Connor to
hard labor in the city jail The police
will have O'Conner's work to outline.
The sentence is new to Battle Creek,
but is designed to keep tramps away
from the community.
Lansing.-Ellis Glassbrook obtained
$4,000 damages in circuit court from
the Lansing Wheelbarrow works. He
asserted he was injured while in the
company's employ, and that proper
precaution had not been taken to in
sure safety.
Port Huron.-Mrs. Ida Hayes of st.
Clair, was awarded damages of
$4,000 against ST. Clair for permanent
injuries when she fell on defective
sidewalk.
Kalamazoo Mrs. Essina A.
in teh old Indian village that is now
Galesburg. is dead at the home of her
daughter in this city.
Lansing-The Farmers State Bank
of Armada has filed articles of incor
poration. 1t is capitalized at $4,000.
Corunna.-William Graham, thirty.
died of typhoid fever. his brother.
Duncan, is seriously Ill of the same dis
ease, and their father. Duncan Graham
| ST., is believed TO be dying as result
of a long illness and shock of being
| told of his sons death. which was en-
tirely unexpected.
Coldwater.-George w. Langs. aged
thirty-two. living ten miles southwest
of Coldwater, was sentenced by Judge
pay a fine of $3.50 and costs for the H.
legal practise of medicine. Langs will
serve the Jail sentence.
Saginaw Michael Zanders fell ~
feet from a roof and died the next day
from injuries received. He leaves a
widow and three children.-Peter
Gross, seventy-seven. and engaged in
the pottery business in this city for
over forty years, is dead of ailments
due to old age. He is survived by three
children.
Monroe.-The board of supervisors
has decided to pay each deputy sworn
in to engage in the hunt for the negro
who shot Sheriff Dull to death two dol
lars day William and Arthur Rey-
nolds, who shct the negro. will receive
SIPS each.
Lansing-George Smoke, forty
three, killed himself by discharging the
contents of a shotgun into his body.
His wife died a year ago and he had
been respondent ever since that time.
He lived on a farm near Mason. and
leaves two small ,hildren.-C. A. Will
son was found guilty of having too
high a percentage of water in milk and
WAS H0eu eco anu COSlSf
ed to 1887. He wept In court because
of the disgrace"
Saginaw-Dr G.. L. Alger, who was
stricken with smallpox. has recovered.
He has been discharged from quaran-
tine.
Lansing.-"You have no idea Of the
number of applications for positions |
am receiving" said Auditor General
Fuller Look at the piles of Letters;
there are three of them, and the larger
pile represents applications received In
the mornings mail" other state de-
partments are in the same position,
evidently, according to the heads of
the departments. There are thousands
of applications being received this year
for positions. 1t is hardly probable.
however, that many will be appointed,
as most OF the state officers who have
the appointing power are loath TO dis
pense with the services of clerks who
have been in the department for years.
Lansing. - When George Phillips