The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1910-01-21
MICHIGAN BREVITIES.

Inc tnlru ANNUAL meeting VI tnc
Ionia County School Officers associ-
alton was held Thursday in Ionia.
With the initiation of 35 new chew
alters Canton Fenton, No. 81, /. o. o.
F., of Flint, takes first place among
the cantons of Michigan as the larg-
est, the second being the City OF the
Straits, of Detroit.
Alexander V. Mann, &c, OF Muske-
gon, a past master of the Masonic
lodge, and the Oldest member in this
part Of the state. had the honor or
presenting jewel to his son William,
now a retiring master.
That the American Federation OF
Miners will demand an increase OF
from 10 to 20 per cent in the wage
scale, beginning April 1, was the an
nouncement received at Saginaw from
the headquarters at Indianapolis.
That Hackley hospital at Muskegon
is growing rapidly and that in short
time it will rank with the largest in
situations of the kind in the middle
west is shown by the figures just
compiled for the year 1909. The total
number of patients was $40.
Authority to file it's articles and
issue stock has been granted the
alton by the state railway commits
sion. This is the organization Of In
dependent telephone companies to
handle their toll line business.
When Miss Beatrice Campbell, a
Port Huron school teacher, returned
to her home Friday night she found
her mother, aged "A, out on the side
walk sweeping snow. The girl admon-
ished her against running such risks,
and just as the old 'dy reached the
doorway she dropped dead from heart
disease.
Gov. Warner received the first an
nual report from the State Tubercu-
losis Sanatorium at Howell, Friday.
On July /, 1908, there were "a pa
tients in the institution and during
the year 103 were discharged. At the
close of the year, July l, 1909, "A re-
manned. OF this number II were from
the rural districts. Only two died dur
ing the year
Two freight trains on the Ashland
division of the Northwestern railroad
came together in a head-on collision
between Woodruff and Lac Du Flam-
beau, and two firemen and one en-
gineer were killed. The engines are
complete wreck and freight is scat
tered broadcast. Trains for Ashland
and Gogebic are compelled to go
around by Watersmeet.
Should a school director sign an or
der admitting to high school pupil
who has completed eighth grade work
but who has not passed an eighth
grade examination? That was the
question that caused a lot of discus
sion in a recent meeting of the Ionia
County School Officers association,
and Superintendent of Public Instruc-
ton Wright has been asked to publish
an answer to it.
warrant has been issued and the
sheriff has offered reward of $50 for
the arrest of Charles Monroe Jillson,
10, son of a prominent Ovid merch-
ant. The complainant is Lois Harri-
son, IA. Jillson formerly taught school
at Ovid and went to q college at Lake
Forest, near Chicago, last September,
to take course Of study. He left
there several months ago and his
present whereabouts are not known.
At Ovid it is said that young Jillson
has not been there since he went 10
Lake Forest.
Increased employment Of men in
Lansing factories, considerable de-
crease in the employment of women,
with practically no child labor, are
the conditions shown in this years
report on labor conditions in Lansing
factories. The report shows a total
of 5000 employees in the institutions
canvassed and the aggregate daily
wages paid out to this army of men
and women is S11 1921, the average
wage of all employees being $2.13 per
day, as compared with $219 last year.
The average days work of these peo-
pie was 81 hours, with 111a months
of steady work during the year in all
the institutions.