The Yale expositor., 1911-08-03
MICHIGAN NEWS IN BRIEF

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have his hearing in Jackson early in
| October.
| The board of supervisors of Delta
county has elected Wesley Gray, OF
| Garden, chairman, to succeed Charles
| d. Mason.
One of the Gleason e Goldman mines,
iron Mountain, is now producing iron
ore and shipments TO New York are
soon to start.
| Petoskey's new charter is complete.
1t contains 81 chapters. 1t will be
sent to the governor at an early date
for approval
| Eaton Rapids elevators report that
| they have not handled as much wheat
before in 30 years as has already been
put on the market.
| The tabernacle was unable to ac-
| commodate the large crowds which
| attended the State Holiness camp
meeting at Eaton Rapids Sunday.
Gov. Osborn, it is said, is investi-
| eating the death Of Robert Inglis,
| who jumped overheard from the ferry
| in Mackinac straits, when he was on
| MS way TO prison.
Edwin e. Brown has purchased the
Plainwell News of II. X Bryan and
the Plainwell Enterprise of the ]. H.
| Madden estate, both weeklies, and
| will consolidate them.
Although a member of the Saginaw
health board stated that the public
| drinking cup would not be abolished,
Mayor Stewart has taken steps to
have it done away with.
Secretary Tracy of the board of
trade has sent communication to
| the road commissioner asking that
Saginaw do its part in building a
stone road between Saginaw and
| Flint.
The state reunion of the National
Association of Veterans and Sons will
be held in Saginaw Oct. 4. Commit
tees have started preparing a pro-
| gram for the day, the camp fire to be
| the feature.
Speakers from various parts of the
country attended the dedication of
the>n new $4,000 Parr Memorial Bap-
| tist church, Petoskey. The dedica-
| ton service was preached by DR.. NJ.
+, F1keS, or Detroit.
Judge Angel of the United States
| district court, has made the temper
airy injunction secured against the
city of Saginaw by the Saginaw Pow
| er company, restraining the city from
removing the company's poles.
The board of state auditors has in
dorsed the recent action of Governor
| Osborn and the board Of control for
| the Michigan reformatory at Ionia
appropriating $4,000 for new build
| ings and equipment recently burned.
Fire in the lumber yards Of the
Observation-Disclosures Lumber Co.. Bay
City, for a time threatened the entire
plant and thousands of feet of lum-
Der. About 10000 feet of lumber
was destroyed. The loss will be @
500.
Francis Ely, receiver for the de-
funct Citizens Mutual Fire Insurance
Co. of Holly, has brought suit against
100 members of that company in Shia-
wassee and Genesee to show cause
why they should not pay the assess
| ment.
Rev. c. c. Meyers, one time pastor
at Canton O., but of late Michigan
revivalist, will not be prosecuted for
drunkenness or larceny. He stated
that 20 years ago he took the pledge
and broke it for the first time last
week
If mans home is exempt from tax.
alton because he is a war veteran.
can he hold an Office FROM which non
taxpayers are barred? The attorney
! general is asked TO decide in the case
of Henry Wellman, school trustee at
Ford River.
The trustees of the Epworth League
| Association have elected the follow
ing members: e. A. Schell, Mt. Pleas
ant, Ia, and Elvin Swarthout, of
Grand Rapids; NJ. F. Layman, of
| Jacksonville, Fla, and Samuel Plantz,
of Appleton. Wis.
The Zachariah Chandler statue
| committee has let the contract for
| figure which was authorized by the
| last session of the legislature to
| Charles H. Niehaus of New York. 1t
will be placed in the hall of fame at
| Washington, ID. c.
The Jackson board of education
at a meeting Friday evening selected
J. B. Edmondson, principal of the
| high school at a salary of $1,700 a
| year He was chosen from a list of
| nearly a dozen applicants. He comes
| from Benton Harbor.
Secretary o. NJ. Robertson, of Eaton
| Rapids. has sent out invitations for
| the twenty-fifth annual meeting of
| the State Association OF Improved
| Black Top Merino Sheep Breeders. to
| be held at Jackson, on Wednesday,
| August 16 Sheep breeders of state
prominence will speak at the meet
| ing.
City charter commissioners Of
| Owosso. revising the charter, will
probably increase the term of mayor,
clerk and city treasurer to two years.
| At the meeting they talked over the
plan and also discussed other radical
changes in the charter but the COM
mission government was not men.
| toned.
Mahmoud FL Housseni. a native of
| Arabia. and said to be closely identi-
fled with the Turkish government,