The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1912-03-07
MICHIGAN
HAPPENINGS

1
the Michigan Association of Fairs
was held at the Hotel Went
worth and delegates We're present
| from Ionia, Hillsdale, Adrian, Char.
lotte, Marshall, Allegan, Lake Odessa
and Inlay City. officers were elected
for the ensuing year as follows: Pres.
ident, c. N. Terwilliger, Hillsdale;
vice-president, Il. A. Bradish, Adrian;
second vice-president, r. S. Scott, Mar
shall; third vice-president, l.. A. Lii
ley, Allegan; secretary and treasurer,
Frank Fathsburg, Inlay City. A spe-
cial meeting was called to be held
in Lansing on March 20, at which time
it is expected that all the fair secre-
taries and managers will be present.
Saginaw.-Arthur McGillis. alias
Henry Brown, of Lansing, four
teen years old, is detained in the juve-
nile department Of thu county Jail,
charged with larceny. McGillis, &C.
cording to the police, entered a local
millinery store about a year ago, sat
down to wait for his mother, and,
when the opportunity was presented,
stole purse containing So The
same trick was tried in a photograph
gallery several months later, but the
police nabbed him.
Durand-It is talked here by
Grand Trunk railway employees who
have been on the grievance com.
mittee which has been meeting with
the corporation officials. that the
Grand Trunk must face a general
strike unless it accedes to the de-
mands of its men. The old question of
more wages is now complicated by
non-rccognition of the union and it is
charged that non-union men have been
favored since the strike in the sum-
mer of 1910.
Flint.-Dr Archibald Paterson is
locked up at the county Jail on
n charge of manslaughter in con-
nection with the death Of Mrs. Ed
gar IL. Thompson on February 26. The
arrest was ordered by Prosecuting At
torney Parker, after an investigation
which started when his attention was
called to the certificate of death, which
gave as the cause "septicaemia, re-
sulting from induced abortion"
Grand Rapids.-For the first time in
the history of western Michigan or
ders have been received by the local
recruiting station to enlist negroes.
Lansing.-A concentrated effort to
get legislation against brewery
owned saloons ia to be made by
the "drys" of Michigan during the
next few days. A call has been issued
for big state convention to be held
in this city March IL and 10, at which
time Governor Osborn will be asked
to recommend that such legislation be
enacted during the special session.
Members of the legislature who favor
legislation along the same lines held
conference with Governor Osborn and
urged that he act at once.
Port Huron.---The body OF Thomas
II. Major, aged thirty-eight years.
was found under the steps Of
the First Baptist church by Police Cap
tain kerwin after a two days search
by the police and sheriff's forces.
Major was last seen alive when he
was carried out OF the Family theater
in a semi-unconscious condition. The
two men who escorted him from the
picture show are being sought by the
police, it being the opinion of the Off
GERS that they can throw some light
on the mystery surrounding the mans
disappearance and death. 1t was dis
covered that Majors watch, S1S in
cash and diamond pin were missing,
but no marks of violence were found
on the body, and as a result there are
other theories than that OF murder.
Saginaw-Thc council is tangled
up over a proposed ordinance pro-
viding for curfew. The dis
agreement is not over the law itself.
but the method of warning youngsters
OF the hour they are required to dis
appear from the streets. The sug-
gestion has been made to the council
that the bells of the city schools be
rung at the appointed hours, while
some aldermen want the fire depart
ment bells sounded. The latter plan
meets with disapproval Of the fire de-
partment. while the janitors of the
schools are said to object to making
an extra trip TO the buildings after
their days work is done.
notwithstanding TO figures
compiled by County School Com
missioner Tefft, AZ rural school dis
tricts In Saginaw county will forfeit
their primary school money this year
Under the law passed by the last leg
islature, school districts or cities hav-
ing sufficient primary money on hand
to pay the tuition Of eighth-grade grad
yates or students attending high
schools and for teachers wages for
period of two years, forfeit the state
money. It is said the districts af-
fected drew their money and placed it
in banks instead of using it for the
purpose specified by the law.