The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1913-10-02
MICHIGAN NEWS IN BRIEF

Deen appointed clerk In the surveyor
generals office at Helena, Mont.
The state convention of the grand
Star will be held at Saginaw October
a, s and 8.
Members of the Western Michigan
Press club held their annual conven-
ton at Traverse City with rs news
papers represented.
Mrs. Joseph Stratton, of Litchfield,
succumbed to burns received when
kerosene lamp exploded Thursday
evening in her home.
One of the features at Albion col
lege is the cooperative book store.
All books are sold TO the student at
as near cost as possible.
The hillsdale Mutual Fire lnsur-
ance Co. has raised its rate from $3.50
TO $3.50 because of the heavy losses
sustained during the last year.
James K. Bogart 50. formerly of
the board of pubic works of Jackson,
and later in the government service
in Panama, is dead at Mt. Vernon,
N. Y
Joseph j. Kennedy, president of law
class, at Ann Arbor, has accepted a
position as instructor with the law
department of the University Of De
Iroit.
Ralph +. Sheldon and William G.
-, Hall, of Battle Greek, were among the
1000 persons who received tracts of
/ land in the drawings at Glasgow,
Mont
An ordinance has been passed in
Flint prohibiting property owners
from stringing wires to serve as
fence between the sidewalk and the
street.
/ In an interview at Marquette, Gov
ernor Ferris indicated that a special
session is not improbable in 1914 be-
cause OF attacks made upon the blue
sky law.
improvements to the extent of $780,
900 are to be made in Battle Creek s
Grand Trunk yards in the spring OF
1914, including a new round house
to cost 100000.
Capt. Henry Vance, &c. died at his
home at Saginaw, following a stroke
of paralysis last Monday. He was q
civil war veteran and former mem
Der of the legislature. He moved to
Saginaw in 1916.
The oat crop in upper Michigan has
proved a satisfactory one, From 60
to 20 bushels to the acre is the re-
ported average yield in Luce county
where the farmers have harvested the
largest crop on record.
At meeting of the business men OF
Spring Lake with Grand Rapids cap
italists it was decided to draft plans
for the organization OF a state bank
here, with local men controlling the
bulk of the $4,000 capital.
A chance in the proprietorship OF
the Hotel Maumee, at Adrian, is an
nounced. +. T. Reed, who has been
associated with James NJ. Carey in
conducting the hostelry will retire
having disposed of his interest to Mr.
Carey.
An auto owned and driven by vii
liam Beardsley, of Perrinton, turned
over near Ithaca, seriously injurine
William O'Connell, also of Pennington
His shoulder was crushed and he sus
tanned other injuries. Beardsley was
not hurt.
The residence of John w. Blodgett
in Grand Rapids, former Republican
national committeeman, burned Tues
day night, causing a damage Of $50,
600, in addition to the loss of valuable
paintings. The cause of the fire IL
unknown.
Delegates from the various Build
ers & Traders exchanges of the state
will meet in Grand Rapids November
10 and IL, to consider the formation
of a state organization to be known
as the Associated Builders Exchange:
of Michigan.
Modern apparatus for treatment o
eye, ear, nose and throat has beer
installed at jackson prison, and al
inmates will undergo an examination
Warden Simpson believes surgery anC
medical science can eradicate man!
criminal tendencies.
Edmund Calkins, 70, who was {
member of the soldier guard of hon
or at the funeral of Abraham Lincoln
is dead at his home In Clayton town
ship, Genesee county. where he ha'
lived 72 years. He was a membe
Of the Michigan Pioneer and Histori
cal society.
S. p. Wires, of Marquette, has az
, piled to w. r. Oates, state game ant
fish warden, for permission to hav
a number of commercial fishing boat
take trout in the close season, so tina
the lake spawn they contain may b
Hocured for the United States fisl
hatchery at Duluth.
At a meeting of the state board o
Z education in Detroit, contracts wer
l let to Coe g. Sons, of Ann Arbor, 70
!. the construction of a $4,000 gymna'