The Yale expositor., 1913-09-11
MICHIGAN NEWS IN BRIEF

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Michigan Central yards, at Marshall.
Vermontville has called a special
election for September % to settle
the question of bonding for better fire
protection.
Peter Arends, 81, OF Sturgis, was
separator. He intended entering col
lege the next day.
p. J. Connell, of Grand Rapids, was
elected a trstee of the international
Order of Good Templars at the annual
conference in Cleveland.
Fire in the pan house at the Stearns
Salt & Lumber company plant at Lud-
ington, destroyed costly machinery TO
the value Of about $4,000.
The International Milk Products
cate factory in Bad Axe. Thirty
tons OF milk day will be used.
The city council of Bessemer has
ordered a special election. to vote on
an issue of $4,000 bonds for water
works, street improvements and sew
ers.
The 10-year-old daughter OF John
Byron was drowned in Saginaw river
at Saginaw, Sunday night, from a
houseboat where the family was stay
| ing.
One hundred and forty students are
enrolled in the agricultural classes of
the Eillsdale high school uhls fa.l.
This school was one OF the first in
Michigan to adopt the course.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Collins, OF
Brighton, celebrated the sixtieth an
niversary of their marriage Monday.
They came here from Detroit in 1854,
and have three children living there.
John Asman and Alexander Moore
OF Port Huron, who recently purchased
stretch of beach property north of
Edison beach, announce that they will
erect a 100-room hotel for the season
OF 1914.
Articles OF incorporation have been
! filed by the Phillips Metallic Hose Co.
to manufacture metallic hose, TO take
the place of rubber hose for coupling
cars. The new company will locate
in Jackson and is capitalized at $780,
O00
Because of the great growth of st.
Anthony, a school established at Com
stock some time ago by Monsignor F..
A. O'Brien, it has been found neces-
sary to purchase additional ground, IS
acres having been added TO the prop
erty.
The new $4,000 home of the local
Arbeiter society was dedicated. Mich
ael Reigle, Of Salisbury, president of
the state Arbelter Bund, made the ad-
ciety, including several from other
cities, were present.
At the annual meeting of the Cal
houn County Rural Route Letter Car
riers' association, b. h. Williams, of
Tekonsha was elected president; AL
best Adams OF Eckford, yicepresi-
dent, and c. b. Newland, of Marshall,
secretary-treasurer.
Prof. F. e. Millen, appointed state
apiary expert, has opened headquar
! tiers in the entomology building at
the agricultural college. The position
was created by the last legislature.
Diseases in Michigan apiaries led to
the demand for state supervision.
Miss Esther Bragg and Miss Flor
ence Russell, of Port Huron, who have
conducted a gospel mission here for
| two years, have left for the orient,
where they will engage in missionary
work. Miss Bragg will go TO India
and Miss Russell to southeastern
China.
Marshall company No. %, OF the uni
! formed rank, Knights of Pythias, not
only won third prize, $50, in the drill
contest at the convention of the grand
lodge in Kalamazoo but also $50 for
having the largest number of mem
bers present. The Marshall company
is the youngest in the state.
The Michigan Central railroad has
paid $500 TO Mr.. and Mrs. John Kwar-
strom, who live near Decatur for the
death of their son in Dowagiac last
winter. The boy was employed on
the road as a fireman. His engine
/ broke from the tender and young
Kwarstrom fell between the engine
and tender and was killed.
The steeples of the Swedish Bap-
fist church and st. Mary's Roman
Catholic church at Iron Mountain,
were struck by lightning and de-
molished during one of the most Sc
we're electric storms ever known in
the city. This makes the third Iron
Mountain church steeple to be destroy
ed by lightning this season.
Acting under instructions from the
board of police and fire commissions
ers, every patrolman in Grand Rapids
must learn how to operate an auto
mobile. The order is the result of the
experience OF Patrolman Edward Jan
nenga, who was taken on a wild ride
by auto thieves two weeks ago. In
which he was nearly killed, and which
could have been avoided had he known
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