The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1913-12-25
MICHIGAN NEWS IN BRIEF

ships OF Midland and Larkin and the
city of Midland bonded the district
for $4,000 to build good roads.
II is not necessary 90 have license
to board children. This information
has been sent to q Caro- man, who
wrote to the secretary of state.
David r. Eason, OF Grand Rapids.
has been appointed a deputy state
bank examiner by State Bank Exam
liner Doyle, succeeding Herbert John
son.
City sealers of weights and meas.
ures have been ordered to bring their
measures to Lansing for inspection
by the state dairy and food depart
ment.
plant to house machinery for bot
Ting mineral water from wells just
developed at Boards Hills, by Tole-
do concern is to be built near Port
Huron soon.
Plans are being made for the lay
ing of the corner stone of Petoskey's
new 100000 government building,
work on which has been in progress
for two months.
The last of the United States mar
shals who have been guarding the
Pere Marquette shop property and
men at Saginaw in the strike district
were taken off.
Emma Sagaffer, % years old, of
Crow island, was killed by a Pere
Marquette train Monday. She had a
shawl wrapped about her head and
didn't hear the train.
Edward Burdo, Is, of Toledo, died
Friday forenoon after being terribly
crushed Wednesday at the Duplex
Printing Press Co., at Battle Creek,
when he fell between two rollers.
After a year of construction, Port
Huron's new bridge has been thrown
open to general traffic, the city hav-
ing officially accepted the causeway
from the Detroit Steel & Bridge Co.
The A. NJ. Todd Co., of Kalamazoo,
mint growers, paid $4,000 in U. S.
district court at Grand Rapids, to set
tie by stipulation the government
case against it for breach of the alien
contract labor law.
a society for the Prevention of
tuberculosis was organized at Battle
Greek and w. j. Smith, banker was
elected president AS soon as posi-,
Bile and open air school for anaemic
and tubercular children will be built.
Mrs. George Staples was awarded
s2,2S6 by the state industrial arbitra-
ton board to be paid at the rate Of
$7.62 per week. Mrs. Staples husband
was killed last spring while working
as an engineer for the Gunner Dig
gins Lumber Co.
Charles NJ. Ward, of Mt. Clemens,
was elected secretary of the Battle
Greek chamber of commerce, to take
office January /, or as near that date
as the Mt Clemens Commercial club
will let him come here. There were
10 or 20 applications for the position.
Secretary of State Martindale re-
biles in Michigan. OF this number
S4,26S are owned by city residents,
and $1,000 by rural residents. Cana
dams and residents of other states
have the remainder of the license,
$50.
The sawmill of the East Jordan
Lumber Co. was totally destroyed by
fire and the loss is placed at more
than 100000, the biggest fire in the
history of East Jordan. number of
men will be thrown out of work tenn
porarily. The company plans to re-
build at once.
A woman is not entitled to support
under the mothers compensation law
when her husband is committed to an
asylum, according to an opinion given
by Atty-Gen. Fellows. He thinks that
only mothers who are widows, have
been deserted or divorced are eligible
for compensation.
DR.. f. w. Lamoreaux, so years old,
former instructor of anatomy in the
University of Michigan, and well
known physician of Battle Creek and
southern Michigan, died suddenly of
acute dilatation of the heart He
graduated from the University of
Michigan in 1883.
Twenty medals will be awarded by
w. b. Mershon, of Saginaw, to the
boys and girls of Michigan, who write
the best stories on birds and bird life
The awards will be made in May and
all school children of Michigan are
eligible. Nine of the medals will be
distributed in the upper peninsula and
nine in the lower.
Workmen have completed laying the
foundation for the monument which
! the Barry County Pioneer society will
erect in the spring on the site of
Moreau's trading post, established in
1928 at Bulls Prairie, in Irving town
ship. The memorial will be an obel.
isk, built of stone gathered in the
surrounding fields.