The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1914-03-19
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Battle Creek will vote on bond is.
sues amounting to 100000 in April.
A. E. Sleeper of Bad Axe has been
appointed one of the new Pere Mar.
quette directors.
A postoffice has been established at
Decker Sanilac county. with Otto w.
Nigue as postmaster.
The Lowden farm, 215 acres. near
jackson, has been leased by the state
TO be worked by convicts.
An ordinance has been passed in.
creasing the license for the operation
of saloons in Yale to $3.50
Bad Axe is assured a pickle factory,
contracts having been obtained for one
hundred acres of cucumbers.
The electors. of Eaton Rapids. will
decide whether the city charter is TO
be revised at the election April g.
Thomas Margin. 65. stepped from
in front of one train into the path
of another at Kalamazoo and was
killed.
State immigration Commissioner
Carton estimates that $4,000 laborers
are needed for the spring work in
Michigan.
Wrensler Kemp aged 60, a team
ster, was instantly killed when he was
struck by Pere Marquette engine
at Port Huron.
Fourteen boats in winter quarters
at Port Huron are fitting up for the
opening OF navigation, which marine
men believe will be about April 15
Superintendent of Schools u. F.
Wilson, OF Lapeer. has rendered his
resignation TO accept a position on
the faculty of the Ypsilanti Normal
President w. f. Parsons, of Parsons
Business college, Kalamazoo, is dead
He started his first business institu-
ton in Ann Arbor about so years
ago.
Jacob ]. Deal, founder of the Deal
Buggy Co.. of Hillsdale, is dead from
old age, having been confined to his
bed seven weeks. He was 81 years
old.
The CITY commission, of Port HUI
ron passed an ordinance providing
for action against persons who permit
ice and snow to collect on their side
walks.
Attorney-General Fellows holds that
petitions for recount under the
state primary law must be filed be-
fore the election board makes its de-
Examinations.
Simon Kelley was killed near Kim
ball when a huge limb of a tree he
was assisting in chopping down fell
without warning and struck him on
top of the head
Alexander Zagelmeyer, former state
representative of Bay City. died in
Detroit Friday. He was Sc years old
and was one of Che first coal pros
pectors in Bay county.
George r. Griggs, of Flint. has star
ted suit against the Saginaw-Flint
electric line for $4,000 damages. He
was struck by a car while standing
on sidewalk in Flint.
p. A. Leonard and Harlan K Whit
ney have offered the city of Battle
Creek several acres of land for a
park. Mayor John W. Bailey will ask
the commission to accept it.
One numbered thousand Hollanders
in western Michigan went to church
! 81,
Prayer Day." a holiday in the Meth
erlands similar to Thanksgiving.
The senate council OF the Univer-
sity of Michigan has granted the SEN
ior laws permission to hold their an
nual banquet out of the city. They
will hold ii in Detroit or Toledo
One of the campaign promises OF
Justice Charles Sutliff, of Elsie, was
that he would marry the first couple
free IL he was elected. His daughter.
first to make the request. He did as
he agreed.
The Offices of county school commits
sioner and state legislator are incom-
patible. The offices of supervisor of
township and moderator of a school
district are not incompatible. The
raising of money for a school house
site can be voted on as one PROPOSE
ton. Only resident tax payers can
vote on this proposition. Under the
soldiers exemption law any soldier
with property valued at more than
$4,000 is not exempt from taxation.
There we're some of the rulings made
by Attorney-General Fellows Satur.
day.