The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1914-05-21
MICHIGAN news BRIEFS

JOnn II. brewer, Democrat, uds Ueeh
appointed postmaster at Inlay City.
w. A. Gillespie has announced the
gift of an orchard to the city, near
the new city hospital at Kalamazoo.
A boy, colt, three kittens and
seven pigs, were born on the farm OF
William Woolsey, near Ypsilanti, with
in SO hours.
Samuel Graham of Woodville, was
struck and killed by a Michigan Cen
trail equipment train at Buffers eros
sing Friday night.
A large number of fine bred horses,
including famous race horses, were
exhibited at the agricultural and horse
show at Richmond Saturday.
Michael Whitmer, the only CEN
tenarian resident of st. Joseph county
died Friday. He celebrated his one
hundredth birthday January Is.
Gold quartz was found on the farm
of Charles r. Smith near Cadillac by
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about 800 feet below the surface.
The city council of Marine City has
instructed the committee on water
works to install a public drinking
fountain in front of the city hall.
A special election will be held May
27 to vote on the proposition of bond
tno hi
county, for $4,000 for good roads.
Work has been started on the re-
building of the plant of the Port
Huron Lumber company, destroyed by
fire with loss of 100000, week ago.
Blanche Machinski, seven years old,
of Manistee, is dead from burns she
suffered when her dress caught fire
as she was playing around a bon
fire.
The senior girls of Battle Creek
high school have decided to dress
painly and discard the custom of car
rying flowers at commencement in
June.
The sausage factory of c. w. Hen
ming at Saginaw was partially destroy
ed by a fire which broke out at 4:30
o'clock Saturday morning, causing a
loss of $4,000.
The state board of education held
special meeting at the Normal
college Friday and accepted the new
mems gymnasium building from the
contractors, A. r. Cole & Con.
As Ethel Roat, nine years old, left
the Bently school house, five miles
east of Flint she was struck and
killed by an automobile. Her two girl
companions witnessed the accident.
No Battle Creek physician will be
allowed to break the speed laws in
the city in the future when going to
an emergency case, according to
orders given Saturday by Mayor John
w. Bailey.
Heavy fines will be assessed on mo-
exceed the speed ordinance at Yale.
Instructions have been given to the
police department by the council to
rigidly enforce the law.
Eight hundred pupils had marched
out of the central school building at
Hastings just one and one-half
minutes after the fire alarm was
sounded. Fire in the manual training
room was soon extinguished.
Otto Brehm, senior in the Cadillac
high school, and son of Emil Brehm.
an Osceola county farmer, Friday
night won the final state oratorical
contest Of the federated houses of rep
resentatives of Michigan. Glenn
Smith, of Ypsilanti was second
Edwin r. Egnew. one of the pioneer
hotel men of Mt. Clements, died Satur-
day morning after a short illness, at
the age of 20 years. At one time he
owned the Avery-Egnew, now called
! the Park Annex. when it was one of
the leading hotels of the bath town.
The Battle Creek high school debat-
ing team secured unanimous deci-
sion over the Albion team in the an
nual debate between the two schools
at Albion. The visitors defended the
negative side of the question, "Resolv.
ed, that the state of Michigan should
adopt a minimum wage law"
Two silver cups are offered to the
fruit growers of western Michigan for
the coming season. These cups are
to go to the county organizations
making the best showing of fruit at
the West Michigan fair in Grand Rap
ids, Sept. TO z.
Joseph Parent, of Escanaba father
of Joe Parent, the 500 line bandit
died at a local hospital after an OPP
Grafton. For several days he has
mourned the fate of his son and pray
ed that he might live to show his son
a straight life when released from
prison.