The Yale expositor., 1914-02-19

MICHIGAN NEWS IN BRIEF :

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The attorney general has ruled that
/ fishing through the ice with a string
OF hooks is illegal.
A petition is being circulated ask
ing that carp and other undesirable
fish be removed. from Lidey lake.
A proposal to adopt a commission
/ form of government at Negaunee was
rejected The vote was 351 to 321.
Bay City was selected by the Michi-
gan Retail Monument Dealers asso-
citation as the place for the 1915 meet
ing.
The members of the First Christian
Science church propose TO erect
costly new church in Jackson this
summer.
Oakland county base been select
ed as the midsummer orchard meet
ing place for the Michigan Horticultur-
al society.
Francis c. McElroy, 73 years old,
and postmaster at Lapeer. He has
held a number of public Offices. is
dead after a long illness.
James Johnston has been reelected
mayor of Cadillac, under the commits
sion form of government, the first
election under the new charter.
The Iron Range Lumber & Cedar
Co., at Pentoga, the only industry in
the village, burned to the ground with
all its contents. The loss is s25. 900.
The Masonic bodies of Petoskey are
seeking a site on which to build
new $4,000 temple. The ladies of
the Masonic society are planning a
summer fair
Erected eight years ago at a cost
of $4,000, the Michigan Odd Fellows
home at Jackson is being enlarged
by the construction of a 16-room addi-
ton to cost $4,000.
Four of the principal store buildings
in Ransom. a village near Hillsdale,
were destroyed by fire early today.
None of the contents were saved The
! loss is estimated at $4,000.
Hastings will soon have a wireless
telegraph station, the members of the
physical science class of the high
school having installed the apparatus
at the central building.
President Wilson Monday sent the
nomination of James j. Braley, of De-
troit, to the senate for the Office of
! - fpfn al ha
eastern district of Michigan.
John T. owens, state oil inspector,
prominent in republican politics of
the state, has gone into the hotel bust
ness. purchasing the Hotel Eastland,
the large hosiery in Benton Harbor
A huge Italian parchment valentine
on which was embossed the arms of
Michigan in colors was presented to
Governor Ferris at Grand Rapids by
the members of the Ladies' Literary
club.
Fire early Wednesday morning de-
stroyed the building occupied by the
Metzger Sheet Metal works in Kala-
mazoo, causing a loss estimated at
$4,000. How the fire started is not
known.
The body OF John c. Anderson, a
painter, who had apparently been
frozen to death two or three days
previously, was found under trestle
near the G. r. & l. freight house at
Muskegon.
Good Roads" Earle of Detroit;
state Highway Commissioner Frank
F. Rodgers, and d. II. Day. of Glen
Haven, will be speakers at the annual
meeting of the West Michigan Pike
association at Muskegon, Feb. q.
It is expected that new era in
agricultural development will follow
the singing of the Lever bill by the
president. The bill will provide the
state with $4,000 to be used in the
development of the rural districts.
Rufus f. skeels, state representive
from Oceana county, died at his home
in Hart early Friday morning from
Brights disease. He was 40 years old.
A widow and three daughters, Ethel
Corrine and Helen. survive.
The Arctic Iron Co. was awarded
$685.. 4O3.75 against the Cleveland
cliffs Iron CO. and William c. Mather
in the United States district court at
Grand Rapids The Arctic company
alleged that Mather. as secretary,
made secret deal with the Cleveland
CVns concern that profited the latter
nearly a million dollars.