The Yale expositor., 1914-01-08
MICHIGAN NEWS IN BRIEF

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Elton Parker, of Concord, was
drowned Thursday while skating.
Ealy & Co. will open a bank at
Wilmot as result OF work Of the
booster committee"
A Grand Rapids man has taken a
contract to remove all the carp and
dogfish from Lake Morrison.
A bolt flying from a saw struck
John Flickinger, of Central Lake. ana
broke his neck. He died instantly
The billage Of Gregory is now cleo
! trically lighted. The current is gen
Grated at the new plant erected at
| Williamsville by l.. n. McCleer.
Z. l.. Luther, former superintendent
Of schools at Kalkaska has been made
state superintendent of county agri-
i cultural representatives of Wisconsin.
Repairs have been completed on
the power plant which was nearly
wrecked by an explosion a month ago,
and the village Of Deckeryille is again
lighted by electricity
Figures compiled by Port Huron
real estate men show 1913 TO be the
most prosperous year in tie city'5
history. More than 100000 in real
estate transfers changed hands
John e. Kinnane, of Bay City, was
( elected a member of the international
! Congress on Social Insurance. Mir.
Kinnane is one of the three members
of the Michigan industrial accident
board.
A large number of farmers and bus
mess men of Sandusky and vicinity
turned out and held a gravel bee"
this week A new road west of here
was completed and put in good shape
by the volunteers.
A shift in customs collectors here
has been made at Port Huron, Frank
Hovey will succeed Officer Hubbel
at the Canadian end of the tunnel,
while Hubbel will work in the yard on
the Port Huron side.
Angora goats are being used to a
great extent by the farmers of Shia-
wassee county to clear their rough
land. The experiment, which was
first started a few years ago, has
proved a great success.
A. E. McKinnon, of the New York
World, formerly of Detroit, was in
Port Huron Saturday, arranging for
holding the annual outing of news
paper circulation managers on a
steamer next spring
Capt Thomas Phillips, ex-member
of the Michigan National Guard and
well known business man of Jackson,
died suddenly of heart trouble. He
was 46 years old and had many ad-
ventures of various kinds.
Improvements costing $4,000, are
to be made at Manistique next season
by the treasury department of the
federal government A lighthouse is
to be erected and pier lights and a
fog signal are to be installed.
That Anna Laughlin Dempsey, who
was found nearly frozen in an alley in
Chicago, was mentally deranged am
not a victim of white slavers, is tn
statement of her sister, Mrs. Floyd
Buchanan, of Battle Creek.
Battle Greek is planning to make
use of the FIVE wells at Verona for
supplying the city with water, so that
the present plan of getting water from
Lake Goguac can be abandoned A
thorough series of tests is to be made.
Within less than two weeks after
signing a contract with the Muskegon
Chamber of Commerce to remove then
plant from Chicago to Muskegon, the
Harris Broom company at MuskegoD
Heights has started work. The com
pany employs about 100 men.
Cecil Mclaughlin, assistant cashier
at the State Savings bank, of Owosso
has been appointed a state bank ex-
aminer under K. II. Doyle, state bank
ing commissioner. George Stanton, Of
the State Savings bank succeeds tc
the position made vacant by McLaugh-
Inns appointment.
Mistaking strychnine tablets for
candy, little Laura Isabelle, Is months
old, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs Joseph
M. Esbey, of Battle Greek, ate several
of them and died in commissions be-
fore the mother found out what allied
her.
Forty-eight prisoners entered Jack
son prison during the month of De-
cember, the largest taken in for any
month since the prison was built. OF
this number IA came from the record
er's court in Detroit There are $50
prisoners in Jackson prison at pres
] ent.