The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1914-07-09
MICHIGAN news BRIEFS

counties have been placed under
quarantine because OF a contagious
disease brought from Illinois.
An unidentified man missed his
footing when about to board the
steamer City of Toledo, at Port Huron
and was drowned.
The report of the equalization COM
mittee of the board of supervisors
shows the equalized valuation of HUI
ron county to be $29.S9S.6OO.
While Daniel Prey, keeper of a gen.
eral store at Lakeport, went to the
back part of his store to get gasoline
for two youths, his till was robbed of
SIS by the lads, who were later ar
rested.
The Caro- Farmers Cooperative
Elevator Co. was formally organized
last week, with 800 farmers in the
company. The capital stock will be
$4,000.
State Fire Marshal Winship, in a
bulletin commenting on the efficiency
of lightning rods during the electrical
storm period, declares the worth Of
the rods when property installed, is
undoubted.
The board of supervisors has voted
TO request the state tax commission
TO reassess all townships or cities in
Muskegon county which, in opinion
OF the commission, were not assessed
up to cash value.
Business men and d. u. X. officials
banqueted at Almont Wednesday night
after the first interurban arrived over
the new road from Romeo More than
1900 people gathered to witness the
arrival of the car.
The body of John Wadika, drowned
in Lake Goguac May "a, was recover
ed Thursday, upsetting a theory OF
Battle Creek police that Wadika was
still alive.
The American Peace Centenary
committee will confer at Mackinaw
Island July 21-22. Governors of all
border states have appointed dele
gates to meet the Canadian delega-
ton.
November, 1911.
Arthur Williams, of Grand Rapids,
a formers Traverse City telephone
exchange manager, is the new man
ager of the Petoskey exchange of the
Michigan State Telephone company,
succeeding j. ]. Kelly, who was trans
ferred to Ann Arbor.
The ten-year-old son of Jacob Tos-
key, miner of st. Charles, lost his
entire left hand Thursday night when
he and other boys were playing with
dynamite caps. The boy picked at
one to see if it would explode.
Obey Bonnie, 19 years old, OF Battle
Creek, found that manufacturing
homemade fire works with a lighted
cigar in his mouth can't be done. AS
result of the explosion he is in
the Nichols Memorial hospital, and
1t is feared he will lose his sight. His
face is severely burned.
Action on the resignation of Presi-
dent ]. L. Snyder, of NJ. A. c., who
at the last meeting of the state board
of agriculture expressed his intention
to retire, is expected to be taken at
the session of the board on July Is.
Thomas Hessey, of Marshall, was
sentenced to serve from Is months
to five years in Jackson prison fol-
lowing conviction on a charge OF the
larceny of $1,000 from a Battle Creek
Civil war veteran.
All paving in Kalamazoo in the
future will be done by the municipal
ity. City officials have arrived at the
conclusion that the city might as we'll
have the profit made on paving Jobs
as paving companies.
According to the figures for the
fiscal year ending July LIST, the at
torney-generars department was oper-
ated last year at cost of less than
the appropriation. The appropriation
was $4,000 and the expenses of the
Office were just s9.62O.27, leaving a
balance to be returned to the state
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