The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1914-09-10
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The Michigan grand lodge of the
Knights of Pythias, in session at
| Ispheming selected Saginaw as the
place for next years meeting.
The general store OF Albert &
Nichols, and three other stores in
Holt, were destroyed by fire early
Saturday morning, causing a loss Of
$500.
The body of the man cut in two by
Pere Marquette train near Casnovia,
Tuesday. has been identified as Joseph
Charloski, of Milwaukee. The theory
OF foul play has been found to be
without basis.
VIM. j. Wolfe, three years old, was
electrocuted at Marquette Sunday aft
ernoon. The child touched a live
wire that had fallen to within two
feet of the street. The use of a pull
motor was futile.
Frederick Kelley, 40, Pere Mar
quette station agent at Holton, is
dead from self-inflicted gunshot
wounds, after making a vain attempt
to Stay his wife and daughter and a
neighbor while supposly crazed with
liquor.
The opening of the West Michigan
fair at Grand Rapids Wednesday was
marked by an accident which cost the
life of Edward Meeker, who fell
through a skylight while at work on
the roof of one of the buildings on
the grounds.
Mrs. o. II. Clarke. president of the
Michigan Suffrage Association, has an
nounced that Miss Harriet Vittum, Of
Chicago, had been secured to give the
main address at the state convention
Of suffragists to be held in Traverse
City, Nov 4, 5 and 6.
For the first time in the history of
the organization, a Michigan woman,
Mrs. Mary A. Jameson of Marine
City, heads the National Ladies of the
G. A. r., being elected president at
the meeting of the national body in
the Y. NJ. c. A. convention hall at De-
troit.
Rev. John C. Vismara, assistant
rector of St Augustines church, Kali
amazoo, is friend of Cardinal Chiesa.
who was Thursday elected pope. He
attended the same college in Rome
and has often been associated with
him. The Kalamazoo priest is high
in his praise of the new pope.
Joseph Wallraff, who was arrested
in st. Paul and brought to Kalama-
zoo on suspicion of having been i'm
plicated in the Staying OF Hal Davis
seven years ago, will be turned over
to Joliet, ILL.,, officers. who want him
for breaking a parole. Not enough
evidence to warrant holding him could
be gathered.
One million five hundred thousand
bushels of wheat were marketed in
Michigan during August, according to
the crop bulletin issued by Secretary
of State Martindale. The average
is 1884 bushels per acre, while the
quality, as compared to the average,
is "a in the state.
The Saginaw Pure Ice Co. was dam
aged to the extent of $4,000 and put
out of commission, and several fire.
men were overcome, early Saturday
morning when ammonia pipes burst
and started a fire. Firemen were
driven back and couldn't get into the
building until the ammonia fumes
were dissipated.
There are 25 children in Oakland
county who we're not absent or tardy
at school last year. They were enter
tanned at Clyde recently at dinner and
luncheon by John and Joseph Mathew
son, aged - and 7, who have not been
absent or tardy for two years. John
and Joseph walked one mile each of
the 400 school days.
The first Livingston county fair for
many years closed Saturday, after a
most successful exhibition, largely at
tended The big feature of the fair
was the cattle exhibit. Livingston is
the greatest county in the United
States for thoroughbred Holstein cat
tie, and those on exhibition at the fair
were valued at $150,00O.
James A. Green, 40 years old, died
at st. Marys hospital in Saginaw Sat
urday night from a gun-shot wound
in his right leg. Green and Sherman
Hartwick were on their way duck
hunting at the New York works, Fri.
day night when an automatic shotgun
was discharged, the shot taking effect
in Green's leg.
Miss Gertrude Gallagher, %, of
Battle Creek, a sanitarium employee,
whose home is in Chicago, was drown
ed in Goguac lake early Thursday
evening. She was in a small canoe
with three companions, Chester
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