The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1914-04-09
MICHIGAN NEWS BRIEFS

A jury found r. d. West, instructor
in manual training at the Menominee
high school, not guilty of the charge
OF choking a 14-year-old student.
The Albion high school debating
team to meet Port Huron high at Port
Huron, April II, consists of Ellery
Cakes, Paul Burns and Harold Woch-
holz
Twenty-Five new members will be
added to Company &C." Michigan Ma
tional Guard, at Port Huron. before
the annual government inspection,
April 81.
The working time of about $50 men
in the Ann Arbor shops at Owosso
has been cut from six to three days a
week. Dull freight business was Civ
en- as the cause.
Melba Lighthall, 20 years old, OF
Saginaw, fell in fit Saturday against
a wire fence and strangled to death.
The accident occurred on the street
near where he lived.
The state board of corrections and
charities has ordered the board of SUI
pervisors to provide a new Jail at
Kalamazoo because of the unsanitary
condition of the old building.
The state board of corrections and
charities has forbidden Sheriff Rim
mele from making repairs to the Sag
IN TOD ha
build a new Jail, the board says.
Prof. Aubrey Tealdi, of the univer-
sity of Michigan landscape gardening
department, has been appointed on
the committee of education Of the
American Society of Landscape Ar
fists.
Members of the Equal Suffrage as
sociation are planning to start a suf-
frage paper in Michigan. Charles vii.
kinson, former Grand Rapids newspa-
per man, will probably publish the
paper.
Lester o. Moody, of Detroit, has
been offered the position of local Sec
rotary of the Holland Y. NJ. c. A.,
which has just been launched here
under the auspices OF the state asso-
citation.
The State Fair commission has de-
cided to select one boy from Huron
county to attend the state fair in De-
troit in September, where he will be
instructed in stock raising, soil test
ing and dairying.
Road Commissioners Steel and FL
liot, of Muskegon county, are prepar-
ing bill providing for the payment
of state rewards on permanent roads.
1t will be introduced at the next ses-
sion of the legislature.
Cases of whooping cough, scarlet
fever, measles and smallpox, separ-
ated only by screens, will be found in
the new $4,000 contagious hospital,
just completed in Ann Arbor, which
will be opened in about a month.
Thomas Doran, of Saginaw, who has
started suit against the Saginaw-Bay
City Street Car Railroad Co. for $4,000
for alleged personal injuries, says in
his declaration that he accepted $42
from a personal friend itn settlement
of his claim, not knowing the man
was an agent for the traction COM
pany.
Six prisoners brought from Detroit
to Jackson prison Saturday made the
total inmates In the institution Oil,
the largest number ever held there.
The previous record was 90s. Until
about a year ago the number of in
mates ranged from $50 to 500. Last
year the number started to increase
and has been growing rapidly.
Suits for $4,000 have been start
ed against the Michigan Central road
in the Bay circuit court. Mrs. Emma
Garland asks $4,000 as the result
of being hit by a train June 20 while
driving an automobile. Mrs. Myrtle
Chute, who was with Mrs Garland,
asks $4,000 Mrs. Alice Conochen has
sued the same road for $4,000 for al
legged injuries suffered when she was
thrown in the aisle of a coach.
The schools at Bad Axe are plan
ming an art exhibition of 200 paint
ings by celebrated artists.
Attorney K. b. Benscoe, of Ann Ar
Dor, has started suit against the d.
U. r. for $1,000 damages. Benscoe
alleges that he was put off a Detroit
street car after the conductor refused
to accept transfer.
The auditor-general's department
reports over $4,000 received during
March from corporations that pay
taxes under the ad valorem system.
This is by far the greatest amount
ever received In March.