The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1914-05-07
MICHIGAN NEWS BRIEFS


elected by the Michigan branch of the
American Poultry association by mail
ballot:
At meeting of the st. Clair coun-
ty road commissioners here bids total
ing $4,000 for highway improvement
work were accepted.
Mrs. Margaret Lewis, the first white
child born in Marshall died Wednes-
day of old age. She was II years old
and has always lived in Marshall.
Leo Herrick, of Bay City, "a years
old, drowned when a scow in which
he was riding with three companions
tipped. The others swan to dredge.
Agitation has been started at Har-
Dor Beech for new and modern high
school to replace the present one,
which is declared inadequate for the
size of the city.
Leo Herrick, of Duluth, fell off a
dredge doing government work in the
Saginaw river near the interurban
bridge at Bay City, and was drowned
early Friday. He was alone.
c. B. Bradshaw, a teacher in the
high school, left Sandusky Thursday
for the Pacific coast where he will
take a steamer for the Philippine is
lands to teach in a government school.
President Wilson sent to senate Fri
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Michigan postmasters: Peter F. Gray,
Lansing; John Loughrane, Lapeer;
Henry c. Glasber, Nashville; F. j.
Bortschy, Spring Lake.
Normal college debaters defending
government ownership of railways
lost at Ypsilanti Friday night to the
Olivet college team, which had al
ready this year defeated Alma and
Hope colleges on the same question.
The secretary of state has cleaned
up the business of sending out new
license plates for automobiles, and is
making the first refunds to automo-
bile owners on money collected under
the law declared unconstitutional by
the supreme court.
A. ]. Zemmer narrowly escaped
death at Port Huron Thursday when
the automobile in which he was driv-
ing collided with q limited car. Zem-
mer was thrown several feet but es-
capped with a few minor injuries, the
automobile was demolished.
President, |. A. Freeman, Fenton;
vice presidents, ]. o. Linton, East
Lansing, and Daniel Thomas, Pontiac;
secretary, F. w. Mckenzie, Concord;
treasurer, John Tomlinson, Detroit;
executive board, Claude e. Kellogg,
Battle Creek, and ]. A. Turner, Lam
sing.
The contract has been let for the
building of a parochial residence for
St. Simon's Catholic parish In Luding-
ton. The house, which will cost $11,-
422. without plumbing or heating, will
be a gift to the church from M. B.
Danaher, a wealthy bachelor attorney
of that city.
The first candidate for the repub-
lican nomination for lieutenant-gov.
ernor to file nominating petitions
with the secretary of state is Luren
D. Dickinson, of Charlotte. Saturday
morning Dickinson forwarded to the
state department petitions containing
approximately 1000 signatures.
Archie Hickox, of Petoskey was at
tackled Friday night by a strange gray
bird, nearly the size Of small eagle.
with a three.inch beak. Hickox would
probably have lost his eyes If two men
had not run to his assistance. They
finally caught the bird under bucket
and have placed II on exhibition.
M. A. C. debaters Friday night de-
feated the negative team Of Purdue.
The question at issue was Resolved,
That the state should enact laws for
the compulsory insurance of working
men against injury and death through
accident" The NJ. a. C. debaters were
Ernest Hart, G. T. Hayes and A. l.
Margolis.
After making a careful investiga-
tion of the fire at Whitehall in which
the Phillips and Wood saloon was
burned Immediately after the village
council refused 1t license, John l..
Hulst, of the state fire marshals de-
partment, announced that there Is alb
solutely no proof that the fire is OF
incendiary origin.
Nine passengers and one trainman
were slightly injured Thursday when
p, o. & N. passenger train No. SO
of the Grand Trunk system ran into
an open switch at Games and collided
with several freight cars.
Believed to have set a new record
for state high schools, the quarterly
record of the Muskegon institution
made public Friday shows over one
fourth of the 1000 students there
have a standing Of over SO per cent
in their studies. In all 290 students
are listed on the "honor roll" with
so being rated at 95 or above.