The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1914-07-30
MICHIGAN NEWS BRIEFS

Inc Methodist Episcopal cnurcn at
Memphis was dedicated Sunday
Women picking huckleberries found
the body of an unidentified man on the
Walton plains near Cadillac.
Andrew Schbenz, 80 years old, took
his life by hanging from a tree in an
orchard. He lived near Walloon Lake.
Martin Lausten, aged rs, was
drowned when he attempted to swim
half a mile across Lake Chaplin on a
dare.
John Griesback IA, drowned in
Muskegon lake when he was seized
with cramps. His body was recov-
cred
Each of the three Hillsdale banks
has donated $40 for prizes for the best
corn exhibits at the Hillsdale county
fair this fall.
Aug. 2 the state board of health and
the state dairy and food department
will start the health train on tour
of the state.
The Tokyo Marine Insurance Co., of
Tokyo, Japan, has been authorized by
the state insurance department to
transact business in Michigan.
Michael Krosonio, 81 years old, of
Kalamazoo, while in doze, fell off
his porch and his neck was broken.
He died in Bronson hospital a few
hours later.
John Norman, "a, in attempting to
board a freight train, at Iron Noun
tain, fell with his right arm across
the track, and the member was sew
cred below the elbow.
Efforts by field workers of the Mich
igan Agricultural college to introduce
sheep in the upper peninsula have
been frustrated for the time being by
the high price of sheep in the west.
Pupils who attend the Dowagiac
schools in the future Will be taught
how to do farming. Emil l.. Kunze,
of Lansing, has been engaged by the
school board to teach a course in far
ming.
Graham & Nicholson's grocery and
hardware store were burned at Alan
son with a loss of $4,000, partially in
sured. The hotel next door was en-
dangered, but was saved by hard
work.
The turning on of Ionias new boule-
ward lights was celebrated Wednes-
day night by about 5000 persons.
Dancers on four city blocks were
furnished music By several electric
pianos.
The 1-year-old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Patterson was fatally
burned in a fire which wrecked the
old Moulton house at the corner of
Fourth and Saginaw streets in Bay
City Saturday.
John Dawson, "A, veteran of the
civil war, walked in front of Pere
Marquette switch engine at Grand
Rapids as he was pushing a wheel
barrow of ice along the road and was
instantly killed.
The railroad commission has
granted the application of company
recently organized to build gas plants
at Plymouth and Worthwhile to sell
$4,000 of stock to provide money for
construction work.
Trees and shrubs in public parks
and in school house yards at Port
Huron have been found to be infected
with San Jose scale, and many have
been cut down and burned to avoid
spread of the scale.
The ninth annual camp meeting of
the Michigan conference of the Church
OF the United Brethren in Christ will
be held at the camp grounds near
Sebewa Corners, Hastings county,
from August to 16.
T. willard Ready, of Niles, who has
purchased the plant formerly occupied
byr the Michigan Buggy Co, at Kala-
mazoo states that the nine big build
ings will soon be occupied by a num-
Der of small concerns.
The Howell Commercial club and a
number Of other citizens of that city
made an auto trip Saturday to Fowl
erville, Webberville and williamson
to get closer touch with the business
men in the nearby villages
Ground has been broken at Howell
for new factory, 40x1O0 feet, for the
Spencer-Smith Machine Co. The
citizens of Howell purchased an acre
of ground for the factory by popular
subscription, the money being raised
in a few hours.
A census of the village of Royal
Oak just completed gives a popula-
tion of 1865. Males S72, females $780,
children 954. Three hundred new
houses have been built thus far this
year. Street Commissioner w. j. Fol-
land and assistant took the census.
William A. McMullen, former mayor
of Corunna, and Frank Nichols, 10,
were rendered unconscious when
lightning struck a barn on the Nc
Mullen farm. McMullen recovered
just in time to pull Nichols from the
burning building. The loss is esti-
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