The Yale expositor., 1914-06-11
MICHIGAN NEWS BRIEFS

Vera Wilkinson, Of st. Louis, won first
prizes at the state oratorical contest
held at Muskegon.
The Battle Creek water mains have
been connected with the new pumping
station at Verona, giving the city well
water for the first time.
While riding on the reach pole of a
wagon, Harold Stevens, 6, of st.
Joseph, was jostled off and crushed
to death under the wheels.
With so members from all over
Michigan present, the annual conven-
ton of the Michigan Poster Advertis-
ing association was held at Muskegon.
Taxpayers of Milford have voted to
bond the village for $4,000 to improve
the water works system. Seventeen
women registered, but only nine voted.
The East Michigan conference of
Seventh Day Adyentists will hold it's
annual camp meeting at Orion, begin
ming June IL and continuing ten days.
The free text book plan at Kala-
mazoo has been defeated by a big ma
jority. The plan, advanced by union la
Dor, was opposed by both Hollanders
and Catholics.
All the stores were closed at Carson
vile Monday, which was designated as
gravel day." when the business men
took up shovels and worked on the
roads near here.
State Labor Commissioner Cunning
ham reports that during March, April
and May 1892 farm hands were sent
TO farmers through the state free EN-.
ployment bureaus.
Commissioner Robert F. Johnson is
acting mayor of Saginaw during the
three weeks absence of Mayor Ard L.
Richardson. who will wed in Grand
Rapids Saturday
On the recommendation of Democra-
tic Committeeman Wood, Drs. G. S.
Tweedie, c. r. Smith and II. j. Butter
have been appointed pension surgeons
at Sandusky, Mich.
Ex-Gov. Chase S. Osborn Friday
morning wired from Montclair, n. j.,
his acceptance of Gen. Fred w.
Green's invitation to speak at the Ionia
Chautauqua July 4th.
The monthly crop report of the Sec
rotary of states department says the
present prospect for peaches is for but
AZ per cent of an average crop. The
outlook for other fruits is good
Monroe county will do its own con-
struction work on the new roads in
six townships. The road commission
ers state that all of the bids submit
ted for the work were too high.
The funeral of Alvah G.. Smith,
member Of the state senate in 1899
1900, was held at Portland Tuesday.
Mr.. Smith was prosecuting attorney
Of Missaukee county for several years.
O'Clock Thursday afternoon was
fixed as the time for Colonel William
Elliott to turn the first sod on the new
100000 Masonic temple which he has
made possible for Grand Rapids
Masons.
While Edward Waite, Al, of Grand
Rapids, was returning with medicine
for an invalid wife, he was fatally in.
jured by motorcycle driven by Pa
trolman Charron. The latter sustain
ed fractured leg.
Saginaw, Safe and Sure" is to be
the new slogan of that city. "City of
Opportunity has been the slogan for
many years, but many other cities
have copied it and the new slogan is
short and to the point. President w.
S. Linton, of the board Of trade, sug-
gested it.
Victor L. Palmer, former secretary
OF the defunct Michigan Buggy Co., of
Grand Rapids, who was convicted of
sending a false statement of the as
sets and liabilities of the company
through the mails, has decided not to
appeal his case and will serve his
sentence of two years in the federal
penitentiary at Ford Leavenworth,
Kas.
While drilling a we'll near Turner.
Henry Grady & Son struck salt and
nearly pure oil at 800 feet. At 16O
feet gas was struck.
In celebration of her ninetieth birth
day Saturday, Mrs. Olive II. Fowler of
Jackson entertained FIVE guests whose
ages together with her own totaled
$50 years. They were Frederick
Pierce, go; Henry hammers. 92 Maria
Spencer, 90; Ambrose Bean, SO, and
Elizabeth Peterson, 81. The hostess
was born in Jefferson county, New
York, but has been a resident Of Jack.
son 20 years.