The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1914-04-16
MICHIGAN NEWS BRIEFS

Women of Kalamazoo are endeavor-
ing to have another woman appointed
to the police force.
According to a statement filed with
the county clerk, 1t did not cost John
r. Macdonald one cent to be elected
mayor of Flint.
The Star and Schemm breweries,
two of the largest in Saginaw, have
merged, as a result of the reducing
of the number Of saloons in the city.
Five hundred Ionia county boys at
tended three days Y. NJ. c. A. con-
vention in Ionia The affair closed
with a meeting at the Methodist
church Sunday night.
George w. Morley, SO president of
the German Boyd Lumber Co., is
dead in Atlanta, Ca, where he was
visiting his daughter. Two sons and
one daughter survive him.
Fred L. Keller, state superinten-
dent of public instruction, is writing
the various boards of education in
the state, instructing them as to how
to get a correct school census.
Fire destroyed the Baldwin tuber-
culosis sanitarium, at Kalamazoo.
Workmen were preparing to remodel
the building as a dormitory for West
ern Normal students. The loss is
$4,000.
Mrs. Annie Cronin, 70 years old, of
Battle Creek, is dead of burns suffered
while lighting a gas stove. Her shawl
was ignited and her clothing burned
from her body before neighbors could
reach her.
State Highway Commissioners Rog-
ers says that the loss of the auto tax
money will make it necessary for
counties to wait for their state re-
ward money until the next session of
legislature.
James Walsh, so, sentenced to
Jackson from Grand Haven, January
20, 1906, for from seven to IA years
for forgery, has been pardoned by
Governor Ferris. Walsh saved 1915
while in prison.
Alvardo Haskins, one of the oldest
men in the United States, died Satur-
day at the Michigan state hospital, at
Kalamazoo aged LOG years. He was
admitted to the hospital in 1905 from
Hillsdale county.
Joseph Harris, charged with setting
fire to house in Port Huron occupied
by number of foreigners and alleged
to have confessed the crime, was dis
charged in police court Monday for
lack of evidence.
Charles Damreau, As years old, a
farmer near Ausable and his seven
year-old son were drowned in a lake
on his farm. The father attempted
to save his two sons who broke
through the ice.
Gov. Ferris has declined to pardon
Harold Ullery, the 17-year-old boy who
Falkland. Jack Robbins, of Chicago,
head of boys fellowship club, sought
the custody of the lad.
Following the approval of the vot.
ers of Port Huron, of a proposal to
give the state lease on a plot OF
land, the state will be notified at once
that work may proceed on the cree
ton of a $4,000 armory promised If
a site was provided.
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.
Hubert Gaffney, trustee in bank.
ruptcy of the Owosso Motor Co., of
Corunna, has filed a petition in cir
cult court to compel 35 stockholders
of the defunct company to pay to him
the unpaid portion of their stock. He
alleges that only about half of the
5000, 900 capital stock was paid in. The
amount of the liabilities is $4,000.
The contract for a new Pere Mar.
quette station in Port Huron has been
let to August Schultz. Since fire de-
stroyed the station two years ago,
business has been transacted in an
old box car.
Figures given out by Grand Rapids
banks show that nearly three times as
many people are carrying savings &C
counts as in 1900. Then the total
savings deposits were s7,754,557 and
to date are s17,226,710. The combined
bank deposits are now s35,701 ,42S, an
increase Of nearly 100000 over last
year.