The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1915-01-14
MICHIGAN NEWS BRIEFS

hours later from concussion of the
brain.
o. II. Hartwell, head of the public
schools of Kalamazoo, has been APP
pointed superintendent OF schools at
Muskegon and has accepted.
Judge Sessions. OF the United States
circuit court at Grand Rapids, has
fined the Pere Marquette $4,000 for
violation of the safety appliance law
Pointing an "unloaded" shotgun at
his 6-year-od sister, Fred Themes, a
9-yearold Escanaba lad pulled the
trigger and the little girls head was
blown off
With the birth of twin sons to Mr..
and Mrs. Paul Kreft, OF Alpena the
number of children born TO this cOu.
pie now totals 20. OF this number
10 are living.
After an illness of several weeks,
DR.. Frank C. Austin, the oldest dentist
in Kalamazoo is dead at his home.
DR.. Austin had for 80 years been in
active practice.
The board of supervisors has decid-
ed to place the sheriff of Tuscola
county on a salary basis of $4,000 a
year A bill to this effect will be pre-
scented to the governor for his sigma.
ture.
Samuel Oppenheimer, ~. proprietor
of a chain of II large stores in Michi-
gan. Ohio. Indiana and Illinois, with
headquarters at Saginaw. died at his
home at Saginaw Friday night OF
heart failure.
Maurice Cole, of Paw Paw, won the
oratorical contest. and as a result has
the right to represent Alma college
at the state oratorical contest in Alma
March 5. His Grafton was entitled
The Newer Citizenship"
For violation of the hours-ofservice
act, United States District Judge Tut
tie at Detroit Saturday fined the Mich
igan Central railroad $1,000 and costs.
Twelve different counts were brought
against the railroad by District At
torney Webster.
Announcement was made at Battle
Creek Saturday afternoon that the
Kellogg Toasted Corn Flake Co. will
appeal to the supreme court from the
decision of the United States circuit
court at Detroit that il cannot use the
phrase Toasted corn nakes" exclu-
sively.
To equil its new shops with ma
chinery necessary for the repair OF
freight and passenger cars, the Grand
Trunk Railway Co. has asked bids for
$250,000 worth of machinery, which
will be constructed and shipped to
Port Huron at the earliest possible
moment.
The international Fanciers associa-
ton will hold it's ninth annual exhi-
bitlon in Port Huron, January q TO
February /. Prize birds and fowl
from not only all parts of this coun-
try. but from several foreign coun-
tries, are to be placed on exhibition
this year.
n. Z. Pinney OF Ann Arbor won first
place in the university peace contest
Friday night, and h. r. Fellers Of Cole
man, second. Pinney will represent
the university in the intercollegiate
peace contests, participated in by
Michigan, Albion, Hillsdale, Ypsilanti,
Olivet and M. A. c., held at Ann Ar
Dor March 20.
An effort was made at the closing
session of the board of supervisors of
st. Clair county Saturday to have the
proposition to bond the county for
100000 for good roads re-submitted to
the voters at the April election, but
the resolution was defeated. The bond
issue was Overwhelmingly defeated by
the voters last April.
A third local option fight will occur
in Kalamazoo county in the spring II
the vets are unable to stop II by legal
action. The board OF supervisors has
decided to submit the issue, the com
mittee in its report stating that the
Irregularities pointed out by the wet
attorneys in the petitions are not suf-
ficient cause to reject the petitions.
At the annual meeting of the City
Hospital association at Pontiac Satur-
day afternoon the board of directors
agreed to accept the city's offer to
take over the institution. The prop
erty is valued at $4,000. 1t was for.
merly supported by voluntary contri-
buttons. and aid of the women of the
city, augmented by an annual grant
of $1,000 from the city.
The supervisors of st. Clair county
have appropriated $1,000 for the EN-
ployment of a county agriculturist for
1915. A similar sum was appropriated
year ago and the experiment proved
a marked success, but considerable
opposition developed in some town
ships to the expenditure of this sum
of money and when the board met in
a special session early last fall, the
matter of another appropriation came
up and was vetoed.