The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1915-07-29
MICHIGAN NEWS BRIEFS

postmaster at New Lothrop, Mich,
and Helen A. Collier at Gaylord, Mich.
Harvey Lester Bartz, 10-yearold
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Bartz, of
1921 Parker avenue, Detroit, fell off a
dock at New Baltimore late Friday
afternoon and was drowned.
Headquarters OF the Bijou Theat-
rical Co. will be moved from Chicago
TO Battle Creek Sept. 1, bringing W..
S. Butterfield, head of the company,
nearer to his Michigan theaters.
Grasping a live wire while working
on the new Grand Rapids & Kalama-
zoo electric line near Moline, Albert
Yystone, of Toledo, was so badly burn
ed that he died four hours later.
Nelson V. Roman, of Alpena, was
chosen president and Mrs. M. Corner,
Of Alpena, secretary of the Maccabees
Of northeastern Michigan at the an
nual outing at Tawas Beach Thurs
day.
An Albion woman, Mrs. A. D. Bang
ham, who is one Of the state officers
of the Eastern Star, has been named
member of the civil service com
mittee OF the National Federation OF
Women's clubs.
The Grand Rapids Railway COM
pany has declared the regular quar-
terly dividend of l IA per cent on
preferred stock, which indicates that
the jitney hasn't put the street rail-
way out of business.
Members of Company c, Michigan
national guard, Port Huron, are to De
made immune from typhoid fever by
the use OF phophylactic, the purchase
of which has been authorized by the
quartermaster general
Plans have just been started for Il
prosperity week celebration in Kala-
mazoo next October. The affair will
take on the form if an exhibit of not
only Kalamazoo-made goods, but pro-
ducts of Kalamazoo farms.
The business mems association OF
Inlay City are planning a big cele-
bration for August IT, the date on
which service on the new interurban
line which will give this place electric
service to Detroit and other points
will be inaugurated.
Tony Picararo was killed by the
accidental opening Of car OF gravel
on which he was working at Ann Ar
Dor He fell through the opening in
the bottom of the car and was caught
under the wheels. He was a reserv-
st of the Italian army, and was to
have returned TO the old country
Aug. /.
While Mrs. Neva Lipman, of Pow
hatan, W. Va, and her sister, Mrs. d.
G. Moon. of Escanaba were wading
in the river at Escanaba they were
caught by the swift current Mrs.
Lipman was drowned and Mrs. Moon
rescued by workmen on a dam, who
Joined hands and formed a chain to
reach her.
The Detroit, Monroe & Toledo cleo
trio line must run cars in Monroe at
certain hours of the night, as provided
in its franchise. The company sought
to have he matter left to the decision
of the state railroad commission, but
the supreme court holds that IL must
live up to the terms of it's contrac:
with the city.
Poor Superintendent Gleason Of
Cass county has learned that John
Hopper Of Glenwood, who has been
pronounced a leper is a legal charge
on st. Joseph county. The Cass coun
the ground that he had not been in
the county long enough to establish
a residence there.
Reorganization of the Battle Creek
postofice on the two.division plan
has hecn ordered by the postoftico de-
partmant, the change to become eff
fective August /. Divisions of finance
and mails are created. The present
assistant postmaster, ]. Ronald FeTgu-
son, will act as superintendent of fin
ance, and Charles S. Jones retains his
place as superintendent of mails.
The committee of five to invest-
gate housing conditions in Michigan,
which the last legislature empowered
the governor to name, in order that
data may be at hand for the next
| legislature on the subject of housing
conditions has been appointed as fol-
lows Fred II. Begole, Marquette;
Lewis T. Wilmarth, Grand Rapids;
Robert E. Todd, Detroit; Charles E.
Kolb, Battle Creek, and ]. Dallas bort,
| Flint.
John Sprague, appointed rural
carrier out Of the Owossc postoffice,
on November 1, 1898, being the first
rural carrier in the county and the
third in the state, has resigned be-
cause of i'll health. Mr.. Sprague has
been unable to carry mail for several
months but his job was held open
for him in hopes that he would be
able TO resume work. He is past 20
years old and is the father of ex-
Mayor o. L. Sprague.
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