The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1915-11-11
MICHIGAN NEWS BRIEFS

pidceS lOr the Z,UUO youngsters WnO
will come to the Y. M. c. A. boys con-
ference November 26 to %.
In campaign at Port Huron to
raise $4,000 with which to pay of
the Indebtedness OF the Y. M. c. A.,
nearly $4,000 has been pledged.
State Dairy and Food Commissioner
Helme has issued warning to house
wives against hucksters who do not
give full measure in selling fruits and
vegetables.
The sale OF the southwestern Michi-
gan Paper company. at Kalamazoo to
II. w, Prosser OF Chicago and Arthur
Birmingham of New York city has
been announced.
Caught between a huge oil tank and
the side OF pit at the Reynolds AS
phalt Single Co. plant in Grand Ra-
pids, Herbert Vanslyken, 26, was
crushed to death.
Oxford merchants will organize to
urge Detroit, Pontiac, Lake Orion and
Oxford as a route for the East Michi-
gan pike which will continue to Flint,
thence to Mackinaw City.
Jerry Archibald was electrocuted
at Iron River Saturday while working
on pole of the Iron Range Light &
Power company. Twenty-Five hundred
volts passed through his body.
Gideon J. Hughes, aged 65 years. OF
Delton, former county treasurer and
vice-president OF the Delton State
bank, is dead after long illness. He
was formerly prominent republican
politician.
The fraternities and literary So
cieties Of Albion college have com.
menced preparations for the annual
athletic circus, to be held soon to
raise money for the local athletic
association.
Fred Newell, SO years old, was
killed when New York Central lines
freight struck his auto truck on an
alley crossing in Lansing. Newell was
crushed beneath the trucks of the
freight car.
When business closed Saturday
night the state treasury contained
$4S4, sos in the general fund and sS41,-
go in all funds. The receipts of the
general fund in October were $257 ,S04
and the expenditures s651,7s7
Bert Birtch, 35, was killed Friday
night north OF Jackson when his team
of colts became unmanageable and ran
away, throwing him out. His neck
was broken. He was employed with
good roads construction gang.
The Ludington board OF education
will at once accede to the demand of
the local fire warden to place addi-
tional fire protection in two of the
school buildings. The Peabody disas-
ter has aroused them to extra vigi-
lance.
The postoffice at Vermontville was
broken into Saturday night and the
safe blown open. People living nearby
heard the explosion, but delayed in
vestigating until it was too late. The
robbers escaped with several hundred
dollars.
Two weeks after the death OF Harry
Haskins, sent from Genesee county
to the Ionia reformatory, local Of
flcials have received his pardon pa
pers from the state advisory board on
pardons. Haskins' release was re-
commended sometime prior to death
because OF tuberculosis.
While alone at the home Of Mrs.
Lillian Scott at Jackson Mrs. Marga-
ret Stephens. II, was burned SO badly
Friday afternoon that she died in the
city hospital the same night. All of
her clothing was burned from her
body. 1t is believed her dress caught
fire from a lighted match.
August Schneider. II years old, son
of farmer residing near Webberville,
east OF Lansing, was killed Saturday
evening by an automobile driven by
w. B. Wood, general manager of the
Grand Rapids & Indiana railroad, who
was returning from a foot ball game
at Ann Arbor with a party of friends.
Detroit and Chicago are the only
large cities in which the Western
Michigan Development bureau will
make regular exhibits this winter, ac-
cording to the decision of the execu-
tive committee which met at Traverse
City Friday. All other exhibits will
be in small towns in Ohio and In
diana.
Though terribly mangled, the body
OF a man killed by an interurban car
near Fruitport, Sunday morning, was
identified Monday rs that of Frank
Bennick, of Grand Haven. Bennick
was lying at the side of the rail and
when a car came along he raised his
head. The step caught him and threw
him under the wheels.
The city of Hudson is being sued in
circuit court for $4,000 claimed due
on a paving contract by Connel Mars
man, Of Grand Rapids. The attorneys