The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1915-07-01
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collegiate lalumnae have been grant
ed use of Hill auditorium at the u
OF nj. for speech by Col. Theodore
Roosevelt, October Is. The former
presidents address will be non-po
litical.
A commission for Lieut.. Col. Bersey
of the Thirty-frst infantry, of Detroit
as Acknowledgement OF the Michigan
National Guard, has been ordered by
Gov. Ferris, on recommendation OF
the state military board.
The Homer Furnace Co. has pur.
chased the factory buildings of the
Homer Vacuum Cleaner Co. and is
erecting large warehouses. A large
building, TO be used for foundry pur-
poses, will also be erected soon.
The closing meeting OF the Forty
first annual state convention OF the
w. c. T. U. was at Sault Ste Marie
Sunday night in the Methodist Epis-
copal church. 1t was attended by 200
delegates and many residents of the
500.
A special investigator from the at
torney-generars Office will within a
few days begin a first-hand investiga-
ton of conditions involving violations
of the liquor laws said to be obtain
ing among the Indians in Bal aga
county.
Charles Coon, a painter, who was
working underneath the Genesee ave-
nue. bridge at Saginaw, fell into the
Saginaw river and was drowned He
started to fill his paint bucket and a
board slipped. Coon's overalls were
weighted down with paint and graph
lite. His body was recovered.
Governor Ferris has appointed the
following delegates to represent Mich
igan at the annual meeting of the Am
erican Prison Association to be held
in Oakland, Cal, October 9-14: o. II.
l.. Wernicke, Grand Rapids; Nathan
+. Simpson, Jackson; James Russell,
Marquette; Mari T. Murray, Lansing.
AS Elmore Cole, 13 years old, OF
Fenton, was riding his bicycle with a
box of strawberries in each hand, an
auto driven by DR.. A. w. Wright,
swung around a corner and struck
him. He was knocked off his bicycle
and under the wheels of the auto.
Though he was still alive when picked
up, he died in a few minutes.
Robert Lake, a veteran coal dealer
Of Jackson, was elected president of
the gan-Ohio-Indisna Coal Deal
ers' association Thursday at the an
nual convention held at Cedar Point,
o. Thursday was Mr.. Lakes 9th
birthday, and the convention further
honored him with testimonial of es-
TEEN in the form of diamond stick
pin.
Fifty graduates of the law depart
ment of the University of Michigan
were admitted to practice in this
state by the supreme court Tuesday
afternoon. This is the last year that
graduates of any Michigan law school
can practice in the state until they
have successfully passed an examina-
ton before the state board of law
examiners.
State Superintendent of Public In
strument Keller has re-appointed
John M. Munson, of Harbor Springs,
as chief deputy of the department.
Munson is a democrat, but Keeler fig
ured efficiency rather than politics in
making the re-appointment. Munson
was once a candidate for superinten-
dent OF public instruction on the dem
ocratic ticket.
Judge G. w. Sessions has announced
that Sept z has been agreed upon by
the court and attorneys for the final
hearing on the merits on the petition
OF the Ann Arbor Railroad Co. to re-
strain the Michigan railroad commits
sion from enforcing the two-cent pas
senger rate law. Many railroads are
awaiting the decision of the case,
which will serve as a precedent.
Henry Diehl, a laborer, aged 5s,
was burned to death in shack in
which he lived alone, Just east Of the
city limits, near Center avenue, Bay
City. Neighbors saw the place on
IRE, DuL IL WAS 30 HCdTly uebIIOyeu
that they did not go to it at the time,
supposing that Diehl had escaped.
Later his charred body, with limbs
burned of, was found in the ruins.
When thieves stole team of work
horses from the barn of Henry Wal
lace, three miles north of Durand,
they took the precaution to cut to
pieces every piece of harness in the
barn, SO that Wallace could not drive
in pursuit of them. Saturday morn
ing the stolen team was found in a
swamp near Durand. where the
thieves had abandoned the animals.
Presentation OF 10 honorary degrees
by the University of Michigan and an
appeal by President William Oxley
Champson, of Ohio State university,
in the address TO the graduates, for
sane, intelligent leadership and a
sound philosophy OF optimism to
abolish war, featured the exercises at
the seventy-first commencement of the
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor,