The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1915-09-02
MICHIGAN News BRIEFS


The one just closed cost the merch'
ants about $4,000.
Struck by an automobile, Mrs. Julia
Reyes, of Montague, died few hours
later at U. B. A. hospital in Grand
Rapids. The machine was driven by
Miss Maude Whalen.
The state convention of the Loyal
Americans, which was to have been
held in Detroit, has been shifted to
Bay City, for September z, Detroit
members consenting to the change.
Fred Lafiuer, OF Milwaukee, was de.
capitated by Pere Marquette freight
train at Grand Junction Saturday
morning. Staring eyes startled a sec
ton man on his way to work who re
ported the CHASTITY discovery.
The July report of Fire Marshal
Winship shows that ii persons lost
their lives in fires during the month
and 55 were seriously injured. This is
the largest number OF killed and in.
jured reported since the organization
of the department.
The new soldiers monument at
Springport was dedicated with elabor.
ate ceremonies Tuesday. Officers OF
the state G.. A. r. were present to as
sist in the ceremonies. Former Con-
gresham Washington Gardner, of Al
bion, was the principal speaker.
Robert Hedges, Is years old, plead
ed guilty to a charge OF forgery at
Hillsdale and was sentenced to Ionia
reformatory for from l to IA years.
He was charged with writing a $40
check to the order OF Harold Wheeler
and signing the name OF Harold's I'M
Gle, Samuel Weir.
Riding across the country 20 miles
in an automobile to celebrate her one
hundredth birthday anniversary, was
one OF the stunts" OF Mrs. Eliza Col
Inns, OF Delhi, who came from that
town to Eaton Rapids Friday night
and made the return trip in the same
machine after the celebration was
over.
Gregory Mess, an aeronaut, is in
Butterworth hospital at Grand Rapids
with ankles broken and thankful to
be alive At Ottawa beach Friday
Mess cut his parachute loose while
high in the air and dropped to with
in Is feet of Lake Michigan before
it opened. He alighted in a foot OF
water.
over $1,000 persons attended Lans-
ing's first municipal barn dance Sat
urday night in connection with the
dedication of the citys new public
market. Nearly half the number pres
ent were farmers. An old fiddlers'
contest, in which first prize was won
by James A. Miller, aged SO, OF How
ard City, was a feature.
Although there has been a prevail
ing opinion that beverages containing
one.half OF one per cent. OF alcohol
could be manufactured in local option
counties. this theory is dispelled by
Attorney-General Fellows, who de-
clares il illegal to manufacture a bev
erage containing any alcohol in a
county where local option is in force.
While riding with his father and lit.
tie sister on a load of gravel. Harry
Lark, years old, of Charlotte, fell
and was crushed to death under the
wheels. The father had stopped the
team and was standing beside the
load when the little girl picked up the
lines. The team started and the lad
lost his balance and was crushed be-
fore his fathers eyes.
At the annual meeting of the grand
lodge of the Independent Order of
Grand Templars, held at Muskegon,
Grand Rapids was chosen as the
scene of the 1916 convention and a
Grand Rapids man, M. E. Whitney,
was elected grand chief templar
Grand Rapids was chosen for the ma
tional grand lodge meeting of the as.
ISOLATION next year.
Charles s. Coleman, who was Fri
day discharged on a charge Of muir
dering William Potter, at Owosso, has
preferred his aid to the officials in
discovering the guilty party. Cole
man stated on the stand at the in.
quest recently that he did not believe
that William Potter took poison him
self. Potter was found dead at his
home here several weeks ago
Lewis Meeker. OF Kalamazoo, faith
err of Gilbert Meeker, nine years old,
who died Friday night from eating
toadstools, died Saturday. Three more
members of the family are in a dan
gerous condition, but doctors have
hopes of saving Mrs. Meeker and her
two daughters. The toadstools were
gathered Monday night, but the fam.
fly did not become i'll until Thursday.
Edwin Maschell assistant superin.
tendent OF the big Battle Creek
branch OF the M. Rumley ThrasheI
company, was taken into custody Sat.
urday evening by United States Depu.
ty Marshal Jewell of Detroit, on a
charge OF violating the immigration
tovs IL a alIa0ed that Maschell n