The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1915-12-23
michigan NEWS BRIEFS

that Lenawee county is practically
free OF hog cholera.
Five cases of scarlet fever in Dear
born has prompted l.. b. Burdeno,
health officer, to order the schools
closed.
Trl-weekly rural mail routes Will be
established in Michigan on April at
Ensign, Delta county and at Turner,
Arenac county.
Commencing Jan. 3 Harbor Beach
VIII have mail delivery service. The
postmaster has been authorized to en-
ploy one carrier.
Twenty-seven Ionia reformatory
prisoners, of A who applied for len
iency. have been granted paroles by
the state pardon board.
Action has been taken by the
Adrian school board whereby school
girls of the city will be given an OPP
portunity to learn to swim.
4 movement has been started at
Ludington to organize a Chamber OF
Commerce with a pledged supper of
$4,000 year for three years.
A road bee was held Tuesday half
mile west OF Wadhams by farmers
not residents of that place, on the
Lapeer avenue road to repair stretch
of sandy road.
Harry II. Marks, "a, of Sault Ste.
Marie, superintendent of the state fish
hatcheries, is dead. Marks had served
20 years as superintendent Of the
state hatcheries.
The president has announced three
Michigan postoffice appointments:
Manchester Frank II. Koebbe; Bald
win, Thomas Henderson; Burr Oak,
Gay F. Hackman.
Bay City schools will be closed af-
ter the holidays until majority Of the
Is teachers and few hundred pupils,
as well as Frank A. Cause, superin-
tendent, recover from the grip.
Albion young people will skate on
a municipal skating rink this winter.
A large tract of land near the center
of the city has been offered for the
purpose and will be flooded.
Prof. F. w. Bouska, of the American
Association Of Creamery Manufacture
ers, instructed in butter-making %
creamery owners and managers at the
special school held in East Lansing.
After several years work, the Cor
unna w. r. c. has obtained funds
enough to erect a memorial to the
sailor and soldier dead, The tablet
will be erected on the court house
square.
Harry, the six-year-old son of E. E.
Cameron, teller in the Commercial
bank, of Bay City. was fatally injured
when struck by a motor car the
wheels of which passed over his head,
fracturing the skull
Hereafter the prisoners in the Bay
county Jail will have to buy their own
tobacco. The county has been sup
plying it, at a cost of $40 to SIS a
month hut the county auditors have
decided to cut it out.
Sixty members of the Girls Glee
club of University of Michigan, garb-
ed as monks, sang Christmas carols
outside the homes of DR.. Harry B.
Hutchins, president, and other mem
bers of the Michigan faculty.
Lewis w Miller, former clerk of the
house of representatives. who suffer
ed a stroke of paralysis last week, died
Monday morning at his home in Lan&
ing. He was Sc years of age and is
survived by three sons and one daugh-
ter.
Three bicycles, toys, suit cases,
jewelry and hardware were found in a
room in the tower of the federal build
ing in Kalamazoo by officers investi-
eating thefts from local stores. Two
boys, 10 and IL years old, are ac-
cused.
Flint authorities have been unable
to identify the body of man who was
killed by a switch engine in the
Grand Trunk yards Saturday night.
Three bottles of whisky were found
and he is believed to have gone to
sleep on the tracks.
Nils Mortensen, released from the
Chippewa county Jail Sunday, after
serving four and half months for
smuggling Austrians from Canada to
the United States, was arrested on
the charge of high treason when he
returned to the Canadian 500.
More than 200 Grand Rapids bar
tenders and saloonkeepers Sunday
voted to accept an invitation extended
by Rev. w. " Nelson to attend the
First Christian church next Sunday
and hear his sermon on Give Us to
Drink" They will go in body.
The Port Huron city commission
has adopted a resolution fixing Janu-
airy IL for a special election on the
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