The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1915-08-19
MICHIGAN news BRIEFS

guard was at lunch-and was
drowned
Owosso is making many improve
ments this summer. The city at
present has a large force of men at
work repaving the old asphalt district
with brick.
Twenty minutes after he had fallen
from his own automobile Matthew
Haller, a grocer, died in q hospital at
Mt. Clemens. His widow and several
children survive.
Weston Darling, 81 years old, was
seriously injured, two horses were
killed and a wagon demolished when
struck by a Michigan Central train
at Grand Rapids.
Claude Poole, shoe clerk Of Ypsi
lanti, who was injured in a collision
on the d., j. e c., west of Ann Arbor,
has sued the company for $4,000. His
doctor bill is $4,000, he says.
Bacterioligists of the state dairy
and food department will investigate
all drinks sold at soda fountains, un-
der provisions of the pure pop bill"
passed by the last legislature.
Bay county is defendant in suit
for $500 instituted by May Mueller, a
nurse, who claims that amount is due
her for attending family that was
unable to pay the bill. The suit is a
test case.
Jacob Lehman, working at the Glad
win elevator, leaned against the steel
sheeting on the building and was in
stantly killed. The sheeting was
charged with electricity from defec.
tive wiring.
The body of Edward Beach, 35 years
old, OF Mt. Morris, was found lying
beside the Pere Marquette tracks near
Clio by section hands. 1t is believed
he was struck by a northbound pas.
senger train. The body was badly
mangled.
Nation Hill, 80 years old, started
Friday night from Bedding to Ionia on
motorcycle. When two miles south
OF Orleans his machine struck a tree,
throwing him off and crushing his
forehead. He was found lying by the
side of the road unconscious by Alva
Hill, an Orleans farmer.
Stanley II. Howe, formerly OF
Albion college, has been appointed
secretary of charities of New York
city. While in college he won first
honors in the national peace oratori-
cal contest at Baltimore and went to
The Hague to give his prize Grafton
before the Hague peace tribunal.
Two horses owned by August Beh-
ling, a Concord farmer, were killed
and Behling suffered a broken collar
q limited car on the N. u. T. struck
his team and wagon in Albion. One
horse was thrown so feet and the
others body broke telephone pole.
Lake Odessa residents, Saturday,
following their annual custom, held
q reception for John McMillen, one
of the Oldest men in the state, who
celebrated his one hundred and fourth
birthday Sunday. Mr.. McMillen is
native of Pennsylvania and has re-
sided many years in Odessa township.
The Detroit G. Mackinac railroad
has asked the state railroad commits
sion for permission to tear up 10 miles
of it's track. This consists of branch
,fT nd I oh
branch. The commission will grant
the railroads request unless there is
a protest from property owners in the
vicinity.
sion, composed of DR.. Delos Fall,
Homer G. Blair, Frank ]. Simon, Ad-
rian F. Cooper, DR.. Frank T. Carlton
and DR.. George c. Hafford, has com
pleted its work of drafting a new
charter for the city and has set the
vember 9.
John Book, retired farmer, GO years
old, was killed by an interurban car
near Roseville Saturday night. Book
dS On Tic u am anu CNiuCll
ly did not hear the car approaching
Every bone in his body was broken,
according to the coroner. There will
be no inquest. Three daughters and
five sons survive.
Over $4,000 persons attended Lans-
ing's first municipal barn dance Sat
urday night in connection with the
dedication of the city's 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.
The annual clam bake and outing
of the Southern Michigan Owl club
was held Thursday at Marble lake.
near Quincy. Members from Hillsdale,
Jackson, Detroit, Angola, Eden, West
Unity, Toledo, Quincy and Coldwater
The old officers were re-
elected. The organization was start
ed IA years ago at Clear Lake, Ind,