The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1915-10-28
MICHIGAN news BRIEFS

Telegraph and telephone companies
have 80 days to comply with an order
OF the Grand Rapids council that all
wires be placed underground.
Forty automobile drivers were ar
rived for fast driving at Oxford Sun
day. They were mostly outsiders,
home car owners being tipped off,
The state board or registration Of
nurses will hold an examination for
state registration in Detroit November
9-10-11 and in Grand Rapids November
80, December H.
Tom O'Brien, of Bessemer, deputy
sheriff, was accidentally killed by the
premature discharge of his revolver
while looking for fugitive from
Gogebic county at Mellen, Wis.
The Farmers Elevator Co., of Rich
mond, will take over the Richmond
Elevator Co.'S property at Richmond
and in Columbus. Six thousand dol
lars was paid for the business, it is
understood.
There is no foundation whatever
for the report that we will move to
Toledo" declared r. f. Monroe, presi-
dent Of the Monroe Automobile Co.,
of Flint. 1--WE are here in Flint and
we are going to stay"
The annual Holstein Friesian sale OF
cattle was held at Adrian Friday with
nearly 1000 bidders from various
points in Michigan and Ohio present
Stock went under the hammer at as
high as $500 a head.
Nine speeders gathered in by police
officers pleaded guilty before Justice
Landon in Flint to charges of violating
the motor vehicle law They paid
fines of 50 each. Most of those ar
rested were jitney bus drivers.
The d. Z. r. despatcher's Office az
Royal Oak will be transferred to Roch.
ester, where all Detroit, Flint, Romeo,
and Inlay City cars will be
despatched. Northwestern cars will
be despatched from Pennington.
Ward Allen, aged "a years and sin.
gle, was instantly killed Thursday at
ternoon when a viaduct caved in at
the plant of the American Malleables
company at Owosso. Allen was in
stantly killed, his body being badly
mangled.
George Nolan, who entered the
house of a neighbor named Jens, near
Hadley, one night several months ago
and shot Jens' two sons, William and
Herman, pleaded guilty in circuit
court in Lapeer to a charge Of assault
with intent to murder.
The st. Clair county board of SUI
pervisors has appropriated the neces-
saFy funds for the continuance of the
county visiting nurse as well as a
county agriculturist. There had been
some doubt as to whether these appro.
priations would be made.
Myron Kyser, farmer, two miles
an angry bull, receiving injuries re-
sulting in death. Mrs. Kyser went to
the assistance of her husband with a
pitchfork and drove the Infatuated ami
NAL away. Kyser was 65 years old.
A granite boulder was unveiled at
Sturgis Monday as a monument to
Judge John Sturgis, the first white
settler at that place. The boulder
was unveiled by Hannah Kelly,
greatgran6daughter in Pioneer park,
on the spot where Judge Sturgis
camped, 1t was hauled to the spot by
Heber Sturgis, a grandson.
Former Senator Charles Smith, dean
OF the state senate for IL years, and
for four years before that member
Of the house, died Sunday night at
Lake Linden. He was one Of the most
prominent Republicans in Michigan, a
banker, thirty-third degree Mason and
Elk. For 80 years he was n member
of the Houghton county supervisors.
The $40, 900 which the voters of Al
bion at a recent special election de-
cided to invest in a new municipal wa
ter plant has not proved sufficient and
the board of public works has recon-
mended to the council that another
election be held November 9, at which
time the question of bonding the city
for $4,000 additional will be the issue.
Members fthe Custer brigade"
the First, Fifth, Sixth and Seventh
Michigan cavalry, in their meeting at
Battle Creek, reelected officers as
follows: President, VIM. o. Lee, Port
Huron; vice-president, Luther o.
Kanouse, Bancroft; secretary-treasur-
err, Thomas w. Hill, Cleveland, o.
Jackson was chosen for the 1916 meet
ing place.
Hobart NJ. Stewart, 40 years old, of
Thetford township, was instantly kill
ed when his automobile was struck
and wrecked by southbound Saginaw
& Flint car at Clio shortly after 8
o'clock Friday morning. Stewart was
entering the village with load of
milk and his view of the crossing was
INSTRUCTED by buildings. He is sur
yived by a widow.