The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1915-01-21
Seen and Heard
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residents of this town have started
movement to raise funds for the con-
struction of large public auditorium.
Lansing.-Frank II. Presley has
been appointed bookkeeper and cash
Ter of the state board of health. Pres
ley lives in Lansing.
Ann Arbor.-Mis Hildegarde Hager-
man of Ludington Is the first student
at the U. of M. to be appointed to the
editorial board of the Gargoyle, the
universitys humorous publication.
East Lansing.-Enrollment in the
short course in agriculture at the M
A. c. shows an increase of 81 over last
year, the total number signed up be-
ing APT.
Monroe - Elm Cousina, retired
farmer, celebrated his golden ami
versary with his second wife. He had
been married prior to 1865, when he
and his second wife were married.
Plymouth.-Sixty-fve years ago, C..
B. Truesdell, Canton farmer, swal-
lowed a pin. Recently he felt pin
point protruding from his ear. The
pin. which he believes was the one
he swallowed, was removed.
Petoskey.-The Tri-County Medical
society was organized here by % ply
sicians from Antrim, Charlevoix and
! Emmett counties. DR.. +. X. Norman
of Pellston is president and DR.. G. w.
Nihart of Petoskey is secretary.
Adrian.-Bernice Burnell. thirteen
year-old Tecumseh girl, was saved
from drowning when her sled caught
on a Jagged piece of ice and held her
suspended in 90 feet of water until
a workman rescued her.
I Owosso.-With her head muffled in
blanket, the infant child of Mr. and
! Mrs. Leslie Laney of North Shade,
Gratiot county, was found smothered
to death. The mother had pulled the
covers over the child's head to keep
the infant warm.
illsdale-Hillsdale college will try
to raise $4,000 before June in order
to obtain 100000 more. Eugene A.
Merrill of Minneapolis, a member of
the class of 1872, offers 100000 and
Ball Brothers, of Muncie, Ind, offer a
similar sum.
Kalamazoo.-Theron Pierce is fac.
ing a charge of unlawfully spearing
bass in a Kalamazoo county lake, al
though he had received a letter writ
ten on paper from the state game war
den's department saying such action
was not unlawful.
Al5ion.-The shooting OF Andrew
! fah &c
zling the local authorities. Stabili,
who has no enemies as far as can be
learned. was shot through the back
while walking home from down town.
He probably will live
Ann Arbor.-Daniel w. Barry. for
many years drain commissioner Of
this county. is dead at his home
in Mortified, after an illness of
six months. which followed a severe
fall last July in Milan. Mr.. Barry died
on the same farm where he was born
and where he had lived all his life.
Traverse City.-Grand Traverse CO
operative fruit and produce ex-
change was organized here by leading
fruit growers of Grand Traverse and
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hired at once to begin work of market
ing. The officers are: President, A.
Dental, Old Mission vice-president, C..
! w. Loeffer, Salon; secretary and treas
urer, T. J. Morgan, Traverse City; d.
rectors, A. Dental, NJ. j. Gilmore, M. l..
Gleason. c. w. Wheeler, T. B. Morgan,
j. w. Markham, G. w. Loeffier.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS will be
made for the annual convention
of the Michigan Press and Printers
federation in Grand Rapids March IL.
IL and 13, at a meeting of the execu-
tive committee to be held here Friday.
An effort will be made to have Arthur
Brisbane of New York and several 9TH
er newspapermen of nationwide repu-
tation speak at the convention. The
secretary of the federation, ]. B. Has
kins. publisher of the Howard City
Record, reports that the organizations
membership is growing steadily.
Lansing.-Michigan Historical COM
mission presented to the members
port for 1914. The commissions re-
port declares that there is urgent need
for a building in which to store the
valuable records which 1t has collected
under state authority and to house the
commissions historical collection,
which has outgrown it's quarters on
the fourth floor of the capitol building.
The commission complains that the
last legislature intended to give 1t
$4,000 for salaries to its clerical force
and $4,000 more for expenses, but that
the bill was worded so that the attor-
ney general ruled 1t was limited to a
single $4,000. It's financial report
shows that 1t expended IS, OO6.S9. While
the report doesn't say so, the commits
sion would like to have its appropria-
tion bill so worded this time that 1t
can really get the money.
Cadillac.-Mrs. Charles Huess could
not understand why her son, Charles.
twenty-fouE years old, slept so late.
She called him, and, receiving no an