The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-02-17
MICHIGAN NEWS BRIEFS

William Sherman, 80, of Sterling,
while blasting stumps, lost one eye
in premature explosion.
The old west side Saginaw public
library building was destroyed by fire.
The loss is estimated at $4,000.
Leading farmers of Genessee, Oak.
land and Livingstone counties organ.
lied the Tri-county Agricultural asso'
citation.
North Branch has the first free
public library in Lapeer county. The
library, opened last week, has $50
volumes.
Eleven of the II men chosen for
jury duty in Berrien county bear the
name "William"-or I'll Willies," as
one wag commented.
After holding office as a city official
for Ia years, Mayor A. ]. Johnson, of
Pontiac. has stated that he will not
be a candidate for reelection in the
spring.
Several hundred dollars worth OF
jewelry was taken from the store OF
+. Richmond, Maybee, jeweler Sat
urday night, when a burglar forced
entrance through the front door.
The police and Berrien county Of
ficers are looking for burglars who
stole a gallon of alcohol from the Pere
Marquette station of Bridgman and
didn't even modest 500 in the cash
drawer.
Michigan Dairymen's association.
officers elected in Kalamazoo r. r.
FAIRY, of Lapeer, former vice-president
was chosen president, and f. V.
Bennett, of Elsie was made vice-presi.
dent
Revived after, It is claimed, his vi.
tai functions had been suspended FOX
10 minutes, James A. Hall, of Grand
Rapids, died A boiler in a railway
round house exploded Sunday, scald.
ing him.
Increased enrollments in several de-
beginning of a new semester at this
University of Michigan. The increase
in the literary department is said to
have been about 100.
Shiawassee county sheep and cattle
feeders are much interested in action
of the state association of livestock
dealers, which has been formed TO
give railroads a fight because of al
legged careless handling of stock.
A single litter of hogs-a family of
11-have given their owner a net
profit of $275 They were sold at
seven cents a pound, live weight
Joseph Cain, of Middleton, who raised
them, values the family's mother
highly. Her offsprings have netted
him more than 1915.
Charles J. Strang printer who died
recently at the age of SO years, was
son Of king" ]. j. Strang, of Nor
mon colony fame. For AZ years he
was a resident of Lansing and had a
wide circle of friends in the state
A widow, seven daughters, a son and
two brothers survive.
Joseph Howard is behind bars in
st. Joseph Jail. Joseph is accused OF
Bookkeeping. and he is distinguished
as the first person arrested on this
charge since local option was adopted
in Berrien county in the spring OF
1914. He is accused Of giving a drink
of whisky to Niles man.
A barrel of cider has changed from
sweet to hard" and is rapidly ap-
preaching the vinegar stage while
Judge Barr, of st. Joseph, is trying
to decide what to do with it, The
cider is part of the $S5 estate of David
Benjamin. and the administrator,
George Daniels, has been able to dis
pose of everything but the cider in
this, dry county.
An honest-faced. red-haired Battle
Creek grocery boy spent several anx-
ious hours in Jail recently because he
identified as his own bicycle which
had been used by the person who
burglarized two Battle Creek homes.
He finally convinced the police that
he, too. was a victim of the thief;
the bicycle had been stolen from him
Just before the burglaries.
Milford Able. 13 years old, whose
detention at Owosso puzzled for a
time officials of three counties, has
been sent to the industrial home for
boys at Lansing. He fed from his
home, near Perry, was
captured at Battle Creek, picked the
lock of the detention home there,
and, returning to Perry, robbed the
Hough store of candy, gum, etc.
James Wigfall and Ernest Wallace,
Negroes, were sentenced to 33 days
each in the county Jail by Judge Miner
of Owosso, and in addition were fined
800 each. II the fines are not paid,
the sentences will be extended to 80
days. The men we're respectively chef
and porter on an Ann Arbor railroad
cafe car and peddled whisky to purch-