The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-03-02
MICHIGAN NEWS BRIEFS

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era in Lansing.
Mayors OF Michigan will meet in
Grand Rapids, March 8 to plan cam
paign for reduction in insurance
rates.
Juniors at Adrian college stole the
seniors academic gowns, following the
first public appearance OF the near
grads.
full-time health officer for every
city OF more than 5000 is proposed by
state authorities to check the spread
OF tuberculosis.
Blissfeld churches were closed Sun
day and the schools will be closed this
week, following the discovery OF two
cases OF scarlet fever
The forgery case against II. Nj.
bearing. defaultlng cashier OF the de-
funct Albion National bank, was again
adjourned until March 6.
A Grand Rapids clothing dealer pin
ned 40 one-dollar bills on a dummy in
! his window and thieves broke in over
night and stole the dummys raiment.
Frank Linhart, of Saginaw. was pro-
badly fatally shot in the neck when
he surprised burglar who had broken
into his home. The victim was shot
twice, and the intruder escaped.
Steps have been taken to organize
military company in Adrian. COM
posed entirely Of business and profes-
sional men. II will be known as the
Business Mems Training battalion.
Pasaville Palmerie, aged 80, for so
years resident of Detroit, died as he
read of operations against the Aus
TRANS in the Trent valley. Saturday.
He was an officer in General Carl
baldis army in lS4S.
The vets in Shiawassee, Jackson
and Iosco have appeals now pending
in the supreme court against decisions
of boards of supervisors in those coun-
ties in connection with petitions for
local option elections.
John Pakkala, who pleaded guilty of
assault with criminal intent on a Crys-
tai Falls school teacher on a lonely
road, was sentenced by Judge Elan.
ming from 25 to so years, the court
recommending 80 years.
c. w. Bennett, Alamo farmer, COM
mitted suicide with poison in a Kala-
mazoo hotel. A note left by Bennett
stated that he feared he was going in
sane and would be taken to an asy-
lum, he preferring death
Detroit bank clearings for the week
totaled $31S79,s17.O4, a gain OF s11,-
LAP, 1857 compared with the same
week last year according to the re-
port of the Detroit Clearing House.
Transactions during the week involved
$S2.377,OO0.
Negotiations that may bring William
Jennings Bryan and former Congress-
man Richmond Pearson Hobson 10
Michigan TO campaign for the state
prohibition amendment have been un-
dertaken by the Anti-Saloon league
campaign committee.
Governor Ferris has issued reauisi-
ton papers for Paul Morton, alias
Pickford, under arrest in Alabama, on
a charge of passing worthless checks
at Paw Paw. Morton is said to have
represented himself as a brother OF
Mary Pickford, the actress.
The Briscoe Motor corporation will
have to pay the full franchise fee for
it's reincorporation, so the board of
appeals in foreign corporations, con
sisting of Acknowledgement Fellows,
Treasurer Haarer and Auditor-G General
Fuller, has decided The decision
means $4,000 to the state.
Five hundred and twelve husky i'm
migrants in old-world costumes, rep
resenting 33 nations, filed out OF the
steerage OF an ocean liner and into
an enormous black melting pot" at
the Detroit armory, Sunday afternoon,
to celebrate their graduation from the
Ford Motor company English school.
The new $4,000 state armory for
the Owosso militia company will be
dedicated AprfI rs, at the eighteenth
anniversary of the filling out OF the
company for the Spanish-American
war service. The building is said to
be the finest one-company post In the
state. A military ball will serve to
commemorate the occasion.
State universities and the Univer.
sity of Michigan in particular, were
attacked by Bishop Charles ID. Will
liams, of Detroit, in Hill auditorium
Sunday night because of what he de-
olared their absolute lack of religious
recognition. Professors were attacked
for destroying the childhood faith of
young students without substituting
any other beliefs of religious nature.
Bert Lessiter, as. hanged himself in
his barn at his farm. seven miles from
Bedding, and was found dead by his
brother VIII. Bert, who lived in Beld-
ing, went to the farm preparing to
move there and ate breakfast with