The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-03-09
MICHIGAN news BRIEFS

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leased in $4,000 bail
A three days campaign in Croswell
has resulted in the raising OF $4,000
to pay off the Indebtedness on the
new First Methodist church.
A bill of tax limitations is urged by
the Michigan State Tax association.
The body also went on record as fav-
oring a state budget system.
Christopher Kranset, of Milwaukee,
blew his head off with q shotgun Sun
day. He pulled the trigger with a
stick which he still held when found
Major Guy M. Wilson of the Michigan
National Guard announces that pre-
parations are under way for the organ
ization- OF machine gun company in
Flint
The date for the 1916 Milford fair
has been set for September 1922, two
weeks earlier than ever before, to
give the farmers a better chance to
attend.
A mysterious aeroplane, reported
seen flying over Wyandotte about a
week ago, again appeared Thursday
night, according to residents in West
Wyandotte.
The city of Lapeer has obtained
from the navy department the bronze
bow ornament from the U. S. S. Mich
igan and will mount it on a granite
boulder in City hall park.
The new American channel in St
Clair river at this point which will
be 1000 feet long and dredged five
feet deeper, Will not be completed be-
fore the fall of 1917 at the earliest.
John Wertz left an estate of $4,000
to be divided among eight children
He was a Civil war veteran of Nash
vile, who died some weeks ago from
exposure while living as a recluse.
Harry Weiss of Detroit. convicted of
victimizing Frank Farkas, Muskegon
Heights merchant, of 81 1900, has asked
to be paroled in order that he may
marry Miss Mary Orban, of Detroit.
Louis p Hall, 20, of Ann Arbor.
will leave March Is for France to
drive the ambulance presented as a
memorial for his brother, Richard,
who was killed at the front on Christ
mas eve.
Struck by swinging door in Pull
man on Great Western train in Iowa,
Mrs. John A. McClelland, OF
Portland, died in a Des Moines hos
pital of her injuries. Her funeral
took place Sunday.
Sessions OF Farmers Week at the
Michigan Agricultural college closed
Saturday. 81 estimate that the total
attendance at tue sessions this week
has been over 10000" said Superin-
tendent l.. r. Tuft.
Charles F. Foung. 20, of Grand Rap
ids, president of the Citizens Tele-
phone Co, president of the Alpena
Gas Co., president of the Tanners
Supply Co, and owner of the Liyings-
ton hotel, died in Chicago early Mon
day morning.
Miss Mary Zelink, under arrest on
a charge Of forgery in New York, and
who says she did it to be near her
lover in Muskegon, collapsed when a
Gotham detective arrived with papers
10 take her back to face the Judge
whose name she is said to have forged
while in his employ, has sustained a
nervous collapse.
The funeral of Isaac Rogers, known |
to newspaper men all over the country !
as THE Galesburg LIAR" was attend |
ed by practically the entire communi- |
ty Sunday. Rogers plausible tales |
aroused interest all oyer the country |
and brought considerable prominence,
of its kind, to this village which had
never before figured as a source of |
news.
The discovery Of a case Of scarlet |
fever in the home of Mrs. Belle With
erell in charge Of the North Muske-
gon postoffice has led to the scene of
postoffice operations being moved to q
nearby building and the thorough fu-
migation OF all mail found in the post
Office at the time. To head off any
epidemic Mayor Hardy has ordered
hliI JuDli bChOOiS SlOStQ.
Liquor men in Detroit and Michi-
gan have already subscribed $4,000
for campaign to defeat prohibition
at the polls noxt fall and that sum
will shortly reach more than $780,
000,' said Rev. w. II. Wray Boyle,
pastor of the Woodward Avenue De-
troit Presbyterian church, Sunday ev-
ening, in spirited sermon exhorting
his auditors to support the fight
against the greatest evil OF the
world"
Judge George Weimer. of Kalama-
zoo. gave Elmer Bowdin, colored, his
freedom when Bowlin was brought be-
fore the iu6ge for sentence on a con-
tempt charge, the judge permitting
him to go because he had saved the
life of Deputy Sheriff Thomas Dorgan
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