The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-02-24
MICHIGAN NEWS BRIEFS


state prison. Friday.
Henry Barkman, Jonesville farm
er, respondent over i'll health, took
his life by hanging Sunday.
The state pardon board has paroled
20 prisoners, leaving 639 in the lonia
institution, which is still over
crowded.
Four men convicted OF the burglary
of store at Webberville some weeks
ago, have been sentenced to from
three to Is years.
Dearborn voted Thursday to issue
$4,000 in bonds for the construction
of a new high school, on the large
site OF the present school building.
Maj. John " Frazier, of Port Huron,
becomes senior surgeon OF the state
militia through the recent death OF
Maj. Ralph c. Apted, of Grand Rapids.
William j. Fairbairn, city manager
of Big Rapids, has filed a voluntary
petition in bankruptcy, which sched-
ules his liabilities at $2,562 and his
assets at $40,
Editor c. S. Langdon, of the M. A.
c. Record, was instructed by the
state board of agriculture to discon-
tinue the use of reformed spelling in
his publication.
w. II. Acker will pay the third 25
per cent dividend, through his trus-
tee, Edward Kihen, for the Richmond
bank, February 2S. About $4,000
will be turned over.
While loading a wagon with grain,
John Tuft, 2S years old of Monroe
dropped dead. He was Spanish
war veteran and is survived by his
widow and two children.
Boy Scout training enabled Stuart
Fletcher and Howard Matzdorf, OF Cad
lilac. to rescue Victor Sjorgren when
he fell through the ice All the boys
are less than 10 years old.
After being in session at Ionia three
days the state pardon board has ad-
journed. Twenty-Five prisoners were
paroled. The prison is crowded to the
corridors. The prison count is 500.
John Reinig, SO years old, oldest
member OF Star Oddfellow lodge,
Saginaw, and said to be the oldest
Oddfellow in Michigan, was honored
at festivities at the local lodge hall.
After being twice married TO the
same man, Mrs. Lulu Z. Glaspie, OF
Pontiac, has commenced proceedings
for a divorce from Horace Glaspie,
who is said to be in Great Falls,
Mont
Aldrich Bosker, of Kalamazoo con-
victed of discharging a member of
the Michigan National Guard from his
employ because he attended camp at
Grayling, will appeal to the supreme
court.
Revived after, it is claimed, his vi
tai functions had been suspended for
10 minutes, James A. Hall, of Grand
Rapids, died boiler in a railway
round house exploded Sunday, scald-
ing him.
Flowers will be part of this years
] hop, February 25, at which planned
to save $1,000 for 200 couples, was
voted down This years hop will be
much more elaborate than the cotton
BALI of 1915.
Michigan produced II per cent of
all automobiles manufactured in the
United States in 1914, according to
figures made public by the census
bureau of the department of COM
MERGE In value, Michigan cars made
up 60 per cent OF the Total.
Fire in the belfry, catching, it is
supposed from a defective chimney
fiue. burned the whole interior of the
eight-room brick graded school build
ing in Worthwhile. The insurance is
$4,000. Glasses are being held in
churches. the public library and SINH
lar places.
More than $4,000 pounds OF fish are
caught at ST. Joseph annually, accord
ing to a report of the game warden's
department. Five hundred miles OF
nets are stretched each season, and
the 1915 catch was valued at $50, 200,
with $4,000 invested, and more than
100 men employed.
Charles Pomeroy. As, suffered the
loss of an ear and a fractured arm
and leg when he was drawn into the
water OF Muskegon lake Sunday by
the gears of an ice hauling machine.
He was under the water ten minutes,
but the use of pulmotor gives him
an even chance to recover.
The nameboard of the schooner
Bridget" which was lost with all
hands off ST. Joseph, Lake Michigan,
in 1885. has been presented to Lodge
No 8, Shipmasters' association, of
Marine City, by William w. Smith, OF
Marine City. The nameboard, which
is hand carved and deliberately de-
signed, was picked up on the beach
near st. st. Joseph in 1886 by man
named Porter, who gave II to Capt. r.
N. McNiff. who in turn presented IL