The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-10-05
MICHIGAN news BRIEFS


Saturday morning.
The rabbit and bird shooting season
opened with hundreds of hunters in
the fields Sunday.
Josephus Daniels. secretary of the
navy, spoke in Bay City last week on
Schools in the Navy"
Andrew Moore, Alamo farm hand.
was convicted in circuit court of STAY
ing Isaac Pelon in a fist fight.
Efforts are being made by Saginaw
ministers to have Billy Sunday come
to that city for talk on booze"
Deciding that there was no need
for the present for the services of
police matron in Flint, the police COM
mission has decided to abolish the of.
fee.
Eighty candidates for higher
degrees of Harugari, German order.
were in Ann Arbor to take the work
during the national biennial conven'
ton.
With potatoes selling at $3.50
bushel, Soren Erickson. Pere Mar
quette township farmer, is regretting
tho loss of tubers from a Quarter-acre
patch by theft.
The Grand Rapids police have es-
tahlished a quarantine in the vicin-
ity of Eastern avenue and Crescent
street, n. E., where five persons have
been bitten by made dogs.
George E. Fleming, OF Grand Rapids,
who was arrested on a charge OF lar
cency, appeared to be getting ready
for an abundance of wealth for ~
pocketbooks were found on his per-
son.
Registration figures for the Mich.
gan Agricultural College show 1,4Sl
enrolled during the first week, of
which 523 are freshmen. At the end
! Of last years fall term 1,499 were en-
rolled.
Steps are being taken by relatives
in Grand Rapids and Grand Haven
to have the body of Frank Beattie
brought back to this country. He was
killed in France while fighting with
the Allies.
At a conference of the Democratic
State Central Committee the name of
John S. Smith of Elba was substituted
for that of Lawrence Price Of Lansing
as a candidate for Lieutenant-Gover.
nor OF Michigan.
r. X. Steward. formerly head OF the
engineering drawing department of
the University Of Illinois. has succeeded
Prof. V. T. Wilson as head or the
drawing department at the Michigan
Agricultural college.
Muskegon police. who have loaned
money frequently TO residents OF near
by towns and villages, who wake up
the morning after a spree in Muskegon
and find themselves penniless, have
stopped the practice.
More than / 1000 women in Michigan
are preparing to attend the annual
convention of the State Federation of
Women's clubs TO be held in Jackson,
Oct. 1927. The federation has a mem
bership of 1926 clubs.
Alex. Ether West Hubbell is IN =
first victim OF the hunting season in
the copper country. He blew the top
of his head off when he fell over a
sawbuck in the backyard of his home.
Huhbell was 80 years old
Supt. Wright of the Michigan school
for deaf is having added a large new
manual training department. The first
building erected at the school, over GO
years ago, and until recently a boys
dormitory, is to be utilized.
Using a stovepoker to force the
locks on the door and cash drawer
of the Michigan Central ticket office
in Albion, thieves secured all the
money in the place, $50, while the
agent was away for lunch.
Two automobile bandits entered the
country store Of Daniel Hasbrouck, on
Millers road, four miles south of Lans
ing. backed Hasbrouck and two Gus
toners up against the show cases and
made them give up everything they
had.
Harry Monier, Pere Marquette
brakeman, used rail for a pillow
and fell asleep while waiting for &
switch engire. When the engine came
the pilot struck Monier's head and
: knocked him out of the way just IN
tine to save his life.
More than 1000 members OF thu
Michigan Boys conference will NEE
! in Lansing, Dec. 1-9. Seven bands will
lead a march of the visitors through
the streets OF Lansing. The con
ference is a branch of Y. NJ. e. A
r work for boys between IA and 1!
l years old.
!, Circuit Judge Willis d. Perkins o
1 Grand Rapids has announced his can
e didacy for the supreme bench at thu
g convention to be held next spring !
4 Chief Justice John w. Stone decide
{ not to be a candidate for reelection
r II Judge Stone is a candidate Judg
r Perkins will refuse to have his nam