The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-02-01
MICHIGAN NEWS BRIEFS

OF. LOUIS.
Non-partican candidates will place
the only ticket in the field at the
spring election in Escanaba.
Mrs. John Sproul, of Lexington, rs
years old, died from blood poisoning
resulting from a cat scratch.
DR.. j. r. Dodge, city health officer
and oldest physician in Hudson, is
dead. He was a prominent Mason.
Clement L. LeBare, of Grand Rapids,
SO years old, state organizer and dis
trict deputy of the c. NJ. b. A., is
dead.
Robert Donovan, former mayor OF
Charlotte and only democrat to servo
two terms as sheriff in Eaton county,
is dead.
Governor Sleeper has appointed DR..
j. c. Arnold, of South Haven as
member of the state board of dental
examiners.
Sarah Bernhard will come to Ann
Arbor February 13 for a series of
scenes before the Women's league Of
the university.
After hiccoughing continuously for
36 hours, o. r. Bush, a travelling man
residing in Big Rapids went to hos
pital for treatment.
Lawyers of central Michigan oppose
the bill backed by Detroit jurists to
increase the pay OF circuit court jurors
from 81 to So a day.
Alderman Edward Warner, of Ben
ton Harbor and his partner, Leo. j.
Dwan, were convicted by a jury on
a bootlegging charge.
Visiting around" a necessity for a
number of Oxford village residents
who closed their homes because I'M
able to purchase fuel.
Robert Donovan a Charlotte banker,
50 years old, died of heart disease.
He was prominent in state fraternal
circles, being an Odd Fellow, X. of p,
Maccabee and Mason.
Col. William w. Cole, OF Lansing. "a
years old, civil war veteran, is dead.
He was publisher OF newspapers in
Dundee, st. Louis and Leslie. A wild
ow and three daughters survive.
Mrs. Catherine Diehl, aged rs years
mother of State Representative Bar
ney Diehl, died at her home in Mt.
Clemens. She was a native of Ireland,
but had lived here for more than half
a century.
Jacob Norden, car inspector for the
G. r. e. l., has sued DR.. Paul West
rate OF Grand Rapids, for $4,000 dam
ages. claiming the physician was neg;
ligent and unskillful in the treatment
of one of his eyes.
Cracksmen dynamited the safe In
the Romulus State bank after forcing
the door. They failed to reach the
currency in the upper part of the
safe, and only got s91 in coin, of
which $51 was pennies.
The Old Homestead at Constantine
one of the last landmarks left of pio-
neer days. which has been hostelry
since 1916, has been sold. 1t will be
torn down, its pillars going into the
construction of an elevator.
The Andrews Asphalt Paving Co., of
Hamilton, o.. took a default judgment
in circuit court against the village OF
Birmingham for $16,103.4S, the amount
which the company alleged was the
balance due on paving job completed
last year in Birmingham.
Otto Sachse, who was arrested with
several other grocers, of Pontiac,
charged with giving short weight on
potatoes, pleaded guilty in municipal
court and was fined SO. Mr.. Sachse
said the trouble was due entirely TO
the carelessness OF employees.
The board Of supervisors of Mid
land county have. by a unanimous
vote, adopted resolutions opposing
the plan of steam railroad companies
to have the legislature sanction an
increase in passenger fares from two
cents a mile TO two and a half cents.
Warden Disque says the binder
Irvine output of Jackson prison will
be ample for state farmers. Last
year the output was tsVVosVuV pOuhuS,
but this year it will be 100000 The
price will be higher than last year,
as raw sisal now costs 16 II cents q
pound as compared with cents last
year.
Only two women in Detroit have
been officially granted permits in the
last six years to carry weapons. This
record on file in the county clerks
office, however, does not include wom-
ans old standby, the long, pointed
hatpin that even in this age of mod
ern devices now and then jabs into
evidence in an ungentlemanly scuffle.
One hundred and nine thousand two
hundred and twenty egg yolks' were
destroyed for use as food in the plant
of the General Cold Storage Co., in
Detroit. The yolks, valued by the
owner, the Cornwell company, of Sag
NAV, at $3,066, retail, became frozen
in transit between Saginaw and De-
troit Eugene Berry of the state