The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-06-28
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will have manual training, domestic
science, gymnasiums and fresh air
rooms.
A mammoth cabaret was the clos
ing fete for the 1000 delegates at the
Elk's state convention at Muskegon.
The patriotic pageant was witnessed
by 10000 persons.
Bernie Vande Heide and Leonard
Kievot, rural mail carriers, were SER
iously injured at iceland when an
auto In which they were riding was
struck by freight train.
Curtis L. Meter, of Flat Rock, own
or of the flour and feed mill of that
place, lost his life in HIS sawmill. He
was adjusting some machinery near
the saw, slipped. He was cut in two.
William Donald Gordon, former
speaker Of the Michigan house of rep
resentatives, and former district at
torney for the Eastern Michigan Fed
eral district, died at his home In Bay
City.
John Morley, OF the Michigan Sol
diers home, and z. X. Clough, of Penn
field, met each other for the first time
at the G. A r. encampment since they
talked with one another at Clouds
Mill, Virginia, June 20, 1865.
Recruiting of Civil war veterans
was urged by Commander L. H. Ives
at the Thirty-ninth annual state en-
campment of the G.. A. r. in Battle
Creek. Only one-third of the veterans,
said he, are enrolled in the G. A. r..
ranks.
Arrangements have been made with
the county road commissioners for the
use Of jail labor on the dirt shoulders
of the concrete road on Woodward
avenue between Pontiac and Detroit.
The shoulders are in bad shape and
make automobiling dangerous. They
are to be repaired so they will widen
the highway two feet.
Three hundred Flint women, under
the direction of the Woman's council,
have undertaken to register the wom-
empower of Flint for war duties Of all
kinds, from nursing and making sup
plies for the Red Cross, to taking the
places in the factories and other &C.
equations of men who are called to
the colors. Flint is the first city in
Michigan to undertake the registra-
ton, although a number of eastern
cities have done so.
The seven leading students of the
graduating class of the Muskegon high
school, who averaged 95 per cent or
better in their studies for the five-year
term, are all girls.
John O'Connor, of Bellevue, 90
years old, was struck and instantly
killed when he stepped from behind a
westbound Grand Trunk train in front
OF an eastbound freight.
Employment of women as drug
clerks, so men can go to war, was
discussed at the convention of the
Michigan State Pharmaceutical asso-
citation at Grand Rapids.
d. M. Gilleo, piano tuner of Cheboy-
gan, was killed and Miss Phoebe John
son perhaps fatally injured when an
automobile in which they were riding
was struck by a Michigan Central
train near Grayling.
Alien enemies in Pontiac will be re-
CURED to show passports In order to
be permitted to work within, live in,
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will be established with a half-mile
radius around local factories engaged
in the manufacture of supplies for the
government.
A resolution providing $1,000 for
beneficiaries of any member of the
state order of Fraternal Order of
Eagles killed in the war, was adopted
at the opening session of the state
convention at Escanaba. Dues were
increased 10 cents for each month to
make up the fund.
Detroit will have potatoes at $1.10
per bushel. The Federal State bank,
Of that city, will be the financial agent
In the sale of this commodity. Persons
from this institution will get their
supplies as ordered or receive their
money back. James N. Mcbride, Mich
igan director of markets and the coun-
ty farm agents OF the upper part OF
the state are now placing orders.
Vigilance committees to assure pro-
lection of women's work, wages and
working conditions are being appoint
ed throughout the state by Mrs. o. II.
Clark, president of the Michigan
Equal suffrage association. Equal pay
for equal work will be the slogan of
the state association, according to its
president, who holds that the rate of
pay should be determined by the work
performed and not by the sex Of the
worker.
The chief OF the Roscommon county
democracy, Hubbard Head, conspicu-
GUS at democrat state conventions OF
recent years by reason of being the
only delegate who reflected prosperity
at such functions by wearing a silk
tile and carrying a cane with high
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