The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1918-07-25


pledged.
Bay City-No charge has yet been
made against Fred Jackson arrested
as Canadian deserter, who shot two
county officers.
Hillsdale-Owen ID. Tice and Ed
ward t. Hill, of Burr Oak, picked up
on train with five quarts of whisky.
are bound over to court.
Allegan-Chester Rich, Camp Gus
ter soldier convicted of robbing G..
r. q /. depot at Martin, was sentenced
for from is months to years.
Grand Rapids-The work or fight
order has had little effect upon the la
boring classes. About 20 deferred
classification men have shifted to 9TH
er jobs.
Kalamazoo = Garritt Menninga,
aged z, was killed Saturday while play
ing on the interurban bridge, when he
was struck by a southbound Grand
apids-Kalamazoo flyer. His body fell
into the water anG has not been re-
covered.
Los Angele3-Called here from De-
troit to testify in federal court, Miss
Olive Kidder brought along her knit
ting needles and yarn and while wait
ing to be called to the stand knitted
dozen pairs of socks for Uncle
Sams's soldiers in France.
Niles-Mrs. Mary Martin celebrated
by completing 1000 gun wipes as her
bit of war work. She was born in Eng
land and has a number of relatives in
the English army and a grandson in
the United States engineering service.
Flint-Philip and Frank Cicale.
brothers, were bound over 20 court for
storing hard cider in their soft drink
parlor-Local grocers have been warn
ed that citizens are driving here from
other towns to fraudulently purchase
25-pound canning rations of sugar. Lo-
cal stores have a surplus.
Marshall-Attorney e. Sidney Os-
dent of Tekonsha, writes that one of
the ships in the new emergency feet
has been named after his native viii
lage by Mrs. Woodrow Wilson. Tekon-
sha is named after "Tekolquasha," an
Indian chief of pioneer days.
Harbor Springs Clarence II
Howell, president of the Illinois Steel
company, of St Louis, Mo-, whose
summer home is at Harbor Point,
shipped by express one crate OF straw
berries to President Woodrow Wilson
at. the White House. The berries
were grown in the Thomas Robinson
gardens at this place.
Hillsdale-James Thompson has
been brought back from Camp Custer
by attorneys in an effort to force him
to deed back to his mother their 100
acre farm. He filed deed from his
mother, a marriage license and a mort.
gage for $4,000 on the property in ia
vor of his wife on the same day re-
Gently at Battle Creek.
Observation-Disclosures Conroy writes his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Conroy,
at Ceresco, that he was injured in bat
tie in April, has been in hospital five
weeks and expects an honorable dis.
charge and to be sent home. He en-.
listed in Battle Creek, April 3, 1917,
and was sent overseas last November.
He lost his right arm and toe.
Lansing-Governor Sleeper mas Sc.
lected the following as members of the
motor truck highway commissions: w.
Z. Metzger, G. G. Starkweather. H. 8.
Earle, Detroit; f. f. Rogers, G. p.
Downey, Lansing; Chester Howell,
Saginaw; George Z. Yokom, Port HUI.
ron; Fred u. Pantlind, John |. Gibson,
Grand Rapids; Fred Hodges, Kalama.
zoo; ]. d. bort, Flint; w. b. Mitchell
Bay City, and Burt Wickham. Ian.
sing secretary.
Ferndale-The Ferndale commission
has taken steps ir the proposal to
bond Ferndale for $4,000 for water,
sewer and other necessary improve
ments, In the appointment of com.
mittee composed of Commissioner
Lever and Damon, to investigate the
possibility of extending the Detroit TO-,
inch water main now under construc
ton on Woodward avenue. between
the Seven and the Eight-mile roads
through the village.
Owosso-- M company, One Hundred
and Twenty-fifth infantry, of Owosso
lost its first man killed In action OF
July Is when Private Ernest Olenberg
of Wixom, fell in action. Several 9th
er Owosso men were severely wounded
in the same engagement Olenberg en-.
listed here a year ago and his name
was recognized in the casualty list By
Sergeant Sackett Wright, who enlist
ed him, but who is now out of the ser
vice. Several Hamtramck men wound
ed at the same time are believed to bs
members of the Owosso company.
Tecumseh-The home and barn of L
ID. Dewey, prominent pioneer resi-
dent of Tecumseh, were covered with
pro-G erman signs in black paint some