The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1918-12-12

Gals are investigating.
Buchanan-While hunting with his
son, Harry Barry of Buchanan was
accidentally shot by the latter and
may lose his right arm.
Monroe-H. Gilmore, of Monroe,
and F. Parker, of Wilmot, Mich, APP
pear on the Canadian casualty list
as prisoners of war repartiated.
Saginaw-Secretary Lane. OF the
Department of the Interior, has been
asked to attend the reconstruction
congress to be held here Dec. IL.
Ann Arbor-Prof. w. II. Hobbs, Of
the U. of M, denounced pacifists now
styling themselves internationalists,
during his lecture on "Our Debt to
France"
Ypsilanti-Two more gold stars
will be added to the Signal Corps
Auxiliary service flag. The men kill
ed are Rudolph Lekstrum and Conan
Wheaton.
ACCOMPLISHMENT Runge and
John Miller, of Lark, were killed near
Wayside when steering gear OF their
automobile broke and the machine
landed in a ditch.
Benton Harbor-After a chase over
three states, Nelson J. Sherer has
been arrested on a charge of assault
ing DR.. Z. A. Sorby during the peace
celebration here.
Reed City-The village OF Evart
will bring action in Circuit Court in
an effort to force Osceola County
supervisors to pay some influenza
quarantine bills.
lieved to have held down the audi
erce to hear Mischa Elman, Russian
violinist, to such small numbers hat
the concert was called off.
Marshall-One of the oldest dry
| good establishments in Michigan
changed hands recently when Miss
Stella Snyder, clerk in the store OF
George Perrett & Sons, purchased
the concern
Saginaw-James c. Elliot, engine
man, first class, of the U. S. S. Iowa,
is dead at Norfolk, Va, from burns
received by scalding. His is the first
death among the 70 members Of the
Saginaw naval reserve.
East Lansing-Poultry farmers are
being urged by M. A. C. experts to
weed out Stacker" hens. Reports
show fair profits in poultry being
made in locations where demonstra-
items were conducted along this line.
Cheboygan-Found guilty of caus-
ing the death of Mrs. w. II. Bennett,
his housekeeper, by administering
poison, Tommy Thompson, 70 years
old, has been sentenced to life i'm
prisonment at the Michigan State
Prison.
Petoskey-The schooner Stafford.
which went on the rocks mile OF
Beaver Island light, near st. James.
has been floated and towed into Char
levoix harbor. She will be repaired
in drydock The ship was bound
from Bots Blanc island to Milwaukee.
Monroe-Lawrence Edwards, a De-
troit patrolman, pleaded not guilty
when arraigned on the charge OF
violating the Prohibition Law and
was committed to the custody of the
sheriff in default of $500 bail. He is
charged with having 100 quarts Of
whisky in his possession.
Port Huron-Owing to numerous
complaints received from parents OF
high school students and minors ref
ative to their gambling by shaking
dice and playing pool for money,
Chief Chambers has instructed every
patrolman to make arrests of pool
room proprietors who permit youths
to congregate in their places.
Millington-Public schools of Mill
ington were recently ordered closed
for one month, in an effort to stamp
out the influenza epidemic here.
Twelve cases have been reported.
Because of the approach of the usual
Christmas vacation, 1t was decided 1t
would be impractical to attempt to re-
sumo school work before January l.
Kalamazoo-A plan to construct a
canal across the lower peninsula to
connect Lakes Michigan and Huron
is advocated by former Mayor James
B. Balch in a letter to Governor
Sleeper The threatened congestion
of the labor market following the re-
turn of the American soldiers would
be lessened by the project, Mr. Balcn
declares. Use of the remainder OF
the stat. s s5,000,0c9 war fund as a
nucleus for fund to build the canal
is urged.
Lansing-The Michigan War Pre-
paredness Board was notified by the
National Defense Bureau at Washing
ton that the wartime restrictions
placed on retail establishments rel
alive to employment Of labor and con-
servation of transportation facilities
as applied to Christmas shopping have
been lifted. Some time ago an ap-
peal was made to the merchants end
manufacturers to reduce rather than