The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1919-04-17


Grand Haven-John c. Angus has
been elected president of the Cham
Der of Commerce here. B. A. Blake
ney is secretary.
Jennings-John Wilson, a resident
here for 30 ,ears. was killed when he
fell from a logging chain at one Of
the mills here.
Big Rapids-Fifteen students living
here are being sought by the police
for rushing" local picture theatre.
One of the students paid fine.
Grand Rapids-Chas. Hedges, will
probably die as the result of injuries
received when caught in a whirling
pulley at the gypsum plant here.
Owosso-A legal battle has started
in the Circuit Court to determine
which of two concerns is entitled to
the use of the name of the Owosso
Dry Cleaning Co.
Kalamazoo-Victor Lawler, drug
gist, will be arraigned on charge or
selling quantity of compound spir-
its of juniper he knew was to be used
as beverage.
Bay City--Arthur McInerney, Flint.
has filed voluntary petition in bank
ruptcy in the United States District
Court here, scheduling his assets as
$500 AND his liabilities as 1882.
Owosso-Owosso Elks have in
dorsed Edward L. Stanard, secretary
of the local lodgs, for president of the
Michigan Association of Elks, which
opens it's annual convention here
June Is.
Ionia-Guy Bulace will face trial
in Circuit Court charged with violating
the Prohibition Law because he sold
10 bottles of lemon extract to farm
hand who was not married and did not
make cakes.
Lansing-The house passed the
Read bill, which places a state tax
on all dogs, the money to be used TO
recompense farmers, whose sheep are
killed by dogs Detroit is exempted
from the act
Corunna-Of the 95 cases on the
April calender OF the Shiawassee
County Circuit Court, 67 are applica-
lions for divorce and three of the six
criminal cases are for violation of the
Prohibition Law.
Kalamazoo-Kalama first an
nual municipal exposition was opened
at Masonic temple. An extensive dis
play of maps, relics, records ami iu-
struments used in carrying on the
city government was shown.
Grand Rapids-Judge NJ L. Durham
has issued an order restraining the
city from buying the Hydraulic Wa
ter Works The order was made upon
petition of S. B. Schurz, who claims
the price of 10000 is exorbitant,
Kali.mazoo-Sergt w. II. Geal, OF
the Fighting Geal Family" who en-
listed with the Canadian forces early
in the war, is reported as missing in
action in Siberia. Geal saw service
with the British in India and in the
Boer war
Cass City-At a club meeting here
in honor of Mrs. Julia N. Hoffman, So
years old, she was photographed
astride horse. She has reputation
here as an equestrian. On her eighty
first birthday she rode on a horse in
a procession.
Grand Rapids-Two human skele-
tons, one with hole in the skull and
the other with the side of the head
crushed in, have been found by Will
liam T. Smith in his back yard. Coro-
of man and woman.
Ionia-Willam c. Peabody, Ionia
County farmer, has filed suit for di-
vorce, charging that his wife attempt
ed to sendshim to hospital for the
insane Peabody appeared in Probate
Court and was discharged when two
physicians reported him sane.
Bay City-The Straus Land Corpora
ton has awarded a SIS 900 contract
to a Cleveland concern to complete
farm in Bay County Local contractors
who started the job last year aban-
doned it after several months work.
Kalamazoo--Mrs. Agnes Mix, of
Hartford, Mich, granddaughter OF
chief of the Pottawat-
tonne Indians, is in Kalamazoo collect
ing evidence to prove her claim to
share of the s15S,OO0 she says is still
due the tribes as deferred payment for
lands given up by the treaty of 1888.
Bay City-Gordon Pierson came
home from France after xix years
service in the. ny to find that his ia
Their, mother and sister had been killed
Ave weeks ago in an automobile acct
dent. He came here seeking his only
living relative, an aunt, and learned
that she had died two months ago Of
influenza.
Saginaw-Three hundred and fifty
Saginaw business women, members OF
the Saginaw Business Girls Co-opera-