The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1919-07-17

has been received at Custer.
Bay City-The two-platoon fire sys-
tenn has gone into effect here. Thirty
more firemen have been hired.
Baldwin-The Lake County board OF
supervisors has purchased five tons OF
poison to combat the grasshoppers.
here by millions.
Algonac-Souvepir rings were pre-
sented to all returned Army men in
Clay Township at the Homecoming
celebration July "a.
Paw Paw-Michael Miller, OF this
city. was fatally injured when his neck
was broken by the scoop of a steam
shovel which fell and struck him.
Cheboygan-While starting a fire
with kerosene, blazing oil fell on the
clothing of Eli July at his home here,
and he received burns which resulted
in his death.
Big Rapids-Elmer Ward, Is years
old, thirteenth son of Maurice Ward,
was killed while shooting hawks. His
with bullet wound in his chest.
Marshall-Because Mrs. Horace Ball
started sheet metal plant in a res
idence section of Albion neighbors
have brought suit in Circuit Court,
asking injunction against its opera
ton because Of the noise.
Milan-While cultivating corn on
the McKohn farm here William Royal,
sen of Walter Royal, was thrown be-
meath the cultivator when his team
ran away. He was badly cut about
the head and arm, but will recover.
Morenci-While funeral services
were held here for the late Lieuten-
ant Simon II. Dicran, who met death
in a 1000 feet fall at Morrow Field,
Detroit, other birdmen circled above
his grave and dropped wreaths upon
it.
Lansing-Primary school fund mon
ey amounts to 100000, according to
unofficial totals of the specific tax
made by o. B. Fuller, auditor-general.
The school census on which the ap-
portionment is to be made, shows 919,-
665 children in the state.
Houghton-Ralph Carlson. 35 years
old, a bachelor farmer living two
miles from Baraga, told his nephew,
10 years old, he intended to kill him.
SELF The boy ran for help. When he
returned Carlson was found dead with
a 22-caliber rifle bullet in his head.
Corunna-Two damage suits in
three months, due to automobile &C
cidents, Is the record of Sol Rifkn,
junk dealer, of Owosso Mrs. Alice
Wallace, Corunna, the second plain
tiff, asks $4,000 for personal injuries
and the alleged wrecking of her
buggy by Rifkin.
Cadillac-Several hundred Polish
farmers are to be brought into Wex-
ford and Lake counties in a colonial
ton scheme promoted by Chicago men
for development of waste lands here.
Already 120 Polish families have
bought land, no less than 80 acres
being sold to each farmer.
Lansing-A statewide inspection of
business houses is to be launched at
once under direction of Homer Rut-
ledge, state fire marshal. Particular
attention will be paid to the smaller
towns where no inspections are made
by local officials. Inspectors will be
kept as long in town - is necessary
TO complete the work.
Saginaw r. Hutchins, "a years
old, gave his life in the Flint river at
Fosters to save the lives of his grand
daughters, IS and 10 years old. The
girls went beyond their depth while
bathing and were drowning when the
old man plunged in, dragged them to
shallow water, but fell back into the
stream and drowned before he could
be rescued.
Pontiac-A sequel OF the mob rule
demonstrations in the Groveland town.
ship during the war has come into
court. Suit has been brought by Mrs.
Carl Tode against several prominent
Groveland men for payment for in
juries she said she suffered when a
mob called at her home and painted
the barns yellow. Tode, it was then
charged, had refused to sign a Red
Cross pledge.
Detroit-The first German to be
granted full citizenship papers in the
Wayne county circuit court since tho
United States government halted such
proceedings, following the outbreak Of
the war with Germany, is a priest,
the Rev. Father Roman Klafkowski,
Of Hamtramck. The clergyman, who
was born 40 years ago in Posen, came
to Detroit In 1905. He took out his
first papers in 1912.
Lansing-By order of the public
utilities commission, service on the
Ludington & Northern railroad be-
tween Ludington and Hamlin Lake.
which was discontinued in April, has
been restored Heretofore the road |
operated to the upper end OF the lake.