The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1919-06-19

Army.
Hillsdale-Five horses were burn
ed to death when Frank Caskey's
farm was burned to the ground. The
cause is unknown.
Albion-While inspecting the city
jail, Chief of Police Stoddard found
quantity of Bolshevik literature and
song books hidden in cell.
Battle Creek-Dennis Strong, Y. NJ.
C. A. secretary, suffered a severed
wrist tendon when a bottle of pop he
was opening for a soldier exploded.
Grand Haven-Myron Elliott. nine
years old, saved the life OF Jonn
Moore, who, diving in Spring Lake,
came up striking his head on raft.
Port Huron-James Grice, engineer
at the st. Clair city water works, was
fined $25 and costs for killing rooins
and using them for eating purposes.
Grand Rapids-A. A. Carroll, super
intendent of police, has been ordered
by the city commission to appoint
several policewomen, appointments 70
take enect July l.
Bay City-The 3-year-old son Of Mr..
and Mrs. Harry Burleson, was drown
ed in a well at the rear of their home.
The child was taken out about 10
minutes after the accident
North Adams-Miss Mildred Cor
bett. of this town, has left for Siberia,
ON a Y. M. c. A. mission. She has
been in the work in France, Oklahoma
and New Mexico for five years.
Cheboygan-Private Joseph LineskL
of this city, who was imprisoned for
refusing to submit to a second opera
ton while in camp, will be released,
according to the judge advocates de-
partment.
Battle Creek-While Mrs. Frank
Denig went to a store for groceries
her five small children left alone at
home tipped over an oil lamp which
set a fire to the house. Neighbors
put out the fire.
Grand Rapids-Eugene Cross, 80,
railroad fireman, and Mrs. Ray Reed,
80, wife of a railroad engineer, were
drowned in Reeds lake when their
canoe, which Cross was rocking, cap
sized. The families were mutual
friends.
misunderstanding from an auto
trip to McBain with her husband aud
another couple Mrs. Myrtle Shemmer,
43, wife of w. c. Shemmer, a local
bill poster, shot and killed herself in
her room while her seven children
stood nearby.
Owosso-The body of an elephant
which died of blood poison after step.
ping on broken glass in Ypsilanti has
been offered by a circus showing here
to the Michigan Agricultural College
for experimental purposes. The pachy.
derm was valued at $4,000.
Grand Rapids-Because he claimed
exemption from military service on
the ground that he was a native of
The Netherlands, immigration author.
tiles have filed a petition in superior
court asking that Bertus Zylema To
forever barred from citizenship.
Petoskey-Miss Glenora M. Lewis,
20, of Fremont, a school teacher, was
drowned in Burt lake when she fell
from a rowboat. One of her 12-year.
old pupils was nearly drowned trying
to rescue her. She had planned 10
have the school picnic at Sagers re-
sort where the accident happened.
Battle Creeh-Michigan w. C. T. L.
members propose to contribute $751;
500 to the national jubilee fund, de-
signed to help prohibition maintain
the ground 1t has gained 1t is the
plan of the organization to raise this
amount by boosting the membership
to $1,000 and assessing each member
S1.00.
Lansing-Michigan has officially re-
cognized the Importance to its indus.
tries of a deep waterway from the
Great Lakes to the Atlantic. Rep.
Merlin Wiley, Sault Ste. Marie, in-
troduced a bill to create commls-
sion to cooperate with similar bodies
in other lake states in urging Con-
| gress to act
Acknowledgement Manager R. NJ.
Randall of the Consolidated Coal com.
pany gave out statement that unless
people buy their winter supply now
and keep mines operating there will
be serious shortage of coal next fall.
Many mines, he says, have closed.
Railroads are not filling some con-
tracts. Neither are some factories.
Big Rapids-Ferris Institute stu
dents here clipped Harold Tibbetts
hair, ducked him in Clear lake and
then made him walk half way back to
the city barefooted and hatless. He
took the next train out OF town. lib.
belts, whose home is In Lapeer, Is a
Ferris Institute student who married
a coed May ~. His bride is still
here.
Detroit-In order that they may
learn more about the efficient methods
employed by northern men in farm.
ing, dairying and live stock raising,
a committee Of more than so SSonii.