The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1919-06-26

$46,045 operating the Grand Rapids &
Indiana railway last year, according
to its annual report.
Monroe-Mrs. George Stadler, SIS,
and daughter were burned, the for
mer seriously when garments, clean
ed with gasoline. were brought near
a gas stove.
Albion-Thinking that he had heard
flock of crows, Geo. Heisler went to
his woods and found that the noise
came from hundreds of 17-year locusts
perched on young grubs.
Pontiac-For the second time in
nine months the American Savings
bank has doubled its capital stock.
Stockholders have authorized an in
crease from 100000 TO 100000.
Pontiac-Because Of lack of enthusi-
asm found among returned soldiers
with regard TO gala day celebration
and Homecoming, the plans for such
an event here July have been drop
ped
Grand Rapids-After being out %
hours, a Circuit Court jury decided
that Samuel Vinton was entitled 10
$3.50 damages from Plainfeld Town
ship when his hay rack fell into a
holo and injured him.
Manistee-While swimming close
to the shore in Lake Michigan, Harry
Sligowski, 13 years old, was seized
with cramps and drowned in three
feet of water. Two hours of artif-
cial respiration failed to save him.
Kalamazoo-Pay increases aggregat-
ing S450,000 annually have been an
nOunced by the paper mills of Kalama-
zoo. All men employed in the mills
were advanced 40 cents a day and wo.
men 25 cents day. The increases
affect 1000.
Crystal Falls-Former State Sena-
tor NJ. II. Moriarity has resigned the
Office of prosecuting attorney for Iron
county and asked that Major NJ. S.
McDonough. who resigned the Office
two years ago, to enter the army, be
given his place.
Pontiac-While coasting through
the water behind a sailboat, Miss
Helen F. Brake, Is years old, Detroit.
lost her hold on the boat and sank in
the deepest part of Straits lake, five
miles west of Pontiac. The water was
80 feet deep where she went down.
Pontiac-Closely following the death
of her daughter from influenza and
that of an infant grandchild. Mrs.
Harry Wood, of Pontiac, expired sud.
denly at Chelsea, where she was help
ing care for another daughter. Mrs.
Dahue Riker, who was seriously i'll.
Mt. Clemens-Il order to complete
some business arrangements at Chi
cago, Lt.-Col Davenport Johnson, COM
handing officer at Selfridge field here.
jumped into a De-Havi-
land airplane and hoped" to the
windy" city in little OU.r two
hours.
Grand Rapids-Bishop Kelley, in
charge of the Grand Rapids Catholic
ndS dhhOuhNCh lhabi a new
$4,000 seminary would be erected
here in the near future. An 1S-acre
site has been procured to replace the
present seminary which will be used
as high school.
Manistee-Herman NJ Bennett, SO
years old, foreman in the Buckley and
stave mill, met horrible
death when a boiling machine, which
just previously had injured a work
man, became released and crashed in
to his chest and stomach, dragged him
into a humping post Death was al
most instantaneous.
Observation-Disclosures her strength
in a successful effort to save the life
CT her sister, Mrs. Anna Hall, of Chi
cago, 12-year-old Grace Cady, of Twin
Lake, sank beneath the surface of
the lake in which they had been bath
ing and was drowned, when a, few
strokes more would have taken her
to safety. The body was recovered.
Menominee-Severe burned by
llBnlIlDB, Win DOlh 1883 pdi dlyISN
from the effects of the bolt, Alfred |
Dickie, of Porterfeld, near here,
blames his misfortune on failing to
heed a supernatural warning in the
form of an unmistakable knocking on
the side of the house while the storm
was In progress. He will recover.
Detroit - Michigan ranks sixth |
among the states of the union in Cath
Ollie population, according to figures in
the 1919 Catholic directory, just pub
lished. II has 631 sos inhabitants pro-
Tossing that religion. In the whole
United States and the island posses
sions there are now 26,332,65O Cath
olics, an increase in 25 years OF "
All, 459.
Flint-An explosion Of gasoline |
while the fuel tank of motor street |
fusher was being filed, was respon,
sible for a fire which destroyed the
barns of the city street department |
Fourteen horses were burned to death |
and the fiusher, vacuum street sweep |
- fr,et nt,rchaoad thraa motor frucLs /