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


the Durant Hotel The hotel will cost
approximately $100O,0OO.
Marshall-Flossie Sears, 10 years
old, died from blood poisoning that
developed from little scratch on he:
face.
Battle Creek-A young fox was
caught by A. l.. Bliss in the coal bin
of his home in the center of the citys
business district.
st. Johnston the first time In
many years st. Johns is facing an ice
famine Dealers report they only have
enough to last until July.
Petoskey-Six hundred speckled
trout were caught in the streams near
Petoskey during a recent angling con-
test conducted by local Elks.
Battle Creek-A few cuts and a
broken arm were all the injuries Har-
rison b. White received in tumble
of 80 feet from an ice hauling ma
chine.
Kalamazoo-Gen. Pershing has noti-
fed the war department that he has
awarded a distinguished service cross
to Private Morse II. Beattie, OF kala
mazoo.
East ADMINISTRATION of seed
corn to make 1t unpalatable is re-
commended by M. A. G. experts as
the best method of keeping corr
field free of crows.
Saginew-Saginaw Greeks, IL CT
them led by William Williams, have
cabled President Wilson at Paris ask
ing him to use his influence in secur-
ing Constantinople for Greece.
Jackson-Six farmers of Summit
Township returned TO their homes,
after a day spent in Jackson, to find
burglars had been busy and had used
an automobile to carry away their
plumber.
Detroit-That the Michigan State
Telephone Company is losing money
at the rate of more than $l,00O,0O0 Il
year was the statement made to
Mayor Couzens by G. NJ. Welch, gen
eral manager.
Grand Rapids-Two men were kill
ed, two fatally injured and two slight
ly hurt when the boiler at the Hopkins
creamery exploded at Hopkins, Ale
gan county, wrecking the building and
hurting the debris for blocks.
Muskegon-IAaving knocked Nelson
Dupras, of Fruitport, to the pavement
for insulting his sister with the result
that the Fruitport man died of frac-
tured skull, Albert Vanderlaan is now
facing a charge of manslaughter.
Bay City-All industries and bust
ness places were closed in order to ex-
tend a welcome to all returned sol
diers, sailors and marines. An elabor
ate program was prepared and the
fighters were given the freedom of the
city.
Battle Creek-Jitney business here
has taken a slump with the cutting
down of the number of soldiers at
Camp Custer. OF the 200 or more
jitneys in operation when the camp
was fun only about score are still
running
Port Huron-Mr. and Mrs. William
B. Leonhardt have started proceed
ings against the Port Huron, ST. Clair
& Marine City Railway in Circuit
Court, claiming $4,000 each for dam
ages suffered in a wreck near st. Clair
in 1917.
Hadley-William Eick, OF Hadley,
and FIVE other persons were killed
when an automobile in which they
were riding was struck by train on
the outskirts of Chicago. The party
was enroute to a cemetery to decorate
graves of relatives.
Detroit-Fifteen hundred delegates
of the National Association of Credit
Men assembled in this city for the
twenty-fourth annual convention of
the association. The association has
represented in its membership $4,000
business houses in the United States.
Battle Creek-Thomas H. Hunter,
former Army captain, lost s400 and
his trousers when a sneak thief en-
tered his room at his boarding place
Later his trousers we're found in the
rear of a nearby grocery and his
pocketbook, empty. in front Of Q
neighbor's house.
Muskegon-So great has been the
Increase In attendance In all Of the
public schools of this city during the
past year over the attendance records
of previous years that an entirely new
high school OF extensive additions ia
the present facilities will be the only
solution TO the problem.
Detroit-Mayor Couzens has an
nounced that efforts to organize q
worlds Industrial peace exposition fol
Detroit have been abandoned. From
inquiries made for me / have learn
ed that a great proportion of the
businessmen on whom we would
have to rely to finance the exposition
are opposed 10 It," the mayor said.
Lansing Representative M. F
Sawyer, of Menominee, and Represen
tative John Holland, of Gogebic, have