The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1920-06-17
MiChig a n
Happenings

Arthur Haney is dead after drinking
kerosene. which he had mistaken foI
water.
Harbor Springs Chase
419 stopped at this port on its way
north from Chicago looking up loca-
tons for radio stations.
Standish-At the Mahoney Fishery,
on Saginaw Bay, haul Of fish weigh
ing over $500 pounds, and worth
about 5000, was made.
Holly-Three persons were over
come by acetic acid fumes while clean
ing vat at pickle factory and were
saved by other workmen.
Reed City-L. ]. Purham, chief en-
gineer of the Northwestern railroad,
was drowned here trying to save his
son from a similar fate.
Pontiac-To solve the sugar short
age, the community market has pur'
chased 1000 pounds for distribution
at 81 cents a pound. The market Is a
cooperative one recently organized.
Monroe-Two deputy sheriffs, equip
ped with lodometers with a view OF
apprehending drivers carrying over
loads on auto trucks, are now station
cd on the north end of the Dixie high
way.
Bay City--A Circuit Court jury
awarded A. NJ Shillair $500 damages
against the United States director of
railroads in a suit brought for dam
ages to a horse which was struck by
an engine.
Detroit-Injured in the chest when
run over by the automobile of Howard
Graves Meredith, British vice-consul
in Detroit, Frank Gastin, IS years old,
20 Raynor street, died in Receiving
hospital soon afterward.
Owosso-An increase OF nearly 81.
100000 is shown in the total assessed
valuation OF Owosso' just announced.
1t is now over S1O,OOO,OOO The tax
rate will be $16.76 per $1,000 valuation,
an increase of $3.50 over last year.
Pontiac-B. F. Beach, OF the County
Farm Bureau. says the scarcity Of ssed
potatoes, coupled with present short.
age of help on the Oakland County
farms, indicates a decrease of acre
age to be planted within the next 20
days.
Pontiac-lncorporators Of wo-
mans hotel for Pontiac announced
that an option on site has been OBJ
talned. 1t is on Mt. Clemens street.
It is proposed to incorporate for $780,
600. Prominent club and society wo-
men are promoting the project.
Canton-Raymond Loey was wear
ing a stickpin in his tie. A companion
pushed him, causing the pin to pierce
his chest. The pin affected a nerve
center, physicians say. and Loey found
II impossible to walk. He was taken
home and is recovering the use Of his
legs.
Ludington-The wrecker Favorite
has arrived here and started work
raising Pere Marquette line steamer
No. 3. The steamer sank early this
spring alf a mile west of Ludington
harbor, when ice crushed in her side.
The steamer and cargo were valued
at $25O,OOO.
East Lansing-Superior marketing
methods and closer cooperation be-
tween consumer and producer are the
only remedies seen. by Prof. ]. F. Cox
for the present exodus of Michigan
farmers from the rural districts, which
il continued at its present rate for 10
years, will leave them depopulated.
Kalamazoo-The new 10-cent street
car fare, authorized by the city COM
mission, will not go into effect here
Immediately. The commissions per-
mission was given TO raise the fares
June /, but the company deferring the
advance, announced 1t would wait un-
til the fare controversies in Lansing.
Jackson and Battle Creek have been
adjusted.
Lansing Thirty thousand pounds of
poison have been shipped ty the Mich
igan farm bureau to Benzie county to
fight the grasshopper pest. The in
sects are worse this year than in sew
eral years. Other counties, Leelanau.
Kalkaska. Mason, Manistee, Grand
Traverse and Wexford need aid.
Scores Of farmers already have crops
ruined by the pest.
Mt. Clemens-The Sauzedde Manu-
featuring Corporation announces that
its new manufacturing plant, to be
constructed here, will be in operation
in September. The first unit of the
industry is to be constructed at once
on the four-acre site given them by
the Business Mems Association in the
factory district. The plant will manu-
tacture newly patented type of auto.
mobile wire wheels.
Kalamazoo-William Whitehorn, so
years old, Vicksburg shoemaker, was
instantly killed when he was struck
by a Grand Rapids & Indiana train.
lie was taking one of his customary
long hikes when he was run down by
the engine. Because he was deaf he
did not hear the frantic warnings OF
other pedestrians who were near. He