The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1920-10-21

launcned by the Lansing councll on
high prices charged by retailers. par
ticularly restaurants.
Manistique-WAnam Hastings, 26,
was instantly killed by the bursting
of saw at the plant of the Manisti-
que Cooperage Co..
Port Huron-5F'rank Tacle, 80, dep
uty sheriff of Wayne county, while
driving a truck, b,~ instantly killed
by Pere Marquets train:
Owosso-Because or the unsettled
condition OF the milk market, dairy
COWS have dropped 20 per cent in
price in Shiawassee County.
Cadillac-The local alumni of the
University of Michigan plan an organ
ization to boost the merits of the
state university to high school grad
yates.
Houghton-Wild white raspberries
have been discovered here, Leo M.
Geismar, county farm agent says. He
is endeavoring to grow the bushes
profusely.
Marshall. S. Earl of Marshall
township has had his herd of 30 mich
COWS placed under quarantine by
| Frank Clark OF the state board Of ami
NAL industry.
Bay City-Harry Cohen, former
| Bay City hide dealer, was convicted
before Judge Tuttle in United States
District Court of boarding and profit
eering in sugar.
Bay City-The sugar manufacture
ing season opened here for what
campaign in the history OF beet sugar
production in Michigan.
Bay City-Local lumber dealers
who, during the last few months, cut
| lumber prices from 10 to 10 per cent,
announced another cut Of 10 per cent
on practically all grades of stock.
Albion-Fire, supposedly from spon.
taneous combustion, destroyed the
Michigan Central freight house and
offices and six cars filled with mer-
| chandise here with a loss OF $4,000.
Kalamazoo-Miss Melva Nagler, OF
Lake Odessa, for three years in
charge of the church at Byron Gen.
ter, has been appointed policewoman.
She is a graduate of Albion College
Muskegon-Frank Miller, who shot
and seriously wounded Joseph Rom
eonhof when he found him in his
home, was freed when the prosecu-
| ton dismissed the case in the Circuit
Court.
Newberry-Ella May Graham, who
escaped from the Newberry State hos
pital, was arrested at the home of her
mother Charles Tucker, who ia al
legged to have helped her to fee, was
| locked up.
Albion-The class in journalism in
Albion College has equipped room
in Robinson Hall as typical news
paper office. Members meet daily to
aid in the publishing of the college
weekly, The Pleiad.
Muskegon-Upsetting of lamp by
a cat caused the burning Of the Ho-
tel Bertha, a Wolf lake resort near
! Muskegon. Four occupants escaped
from an upper floor by knotted rope
made out of bed sheets.
Cadillac-Apple growers OF this
section are advocating modification of
the Volstead Enforcement Act that
will release cider makers from respon-
sibility for the alcoholic content of
cider regardless of who owns the
! cider.
Holland-Capt John Bergman, 81
years old, believed to have been the
oldest captain on the Great Lakes,
died here. For so years he command.
ed various lake vessels and was own.
err and commander of the Wollen, an
85.foot schooner.
Monroe.-County authorities are
conducting an investigation to locate
persons who destroyed several sec
tions of American Telegraph e. Tel
ephone company cable being put up
between Toledo and Detroit The wire
was ruined in three places.
Bay City-Montague WATSON, who
run down and killed Frank Briggs
with his automobile last April, was
| acquitted III tnc NlTCuit SOulI VI d
charge of manslaughter. WATSON
sometime ago made a settlement with
the Briggs family for civil damages.
Port Huron-Jonathan Moore, ST.
Clair pioneer who collapsed when he
saw his block of frame stores being
destroyed by fire, is dead He never
regained consciousness. He had no
insurance on the property, and his
fortune was invested in the buildings.
Grand Rapids-The Kent County
prosecutor has asked the board Of SUI
pervisors for a salary Of $500, the
county clerk, register of deeds and
county treasurer have asked increases
from $500 year to $4,000. and the
clerks in the county building an in
crease Of 25 per cent.
Crystal Falls-State Game Warden
Bostwick, of Traverse City, has sworn
ont a comnlaint against the CITY of