The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1920-02-26

Traverse City-The city commits
sion is considering closing the city
jail. II has been many months since
there has been an arrest.
Lansing-Michigan is seventh in
the total resources of state banking
institutions of the nation, according
to Frank e. Merrick. state banking
commissioner.
Manistee.-A committee has been
appointed to discuss way and means of
preventing house shortage here. All
homes in the city are now filed. More
workers are needed by new industries.
Detroit-While Benjamin Goodman,
driver for the Sun Furniture company,
was making deliveries in Orleans
Ctreet near Catherine street a thief
drove away with his wagon and rugs
valued at $1,000.
Greenville-Baron Tower, 81 years
old. mayor. dropped dead in his office.
| Mr.. Tower was born in Kent County,
and had been engaged in the potato
business in Greenville for 10 years
/ He was elected mayor Of Greenville
/ last April.
Mackinaw City-Scores of travellers
were delayed as result Of the engine
room crew OF the car ferry Chief Wa
watam going on strike when the boat
arrived at st. Ignace. The men claim
back pay was due them and refused
tto work until paid.
Do,t II,rcn Tho Of IOeanh
West, a farmer, was found in tho
( snow one mile east Of Richmond.
/ From marks on the body IL is believed
West was slain. West had sold raisins
to foreigners near Richmond and four
foreigners were arrested for operating
whisky stills.
Port Huron.-=Rur! Hewitt, II, is
dead Of injuries received when he
was caught between a landing and an
elevator cage at the plant OF the Nor
ton salt company. He reached into
the elevator as it was descending, to
take off the cap of the elevator oper.
ator in the spirit OF fun.
Kalamazoo-Clarenc Gooder was
fatally burned when he accidentally
slipped and fell into a vat of boiling
alkaline liquid at the King Paper mill.
When his clothing was removed at the
hospital, great patches of skin and
flesh chung to the garments. and in
places bones were laid bare.
Kalamazoo-And now it's the high
cost OF being buried Grave digging
| in Kalamazoo has been given higher
! tell from the ultimate consumers ultL
mate investment. BY action OF the
! city commission grave openers will
be permitted to charge 81 more
grave than they have been receiving.
Traverse City-Walking Is miles
through snowdrifts and along icy
roads, William A. Peckham, 81. and
his brother James A. Peckham, "a,
arrived in Traverse City from their
home in Elk Rapids to join the fight,
ing forces OF Uncle Sam. They chose
the coast artillery corps for service
in Hawaii.
Ann Arbor-Miss Helen B. Eames,
a freshman dental student from Mus
kegon, has set the University (Which
igan record as a long distance sleeper.
having completed 67 hours of unin-
terrupted slumber. She had been
studying for the mid-year examina-
tons and had worked to the point Of
exhaustion.
Pontac-A bullet from a revolver in
the hands of her mother passed
through both limbs OF two-year-old
Violet Scott, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Roy Scott The revolver was kept
in the house for the protection Of Mrs.
Scott in the absence Of her husband
and she was trying to extract the
cartridges. The child will not be
crippled.
Holland-Mrs. John Fraaijema, 20.
who has visited the cemetery and
read the inscription on her own tomb
stone for Is years, has been buried
beside the body of her first husband,
G, Posthumus, former engraver OF
tombstones Before his death, IL years
ago, he engraved two stones, one for
his wife and one for himself. and set
them up in the cemetery. She has
since twice married.
Muskegon-The Miami Metal COM
pany of Chicago has been announced
as the concern which will actively
take up the installation in Muskegon
of pig iron blast furnaces which will
put out 500 tons of metal daily in this
city for the use of all of the local
foundries. AS a by-product. the con
Germ will manufacture 100000 feet
of gas a day and of this 100000 feet
will be used to operate the plant.
leaving 100000 feet to be offered to
the city.
Grand Rapids. M. M. Joosten,
the man who halted the kaiser at the
Holland frontier on that morning in
the fall OF 1918, when the war lord
fed for safety, is in Grand Rapids to
study business conditions prep.
aratory to becoming European
selling agent for the J. B. Ford COM
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