The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1921-08-18

r. Scheet, county agricultural agent.
reports.
Flint-Julius Sen, Q, is dead as a
result of a fractured skull received
when he fell from his bicycle while
holding onto truck.
undergraduate Detrude, 10 years
old, was drowned in Muskegon Lake
when she lost her balance and fell
over the side of a motor boat driven
by Harold Brooks.
Albion-C. r. Pickett, this city,
claims the radish championship One
of the icicle variety out of his garden
measured Is inches in length and
weighs 1-3 pounds.
Roscommon-Emerson Jones, "a
years old, of Toledo, and Lincoln
Avery, Jr., "a, of Port Huron, were
drowned in Higgins Lake, near here,
when a row boat in which they were
riding overturned.
Detroit-In attempting to olsen
tangle the reins from the feet of his
horse, Max Weiner, As years old,
huckster. was kicked 10 feet, accord
ing to police reports, suffering
fracture of the right leg.
Muskegon-Henry L. Hahnel, 43
years old, employed on lightship of
Milwaukee, was drowned in Lake
Michigan when his motor boat be-
came entangled in a fish net while en-
route to Montague for vacation.
Big Rapids-The Ferris institute
unit CT the Reserve Officers Training
Corps has been discontinued on or
ders from the War Department. The
work here has been in charge of Capt.
Frank e. Shaw, a Regular Army off,
GER
Grand Rapids--The Grand Rapids
wholesalers will hold their Fall trade
extension tour Oct. to z and will
visit White Cloud, Muskegon, Hart,
Ludington, Manistee. Mt. Pleasant,
Ashley, Greenville and intermediate
points.
Lansing-Sherman T. Handy, chair
man of the state public utilities COM
mission has ruled that the Miller act,
which became effective August Is,
does not affect existing franchises
rates of electric light and power
utilities.
Grand Rapids-Surveys OF the ap-
pie crop in the apple producing coun-
ties of western Michigan support the
reports that the total crop will be
only from 80 to 40 per cent of normal.
Primarily the cause of the short apple
crop is the late frosts.
Benton Harbor-The forthy-fifth an
nual Old Settlers picnic, combined
with the annual outing of the Berrien
County Grange and the Young Peo-
pies picnic, held last week in Berrien
Springs, was attended by 1900 far
mers and their families.
Kalamazoo-A 10 cent an hour re-
duction for carpenters and painters
has become effective here. The re-
duction was made at the recommen-
dation of the men when the contrac-
tors told them it would help to bring
about a revival in business.
Lansing-An active campaign to
bring about the repeal, by the 1928
legislature, of the state uniform ac-
counting system laws is planned by
boards of supervisors and county
clerks who have taken the lead in the
move to abolish the new method of
keeDinR the states books
| st. Johns-While scraping grave,
in the gravel pit on his farm so,-li-
east of the village of Westphalia,
| Frank Rademacher was buried alive
| by cave in of the gravel Neigh
bors hurried to the rescue but found
him dead. He is survived by
widow and seven children.
Negdanee-State Troopers Fred
Bedard, A. p. Cross, and G. Lane,
were seriously wounded, when they
raided the shoe shop of Tony Bar
biere The officers entered Barbiere's
shop seized three pints of moonshine,
and placed him under arrest. AS
Barbero turned to get his coat, he
fired.
Lansing-Statistics show that in
1910 there were 1919 Indians in Mich.
igan. Statistics for 1920 show only
5,613. 1t is said the Indian population
in the state is declining rapidly. A
high death rate and immigration to
the west are assigned as reasons. The
general death rate was 81 per 1000
for 1920.
Detroit-"My bonus due me from
the state of Michigan" is all Harold
T. Flannery, ex-service man, had to
bequeath his mother, Mary Flannery
according to the terms of the will
filed IN the office of the judge of pro-
bate The will, which is the shortest
on record, was drawn April Is, 1921,
and admitted to probate August g.,
1921.
MonrOe-Burns received while in
vestigatlng leaking automobile
radiator with a lantern cost the life