The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1921-06-30
STATE NEWS

Bay City-All cigar stores in Bay
City selling baseball pools were noti-
fed by the police to quit the practice.
Adrian-Dr. Harlan A. Freeman
was reelected president Of Adrian
College at the meeting of the trustees
here.
Pontiac-The Pontiac board of edu.
cation has arranged to purchase $780,
600 OF the districts own bonds from
a sinking fund.
Cadillac-Charles Clock of Farwell
died of injuries received when run
over by an Ann Arbor train afer fall
ing from the top of car.
Manistee-The most improved still
ever seen by the police was confiscat-
ed when the home of John Werlowski
was raided. Four quarts Of liquor and
IL gallons Of mash were found.
Vassar-A trip to Niagara Falls,
chaperoned by Superintendent and
Mrs. Earl r. French, will be enjoyed
by 80 students of the Vassar high
school who were graduated this year.
Holly-Charles Crosby, 5S, farmer
residing two miles south of Holly,
was killed by lightning Crosby was
returning from the barn to the house
and paused for a moment to watch
the storm.
Adrian-Theodore Odell, IL years
old, of Clinton, was probably fate lily
ssNs,. x.-I 1t alr
struck by a New York Central pas
senger train at the Main Street eros
sing and demolished.
Kalamazoo Michael Bremen,
charged with passing fraudulent
checks made out to John Chapman"
and signed by 81. w. Sutherland" is
under arrest here. Many merchants
accepted the checks.
Lansing-Mrs. George Finnie, of
Lansing, charged with aiding her hus-
band to escape from the county jail at
Mason, was bound over to the next
term Of the Circuit Court after an
examination in justice court.
Flint-An underground cavern
reached only through a tunnel and
guarded with elaborate camoufiage,
which was found on the farm of Louis
Carpet, near Dufield, by Sheriff Vette
and deputies, revealed one OF the big
gest moonshine plants ever seized
here.
Owosso-Oficers all over the state
and particularly along the Canadian
border, have been asked by Shia-
wassee county officers to watch for
Earl Ritter, 35, a farmer, living near
Bancroft, who, it is charged, has null
cted three banks in the county out Of
approximately $4,000.
Lapeer-Alkon Inman, 16-year-old
Lapeer youth, was electrocuted while
attempting to repair the line supply
ing his home with current from a
high voltage wire. Pressing his
clothes, the electric iron he was using
became cold and the boy sought to
determine the reason.
Bay City-Godfrey Kubach, a tin
smith, forgot that his truck was in
gear when he cranked it in front Of
Water street business place. 1t ran
over him, causing severe bruises and
cuts and then crashed into the large
plate glass windows of a shoe store,
doing several hundred dollars dam
age.
Kalamazoo-Lost out of a car Griv-
en- by William Thompson, William
Reed, 13 months old, was severely in
jured. The child was riding on the
rear seat and either climbed out or
was bumped out on the rough pave
ment The driver did not notice the
baby's absence until after it was TAX
en- to the hospital.
Baldwin, 150-pound buck got his
horns tangled in the woven wire rail-
road fence a mile east of here and
was found by section men just after
he had broken his neck. They skin
ned the carcass and sailed the meat,
but before they could divide it game
warden learned of it and confiscated
the hide and meat. The meat was
sent to the poor house.
alamazoo-Provision making it
illegal for a foreigner to become a
city official or an employe Of the city
government was written into the new
charter by the commission which was
elected last April to revise the citys
fundamental law. An amendment per-
hitting department heads to employ
aliens who have declared their inten-
lions of becoming citizens was adopt
ed
Manistee-Oil failed to pacify trou-
bled waters in this instance Instead
It caused trouble. Because, it is al
legged, he permitted waste oil and re-
fuse to seep into Manistee river from
the gas plant of the Michigan Light
company, of which he is manager.
Charles S. Kressler was arrested by
Police Chief Grady, who, as harbor
master, was empowered by the city
commission to take whatever steps
were necessary to stop the flow. The