The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1922-07-06

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settle a point as to whether play
ground apparatus constitutes nui-
sance, as 81 residents of the first
ward have asked the council to de-
clare the apparatus a nuisance and
remove it, holding that children play
there until all hours of the night.
While the 81 ask that the apparatus
be removed, there are 500 folks in the
same neighborhood ask that the appa-
ratus and Fairgrounds be continued.
Kalamazoo milk consumers will be
protected by what is said to be the
most drastic ordinance in Michigan.
The new ordinance requires a tuber-
culin test on all cattle used to supply
milk to this city regardless of
whether the milk is pasteurized be-
fore it reaches the market, prohibits
the sale Of milk with greater than
10000 bacteria per cubic centimeter,
and requires the use Of umbrella
shaped lids for milk cans.
Auditor General o. b. Fuller was
ordered to halt the payment of
bounty claims TO counties and all in
vestigation into the matter of bounty
payments by the state conservation
department was authorized by the
state administrative board. Accord
ing to a report made to the board,
$1S5 goo of a 100000 appropriation for
bounty claims has been expended.
The remaining $4,000 must meet all
claims for another year.
Reward of $500 was offered by Goge-
bic county officials for the capture
of the masked thug who held up Theo-
dore Dickman, robbed him Of money
and valuables and then shot him in
the forehead. Dickman is not expect
Ell to live. The thugs victim is the
engineer of the Ironwood water plant.
He was returning home after visit
to a nearby town when the attack
was made.
NJ. S. Kline and ]. A. Crawford, au-
ditors, representing the state admin
istrative board, were at the Marquette
branch prison, installing new account
ing forms and books and making sew
eral changes in the bookkeeping sys-
tenn. The changes, they said, were
made so that the accounting system
will harmonic and conform with other
state institutions.
State Industrial School for Boys was
virtually authorized by the state ad-
ministrative board. The boards ac-
ton, taken upon recommendation of
the state correctional commission
practically assures the retention of
the industrial school on its present
site in Lansing for years to come.
Alleging that certain county officers
collected salaries illegally, Supervisor
Eugene Fleming introduced a resolu-
ton before the Genesee board of SUI
pervisors requesting that body to au-
thorize Prosecuting Attorney Harry
Gault to institute proceedings imme-
diately TO recover the alleged excess
payments for the last six years.
Charles c. Jonesi, reputed head of
the brokerage" firm of l.. j. Sinkula
& Company, through whose transac-
tions, Detroit investors lost upwards
of S1,000,000, was sentenced to serve
two years in the house of correction
and pay fine of $4,000, the maximum
penalty for conspiracy to defraud.
The case will be appealed.
The Ironwood city council voted to
buy two motor buses to operate a
municipal bus line to outlying dis
tricts, despite the fact that the street
car company several weeks ago
threatened to cease operation of cars
in Ironwood. Action will increase the
total number Of buses on the range
to seven.
Proposal of farm organizations
that Owosso's Chamber of Commerce
join with the farmers in arranging a
countrywide picnic as a means OF
bringing merchants and farmers into
closer touch, was accepted by the
chamber Of commerce.
The Grand Trunk railroad has been
held blameless in the death of vii.
am F. Boertmann, Saginaw, who was
killed by the road in a jitney bus ac-
cident in 1919, and whose estate sued
for $4,000.
The Oceana county board of super.
visors adopted a resolution to submit
to the voters at November election a
proposition to raise $4,000 for a new
county infirmary.
Richard Martin, 101 years. died al
Sault Ste. Marie, June q. He was
a bachelor and lived on a farm near
there As years.
Hans Carlson, 6S years old. farmer
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