The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1922-08-17
Michigan
Happenings
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

1t Is said, are wondering what is
going to happen at the next terms Of
circuit and federal court when they
are called upon to produce moon
shine whiskey as evidence In num-
Der OF cases. The strong box which
contains all contraband liquor and
which reposes in the women's por-
ton Of the city jail was ransacked,
and much OF the evidence ia missing.
Two women. Hattie Donnslly and
Mary Belleau, serving sentences for
being drunk. were drunk again after
having broken into the box. officials
say.
Mrs F. Hyatt and Mrs. I. e. Sleep
er, and Mrs. Sleeper's two children,
missing from their homes in Cadillac
for week, were found in Grand
Rapids. According to the oficers they
were found in the apartment OF Clar-
ence Warner, 33 years old. OF that
city. Warner is under arrest. Mrs.
Hyatt is bride Of only few weeks.
The women are said to have told the
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homes In Cadillac and decided to see
Grand Rapids.
The Ingham county circuit court
has been petitioned by the Michigan
State Telephone company for stay
of the public utilities commissions
order OF July Z, approving consolida-
ton Of the company interests with
those Of the Citizens Telephone COM
pany. The Michigan State Telephone
company asks that the order be de-
clared void, and that no further or
ders be issued until the value Of the
Citizens property can be estimated.
Fred Lutzy, of Flint, came home
late one night recently and decided
not to disturb his wife when he found
the front door locked. So he went to
the back Of the house, carefully raised
window and with the help OF
flashlight was making his way to his
room when three policemen bounced
on him. They followed him, seized
their prisoner, and had him outside
before Lutzy convinced them that he
was in his own home.
1.-THE eagle must quit screaming and
start scratching" William Cameron,
editor of the Dearborn Independent,
told Ypsilanti Kiwanians at their
weekly luncheon here. Mr.. Cameron
denounced capital as wrong. 1.-THE
coal strike was created artifcially,"
he declared. "The country has more
coal than it needs, if we could only
get it. The trouble confronting the
nation today is neither political nor
economic, but moral"
Felix Marculis, Grand Rapids, in
whose home officers say they found a
quantity of liquor, has been sentenced
by Superior Court Judge Leonard d.
Verdier to the county Jail for 30
days. His wife, Sophie, said to have
barred the way Of the officers to the
booze room, contending she was mere
ly guarding the hiding place Of her
pocketbook, was fined $50 and costs
While his mother and members Of
the family looked on, powerless to
give assistance, Arnold Meath, Is,
son Of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Meath,
Iron Mountain, was drowned in the
Escanaba river. The boy drowned as
the result of losing the water wings"
he had made by connecting two tin
cans with a short leather strap. The
cans got away from him.
w. B. Stuart, Bedding carpenter, in
Oakland circuit court pleaded guilty
to a charge of setting fire to a house
in which he owns an equity. He was
arrested after investigation by fire
men showed quantity of oil soaked
papers in the place, and that insur-
ance had been taken on furniture
there although the house was empty.
The court deferred sentence.
In leap for life firm his flaming
automobile which was set fire to
when the gasoline tank exploded,
George G.. Cotharin, Flint dyer and
cleaner, suffered a broken leg. The
accident happened IL miles north of
Pontiac, as Cotharin was coming
home from Detroit. The automobile
was destroyed. .Cotharin is in st. Jo-
sephs hospital.
The forest fire observation tower
at Donken, in Elm River township, is
about completed and will be In use
before the forest fire season this fall,
according to an announcement by H. ].
Keopp, state district forest fire war
den, Of Marquette, who came to
Houghton to inspect the new tower.
Kalamazoo was chosen as the 1928
convention city for the Michigan
Rural Letter Carriers association In
The closing day Of their convention at
Mt. Clemens. William G.. Blackman
was reelected president Of the asso-
citation; ]. II. Bachelor, vice-president,
and Arda ludlow secretary