The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1922-10-26

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survey OF the coal and coke supplies
throughout the state was to be under
taken Immediately. It's object was
to determine where the most acute
fuel shortages obtain and where, II
1t will be necessary for the
to direct shipments OF
fuel to stave off possible famine. In
quiry into coal prices will be made
by the administrator with view to
curbing profiteering II It exists.
While she and her husband strug-
gled for an hour in the chill waters
OF Lake st. Clair, Mrs. Delmar Nc
Daniel OF Detroit, bit desperately on
slender anchor rope until 1t parted,
and an overturned canoe became
buoy that bore them to safe
ty. The canoe was capsized while
they were fishing. A mile from
shore, beyond hailing distance, and
their craft but a speck in the twilight,
Mr. and Mrs. Mcdaniel fought their
battle against death. Each used one
hand to cling to the capsized canoe,
and padded with the other.
A Pere Marquette passenger train
on the Bad Axe division was held up
for 30 minutes when John McIsaacs,
locomotive fireman, quit his post at
a crossing in the business section OF
Port Huron. The patent fire box
door on the boiler was not working,
Mcisaacs said, and he gave that as
his reason for quitting his job shortly
after the train pulled out from the de-
pot. The train was held up until an
other fireman was rushed to the
scene on a switch engine.
Lewis Frederick Osborn, 10-months
Did son of Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Os-
born, OF Pittsfield township, near Ann
Arbor. died from the result OF severe
burns he suffered when he pulled a
kerosene lamp of the table. The
child was left in the room alone. Al
though. the lamp was at the back OF
he table, he pulled the cloth, the
amp falling on him.
The city market, operated at Mus
xegon this season by the Muskegon
County Farm Bureau. is reported to
nave proved a marked success. The
city started the market year ago and
asst spring it turned the direct super
vision OF the market over to the farm
bureau. although it provided regula-
ions by means of ordinances.
The Ingham county board OF super
,isors, has announced taxes for the
county will be about 100000 less this
ear than last. One reason is that
he county road commissioners have
their tax from one and one
lalf mills to one mill, And another
hat the state is asking for $4,000
ess this year.
Angered because his schoolgirl
,weetheart would not repulse atten
ions Of other boys, as he demanded in
note. it is said, 14-year-old Keith
summers shot himself with a rifle at
elsie. Earlier in the evening, officer
say, the girl had refused to go to
moving picture show with him.
State veterinarians making a tuber
'ulin test of 55 herds of cattle in Tus
ola County have found only 10 re-
actors among a total of 1904 animals
percentage of Is. The tubercular
.attle were found in 13 herds, which
will be retested within six months
Several barns in Plainfleld Town
ship. near Stockbridge, have burned
'eceatly and farmers fear that some
II the buildings were set afire. Cir
they say, strongly indi
,ate arsonists are at work.
Miss Ruth Verburg. sophomore a
Western State Normal school at Kala
nazoo has been elected to the nationa'
student council of the Y. w. c. A. She
IS the only undergraduate representa-
i've from Michigan.
An appropriation OF $125.O0O has
been granted the buildings and
grounds department Of the University
II Michigan, for the improvement OF
is shops and the erection Of a new
Representatives of the striking shor
crafts and officials OF the Crane
Trunk Railway settled their differ.
ences at a conference in Detroit last
week and the railmen have resumed
work.
Lieutenant r. L. Vaughan. United
States army pilot smashed all worl'
speed records when he Travelled al
PASS miles an hour for one kilometer
at Selfridge field, Mt. Clemens.
John George Mitchell, As years old
OF Highland Park, died in a Roya
Oak. Clawson bus as II entered Claw
son. His death is believed to have
been caused by heart disease.