The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-01-24
NEWS OF A WEEK.

A Budget OF Happenings In and Around st.
Clair County.
Romeo citizens are talking seriously
about electric lighting.
John Webb, d respected citizen of
Goodells, recently died.
Near Frieburger, Sanilac county, a
grindstone quarry has been opened up.
S. w. Walton, of INLAY City, killed
his tame bear last week. 1t dressed 40
pounds.
Two Capac young women last week
masqueraded as dudes and both
smoked cigars.
st. Clair tiremen are talking of get
ting up Il two days tournament for the
month of June.
G. S. Currier, of Almont, will engage
in the fruit, berry and dairy business
the coming season.
Capac has bright prospects for the
establishment of brick yard in that
town next summer.
Brennan is about the only one now
who has any hopes of seeing the Lex
ington railroad built.
E. w. Lawrence. of Almont, cele-
brated his 9Sth birthday last week. He
is a vigorous old man.
Nora Olds, of st. Joseph, has COM
menced a $4,000 breach of promise
suit against Darwin Sutherland.
1t is estimated that there are 500
they are entitled to vote but who are
not.
Richmond people want their post
Office moved $50 yards south of its
present location for the benefit of the
business men.
During the past six months 81 GRIM
inal cases were before the police court
in Port Huron, of which number IA
were for drunkenness.
In the new city hall at Port Huron
it has just been discovered that no
room has been provided for the meet
ings of the board of health.
5. l.. Ballentine, of Port Huron, sent
40 pairs of boots and shoes to the poor ]
masters Office last week, to be given to
poor boys and girls of that city.
A couple from the Strathroy, Ont,
poorhouse, the man 60 years of age
and the woman 40; have eloped and
the police are looking for them in Port
Huron.
Jennie Rogers brought suit against
the village of Orion for 200 for in
juries received on a defective sidewalk.
A verdict was given in her favor for
$3.50. The case has been appealed to
the supreme court.
The n. & B. Mills lumber yard and
planning mill at Marysville caught fire
last week and the mill is total loss
although only II small amount of lum-
Der was destroyed. The mill has not
been used for several years. The loss
is about $4,000. The fire is thought to
be the work of tramps.
There are now al unfortunates in
the feeble-minded asylum at Lapeer.
Many show marks of Improvement. A
Saginaw lad who has been kept in the
county Jail 1G months because there
was no other place to keep him, and
steadily grew worse. picked up the
day he struck the asylum, and is now
nearly we'll.
DR.. r. J. McConkey will spend 60 days
in Jail in default of so fine and costs.
Last fall he got from +. Il. PheniX, of
Richmond, u quantity of strawberry
plants and sold them to George
Boucher, representing them to be from
New York nursery firm. The name
of the local grocery firm on the bar
rel they were packed in gave the
scheme away.
One of the most bitterly fought
cases of the present term of the circuit
court was terminated Saturday by
Judge Vance instructing the jury to
find for the defendants. The case
was one of trespass brought against
Frank and Richard Dolan by William
Griffin, the parties being well.to-do
farmers living in the southwestern
part of the county. The trouble arose
oyer the title to u small strip of land
valued at $50 This was the second
suit over the same land, and it has
now cost the litigants over $500. They
refuse to arbtrate the matter, and
Griffin will now bring an ejectment
suit