The Yale expositor., 1896-12-18
YALE ST. County, Mich FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1s. 1906
NEWS OF A WEEK.
A Budget of Happenings in and Around ST.
Clair County.


A lodge of the Cleaners was organ
lied in Memphis last week.
The dining hall ut Huronia beach
burned one night last week.
1t is reported that now there is no
case of diphtheria in Croswell.
Farmers Institute will be held in
Armada on January ~ and Is.
1t is expected that new Odd Eel
lows temple will soon be built in Port
Huron.
Mabe Dexter, aged II years, died
last week of diphtheria, at her home in
Croswell.
Last weeks issue of the Memphis
Bee is marked Vol. ", No /. Success
to the Bee.
Hiram Eckert. of Marine City, has
secured patent on Il curtain pole of
his invention.
Mayor Boynton, of Port Huron,
will spend n part of January and Feb
ruary in Florida.
Vassar Exchange Bank will be known
after the first of January as the State
Savings Bank of Vassar.
handsome copper cornlce has been
placed on the new Bush building,
Water street, Port Huron.
Some sneak entered st. Marks
Episcopal church in Marine City one
night and stole the communion service.
George w. Mahon, of Lapeer, has
filed chattel mortgages on his stock of
goods aggregating the sum of 9,O9S.2S.
Permission has been secured from the
Secretary of War to extend Butter street
dock at Port Huron out into st. Clair
river.
There are 40 pensioners in Romeo
and vicinity who receive regular quar-
terly pensions amounting iii the aggre-
gate to $50.
Two Port Huron young men by the
name of Hoffman and Lanzon are
under arrest at Lansing, charged with
robbing dry goods store.
1t is said that when Belle river is
dredged out by the L. ). Government,
at Marine City it would make one of
the finest harbors in the state.
Mrs. James Carr, of Mayyille, ran a
needle into her arm recently. Now
blood poisoning has set in, her arm has
been amputated and her life is dis
paired of.
Thomas Kane, of Cottrellville,
father of John NJ. Kane, of Port Huron
died last Sunday. Mr.. Kane was the
oldest man in the township, being 80
years of age.
For taking part in the train wreck
ing at Battle Greek in 1894, John
Bodewig, of Port Huron, is sentenced
TO twenty months III the Detroit House
of Correction and is tinded 81 800
An S-months-old baby in Richville,
was left in IL baby cab beside a tub OF
scalding water while the mother went
to hang out clothes. The little one
fell over into the hot water and was
scalded to death.
Christopher Sparkling, of Port HUI
ron township, has been arrested on
a charge of criminal intimacy with his
16-year- daughter, who has been
his housekeeper since the mother
died, two years ago.
Port Huron wants an auditorium and
l.. A. Sherman says he will undertake
the construction of the building if he
is given a 80 years lease of market
square, with an option for its purchase
at So 900 at expiration of lease. The
auditorium will cost Sl2,0 900.
julius A. McMartin, who is one of
the oldest members of the customs
force, has received his discharge. 1t
is probably on account of receiving
campaign subscriptions from members
of the force. George II. Mustard has
been promoted to McMartin's place.
A l2-year-old Marine City girl, named
Louisa Mildrum, died last week, after
q two years sickness caused from vac
cination. Her bones were 80 brittle
that it was almost impossible 10 move
her. She suffered greatly. 1t is not
known why vaccination should have
caused such fatal result.
Ex-Controller Waite, of Port Huron,
charged with embezzlement of the
city's funds, is said to be threatened
with the disease locomotor ataxia. He
has been examined by physicians, who
found him suffering from the symp-
toms of that disease. lie may be sent
to the asylum until he RECEIVERS, when
he will probably receive sentence of
Imprisonment.