The Yale expositor., 1896-11-20
NEWS OF A WEEK.
a Budget OF Happenings in and Around ST.
Clair County.

A Budget of happenings in and Around ST.
Clair County.
Croswell will have new hotel first
thing IN the spring.
There are five insane persons in the
st. Clair county Jail.
James Wooley, of Pontiac, will start
u laundry at Croswell.
The Grand Central House in Port
Huron has been closed.
A farm journal has been started at
Lapeer by John Silsbury.
Capac has town we'll 1G6 feet deep.
containing l5l feet of water.
The Croswell musical society will
have lecture course this winter.
Thos. Conlon, of Applegate, is the
father of triplets, born last week.
st. Clair salt blocks are crowded with
orders and are running full blast.
Port Huron bicycle dealers have
sold about 200 bicycles this year.
Almonters will burn gasoline in
their street lamps instead of kerosene.
There are said to be thirteen Repub-
licans after the st. Clair city post office.
b. c. Preston, banker at Armada,
will build a new bank building at that
place.
The St. Clair county canvassing
board concluded its labors last Sat
urday.
Pigeon and Elkton, i'll Huron county,
will each make application for moor
poration.
The fixtures for the Judge of Pro-
bates vault in Port Huron will cost
about 5000.
Capac Maccabees have "a project on
foot to organize a sick and accident
benefit association.
All efforts looking towards the in
corporation OF Caseville have been
abandoned indefinitely.
The electric railroad talk is still all
the 90. and may yet be built between
Port Huron, Mt Clemens and Detroit.
Fred X. Haar, proprietor of the Len
OK planning mill, had finger and part
of thumb taken oil while working at
the rip saw.
We hear that Geo. f. English, pub
Usher of the Sanllac County Republi-
can, has the promise of the Sanilac
Centre Post office.
John Sargent recently returned to
Clifford from Dakota, haylng driven
the entire distance, the journey &C.
cupying six weeks.
The people of Memphis are mourn
ing oyer the hasty departure for Sani-
lac county of John Merritt, who leaves
behind him numerous creditors.
+. Hartshorn's barn near Inlay City
burned last week with entire contents,
three horses, 800 bushels of corn, 60
bushels of beans, wagon, buggy and
harnesses.
Thomas Brown, seventeen years
old, yardmaster's messenger at the
tunnel depot, was killed last week by
falling from the top of train of cars
and being run over.
The jury in the case of the People
VS.. John Ahearn, principal of the Min
den City schools, disagreed. He was
charged with unduly Furnishing pu-
pill. He was convicted in justice
court. A new trial was called for and
it will probably be carried TO the cir
cult court. Mr.. Ahearn has resigned.
Conductor L. T. Chubbuck on his re-
turn from short visit last week
among friends at Queenstown, Ont,
DlOhGht Wlbh liii III OlN bhb
time piece which it is claimed was
built IN the 10th century. AS to the cor
rectness of this claim Mr.. Chubbuck is
not certain, but there are records which
show the piece to be above 40 years
old. The clock is taller by far than
the old man himself" and is wholly of
hand made construction. 1t will be
treasured by Mr.. Chubbuck.-Port HUI
ron Times.
Warren Cord, of Macomb township,
has gone violently insane as a result of
political excitement. Monday he be-
came unmanageable and was lodged in
the county Jail. He keeps up a con-
tinual shrek of "16 to l" and otherwise
shows that the silver propaganda has
taken hold of his reason in dead earn
est. He is 26 years old, of powerful
build, and it was with much difficulty
that the officers succeeded in subsiding
him. About three years ago he was
quarantined in Detroit hotel where
smallpox had broken out, but he sue
ceeded in escaping through window
and came directly home, where he
communicated the disease, which cost
the county large sum of money to
stamp out.-Richmond Review.
Keep your feet dry. Get a pair of
Ballentine's grain river shoes for $3.50.