The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-08-20
General News.

The Bay City grocers excursion to
Port Huron on Saturday this week.
Lenox township will build two new
iron bridges at cost of 5000 or 81 900.
The population of Port Huron city,
as shown by the recent school census,
is l8,20l.
The new Catholic church at Brown
City will be dedicated about the lst of
September.
DR.. George II. Treadgold, of Port
Huron, has been granted patent on a
typewriter for writing on books.
John II. O'Dell, an old pioneer of
the section south of Brown City, died
last week, at the age Of 81 years.
Bennie Jones, aged Is, of Detroit,
was drowned at Algonac on Monday.
He was out in small sail boat which
capszed.
Silas Clark, of Smiths Corners, aged
% years, fell from load of hay, break
ing his neck. He lived two days and
then died.
The 10th annual picnic of the Sun
day schools of Sanilac and st. CLAIR
counties will be held in Amadore on
September End.
Richmond people will build a cycle
path to their cemetery and eventually
extend it to Memphis with the aid of
Memphis riders.
E. F. Parker, of INLAY City, has
bought the hardware stock and bust
ness of the Messer Brothers who will
go to California to reside.
A Gospel Union Camp Meeting is
being held in st. Clair. Three bishops,
seven elders and several jubilee sing
ing sisters are of this gospel band.
An effort will be made to finish the
Young Mems Christian Association
building in Port Huron, the founda-
ton of which was begun year or two
ago.
David Thompson, of St. Clair, was
fined $40 and sentenced to the Detroit
House of Correction for 60 days for
stealing harness from the barn of e. ii i.
Recor.
The f. q p. NJ. depot at Vassar was
broken into one night last week and
the money drawer pried open but no
money taken. A trunk was also
smashed.
The special election held last week
IN Richmond to vote on the PROPOSE
ton of electric lights was lost, and
Richmond people will continue to
walk in darkness.
Sneak thieves broke into the resi-
dence of ID. n. Runnels in Port Huron,
during the circus parade last Saturday
and secured about SIP in money and
considerable jewelry.
n 4
ron, has lost her lS-year old son, Sam
Smith. She thinks he is in Sanilac
County but cannot locate him and has
called on the police for aid.
Triplets were born to Mrs. Frank
Parker, of Lamotte, last week. They
were all boys-two weighing 81 pounds
each and the third one seven pounds.
The largest one died next day but the
other two are doing nicely.
Vernon w. Walton, son of DR.. f. J.
Walton, of Richmond, died last week
of tuberculosis, after several months
of intense suffering. He was about %
years of age and had filled the position
of assistant postmaster in Richmond
for some time.
Thieves broke into house at Port
Huron during the circus last Saturday
and were in such a hurry to escape
after stealing $12 in money and a
quantity of jewelry that they dropped
q $40 gold piece on their way out and
never noticed it.
A man named Cyrus +. BREEDER, has
been living in st. Clair since last fall,
running bicycle shop. This week he
was arrested by Deputy U. S. Marshal
Bernatz, charged with the embezzel-
ment of 900 from the First National
Bank of Philadelphia, of which he
was cashier.
w. A. Hodgins, the dog trainer,
lives about one and one half miles
northwest of Vassar, where he has his
dog kennels with about % CANNES
now in training. The dogs belong to
different parties and are full blooded
beasts of different breeds, worth from
fifty to hundred dollars each. Mr..
Hodgins trains these dogs for bird
hunting and it takes from two to six
months to train them properly.