The Yale expositor., 1897-07-09
General News.

| CaSS Clty on July D.
John Fallahay, of Millington, was
burned in his barn July 6.
Ex-Consul John c. New is spending
few weeks at the Oakland.
, On July 18th the Flint newsboys EN-.
joyed a days outing in Detroit.
The Bartlett College (Ohio) students
will have an outing at Stag Island.
The lady cyclists of Richmond have
organized club to be known as the
Cycle Club.
The Marine City cornet band has
been reorganized and $50 spent in
new instruments.
Many prominent Detroit million
aires have taken to the wheel as a
healthful exercise.
A very heavy crop of unusually fine
quality of hay is being harvested at
and around Holly.
Herman Hazelton, of Marysyille, had
his feet badly bruised and cut in the
saw mill at that place.
Irving Guilford, man 80 years old
was killed on the Michigan Central
near Pinconning, July 9.
Chas. j. Holmes, of Port Huron, left
July i in his 2S-foot yacht, n. +. w. 5.
for his trip around the world.
Rev. r. n, VanDoren, of Vermllion,
S. ID. has received call to the First
Baptist church in Port Huron.
The Marine City Globe is the new
paper at Marine City. This place will
hardly make three papers rich.
Jas. Banfill, jr., of Capac, now has
charge of the Valley Centre Touring
mill IN the place of VIM. Demott.
Romeo people are highly enthusiast
tic oyer the prospects of an electric
railroad from Detroit to Romeo via.
| Utica.
The jerks family of this section of
the state held grand reunion at the
residence of Henry jerks in st. Clair,
July Z.
Downington and Minden City have
consolidated in the base ball business
and the club will be known as the NJ.
q ID. b. b. G..
| Two Lakeville men were very badly
| bruised by their horse running away
| when near Romeo. The horse died
from injuries.
On the town line road near st. Clair,
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clists and with sticks and stones they
were all killed.
No afternoon sessions are now held
in the st. Clair county circuit court.
The st. Clair church suit has been put
oyer for week.
The fourth annual convention of the
Police and Sheriffs' Association of
Michigan will be held in Port Huron
some time this month.
Two Oxford men have been fined
for spearing fish in their own waters.
They claim right to spear their own
fish and will appeal the case.
Members of the Illinois Press Asso-
citation and their families to the number
of 400 or more, will take an outing at
The Oakland, st. Clair, this month.
The road from Wadhams into Port
Huron is said to be as bad piece of
road as any in the state. 1t is much
travelled and should be decently mend
ed.
A five-year-old boy fell into Belle
River at Marine City and a fifteen
year-old boy jumped in after him and
swan to shore with him, saying his
life.
Two of Metamora's young ladies
rode their wheels on the sidewalk after
the village dads had ruled it against
the law, and they were each fined fifty
cents.
1t is understood that the location of
the new life saving station has been
decided upon at Lakeview Beach four
miles north of the Fort Gratiot light
house.
Ex-controller Waite's bondsmen OBJ
iect to paying the amount of Waite's
shortage as he was only found guilty
of appropriating $3.50. The shortage
was 3,400.
On Tromley mountain, hill near
Romeo, Albert Nye Post, of Romeo,
and residents who live in the vicinity,
raised the stars and stripes July 4th, on
pole 6S feet in height.
A grocery and residence, belonging
| to Mrs. Pearsall and q barn occupied
by the Thomson Woodenware Co. in
Port Huron, were burned on July 6.
Supposed to have been from fireworks.
The Dryden roller mill elevator and
their smaller building were destroyed
& Co. were the owners. The loss is
Several barns belonging to Wesley
Schleichter and r. G. Brown, of Brown
City, have been burned recently one
after another and certain parties have
been suspected. The gang has now
been unearthed by officers and will be
brought to justice.
A st. Clair man was spraying his
trees during one of the recent hot
days and he was perspiring freely.
Some of the poison dropped on his
skin and his pores being so open the
poison was easily taken into his system.
He is now suffering greatly with erup-
tons over his skin.
Several Flint young men were re-
Gently arrested for fast drying. Some
feeling was stirred up against the
marshal who arrested them and he in
turn was arrested on charge of alleg-
ed assault and battery on one of those
whom he took in charge. A gang of
young fellows met the marshal on the
street and pounded him so severely
that he is laid up for repairs.
A California.girl, Rowena Reed, has
brOkpn tla WOrldfa rQCOrd for woman