The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1898-09-23
General News

The cheese factory at bennington
has shut down, owing to scarcity of
milk.
Some parts of Lapeer county haye
been visited by frost every month so
far this year.
After a precarious existence of ten
years the Romeo Hydrant has finally
given up the ghost.
The annual reunion of the Twenty
ninth Michigan Infantry will be held
at Saginaw next week Tuesday.
The Lansing association of Congre-
gational churches and ministers will
meet at Williamson Sept. 26 and q.
More troops wanted at Manila to
support Dewey and Otis. Five regi-
ments now at San Francisco haye been
ordered to go.
A New York capitalist is looking
over the ground at Port Huron with a
view of sinking we'll for mineral
water, and if successful in finding it,
of establishing sanitarium.
Floyd Watherstone, the l3-year-old
son of Jos. Watherstone, of INLAY City,
fell on a board Friday and ran a rusty
nail through one of his hands. Blood
poisoning set in and it is feared the
boy cannot live.
The remodeled Baptist church at
INLAY City will be dedicated Sunday,
September %. 1t will be practically a
new church, as about 81 800 has been
expended in rebuilding and adding
modern improvements to the structure.
The Prohibitionists of the upper
peninsula will meet at Ishpeming
September 80 to put a congressional
candidate in the field. They will make
Il departure from the usual order of
things by allowing to take part in the
proceedings, with the right to vote on
an equality with the male participants
in the convention.
A point which will be of interest to
all people whose neighbors keep
chickens was decided in a court at
Mason last week. A man had shot
several of his neighbours chickens
which were trespassing on his garden
and the neighbor brought suit against
him therefor. The Justice decided
that the shooter had a perfect right to
shoot, as he was defending his prop
erty against damage.
A Lapeer county man found some
boys stealing melons in his patch, but
was lenient and let them go. A few
nights later they revisited the patch,
stole all the melons and pulled up the
vines. Now the owner is wishing that
he had filled their hides with rocksalt,
applied with the aid of u shotgun, the
first time they visited him, for then
they wouldn't haye been able to get
around again before the melon season
was oyer.
Henry Harrington, living near Port
Huron, native of this county, died at
his home Saturday last, aged II years.
Mr.. Harrignton was born within a mile
of Port Huron. In his boyhood days
there were few white residents in his
locality and about his only playmates
were Indian boys. The deceased, it is
said, was the Oldest living native in the
county. At one time he was engaged
in the numbering business but of late
he had lived retired life on his farm.
Mrs. Sarah J. McMartin, of Port HUI
ron, was the victim of gasoline ex-
plosion last Tuesday. The hair was
all burned off her head and she was
burned severely about the face and
right arm. While turning out the
flame for the purpose of filling the
tank the woman spilled some oil on the
stove. The oil in the can ignited and
in moment the entire room was full
of flames. Mrs. McMartin made her
escape by jumping through window.
The property damage was little, cover
ed by insurance.