The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1898-08-19
General News.

Inlay City is to have another gem
eral store.
A fruit Evaporation will be put into
operation III Croswell this fall.
Seyen hundred dollars has been APP
propriated for the fair at Inlay City
this fa!!.
The next state farmers Institute will
be held at Capac some time during
January.
There will be a big time at the Sol
diers' and Sailors Reunion at Croswell
August "A and 20.
In Almont the custom of renting the
pews in the Congregational church
has been abolished.
The project for building $4,000
hotel in the center of St. Clair city is
being pushed with vigor.
Two citizens of Metamora fought to
finish on the main street Of that vii
lage with no interference from police.
Retta Leroy, of Port Huron, tried to
commit suicide by jumping into St.
Clair river. She was tished out wiser
girl.
Charles Wittkupp, of near INLAY
City, fell from a loft in his barn, sus-
tanning internal injuries from which he
died.
Dallas Tenant, an Armada soldier
boy, died August at Santiago of the
fever. The village of Armada is IN
mourning.
Estella Warwick, of New Baltimore,
aged 80 years, died from dose of poi
son, August 10, administered by her
own hand.
The Sanilac County Agricultural
Society has changed the date of its
fair from September 10 and l6 to Octo-
Der Ii and u.
William Secord, of Leonard, aged Is
years, was struck in the head by a
board in the saw mill and soon died
from his injuries.
Col. c. L. Boynton, of Port Huron,
is home from Cuba. He is still very
weak from an attack of yellow fever
but recovering nicely.
Miss Edith Rutley, Port Huron
young lady, has gone to Camp Thomas,
Ky, where she will enter the govern
ment hospital as nurse.
Col. John Atkinson, of Detroit, q
prominent lawyer, died last Sunday
morning after brief illness of twelve
hours of neuralgia of the heart
The fve-year-o daughter of William
Martin, of Brockway, was run over last
Saturday evening by a wagon carrying
a water tank. In two hours the child
died.
Thomas Lomasney, of Port Huron,
has named his baby Joseph Walsh Lo-
masney. Mrs. Walsh presented the
child with gold spoon enamelled with
the American flag.
Albert Gilbert is the name of the man
who has deserted his wife and six chill
dren in Romeo and left them in desti-
tute circumstances, to be cared for by
the poor commissioners.
The Detroit, Utica q Romeo Railway
Co., capitalized at $4,000 was organ
ized at Detroit last week. 1t is propos-
ed to have trains running oyer this
new line by January /, 1899.
After twentY-nine years of continu-
Gus service as Station Agent for the
Grand Trunk company at Armada,
+. f. Sibley has handed in his resigna-
ton, which took effect Aug. 10. f. IL.
Wilder will succeed Mr.. Sibley.
As the passenger train of the De-
troit d River st. Clair Railroad was
leaving New Baltimore August 10, the
wind was blowing gale. A section of
board fence was blown against the open
car catching the leg of the conductor,
who was on the step. A compound
fracture of the right leg was sustained.
Armada people are kicking on their
train service and with good reason.
Passengers are compelled to ride in
caboose at the end of freight train
and the caboose is left quarter of
mile more or less either side of the de-
pot and the passengers left to wade
bitches and scramble banks any old
way to get there.
At Forestville there stands an I'M
mense brick chimney, in first class con-
dition, that was erected over forty
years ago, when pine and pine kings
ruled all this vast country. This CHM
ney is eighty-tive feet high, and thirty
five feet in circumference at the base.
Every vestige of the huge mill that
once stood OH the same ground Is gone
disappeared from the face of the
earth.-Lexington News.