The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1898-09-16
General NJ eWs.

The Circuit court will convene Sep
TENDER 10.
Capac will have barbecue for fair
attraction.
A baby show will be a feature at the
Sand Beach street fair.
A. w. Kirchner. of Marine City, has
been taken to the Insane Asylum.
A Capac man sends his child to
school and yet refuses to buy books
for it.
Armada schools received over FIVE
hundred dollars last year from nom
resident pupils.
The next civil service examinations
| will be held in Port Huron between
October LIST and 10Th.
Armada merchants have decided TO
| close their business places att p. m.
through the winter months.
Mrs. James Reid. mother of ex-
county clerk Reid, and a pioneer of
Emmett township, is dead, aged 20 years.
The State pardon board will not par
| don William Mason, sent from Macomb
county in 1896 for five years for burg
| larry.
Master Charlie Dash is the heavy boy
of Macomb county. He is ii years old
and weighs Ia pounds. His home is
| in Romeo.
The Poor farm of Sanilac County
raised over 800 bushels of wheat, 600
bushels of oats and $50 bushels of mix
ed feed this year.
Joseph Campbell, of Port Hope, was
killed near Sand Beach last week by
falling off heavily loaded wagon
under the wheels.
A new round house is to be built at
the tunnel depot for the G. & G.. T. Ry.
1t will be large enough to contain 80
engines and will cost $4,000.
The Mccormick harness factory in
Port Huron will be removed to Flint
where it is understood that Flint cap
ital will control the business.
A chicory factory will be established
| in Port Huron by Eastern concerns If
the farmers around can be induced to
raise the necessary vegetables.
VIM. S. Fraser and his l4-months old
| boy were drowned at Point Edward
| last week, in what manner is not known
as no one was near at the time.
The grandest funeral service ever
held in Port Huron was that which
laid to rest Clark Washburn, of Co. F.,
on Thursday afternoon of last week.
Alfred Youngs, we'll known pioneer
| of st. Clair county, died last Friday of
neuralgia of the heart after sickness
of only few hours at his home in
Riley Centre.
Albert Liscombe went into Meta
mora store one day last week, bought
n revolver. loaded it, putt to his head,
fred and fell dead. Insanity given as
| the cause.
The editor of the Lexington News,
Jaspar Keyes, is an old soldier and
went to Cincinnati last week to meet
with his old regiment at the soldiers
encampment there.
Two cottages at SomerviIle Springs,
were burned last Sunday. The fire
originated in an unoccupied cottage
and spread to the other. Both belong
ed to Mark Hopkins.
| On October LIST, the Port Huron Sum
day Herald will celebrate its thirteenth
anniversary by putting out u page
| handsomely illustrated paper which
will be beautiful souvenir.
The Sand Beach express struck a
milk wagon on Lyons street in Port
Huron last Friday, demolishing the
wagon and throwing out and injuring
| William Washburn and son.
Joseph Gramer, an old resident of
Casco township, choked to death last
week on piece of meat which he was
eating. Mr.. Gramer was pioneer of
Casco, and veteran of the civil war.
NJ. j. Haskin's tailoring and cloth
ing establishment, located at Inlay
City, was entered by burglars Friday
night last. Several custom suits and n
quantity of furnishing goods were
stolen. Entrance was made by forcing
the alley side door. There is no clue.
Out of the 1000 men that Michigan
sent to the late war there were only IA
in all that could not write their own
names. The 35th had more farmers en-
listed than any one company within
the state which was 240 and the 32nd
had the least in number; the tillers of
the soil in that company numbering 4S.