The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1899-08-04
General News.

Memphis expects to h:ve fruit
drier put up by man from New York
state.
Hunting and fishing clubs number
ing 200 members are enCamped near
st. Clair.
1t is probable that no session of the
circuit court will be held during the
month of August.
The peppermint crop on the marsh
near Almont will equal that of last
year. Distilling has been begun.
Herbert A. Spencer, the imperson-
ator, will go on the road the coming
season with a company and play "The
Black Robe," of which he is the author.
The state teachers institute opened
in Port Huron on Monday with ll2
teachers in attendance. The members
have been increased during the week.
Marlette has been having some
trouble with their electric lights lately
but now a new improved dynamo will
be put in and better satisfaction is
guaranteed.
A week ago Monday night burglars
forced open the store of Chas. Dewey
in MELVIN and secured about 500
worth of goods. They got away with
out detection.
The oil we'll at Abbottsford will like
ly prove a failure as the drill has
dropped into the we'll and it is impos-
sible to get it out. The we'll is down
over 600 feet.
John McColman, the l4-year-old son
of Dan McColman, of Sanilac Centre,
has been absent from home for
| nd 20 10
know his whereabouts.
Isarel McGarvey over S4 years of
age and 20 years sexton of Croswell
cemetery dropped dead in the ceme-
terry last week. Supposed to be para
lytic stroke of which he had had two.
In recent Port Huron Times, the
statement is made that grand new
depot will be built at Saginaw by the
F&PMR'y. The belt line will be used
for the accommodation of the freight
business.
The Moore telephone system which
has been giving such poor service at
Marlette, is now being overhauled and
resurrected and Marlette people are
hoping that it will be put in talking
trim again.
In a scrimage between Ush Dawson
and Clarence Seibert at the beanery in
Marlette the other evening they over
turned three full crates of eggs and
forty dozen or more were broken oyer
the floor. 1t made a mess.
In the early fall game of base ball
will take place in Romeo, between the
Paige Fence and Cuban Giants, for the
championship of the state. These
teams are the greatest base ball aggre-
CATION eyer organized.
Mrs. Edgett, of Lakeville, the 16-
year-old wife of John Edgett, whom
we noticed in this column last week as
being afflicted with hydrophobia, died
during one of the commissions. The
above was taken from an exchange but
in the Romeo Observer we learn that
Mrs. Edgett is recovering her health
rapidly and that her sickness was not
hydrophobia at all but caused from
chronic hysteria which is the authority
of Romeo physician.
A lesson for the village of Armada
has been given. Will it be needed
On Thursday afternoon last fifteen
thousand dollar conflagration visited
the business portion OF the village and
n hardware store, two barber shops,
one saloon, National Hotel, livery
stable, dwelling house, several barns
and out buildings were burned to the
ground besides scorchiDg and damag-
ing numerous other buildings. Two
families living over the barber shop
and saloon lost everything. With
proper and adequate fire system and
water supply the fire could have been
confined to perhaps the one building
where it originated. A kettle of tar
boiling over on the stove in the saloon
set fire to the building and commune
Gated to others.