The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1899-03-24

ducuCS IhS NiiidbS 10 NiIhOUb PuDiiO
hall.
Chester township in Ottawa county.
has been organized since 1S4s and has
had only six different supervisors
One supervisor, George +. Porter, hav-
ing served his township &c consecutive
years.
Reading people have for some time
wanted flour mill, and new that
they have n chance to get one by pay
ing bonus of $500, will probably
take it.
Nearly 1000 women in Detroit made
up their mind they wanted to vote for
a school inspector this spring, and ac-
cordingly consented in revealing the
secret of their ages by registering
So many petty burglories have oc-
Cured at Hillsdale of late that a couple
of night watchmen have been APP
pointed by the city council and it is
hoped this will put stop to the depre-
dations
John O'Bricn, of Albion, aged 81,
bed-ridden and almost helpless, secured
razor and attempted suicide. He
said afterwards: Il tried to do a good
job, but luck was against me-" He can
not recover.
In mix-up between a D., G.. II. &
NJ. freight and c. ). &c NJ. mixed
train ut Owosso, several cars were de-
molished as result of rear-end col
lision. The wrecl1age caught fire and
was burned.
Mrs. Forbes, formerly Hattie Mar
chant, committed suicide at her home
in Kalamazoo by hanging herself on
the top of a door by n cord. She had
been respondent of late and was left
alone only short time.
All the furniture factories in Owosso
are working L. or II hours day and
are then unable to keep up with or
ders Such season of prosperity so
far as the factories are concerned was
never before known there.
Mrs. C. BirlS, an old woman living
mile east of New Buffalo, was found
dead in bed the other day. She is sup
| posed to have been dead for over a
week She feared witches and drove
1000 nails in the door TO keep them
away.
The state fair authorities have de-
cided TO abandon the system they have
| followed for years of advertising the
big fair by means Of dodgers and litho-
graphs, and to spend all the money set
aside for this purpose in newspaper
advertising.
1t cost Grand Haven S3,176 % to run
its municipal electric light plant last
! year, and the receipts were S2,5S1 81.
Up to last year the city paid $4,000 for
| its street lights TO a private corpora
ton This year the plant will net
profit TO the city.
A Decllerville farmer is the owner of
a lamb which boasts of six feet-four
in front and two behind The freak,
which was born only a few days ago,
seems to be as healthy as any ordinary
lamb which has only fore feet in front
and two behind
A little girl named Celia Smith, of
! Owosso, was playing in the basement
of the school building when she ac-
cidentally fell, running a pencil she
! had in her pocket through the wall of
her abdomen. If blood poisoning does
not set in she may recover.
Petitions has again been circulated
| in Eaton county, asking for another
vote on the local option question, and
enough signatures has been secured to
enable another special election. This
makes the third set that have been cir
culated within the past four months.
Port Huron's city council has re-
solved to purchase strip of land from
Lake Huron TO Black river for the con-
struction of canal to cleanse Black
river. For years past that river has
been an eyesore, owing to it's stagnant
condition during the summer months.
Last week Miss Davis, aged 10,
daughter OF farmer near Cass City,
cashed forged order for So at a bust
ness house. The merchant called on
her parents for settlement and they
in turn reprimanded the girl. Later
the young woman placed strycbnne in
cup of tea and drank it, death re-
sulting.
While the saloons at Oxford were
closed on account of its being election
day, some fellows with a great thirst
broke into one of them, and after get
ting outside of all the whisky he could
drink, left the taps of the barrels open,
so that when the proprietor came
around he found the whole place
flooded with liquor.
The electric road from Port Huron
to Marine City, which has been talked
OF so much, now appears to be an as
sured project. 1t is contemplated that
by connection with the Detroit &c ST.
Clair railway at Marine City and the
Rapid railway at Mt. Clemens a con-
tinuous electric ride to Detroit will
have been made possible.
Safe-crac kers blew open the safe in
Charles H. May &c Co.'S bank at Clio,
and secured nearly $4,000. After they
had secured the plumber they went to
livery stable and got the man in
charge to drive them out three miles