The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1899-05-12

people. One man has recently sued an
other for alternating his wife's affec-
tions, and 500 in all he asks in the
way of damages.
Their is an old lady living at Lex
ington who has not been outside her
own dooryard for 80 years. 1t is not
that she is cripple or an invalid, for
she is not, but simply because she pre-
fers to stay at home.
The grain barns of Jerome Van Bus
kirk, of Richfield township, Genesee
county, were totally destroyed by fire,
together with three horses, a quantity
of hay and grain and farming imple-
ments. Loss, s., 900.
c. T. Hins, wealthy lumberman of
Mushegon, has offered to build beau
tiful Masonic temple at that place if
the two lodges of that city will unite
and form one lodge. The proposed
temple would cost SEQ, 900.
Miss Mabel Burke, of st. Joseph,
shot and mortally wounded her lover,
Attorney David b. Vile, a married
man of Chicago, and then killed her.
self while the two were in a rooming
house in the windy" city.
Wayne is now a strictly dry town,
not one of the four saloons being open.
The bonds of all of them were rejected
by the village council. In consequence
the drug clerks report an extra large
number of cases of the grip"
iceland claims to have the largest
brick factories in the state, owned by
the iceland Brick Co. The first fac
tory was started in lSi5 and its output
was $4,000 bricks per year. The pres
ent factories put out so, 600, 900.
Marcus Sterll, Red Jacket saloon
keeper, is minus SIS, 900 which he car
ried in his inside vest pocket 1t is
suspected that the money was stolen
from his clothing while he was taking
a bath in the public bath house.
An epidemic of measles and scarlet
fever is feared at Bridgeman, a small
village in Berrieu county. There are
now 90 cases in the place, but a strict
quarantine is in force IN the hope of
checking the spread Of the diseases.
The Michigan Sugar Co, of Bay
City, will MAKE extensive additions to
its beet sugar plant. increasing its
size and capacity Capitalists are dis
cussing the erection Of another beet
sugar factory, costing $1,000, 0o0 TO be
in readiness for operations in 1900.
The carpenters in the copper country
are having everything their own way
this season in the matter OF wages, for
there is such scarcity of that class of
of mechanics, combined with the cX.
tensive building operations TO be car
ried on in that section, that wages
will boom.
The Goth annual report of the secre.
tary shows that Jackson last year had
40, 995 acres planted 10 wheat and that
900, 60l bushels were raised. There
was 35.1s3 acres OF Germ, yielding
2,547, 600 bushels OF ears; 1903 acres
TO oats; 1913 TO beans; 2,94l74 acres
to potatoes; 80 ,9Os acres to hay, and
1908 acres to clover.
The people Of Milton township. Cass
county, are beginning TO see the adj
vantages of having good roads, aud at
the town meeting this spring voted TO
do away with the Anticipated system
of working out ones road tax. The
tax will be collected IN cash instead.
and the road improvement carried en-
in a systematic manner.
A mysterious shot came near killing
Mrs. Andrew j Pennell, of Niles. the
other evening. She was sitting near
window when n bullet whizzed by,
missing her by about two inches. MIR.
Pennell was recently married ard the
police are inclined to think that an at.
tempt was made TO kill the lady. An
investigation is being made.
Fruit trees around Shelby are sur
thought six weeks ago TO be dead are
showing signs CT lie and will have a
ligh: setting of blossoms, and peach
orchards located on high land are cx.
pectel 20 yield about half the usual
crop flums vii. I've tull crop &C.
cording TO present indications.
An ursophstjcated youth Of Muske.
gon recently plead guilty to the theft
OF an eight-cent package OF tobacco,
and when the court pronounced seq.
tence c! 10 days in jail or a 6ne OF IS.
the youth asked the judge 10 grant
him time TO earn the money. be.
cause, as he said, If he asked his father
for it he would get licking"
Last year resident of Waverly
township, Che boygan county, succeeded
in growing tomatoes upon a vine
grated into a potato vine. This
year he is trying another expert.
ment in that line, having grated a
rosebush limb on an apple tree, and he
expects to be picking roses and apples
from the same tree some time this sum.
mer.
Boring operations in the hope of
finding oil or something just as good, 4"
as officeseekers say have been going
on at Lexington for several months,
without anything but more or less ia.
vorable indications having been struck
as yet. The work will not stop. how.
ever, as the motto of those behind The
| venture is Never say fail" and they