The Yale expositor., 1902-08-22
General News.

The CApac Gun Club was organized
recently.
There were Sc deaths in st. Clair
county during July. Twenty-three
occurred in Port Huron.
The NJ. 4. NJ, of Port Huron, will
hold Hover show on September Q.
l.. b. Rice has the matter in charge.
The Sanilac county branch of the
Threshermen's Union has gone 20 the
wall. All who joined are $3.50 out of
pocket.
Five persons haye been drowned
from the beaches north of Port Huron
this season. Only one was reported
last year.
The August meeting of the Clyde
and Grant Farmers club will be gen.
erRl picnic NJ the Life Saving Station
on the 9th.
The 81. Clair and Sanilas county
Sunday School Association will hold
their 22nd annual rally in the grove at
Amadore September eth.
George NJ. Grennis will build n
creamery at Richmond Rs soon as men
and material can be got ready. The
building will be of cement.
Il. W. Coddington, SUPERINTENDENT
OF the Croswell schools the past two
years, will now take the principalship
of schools IN Aspen, Colorado.
Homer Warren, one of the well
known singers in Detroit, will sing in
North Branch Thursday evening, Aug
ust 2S, during dedication week.
Prospecting for coal will soon be be-
gun at Cass City. Indications of coal
lur - nd FffV I9
will be raised at once for the work to
go on.
On Sept. 10th. the occasion of the
2lst anniversary Of the Great Camp of
Maccabees, IL Is expected that there
will be ten thousand people in Port
| Huron.
The Patton families had their annu.
nj reunion on Rev. j. II. Paton's lawn
in Almont on Wednesday, last week.
Fifty nine persons participated in the
pleasant occasion.
Mrs. lola May Ross, aged 20 years,
and married only two months, COM
mitted suicide by taking strychnine at
the home of her father, Leonard Nc
Arthur, near North Branch last Satur-
day night.
| Mayor Moore has issued an announce
ment proclaiming August % as a Civic
| holiday in Port Huron, the occasion
| being the excursion of the Merchants
and Manufacturers association of Port
Huron to London, Ont.
The well known ferry, Omar ID.
Conger, burned TO the waters edge at
her dock in Black river Tuesday of
this week. Fire started in the hold.
Loss SIS, 900, insured. This Is the second
time this year the Conger has been
burned.
A location suitable 70: the projected
great lakes naval training school is
being looked after by board appoint
ed for the purpose. lIarbor Beach was
looked over last week and the place
made quite favorable impression on
the committee.
BY carelessly leaving gas Jet open
in their room in the New Pacific hotel
at Port Huron Wednesday night, II.
Connors, of Columbus, o., and j. X.
Bones, of Buffalo, nearly lost their
lives. They were found in nearly
unconscious condition.
While passing along through a crowd
Tuesday night in Port Huron, where
policemen were trying 90 arrest two
AAtllf AaAlNOllA AltAJ AtitANth
a blow on the head from Correy's baton,
which felled him 10 the ground, but
after examination IL was found he was
not seriously injured. Policeman Cor.
rey regrets very much thelmistake he
made.
Rev. Chas. Kirchner, pastor of the
Evangelical churches of Casco and
Adair, adopted n girl 10 years old, two
years ago and has since then commit
ted offences against her. A month or
more ago the girl ran away and found
work in Mt. Clemens. The affair has
stirred up the wrath of the people in
southern 81. Clair county and case
will be made If possible. Kirchner Ii
married and has four young children.
Four men were badly injured ut the
Sugar Factory in Croswell on Wednes.
day of last week. IL is thought that in
hosting the brick TO the top of the
chimney, the bucket was carried toe
far, tearing away the rigging used fol-
hauling up and bringing the staging
bucket and bricks down, striking Mill
man, Dodd, and Collins, the first being
injured most seriously. Collins wa,
struck by the staging and Dodd by the
bucket. Stademan who was on tor
was knocked of receiving only
broken foot which seemed n miracle
as he fell some sixty feet.