The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1902-05-09
General News.

Deputy county treasurer Moore has
issued Sc liquor licenses up TO date.
May 2G has been proclaimed an
official holiday by the city of sarnia.
Croswell ladies are gathering up ar
ticles preparatory to "A rummage sale.
The Port Huron Steel and Screw Co.
is n new industry lately started In Port
Huron.
Peck people have already made ar
engagements for celebrating the fourth
of July in glorious style.
twenty-five thousand young trout
were planted in the different streams
in the vicinity Of Almont recently.
The Michigan Fence Post Company,
of Capac, capitalized at $4,000, has
filed articles OF association with the
secretary of state.
During the month OF April $1,000
bushels of potatoes were brought into
Port Huron from Canada. This inn
portation Is unusual.
A crane was shot over at Almont the
other day which measured feet .
inches high and 6 feet 4 inches from
tip 10 tip OF its wings.
Ray Lipscomb, II year old son of
Samuel Lipscomb, of Inlay City, has
run away from his home and his fam
lily Is much worried about him.
w. X. Armstrong, the well known
horseman of Almont, died Sunday
afternoon after an illness OF several
years, paralysis being his malady.
Nelson Mills, of Marysyille, said TO
be the wealthiest man in the county,
is so years old. lie Is hale and hearty
and attends to business from morning
till night.
II Is reported that the Someryille
hotel will be operated as sanitarium,
TO be branch institution of the main
sanitarium at Battle Creek. Health
foods will also be manufactured.
one hundred and fifty laborers at
the jerks Shipbuilding Company's
yards at Port Huron, have gone on n
strike. They have been receiving 10
cents an hour and now demand IL!
cents.
Mrs. Timothy Simmons, of Downing
ton, arose from her bed May 9TH and
cut her throat with n razor, severing
the iugular vein. She had been in.
sane for several years but seemed bet
ter lately.
Sanilac county threshermen haye
organized themselves into "A branch
of the National Protection Association
of Threshermen. Thirty six have
already joined and all in the county
are expected TO.
Asa funeral procession reached the
Episcopal church in Port Huron last
Thursday, the building was found to
be on fire. The fire company soon ex-
tinguished the flames but the funeral
services were held in another church.
A Memphis infant, son of Orville
Kinsey is certainly blest beyond the or
binary mortal in the way of maternal
and paternal ancestors. Besides his
parents, he has Lying four grand par
ents, five great grand parents and one
great-great grandmother.
b. S. Dunn, clothing dealer In
Deckerville and Sanilac Centre, made
an attempt at hanging himself last Sun.
day in his woodshed. The rope broke
and he fell down stairs, cutting deep
cash in his head. lie lay for time in
pool of blood then rose and went "a
the barn where I've hanged himself TO n
rafter. No reasons have been given
for the deed.
Grand Trunk passenger No. ran
wild over the road from Port Huron 70
Flint last Saturday evening with de.
mented engineer at the throttle. viii.
liam Brown, OF Port Huron, was the
engineer who created great excitement
among the passengers and train men
who say that Brown was all right when
he left Port Huron. It Is thought hC
may have been struck 10y lightning n.
u was storming hard at the time
Brown has always been considered q
/ iirst-class man and never drank. An
other engineer was put on at Flint and
Brown carried TO Battle Creek TO hil
boarding place where he has suffered
much from his head since.