The Yale expositor., 1903-08-07


The date of the annual Sunday
School Convention for Macomb county
has been fixed for October IL and Is,
and the place of holding Armada.
Mrs. Nape Minnie, of Port Huron,
an old and we'll known resident, was
found dead in her char Tuesday night.
Heart disease was the cause. She was
the widow of Nape Minnie, who was
killed one Fourth of July several years
ago during public fireworks celebra-
ton.
Michigan has railroad mileage OF
1900 miles. The Pere Marquette has
the greatest mileage, l,746, and the NJ.
&. the next largest, ,l49. IL IL believed
that railroad building has aboutreached
its limit In this state, but that the roads
will continue 10 increase In value every
year.
NJ. ID. Wagner. of Harbor Beach,
president of the Huron County Saw
ings bank and proprietor of the Port
Hope bank, has purchased the Minden
City bank of G.. l.. Messmore and took
possession August ]. His brother, Alex
Wagner, OF Detroit, will have charge
of the Minden City bank.
ut HhlllhN Nluull htDuDllChu says
that the sixth annual fair of the Sani-
lac County Agricultural Society pro.
misses TO be "whale." over $500 will
be given in premiums and 1925 i'm races.
Special attractions and features never
before attempted will make the fair of
1908 one of the best given in the state.
A Rapid Railway northbound car,
running over the "short cut" struck
and fatally injured Abraham Simons,
aged 60, at BammePs crossing, four
miles south of Marine City Tuesday
night. Mr.. Simons died on the car
before reaching Marine City. Deceased
lives I'm Cottrellvile and leaves large
family.
One Of the Immediate effect acts
enacted by the last Legislature changed
the dates OF the regular teachers ex-
animation from the third Thursdays in
March and August To- the second Thurs
days in the same months. The specials
will be held on the third Thursdays in
June and October at which only sec
ond and third grade certificates may be
granted.
Yes, Sanilac county has a Jail, aud a
good one 10 Is, In the best of hands. yet
II has not a single occupant. Its doors
stand wide open, n CHEEKY welcome Is
extended to all, yet no one enters it,
portals-not one. IL is sad state of
atlairs-particularly sad-because IL is
n we'll known fact that If men had
their just dues that Jail would be full
from pit TO dome.-Lexington News.
Probate judges throughout the state
have received notice of the passage of
law by the last legislature which went
into effect June 10, making all ind
gent insane patients state charge from
the first. Heretofore the county has
had to foot the bills for the first yesy
ut the asylum. This will prove of some
advantage to counties having n large
number OF insane IN proportion TO their
taxable property.
Friend Barrows, of the Armada
Graphic gives his youthful experience
with his best girl in the following par.
agraph:-"A prominent young man OF
Berlin township took his girl out for n
drive. She fell out OF the buggy and
he drove two miles before he discover.
ed she was missing. When we used "a
go drying, the hind wheel might come
off, the springs break or the horse fail
out of the shafts without our knowing
IL, but the girl was always anchored
The Carsonyille Changers are M
against genuine hard luck. A couple
of weeks ago their hall, one-half mile
south of Sanilac Centre, was broken IN
TO and large amount of supplies stol
en-. Sunday morning, July 10Th, at nj
early hour the hall was discovered In
flames and before an alarm could bt
given the fire had made such head
way 1t was impossible TO save the build
ing. However, most of the contents
were removed toa place of safety. In
cendiarism is suspected.