The Yale expositor., 1905-03-17


st. Clair county Jail contains IL pris-
oners at present.
The hotel Oakland will be sold at
public auction on March 2l.
There will be about a half dozen less
saloons in Port Huron next season than
this.
There have been ten circuit judges
in st. Clair county during the past 30
years.
1t has been given out that the cream
cry at Melvin will begin operations
again.
The shipyard at st. Clair is a mons
ter affair. Nearly 400 men find EN-
ployment there.
The North Branch Gazette says there
are all kinds of business changes be-
ing talked of in that town.
Fifty young lady school teachers of
st. Clair county attended the examina-
ton in Port Huron last Saturday.
Every month 20 old soldiers visit the
st. Clair county clerks Office and have
their pension papers certified to.
The business men of Romeo have
organized the Romeo Driving Club.
On July 4, 5, and 6 there will be race
meet.
The information has been received
that a large number of immigrants
will enter the United States at Port
Huron after March 18th.
Not in the history of the village of
Richmond has there been a more large
ly attended or more enthusiastic caucus
than that held there last week.
w. L. VanConant, who has been in
the grocery business in Peck for the
past three years, has sold out and
bought grocery stock in Port Huron.
ID. c. Smith, an old residenter, bet
ter known as DR.. Pain Paint, died
Wednesday of last week at the county
house. His remains were inferred at
st. Clair.
David Murray, of Valley Centre, will
be placed in the asylum at Pontiac
Mr.. Murray's mind has been unbal-
anced for some time and has been get
ting worse.
China township has no idiots, deaf
and dumb, blind or epileptic people in
its boundaries according TO the super
visor who returned the blank sent for
this purpose without name upon it.
Charles Ballard, Esq, an early pioneer
of Lapeer county, a successful man in
business, hOnOred and esteemed by all
who knew him, died at the ripe old age
of nearly 80 years, at his home in North
Branch March 8, 1908.
Sunday has undoubtedly been the
chief day of the week with Port Huron
billiard and pool rooms during the past
httf oh Of Tai ha1
one closed last Sunday and declares
that the law must be obeyed.
The Maccabee Sick and Accident
Association was organized in Port
Huron last Saturday. The president is
John b. McIlwain. The membership
will not be limited to Maccabees. Two
hundred members will be secured be-
fore charter is applied for.
The village council of Brown City
left the matter of purchasing water
system to the new council, who, it is
hoped, will go ahead with the matter.
A petition signed by large number of
taxpayers was presented the council,
against the water proposition.
At the special session of the board
of supervisors of Lapeer county, the
dOings of the poor board are being
probed to the bottom and it is likely
that this action will satisfy everybody.
Charges have been preferred against
the superintendent of the poor.
Mr.. and Mrs. Silas w. MADDEN, of
Marine City, have been married about
fifty years and now the wife has be-
come insane. Mr.. MADDEN petitions
for the care of her but it is thought by
the heirs that OH account of his age,
the husband should not be appointed
her guardian.
James III. Honey, foreman on the
section at Brown City, suffered
a stroke of paralysis last week while at
work, affecting his right side and also
his throat and tongue. For four days
he could not speak, but is improving
now. 1t is supposed the stroke was
brought on by overwork and exposure
in the recent snow blockade.
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