The Yale expositor., 1905-01-20

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The Memphis telephone exchange
now numbers 46 subscribers.
Armada boasts of as fine free pub
lie library, for its size, as any in the
state.
George Main, of Almont, on his re-
turn from Kansas, brought three
prairie dogs with him.
1t is said that bread war will soon
be on in Port Huron. Bread now sells
for four cents per loaf.
A fine new school house will be built
at Lenox the coming season. Plans
and estimates haye been submitted.
There are 702 subordinate oranges in
the state of Michigan, comprising A.
800 members, also 46 Pomona Oranges.
Rural route number three has just
been established out of st. Clair. This
route will supply mail to 486 persons.
Marcus Young, of Port Huron, has
secured the right to manufacture pa
per barrels and nail kegs in Cleveland
and Toledo.
Some Port Huron physicians claim
that the drinking water is impure. A
quantity of il has been sent to Ann
Arbor to analysis.
The village of Richmond has pur-
chased the land which has been used
for many years as ball ground. 1t
will be fitted up for all kinds of ath-
letic sports.
Marlette merchants do not take we'll
to the early-closing movement as 1t
took only three days to satisfy some
nf ho ~ 10
tinue the practice. 1t is all Oft now.
1t is reported that second paper
will be started in Almont, to be known
as the Almont Record and edited by
q. w. Patton. 1t would seem to us
that the field there is we'll covered al
ready.
F. A. Deland, a Memphis gunsmith,
had an expensive rifle stolen from his
shop year ago, which bad been
brought there to be liked. The rifle
has been found in Guy Leaym's pos
session by Sheriff Moore.
Mathew Jones, the old man who
was sent back to Canada by lmmigra-
ton inspectors at Port Huron, was
taken to the House of Refuge for n
few days until his relatives AT Dawn
had agreed to take care of him.
James Palmer, aged 27, and Della
Palmer, aged 16, were arrested at
Avoca today by the sheritf's deputies
on charge of illegally living together.
The actions of the couple are said TO
have scandallzed the village neighbor-
hood and complaint wes made to the
officers.
Application has been made to the
probate court to send Mamie Hanshaw,
of Clyde, aged 6 years. to the Industrial
School. The claim is made that Robert
and Maggie Hanshaw, step-father and
mother of the little girl, have treated
her cruelty and are not suitable per-
sons TO take care of her.
A runaway team hitehed to a rural
mail wagon was stopped few miles
southeast of INLAY City on Wednesday
of last week. Investigation revealed
the fact that the outfit belonged to u
carrier On the Emmett route and that
the team had run fourteen miles with
out any material damage resulting.
During the past two years the board
of supervisors haye raised no money
fer the general fund. Deputy County
Treasurer stephen Moore says if the
bills of ex-Sheritf Davidson now before
the criminal committee are allowed
that it will practically bankrupt the
st. Clair county treasury as far as the
general fund is concerned.
The Croswell Agricultural Society
held a meeting at the town hall Cros-
we'll on Tuesday of last week when it
was arranged to put forth every effort
during the coming year to better the
fair In every way possible. A commit
tee was appointed to see about con-
structing new buildings and repairing
the old ones. Officers were elected,
reports read and the date for this
falls fair was set for Sept. 81, % and
30. Something over 500 remains in
the treasury.
Some time ago Adrian Popplewell
OF Emmett, begun suit in the circuit
court against his wife Minnie Popple.
we'll. He charged her with neglecting
her home, cruelty, etc. Mrs. Popple-
we'll has filed cross bill and claims
that she was always good wife, never
refused to do the cooking, etc. She
says that she suffered greatly from the
cold and that the house was nothing
but an old shack. She denies that she
eyer showed fits of passion and charges
her husband with having niggardly
nature.