The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1905-03-31
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On account of muddy roads Melvin
school will have vacation of two
weeks.
Adam Watson, a resident of Almont
township for fifty-siX years, died last
week at the age of SO years.
The L. :. recruiting office, which has
been open in Port Huron for the past
two months, has been closed.
Sanilac Centre has fine new orches-
ira recently organized. There are ten
members, three of whom are ladies.
From Lake Huron to Lake Erie the
water is free from ice and navigation
is now open. Detroit boats begin run
ming on Monday.
The planning and saw mill of Remalt
& Son, at Deckerville, burned last week
with loss of $1,000 This is the sec
ond mill burned on the same site with
in two years.
The Imperial Ginseng Company of
st. Clair, has been dissolved. 1t was in
tended to grow the root on an extern
sive scale, but the rapid decline in the
price was discouraging.
F. T. Wolcott bid in the Oakland
hotel property, which was sold at pub
| lie auction last week, for 100000. sMr.
Wolcott states that the hotel will be
open as usual this season.
G. Z. Mcconnell, station agent and
telegraph operator for the past three
years at Brown City, resigns on ac-
count of i'll health and will go totilling
the soil on farm near Saginaw.
Without any previous intimation one
hundred and twenty-five men were laid
off at the Grand Trunk locomo-
tive shops in Port Huron last week and
more were let go on Saturday night.
The stockholders of the agricultural
society at Inlay City, have received
sufficient encouragement to warrant
the holding of fair this fall and the
| first week in October is set for the
time.
A. S. Detwiler, head miller in the
| Touring mills at Brown City, fell down
the stairway from the second to the
first floor of the mill and sustained
rather serious injuries but is said to be
doing well.
The curriculum of the Port Huron
| high school will be changed next year
so that students may have more scope
in selecting subjects according to their
tastes and aptitudes. 1t is expected
that better work will be secured by this
change.
John J. Fox, an old pioneer of Burn
side township, was found dead in his
bed at Marlette, where he had been
living a few months. Deceased was
about rs years of age. Death is sup
posed to have been caused by heart
failure.
Several Richmond residents are direct
descendants of the New York Hatlields
and are claimants to fortune valued
at $300000000 The following are the
names of the Richmond heirs: James
Quick, Henry Hunt, VIM. Van Nor
strand, Mrs. Gil r. Lovejoy, Mrs. Cath
arine Larkin and Mrs. Catharine Hart.
1t is reported that Chas. Rosso, a
Mussey township farmer, induced his
wife to sign mortgage on the farm
for $500 for the purpose of building
barn, then took the money and hied
himself to New York, presumably on
his way to Germany. Mrs. Rosso has
sworn out a warrant for her husbands
arrest.
A stock company has been organized
at Carsonville which has bought the
Searchlight newspaper property of Fred
II. Marvin, who has published this pa
per for the past nine years. Walter
Wall, of the Croswell Jeffersonian, will
edit the paper Mr.. Marvin will go to
some other town and start democrat
ic paper.