The Yale expositor., 1906-02-23

Lent begins next Wednesday, Feb
ruary 2Sth. April 18th is Easter.
Mrs. A. Pollock has been quite sick
the past week but is now OH the mend.
The soft weather of the past week
has made the roads very muddy and
travelling on the highway not altogether
desirable.
Word reaches Yale that Gertie,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. G. +. Emery
is sick with diphtheria at her home in
Port Huron.
Grant Holden, OH Saturday last, ship
ped the Shetland colt raised by him to
M. ;. Brown at Saginaw. Mark bought
the pony for his boy.
Rev. u. j. Cullinane of Sacred Heart
parish, Yale. is planning to give st.
Patrick's banquet OH March 18th.
More particulars later.
The annual meeting of the Woman's
Home and Foreign Missionary Society
of the Presbyterian church, will be held
with Mrs. A. Pollock OH Friday after
noon March End at 2 o'clock.
Mrs. Thos. Fades has large class in
vocal instruction in Yale. We hear
that she has just formed class in
Brown City also. Mrs. Eads has fine
voice and no doubt is good instructor.
We are sorry to learn that our
friend j. A. Rapley has been sick-a-bed
for the past week. He was threatened
with pneumonia having caught severe
cold. We are pleased to announce that
his condition is much improved at pre-
sent writing.
Dr. j. Ii. Stevens and Chas Hayes
were at Strathroy last week where Mr..
Hayes purchased thoroughbred Short
Horn bull from the Douglass Bros.
The Dr. says it is a fine animal and
was selected after visiting herds at st.
Marys and other places in Canada.
The Banner states in last week s
issue that there is living in Brown City
one of the oldest if not the Oldest lady
in the thumb, who is Mrs. Catherine
Plumb and who is ninety eight years
old. Grandma Plumb as she is called
by everybody, is great grandmother to
Mrs. Fred Mathews of this place.
A novel way in which the ladies of
the M. L. church are seeking to raise
money for their new building is this.
Each one is given five cents which they
must increase as much as possible in
any way which their ingenuity may
suggest. We hear of many doing
famously with their small beginning.
The 9th grade will give costume
dramatiZatiOn of the Court Scene in
Shakespeare MERCHANT of Venice"
this friday evening in the High
School Room to which the public is
cordially invited. Music for the &C.
casion will be furnished by May
Fitzgerald. Admission Zoe.
If you hear any of the Methodist
Episcopal ladies asking for work of
any kind, don't imagine that they have
suddenly lost their means of existence,
they are only striving to earn dollar
each, the manner of doing which will
soon be related at an experience social
which they propose to hold, and the
money thus earned will go into the
church funds. Help them out
We notice by the Sandusky Republi.
can that Fred Manley has engaged
with the A. l. Root Co., of Medina
Ohio, large beekeepers' supply house
of that city, to go to Cuba next winter
to work on one of their extensive bee
farms there. In the same issue of the
Republican we notice that Mr.. and
Mrs. w. A. Williams are I'm New York
City on l5-day business and pleasure
trip.
"The Masquerader," Katherine Cecil
Thurston's famous novel, will be pub,
lished by the Detroit Journal. The
first chapter will appear OH Tuesday
Feb. Goth. "The Masquerade" has
been described as the greatest story OF
the decade. 1t has something rarely
met with I'm these days, originality OF
plot The story involves three leading
characters a high bred Englishman
member of Parliament, his beautiful
wife and an impecuniOus young fellow
whose remarkable resemblance to the
member of Parliament allows the author
to work out situations that are entirely
new in literature. For a time "The
Masquerader" deceives not only the
political associates of the member OF
Parliament, but even the wife,