The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1906-09-07
FRIDAY, SEPT. :, 1906.

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st. Clair will have a new high school
building to cost $4,000.
The outlook is very favorable for a
canning factory at Lexington.
The state board of equalization has
fixed the valuation of ST. Clair county
for 1906 at S33,000OO0.
Three children in the family of
Charles Lakin, at Sandusky, have
smallpox in a mild form.
The st. Clair Republican has been
leased by II. \. Hopkins to +. J. Otta
way for a period Of years.
James Johnson, of Sanilac county,
has lost three barns with contents and
stack of oats by lightning this sum
mer.
Dr. David V. YereX, prominent
and influential business man of Inlay
City, died last week after fortnight's
illness.
The Macomb County Savings Bank
will open an office of the bank i'm Rich
mond, and viii be ready to do business
by the 18th.
At Capac new ROOF cover is being
put on the Hotel dc Burt which is a
heavy paper made by the Pilgrim Pa
per Co. at their paper mill near Capac
Alex. TaberdOc, a ferocious-appear-
1 ing one legged man, was arrested at
| Adair recently for frightening women
and children. He was taken to Port
/ Huron.
John Griffith and Robert Mills sued
the township Of Speaker for injuries
received on the highway. The first re-
ceived from the township board Sl05
and the latter S35.
The October term of the circuit
court of the county of st, Clair will be
a busy one. There are on the docket
already siXty-twO law cases and forty
two chancery cases.
The people of Algonac, Marine City
and other river points want Henry
Avery kept at the Flats as deputy
game warden as they say he makes a
good one, and that he thoroughly pro-
tected the fish.
Rev. j. +. Thompson of the NJ. f..
church at Lexington will quit preach
ing and start a five and ten cent store
at Deckerville. The News thinks per-
haps he may get fewer pennies and
buttons in the new venture.
Nettie Cameron, the young woman
Of WatertOwn who was struck on the
head about month ago by a falling
hay pole, as she went to the field to
give the men a drink, died last week
from the effects of the injury. She
was IL years Of age.
The only way that Lexington has
communication with the outside world
is the Thompson line of steamers,
which is very unsatisfactory as the
boats generally do as they please
about stopping, and the town is too
far gone TO utter protest. Poor Lex
ingtOn,
Three victims were claimed by the
st. Clair river last week Sunday; Will
liam Neal, IL year old South Park
boy was carried beyond his depth and
could not SWIM George Thompson "a
years old, of North Port Huron, fell
off his row boat and went down before
help came: and Calvin II. Estell, I
year old boy, fell through hole in the
dock at Marine City.
The little city of 1t. Clair is surely
climbing up the ladder of progressive
ness. They claim to have the best
sidewalks of any city of its size in the
country and that is only one item.
The latest however is to be the early
establishment of free mail delivery,
which will be put in operation by the
first of November. st. Clair will now
placard her streets and number her
houses My but wont we put on airs!