The Yale expositor., 1907-03-08
FRIDAY, MAR. =, 1907.

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Memphis is ahead. a young lady
reports seeing robin last week.
There is talk of converting the Ago
nae bank into state institution.
The villages all about ms are all adj
vertising their municipal elections.
The rural carriers of Huron county
have organized an association to be
known as II. l.. &. \. of Huron county.
The telephone war which has been
waged at Armada is now over and
all is at peace The town has at pres
ent l25 phones in operation.
Temple Emery, of Bay City, the new
state salt inspector, has appointed j.
L. Reath to succeed Inspector Beach
as deputy i'm tile 1t. Clair county dis
triCt.
The common council of the village
of Memphis has recently passed more
than twenty ordinances and the Bee
publishes them in full in supplement
form.
John Seipes, a resident of 1t. Clair,
has purchased a half interest in the
Bowers Brothers undertaking business
and the firm name will he Seipes X
Bowers.
Robert Singles, - years old, of I'm
lay City, shot himself in the ankle on
sunday while out hunting. 1t is
thought the foot can be saved but he
will be cripple.
The l7-months- old girl of Mr.. and
Mrs. Samuel sloan, of Port Huron
township, drank some carbOlic acid
from a bottle and died in a few hours
in terrible agony.
Jennie Alexander, "a former Port HUI
ron nurse, will begin suit against DIR. A.
+. Thompson, of st. Clair for S20,OO0
damages, claiming that he unjustly inn
prisOned her in London asylum.
LAUNDERING in the section about Cass
City is big and important industry,
one tract of so acres and another of go
acres being cleared of the cedar and
furnishing employment To many men.
The st. Clair county poor house is
| found altogether too small, the place
| having been filled to overlooking this
winter. 1t is proposed TO double the
capacity of the apartment occupied by
! the men.
Sometime in August next Port HUI
ron will celebrate its 50th anniversary.
Several days will be given up To pro-
grams not yet fully determined upon.
The nature of the celebration will par
take largely of Home corners week.
At the coming spring election the
citizens of Croswcll will vote upon the
question of bonding the city for $4,000
to be used for street improvements.
The sugar plant company will come
within the corporate limits if the streets
are made better.
The Royal lighting system is used in
Iake Bros. jewelry store i'm Deckerville
and while Noah Iake, a young man,
was pumping the air, the tank sudden
ly blew up, throwing him distance of
ten feet and rendering him unconscious
for an hour. The store did not catch
fire.
Mrs. Edward Shelter, an aged Ger
man woman of kimball township, died
one day last week and the day of the
funeral her husband asked to SEE her
for the last time. The casket was
wheeled close to his bedside and after
gazing upon her face, the old man fell
back upon his pillow and died. lie was
~ years old.
Wesley Smith, age - years, of Alb
bOtsfOrd, was taken To ~. Clair county
jail violently insane. II was feared by
his family that he would commit sui
eide, as his father and sister had done
before him. Smith was formerly in
good circumstances, but reverses came
and with IA wife and seven children de
pendent upon him, he probably became
respondent.
Fire consumed the PO&N and PM
union depot at Pigeon last Thursday
morning, supposed TO have started from
a defective stove. Nothing was saved
from the Pm office or freight room but
few things were gotten out from the
other office and everything from its
freight shed. Records and books were
destroyed and the total loss can not he
gotten at, but the merchants are quite
heavy losers.
Bert Kemp, the Smith Greek man be-
hind the bars on a charge Of child muir
der, is acting very strangely of late but
il cannot be determined whether he is
yeally going crazy or just feigning.
His conversation wanders and he talks
as though he were located under the
ST Clair river, and when his dinner is
brought him he invariably washes his
hands and face with the gravy. IL not
allowed to do this he refuses TO eat at
all.