The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1907-02-22
FRIDAY. FEB. %, 1907.



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There are twenty prisoners at the
county Jail.
There are several typhoid fever cases
i'm Port Huron.
There are $50 students in Port HUI
ron high school.
There are IS inmates i'm the 1t. Clair
county poor house at present.
1t is estimated that over 1000 of
Port Huron's citizens are i'll with the
grippe.
The new automobile factory i'm Port
Huron is ready to begin making auto
mobiles.
The next encampment Of the Michi-
gan National Guards will be held at
Ludington, Mich.
Fred. A. Beard, of Ruby, and A. Big
ger, of JeddO, will each purchase new
automobile the coming season.
The Clyde and Grant Farmers club
will meet in the Grange hall at Spring
Hill on Wednesday, February p.
The Huron Poultry Association has
been organized at Harbor Beach and a
poultry show will be held annually.
There is still quite lot of wooded
land around Brown City and farmers
are bringing in logs TO the mill yard.
Charles Quincy, at one time a pros
porous resident of St Clair, died at the
GOoddells poor farm last Thursday.
aged 20 years.
Harbor Beach people are going to
get together and boost" and try to in
duce the Michigan Central road, which
is only 81 miles away, to come TO their
town..
James Nichols, who has completed II
years service as a mail carrier, has
been honOred by the government with
red star which he will wear on his
coat sleeve.
The safe in Henry Buttironis hard
ware store in Marine City was blown
open the other night, but the burglars
were frightened away, taking nothing
No arrests have yet been made.
Mary Miller, aged Is years, of San
dusky, drank a teaspoOnful of carbolic
acid in mistake for her medicine and
received a badly burned mouth. A
prompt antidote saved her life.
William Smith, Scotchman aged 50
years applied at the st. Clair county
Jail recently for lodging. His clothing
was found so full of vermin that every
piece he had on had to be burned
X. :. Browne of Gagetown, was the
Oldest Mason present at the Huron
county Masonic picnic last summer
and has just received prize of n lamb
skin Masonic apron. Mr.. Brown has
been a Mason "a years.
There is talk of an automobile line
between Port Huron and Croswell, TAX
ing in Lakeport aad Lexington. The
Flint Automobile company are the
promoters. The proposition is to
make four round trips daily.
The residence of Trenton Ferguson
i'm Memphis burned To the ground one
day last week with all its contents.
There was no insurance. Citizens
made up Il sum of money and gave bed
ding and eatables 10 the destitute fam
lily.
A petition was given TO the village
council of Capac recently which asked
that the several churches be granted
free lights and that the church parson-
ages he granted reduced rates for
lights. The council rejected the petit
ton.
The sled of one of the boys, coasting
in Brown City ran into the eight year
I'D son Of Simon Bricker, striking him
in the side. 1t was found that one Of his
kidneys had been torn loose and for
several days the little fellow was i'm "A
rritical condition, but he gradually be-
came better.
Lester Ryland, the l9-year-old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Ryland, of near
Peck, was instantly killed on q freight
train which collided with another on
the Chicago * Iron Mountain railroad
in Wisconsin. Ryland was fireman.
Several others were also killed. The
body was brought home one night last
week.
William roulette, James Wright and
Clarence Matthews, three bad men i'm
st. Clair county jail, made a bold at
tempt at escape one night last week,
by saving through the iron bars of
window. They were discovered in
time to foil their efforts. Ii is thought
the tools must have been secreted 10y
them when the Jail was transferred
from Moore to Davidson. Poulette has
since been sent to Lapeer TO answer
another charge, Wright was taken to
lonia and Matthews goes to Jackson
for a term, so the jail is rid of three
bod ohoroQ