The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1908-01-03
FRIDAY. JANUARY 3, 1908.
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There are % prisoners in st. Clair
county Jail.
The new bank at Smiths Creek was
opened to the public Thursday, Janu-
airy 2.
The January term of the circuit
court will begin on January 6. The
docket is large one.
Ira Blake took 295 dead sparrows in
to Lexington the other day and re-
ceived $3.50 for the bunch.
Frank Pomeroy is sick at the home
of his sister Mrs. Harvey ;. Hydorn in
Maple Valley, with smallpox
The school building at North Branch
is being supplied with electric lights
and other needed improvements are
going on.
Wallace Cole, of Burtchville town
ship, aged % years, is violently insane
over religion and will be taken to Pom
tiac asylum.
The Port Huron Chicory factory has
been obliged to close down as it is I'M
able to obtain the necessary chicory to
keep the plant running.
j. b. McIlwain has asked for a re-
trial of the Crane Barnes breach of
promise suit but it is the opinion that
Judge Tappan will not grant the mo-
ton.
For several years the circuit court
docket has been numbered up with a
lot of old cases which were last week
ordered stricken out by Judges Law
and Tappan.
The Caro- Butter Co. and the Cass
City Creamery Co. has been merged
into one large stock company to oper-
ate under the name of the Thumb Co.
operative Creamery Co.
1t is said that the old projected road
from Bay City to Detroit is not as dead
as is generally supposed 1t is said
that new capital has been interested
and work will be resumed on the road |
next spring.
A new union passenger depot will |
soon be built at Pigeon, to take the |
place of the one burned some months |
ago. The officials of the Pere Mar
quette and Il. o. II n. have agreed to
jointly erect the building.
Some mean sneak who doesn't APP
preciate Christmas festivities stole into
the Presbyterian church at HarbOr
Beach and cut several feet off the top
of the tree which was TO be decorated
the next day. a soulless human being.
The publication of the Lexington
News has been suspended for Il brief
time or until its editor can collect back
dues and get started again square with
the world and then there will be no
more credit business, but no pay, no
paper
Frank Tebeau, the Marine City boy
who was fllled with shot by William
Brown for trespassing, has through his
father started suit for $4,000 damages
for injuries received. The father also
brings suit against Brown for $1,000
that his business was neglect.
ed while he cared for his son.
Over at North Branch the children
in the Nj. +. Church have lost faith in
santa Claus During the exercises at
their Christmas tree the young man
acting as Santa got too close to the IL
Eliminating power and his false whisk-
ers caught fire. Only by pulling off his
whole disguise in a hurry, did he es-
cape severe scorching. Imagine the
surprise and disgust of the little ones.
VIM w. Harrison, one of the best
known men in st. Clair county, died at
MS home in Memphis last week after
.wo months sickness, Mr. Harrison
was formerly school teacher, supervi-
'or of Wales township IL years, census
in 1870, was register of
leeds for ST. Clair county six years,
of the legislature two terms
of the fourth ward of Port
Huron city five years. He served as a
private in the 4th Mich Infantry dur.
ng the civil war. He was nearly 70
vears of age.