The Yale expositor., 1909-06-04

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The graduating class at Lexington
consists of three girls.
Marine City people are having trouble
with their water supply.
There is no doctor located in Melvin.
Must be pretty healthy place.
Several weeks of local option in
Brown City have admittedly worked
fine and successfully.
st. Clair people own oyer 40 motor
boats but not half dozen automobiles
are owned in the city.
MennOnites from all over the state
will hold a camp-meeting in Port Hur-
on June IL to the 18th.
Two deaths occurred at the st. Clair
county poor house last week. George
Smith and Charles Geer.
Sandusky will vote on bonding the
city for $1,000 to build an addition to
the present school building.
Carsonville Episcopal church has a
fine new organ, presented by Major
Jackman's widow of Detroit
j. IL. Keys, former editor of the Lex
ington News, is in Brown City, helping
edit the new paper just launched there.
Postoflce clerks of the state held
their annual convention in Port Huron
on Monday, about 80 being in attend
ance.
An Almont man set a hen on IL eggs
and just three weeks from date the hen
came off the proud mother of 10 chick
ems. Pretty good.
Some of the foreigners who work in
the beet fields around Almont kill the
song birds to eat They must find out
| it's against the law.
Mrs. Hannah Roberts, of Harbor
Beach, took a large dose of paris green
in milk with suicidal intent, but doc
tor brought her back to life.
Former sheriff Thomas Moore is in a
critical condition at his home in st.
Clair. His relatives have all been noti-
fled and some are now at his bedside.
David Quail sr., who has been in the
grain business at Croswell for the past
twenty four years, now offers his eleva
tor for sale and will retire from active
life.
Twenty-four pupils attend the Island
school in St. Clair river. Max MOrash,
of Wadhams, is the teacher. The is
land is about 100 feet square, and the
students arrive and depart by boat.
A duplicate of the steamer North
Lake will be built at the st. clair ship
yard this summer. The order is already
in for steel and work will begin at
once lt is expected that the keel will
be laid the first part of July.
Judge Mitchell, Port Huron's aged
attorney, celebrated his 92nd birthday
last Thursday. An informal meeting
was held by the st. Clair County Bar
Association and good wishes and a
purse of gold were presented the
Judge.
The Rapid Railway has gang of
men at work at Fair Haven changing
the sharp curve i'm the road at that
point. The tracks will hereafter run
in the rear Of La3ounty's store instead
of in the front. Other curves will be
Strengthened.
Drunken men were reeling about
Port Huron's streets last Sunday and
Chief of Police Marx has been investi-
eating. Druggists were found to have
sold many bottles of whiskey and If
any have been violating the law they
will be prosecuted.
Through the thoughtlessness of
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taunt and jeer, Florence Taylor 16-yr-
old daughter of John Taylor. of Mem
phis, became respondent and took car
bolic acid to end her life. A doctor
saved her with difficulty and it is hoped
the thoughtless ones will mend their
ways and manners
Chester Il. Bricker, proprietor of the
drug store at 300 Huron avenue, Port
Huron, pleaded guilty to the charge of
violating the druggists act before Judge
Black in police court June I'd and was
fined $75 and 50 costs or 80 days i'm
prsonment in the county Jail. The
line was Immediately paid. Mr.. Brick
er's violation of the law, according to
the complaint, was not for violating
the liquor law, but for technical vio
lation of the druggist act, in not regis
tering the quantity sold to each person.