The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1909-08-20
FRIDAY. AUG. 20, 1909.


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At present there are twenty one pris-
oners confined in the st. Clair county
Jail.
Lexington berry growers will hold
their annual dance Friday evening,
August 20.
George Allen, successful Lake
Huron fisherman, will build a fishing
station at Port Hope.
A Masonic club will be organized in
Port Huron, only members of the Port
Huron lodges to be eligible.
Phineas White has been appointed
postmaster at Burnside, Lapeer county,
in place of j. q. Bruce, resigned.
An organization of castle of the
order of Highland Mobiles has been
effected at Marlette with 100 members.
Lloyd, the year old son of Anthony
Tyson, of Lexington, was run over by
a loaded wagon last week at noon and
died at six o'clock.
The lecture course committee at
Sandusky has its course of five num-
bers selected for the coming season
and expects it to be the best ever.
The small railway station on the G.
L. railroad called Hickey may be
changed TO Columbus as the residents
of the township prefer their station the
same name.
The six year old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
G. A. Hoskin, of Port Huron, died last
Wednesday of Ptomaine poisoning,
after an illness of three weeks, being
unconscious for more than a week.
The stave mills at North Branch
were totally destroyed by fire last
week. The loss stands between $500
and $1,000 to the owner, &. II. Downer,
with no insurance The mills will be
rebuilt.
The berry canning factory in Lex
ington is having a big run this season,
red raspberries having been large
crop. Two days recently 1850 cases
were canned one day and 1860 the next,
paying out to the growers $2,Sl0.99.
A Detroit concern has 100 men and
IL teams at work building 10 miles of
Macadam road in kimball township.
Wales and Riley townships will extend
the line through their townships and il
is hoped that Berlin will then follow in
hne.
The family of Miles Conroy, of Kim
ball township, is found to be in desti-
tute circumstances and living in a
hovel. A son, II years old, is insane
and will be sent to the asylum, a
daughter, feeble minded, will be taken
TO the home for the feeble minded.
The American Peat Paper Mill at
Capac, has been purchased by Judson
IN
thai, of n. j. ask the court to decree
that the property belongs to them, as
they claim to haye advanced Grant
$4,000. Grant will fight for his posses
sion.
Misery loves company and SO these
Melvin youngsters managed to get in
jured in the same week and are now
sympathiZing with each other. Lorne
Cockerill had finger crushed in the
printing press, Beach Hilborn broke
his arm falling from wagon and John
Lords son received bad leg cut by
getting in the way of binder.
One of the largest sales of real estate
ever taken place in Port Huron, will
be held September ID, when the proper
ty of the two Mills estates will be sold
at public auction, so that the proceeds
may be divided among the heirs of
Nelson and Barney Mills. The amount
received from the sale will be more
than 100000 There are said to be 80
heirs.
The worst accident that ever happen
ed in ST. Clair tunnel occurred on Mon
day when a freight train pulling up the
approach on the Port Huron side broke
apart, about twenty-five cars running
back into the tunnel, three derailing,
which piled everything into heap. 1t
took ten hours hard labor TO remove
the wreckage. Fortunately no one was
hurt, but delay to trains was serious.
w. A. Martin, lumber dealer of
Brown City, is certainly lucky man.
In touring the west with other Brown
City citizens he embraced the oppor-
tunity of registering in some Idaho
off xxrifh no Nj Of HrQx uinn a