The Yale expositor., 1911-12-21
Local and Otherwise.

The city received 500 feet of fire hose
this week.
Lillian Bricker, of BrantfOrd, Ont,
is assisting at present as cOmpOstor on
the Exposition force.
The city banks and merchants are
giving out their 1912 Calendars. We
find among the lot some very pretty
ones.
The young people are anticipating
the Christmas dance TO be held Tues
day evening next. stones orchestra
will make the music.
The boys who have hunted in the
upper peninsular will be surprised to
learn that the snow is all off at this
time, which was never known in that
country before.
For the siXtieth time the Pere Mar
quette pump house here has caught
fire. 1t occurred on Wednesday at
| 1000 a. m. No great amount Of
damage was done.
The Schram and German schools
will hold Christmas tree in the Clean
er Hall, Greenwood township on Fri
day evening, December twenty-t two
Everybody invited.
"A light shower OF rain Thursday
morning has made the sidewalks and
roads very slippery. Not only the
wicked but the righteous were walkin
in slippery places and some of them
took tumbles too.
We understand that the wedding of
Bert Roadway, of Yale, and Mary
Wixon, of Avoca, took place in Port
Huron on Wednesday Of this week.
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future prosperity and happiness.
Officers and members of Brockway
Lodge, No. 3l6, +. Il A. Nj. attended
school of instruction in Port Huron
Tuesday afternoon and evening. Brock
way lodge exempliiied the work in the
Entered Apprentice degree in the after
noon.
H. E. Beard is fitting up the store
building lately vacated by Jas. Sweet
Il Co., for Geo. Ii. Minis, who will move
his bakery and grocery therein. His
family will occupy the rear end of the
building. He expects TO move about
the first of January.
There will be number of good pro.
grams in the different grades, tomorrow
Friday afternoon, and many parents
are planning to attend. Christmas will
be the theme of each exercise and the
pupils have been busy rehearsing for
sometime. The schools close tomorrow
night for the Christmas holidays.
Traffic on this branch of the Pere
Marquette was held up on Monday
morning owing to pile up of freight
cars on an extra train near Valley
Centre. Twenty cars were in the
wreck, which was caused by the spread
ing of rails, and the track was torn up
for about forty rods Luckily no one
was hurt.
Henry Il. Dinner was in Yale We'd
nesday on his way to Sebewaing on a
fur buying trip. In conversation with
him he said;-"I have bought a large
amount of fur and hides this fall so
far and am much pleased with what /
have on hand. Am paying Detroit
prices You should see the fine assert
ment of skunk hides / have. Paid as
high as $500 for No. l."
Owing to the amount of Job work
which was necessarily laid aside while
we were getting out our big Christmas
paper, we were too busy this week to
give the Exposition our usual attention
and are only printing an eight page
paper. We hope our readers will over
look the shOrtness of news this week
and we will try and do better in the
future. The Expositor will be twelve
page paper every week with the eXcep-
ton of the present issue.
Deputy Oil Inspector Howse was in
the city on the Tuesday on official bus.
mess. He was here looking up the vio-
lation of the law relative to LIQUID
stove polish, there having been many
accidents reported to the department
from various parts of the state, result
ing from the use of liquid stove polish.
The polishes contained either naphtha,
benzine or gasoline. When these pol
ishes are used on heated stoves, tXplo-
sion follows, " hich results either i'm loss
of life or property. Mr.. Howse's mis-
sion here was to see that all dealers
carrying these brands of stove polish
have been properly labelled as to their
explosive ingredients. He reported
several cases of violation of the law in
the dealers here, but all promised strict
compliance with the law i'm the future.
Quite list of our exchanges came to
our desk last week i'm special holiday
attire, enlarged and beautified with
Christmas covers. We note the Glad.
win Record, Brown City Banner, Har-
Dor Beach News, Marlette Leader San
lilac County Farmer, Sanilac County
Times, Armada Graphic, Melvin Ga
zette and Independent Farmer. The
Deckerville Recorder came out in great
form the week before, printed in green
ink. Since writing the above we have
also received the Akron Leader, the
Sanilac Jeffersonian, Capac Journal
and ST. Clair Republican, all in holiday
attire and looking fine. We can ap.
preciate that it has cost work, time and
money to get these special editions, but
1t pays to have that feeling of salts
faction that you are giving your read
ers good thing