The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1911-09-21
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 81, 1911.

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An ice famine is on IN Port Huron.
Peaches have been a big crop tins
fall in Michigan.
The postal savings bank will open
for business in Port Huron Oct. 9.
A gasoline motor road is to be built
between Romeo, Almont and Inlay
City.
Anna Dawson, of 1t. Clair, has been
adjudged insane and sent TO the Pontiac
state Hospital.
George &. Moore, of st. Clair, has
purchased the year,old trOtting lilly,
Miss Stokes, for $4,000.
For 80 years Wesley Brooks has been
janitor in the primary school building
at Romeo. He now resigns.
Charles Sheldon, of st. Clair, lost his
fine naphtha launch by fire last week,
the damages footing up $1,000 or more.
Phoebe McCallum, of Port Huron
township, is asking divorce from her
husband Alexander after 81 years of
married life.
Alfred GroOms, an Elk township
farmer, had his leg broken, when his
horses became frightened and unmanag-
able at sight of an auto.
With the need of more sugar beet
factories in the Thumb country, Cass
City is nominating herself as an ideal
location for one of them
The lumber yard and business of the
Mcintyre Lumber Company of Cros-
well, is now owned and operated by
the new firm of Moore IL Carter.
Port Huron citizens are eagerly
awaiting the sight of Aviator James j.
fn nl N
Driving park stopping point within
day or two.
The flour mills at bennington which
have not been operated recently, have
been purchased by +. J. Dieble, of
Ohio, who will open the business by
the middle of October.
AS result of runaway team of
horses, the city fountain in Croswell
erected by Mrs. Wildman Mills as "a
memorial to her husband, was Knocked
over and badly damaged.
Peck people are complaining about
the poor service given them by the Mich
igan State Telephone Company. The
Times says it is next to impossible to
talk with any other town.
CThe NJ. +. church at Richmond be-
ing now fully paid for, with impressive
last Sunday morning by the pastor
Rev. Geach, witnessed by large con-
gregation.
The business men of Port Huron are
agitating the question of securing
farmers elevator for the city, and the
plan will likely succeed. The firm of
Botsford l& Barrett propose to erect
the elevator.
Three men who evidently intended
to do some burglarizing made some
excitement in Brown City Wednesday
night of last week. They were noticed
acting suspciously but made good their
escape, before being caught.
Frank Hall, of Croswell, lighted
match while he was at work on an auto
in a garage at CrOswell, and the gasO
line blazed up, setting the machine on
fire and i'm the excitement, two men
were severely burned, while Hall him
self was uninjured.
The city of Sarnia now comes to the
front with a resident, who has con-
structed an aeroplane which will soon
be on exhibition. The man is William
Constable, manager of the Sarnia Iron
Ore Cos. docks. The Sarnia fair will
exhibit the machine.
a. G. Marshall, one Of Port Huron's
active and progressive business men,
and head of the Port Huron Light and
Power Co. for the last six years, has
resigned to accept the position of as
sistant to the president of the Eastern
Michigan Edison Co. at Detroit.
Willard Babcock, for three years
cashier of the Huron County Savings
Bank in 1arbOr Beach, has resigned
and accepted position with the Pen
insular Savings Bank i'm Detroit where
he has moved with his family much to
the Yegret of Harbor Beach citizens.
The numerous chicken-pox signs on
houses in Algonac were ordered down
last week by DR.. Ward, of the State
Board of Health, ard smallpox signs
put up instead. 1t is said the AlgOnac
health officers were obstinate and per-
sisted that the disease was chicken. pox
Several people in nearby towns are
now down with smallpox. Schools
and public places in Algonac are closed.
The big new boarding house which
the Michigan Sugar Go. has just com
pleted at Croswell, for the benefit of
men working at the factory there,
should be appreciated The building
is three stories with large living
room, kitchen and dining room on first
floor. The second and third floors con
tain sleeping apartments, toilet and
bath rooms. 1t is not compulsory about
staying here but once here, good be-
havor is compulsory.