The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1911-12-21

The business men of Armada have
organized and will work for the good
of the town.
Governor Osborne was in Port Huron
on Friday last and gave an address ut
the Bankers Club banquet that evening.
1t is expected that a local branch of
the National League Of Veterans and
Sons will be organized soon in st, Clair.
December IA, Frank Siple, of Laurel,
had bee to pull beans. Did such a
thing ever happen so late in the season
before?
George Robson, of near Sandusky,
committed suicide last week by taking
paris green. He was 50 years of age
and mentally unbalanced
The Indians in Walpole Island enter
into the spirit of Christmas time just
as the white people do. planning their
Christmas gifts and surprises,
Prof, j. J. Schmidt who has been a
part of the Port Huron high school
faculty for the past eight years, has re.
signed to accept another position.
AlmOnt's two lower schOolrooms
were closed last week and thoroughly
fumigated on account of pupil COM
ing down with scarlet fever in school.
a Cass City man says that thirty
years ago we were having exactly the
same kind of weather as at present.
that is like last week, warm and muddy.
Amos Clark Hoffman, Il veteran of
the civil war and pioneer farmer of
the Thumb district, dropped dead ut
his home near liarbor Beach December
6.
Andrew Burns, aged SO years, made
the trip alone last week from his home
in st. Clair, to his daughter in Helena,
Montana. Mr.. Burns is well and
hearty.
Wallace Gilbert. who owns dairy
farm near Cass City has installed
machine which is large enough
to operate 8 mixers. Mr.. Gilbert says
that il works fine.
Plans, specifications and estimates
must be made for new city hall at
Ilarbor Beach before the question of
bonding for the purpose of building
can be submitted to the people.
The Inlay City Times will be $1.5O a
year after the first of January. 1t will
not be long before others will follow
suit as paper prices will be such as to
make it impossible to run the dollar a
year weekly.
The ten months old child of George
j ohnson, of Brown City, frightfully
burned itself last week, by pulling
kettle of scalding water from the stove.
At last reports it was not certain that |
the child would live
The bodies of John Wesley and Peter |
Sparkling were eXhumed at the Tyre |
on December Ia, and some of |
the organs sent to Ann Arbor for an
alysis. The body of the first named |
was found to be in a good state of |
while the other was not.
The hustling little town of Peck, to
the north of us, recently had meeting |
of a hundred business men and farm
ers and formed the Peck Improvement |
Association with Harry NJ. Waterman
as president This organization will |
work with the Thumb District Associa-
ton.
W. III. Shellenberges, Il real estate
dealer at Marlette since the first of An.
gust, has not returned there since leav-
ing for the State fair and il is feared |
that he has met with foul play. His |
home town people at Glennie are ask
ing as to his whereabouts and Detroit |
police have been notified.
Some months ago the valuable build
ings on the John Smith farm near
Romeo, were burned and Smiths
grandson was accused and was to have
been tried on the charge of arson but
he was declared a person of unsOund
mind and ordered committed to the
state hospital for the insane at Pontiac.
The Bay county and the Northeastern
fairs have been merged and the organ
iZation will now be called the North.
eastern. The fairs will be held on the
Bay county fair grounds The follow
ing counties are represented in the new
Bay, Midland, Ogemaw,
Tuscola, Arenac, Gladwin, Iosco,
Huron and Sanilac.