The Yale expositor., 1911-12-28

Armada merchants will close their
business places at & O'Clock after Jan.
Ubly and Kinde postOllices have been
promoted from 4th class to the presi
dental.
The Port Huron business Mems
A ssOciation will have big banquet at
the Harrington hotel January 9, as q
roundup for the years work.
The Almont school building will be
fumigated once "a month. The school
was closed last week on account of
scarlet fever but is open again.
An epidemic of typhoid fever in
Sarnia is frightening the people. The
city is full of the disease and the
authorities are almost at loss Us to
how to cope with it.
Two Port Huron banks, the CONNER.
cial and the Port Huron Savings bank
have effected consolidation to take
effect Jan. |, 1912 under the name of
the Commercial bank.
The disappearance of w. III. Shellen'
berger, of Marlette is still mystery.
Officers are working on the case, but
it is the opinion of many that the man
has been murdered.
In its issue of December 81 the ST.
Clair Republican gives two or three
columns of very interesting reading
matter newsy "reminiscences Of by-gOne
days of old st. Clair.
At the Congregational church in Al.
mont where the c. +. Society had died
out, the Young Peoples League of
Christian Service has been formed which
is starting out with enthusiasm.
A. Il. Powell, of Memphis, had stored
two fine deer in his barn when dogs
gained an entrance into the building
and Toasted SO thoroughly OH venison
that scarce was left but skin and bones.
Memphis people subscribed to fund
to send five year Old Memphis child
to Ann ArbOr to have his club feet
Strengthened. The expenses OF the
mother are also paid to go with her boy.
Two large safety pins were found i'm.
bedded in the pack of a cripple son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Phllanuer Johnson of
Marlette last week. They were removed
from the flesh but it is a mystery how
they got there.
Mrs. Norman Strevel, one of the best
known and highly respected woman of
Jeddo, died at Port Huron last week,
Mrs. Strevel was l3 years of age and
had been i'll since an operation two
years ago.
The farmers west of Peck have form
ed joint stock company and purchased
a bean picker and cleaner at IL cost Of
$500. The farmers think they haven't
been treated right by the elevator men
and in this way will prove for them.
selves how things stand.
The DrOmore farm, the big stock
place at st. Clair, owned 10y George q.
Moore, will by next summer be a thing
Of beauty and JOY forever. The park
is in the hands Of an English landscape
artist who in good time will make of it
a wonderfully beautiful spot.
Captain William Chamberlain of st.
Clair, one of the youngest masters on
the great lakes, has lost his mind, prob
ably through too much responsibility
and has been taken to the asylum.
Capt. Chamberlain is IS years OF age
and has wife and two small children.
superintendent +. +. Sinclair of the
North Branch schools has quit his job
there and accepted position IN The
Union City schools. His resignation
al North Branch was at first refused,
inasmuch as he broke his contract, but
as he insists upon leaving he will prob.
ably be allowed to go without trouble.
Mrs. Hannah Carnahan is probably
the oldest woman in 81. Clair county
being ~ years. She lives alone at
Smiths Creek on one acre of land and
went to Port Huron alone last week to
see about getting her pension increased.
To her JOY she gets an increase of three
dollars per month and she went home
happy.