The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1911-08-10
THURSDAY. AUGUST 10, 1911.

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! st. Clair has many cases of whooping
cough.
Port Huron will have civic holiday
August %.
The Jas. Livingston flax mill at
Deckerville has opened for the season.
Alex McConnachie a Deckeryille
stockman, has started on trip to Scot
| land
The annual campmeeting at Simp-
son Park, Romeo opened August 4, to
continue over this coming Sunday.
The Sanilac County Agricultural So.
ciety will hold its 14th annual fair and
races at Sandusky Sept. 5, 6, 7and s.
The canning factory at Lexington
has 80 acres of beets which will be cam
ed when they have grown sufficient size.
The special election held in Sandusky
recently for bonding the city for 5000
was carried by a vote of ~ yeas and II
nays.
The first tennis tournament held in
st. Clair was pulled off last saturday
with the y. NJ. &. a. of Detroit. The
locals won.
This week the business men of Ilar-
Dor Beach have made an auto tour
throughout Huron county, visiting
many different towns.
Port Huron will be guarded by out
side police, as plain clothed men, dur
ing the state encampment. An influx
Of crooks is expected
The Touring mill at Lexington,
which has been closed for two years,
| Wi n ha in ~ ~
Preston, of Port Huron.
The farmers in Goodland near Inlay
City, are being bothered with rattle
snakes over twenty have been killed
on one farm and many on others.
The Lenox Civic Improvement Socie.
ty is working toward the cleanliness
and beauty of its town and particularly
it wants park or public play ground.
Mrs. William Mitchell, of st. Clair,
while standing on the streetwaiting for
street car, was run over by horse
and rig driven by Earl Bowman. She
is seriously injured. 4
Walter Ii. Witt, well-known attorney
in Brown City, has been appointed
postmaster at that place, vice George
| w. Dafoe, who resigned the position,
and will move to Detroit.
John j. Marshall, for ten years super
intendent of the Romeo schools, has
resigned his position and accepted
that of the head of the phySic depart.
ment Of the high school at Lincoln,
| Neb
1t is proposed by some CrOswell
citizens that Booster Club be formed
to increase the population by getting
people to move to that city, to improve
business etc. 1t would be good thing
for any town to have Booster Club.
The three year old daughter of Will
ard Newton, of the Mckinley hotel in
Inlay City, ran away from home,
boarded train and was put off at
Lapeer by the conductor, where she
was found later by her anxious parents.
Mrs. Lillian M. HOLSTER, past
supreme commander of the Ladies of
the Maccabees of the World, died last
week Friday at her home near Baldwin,
Mich, after an illness Of several months.
Mrs. Hollister was supreme command
er for ID years.
Sandusky, Carsonville and Decker
vile people had a rather narrow escape
of life recently, while picking buckle
berries in the swamps east of Sandusky
when the marsh fires got pretty close
to them. Some were nearly smOthered
and others lost horse and buggy.
Sandusky had the excitement of a
man hunt last week, when George Lash
brook, alias Neck.o-the- woods, broke
Jail. Everybody got after him and he
was located at a house north of town
where he was eating bread and milk.
He was taken to Port Huron and then
| to the House of Correction
The St. Clair Republican chronicles
five accidents to its townspeople, all
occurring OH one day, and Sunday at
that. The last one spoken Of happened
| to the editor himself while he was clean
| ing lawn mower. A knife took the
end of his little finger clear off. Moral
clean you mower on week day.
The elevator and haysheds at Down
| ington, owned by John Leitch, caught
| fire from a passing engine, and the
whole went up in smoke, with Is car
loads of fine hay, which had already
been sold at $1,000 per ton, and was
only waiting for cars to be shipped.
Loss of fire $1,000 Insurance $500.
Last weeks issue of the Sanilac JEFF
fersonian was gotten up with the aid
of the new linotype recently installed
in that progressive Office. This machine
is not only type setting but it casts the
type from the raw metal into lines or
"slugs" and is capable of doing four
or five times the work of the most
rapid hand compostor. We must
heartily congratulate Brother Morrison
on this new acquisition to his already
finely equipped printing office.