The Yale expositor., 1912-07-25
THURSDAY, JULY %, 1912.


There is some talk of canning fac
tory being built at Armada.
Pigeon boasts the erection of thirty
new residences this summer.
Armada will try the experiment of
putting oil Oh the streets to lay the dust.
The Lexington base ball team has
won their seventh consecutive victory
for the present season.
The hay sheds at CarsOnville were
badly scorched by fire last week. The
blaze started from passing locOmO-
tive.
DR.. James +. Waltz of Hancock has
purchased the practice of DR.. Weed of
Brown City and is already located in
the latter place.
The more progressive citizens of
DeckervilIe are working for the install
lation of a water works and electric
light system in that place.
Two young men were captured at
Holly last week and are being held as
the parties connected with recent rob-
berries in Lamb, Vassar and Clio.
John Underwood of Sherwood had
several RIBS broken from his backbone
last week when wagon load of loose
hay tipped over, pinning him beneath
Wilfred, the nine year old son of
Henry Turner, of Burlington township,
ran in front of moving machine one
day last week and had one of his heels
cut off.
Mrs. Amelia Besau of Port Huron
on Wednesday drew a sentence of 30
days in the county jail for stealing rib
bons from the graves in Lakeside
cemetery.
The hay warehouse, together with 200
tons of hay, belonging to the Saginaw
Milling Co. at McGregor urned to the
ground Monday, July IL. Loss $500
with = 800 insurance.
Herbert Coleman of Elk Township
was severity injured last week by a
heavy pole, used in stacking hay, fall
| ing upon him and causing him to be
laid up for some time.
Frank a. DeLand, an old and re-
spected resident of Memphis, died
Tuesday, July Is. He was an inventor
of some note and was considered a
genius in many respects.
The annual Wilson family reunion
was held at the home of &. ID. Wilson,
July Is. Over forty were present and
a big time was had by all.
After serving nearly twenty years as
private institution, the McPhail and
Maynard bank of Kingston has become
state bank and is now to be known as
the kingstan State Bank.
Andrew Stephens, an aged laborer
at n orth Branch dropped dead in front
of the post office in that place on sun
day of last week He was stricken
with a cerebral hemorrhage.
The Pere Marquette is to make sew
eral improvements in the railroad facil-
tiles at Harbor Beach. The depot will
be moved to more advantageous posi-.
ton, and the yards rebuilt.
Some wouldbe oy.riders at Sandusky
stole machine from an auto livery
one day last week, but the adventure
turned out rather sadly for the partic-
ipants. They tried to send the car
over ten foot ditch, badly damaging
the auto. The party escaped although
it is generally known who they were.
Drs. n. j. McColl and II. Ii. Lear
mont of Croswell narrowly escaped
serious injury OH Wednesday of last
In order to avoid a smashup Dr. Nc
Coll turned his auto into the curb, do
ing considerable damage to the ma
chine but saving either party from in
jury.
VIM. COway, a farmer living near
| Capac, went to Port Huron Tuesday
and hired stranger to work for him.
While at dinner at Coway's home the
same day the new man made an at
tempt to hit his employer over the
head with club. Coway received a
broken wrist and the stranger escaped,
although the police are now securing
the county for him.
Gladys Schneider, an eight year old
orphan girl, was drowned in Bunce
Creek last Friday. She, together with
some other children, was playing in an
old rowboat. A boy jerked the rope,
throwing the little girl into the river.
Although the water was only four feet
deep at that point, there was no one
near who could swim to the rescue,
and by the time the playmates had
brought assistance, the child was
drowned.
Citizens of Port Huron are register
ing protests against the service offered
by the Michigan State Telephone Go.
to their patrons in the city and at the
beaches. They claim that the service
is the worst it has been in several
months. Mayor Bell threatens to call
the attention of the state railroad COM
mission to the condition of the tele-
phone service in Port Huron, unless
means are Immediately taken by the
company to correct the trouble.
DIR. Robert A. McGregor, convicted
of being the slayer of Cyril Sparkling
of Huron county, has been made assis
tant prison physician, the position
vacated 10y DR.. Fritch who is now
having a new trial in Detroit. DIR. Nc
Gregor expects to have a new trial in
October and states that although he
believes young Sparkling TO have been
poisoned, he is entirely innocent of any
connection with the crime.
Three members of Meyers fishing
crew of Lexington had thrilling ex.