The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1912-08-08
THURSDAY, AUGUST s, 1912.
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"A course in agriculture will be given
in the high school at Croswell next year.
The supervisors annual picnic of
Oakland, Macomb and Genesee coun-
ties was held Wednesday at Lake Orion.
Mike Screiber, a prominent business
man of Bad Axe. died at his home Sun
after an illness extending over the past
year.
| Another day has been added to the
| farmers festival which will be held at
Marlette the last three days of this
month.
a sneak thief was operating in Cass
| City last week, entering one house and
getting away with gold watch and
$50 in money.
| Thos. Crawford, who resides near APP
plegate, lost big new barn during the
storm a week ago Sunday by being
struck by lightning.
Archie Mcclellan of Speaker has been
sentenced to go days III the county
Jail at Sandusky, having been found
guilty of assault and battery.
A truce has been declared between
the Michigan State Telephone Co. and
its patrons in Lapeer. The old rates
will prevail for time at least.
The voters of Memphis on Monday
of last week decided that they would
have new school building to replace
the one which now serves that purpose
Armada was in the dark the first of
| last week, the severe electrical storm
which struck that place Sunday putting
| the lighting plant out of commission
for few days.
BY winning from the Avoca team by
score of to the Lexington ball
team last sunday upheld their record
of not losing a game this year. This
makes the ninth straight victory.
William McGregor, pioneer of san
lilac county and the first man to move
his family into Flynn township, died
at the home of his daughter in Flynn
on July the 20. lie was Sc years of
age.
Henry &. OSmer, All employe at the
E. Nj. +. factory, Port Huron, commit
ted suicide Sunday morning by drink
ing carbolic acid. LII health had caused
the unfortunate man to become des-
pendent
Two women were nearly drowned at
Harbor Beach last week when they
fell out of small boats into the lake.
Fortunately assistance was near in
both cases and neither accident result.
ed fatally.
Mrs. Ii. g. Perry and mother, Mrs.
Taylor narrowly escaped being killed
on Wednesday of last week when the
auto i'll which they were riding was
struck by an electric car near Armada.
Both ladies were painfully injured.
Gilbert Russell is confined in the
county jail at Sandusky and will answer
to the charge of forgery. This is the
second offence and was committed re-
Gently when he obtained ten dollars
worth of goods at the Cloves store in
DeckerYille.
Fire destroyed the farm residence of
j Ohm DOlan of Columbus township Sun
day of last week. Mr.. Dolan went up
stairs to save some money and was
trapped by the flames, it being neces-
sary for HIM to jump from the window
III order To save himself.
How's this for air castles? A man
in Shower is contemplating the build.
ing Of an elevator in that place but
don't know whether to erect it near
the ID. b. G. IL w. or the proposed cleo.
trio railway tracks. This shows what
mere talk of a railroad will do.
Unless the farmers come to the aid
of the Roach Canning Co. by furnish.
ing more fruit for theircanning factory
at Lexington, this will be the last sea
son that the plant will run. Too bad,
as this is the one industry of Lexing-
ton and the people Of that place should
be proud of it.
Up i'll Huron county they have three
parties in the coming primary race.
Strange to say, the Bull MoOses are
much in the minority in that part of
the state and consequently this party
was not launched. The third party in
the race is the Prohibition and they
have come out with full county ticket. |
Robert Scott, farmer living near
Deckerville, was instantly killed while |
at work in the hay field Monday morn
ing. The mower struck ditch, throw
ing Scott from the machine. The |
horses Immediately backed down upon |
the man and crushed him. He is sur |
vived by widow and five grown child |
rem. /
Authentic reports from Lapeer state |
that during the wind storm at that
place last Thursday it showed |
enough for the inmates of the home of |
the Feeble Minded to make snowballs |
1t sure was some cold but this story |
sounds as though one of the inmates
of that institution might have given |
out the information himself.
Families of William Condland and |
Bert Willis, the two Deckerville men
who were killed in an auto accident
near Watford, Ontario on Tuesday of |
last week, were FRUSTRATED with grief |
upon receiving the news of the deaths. |
Condland is survived by widow and |
six children; Willis by his aged mother
and three small children. Slippery |
roads is given as the cause of the dis
aster, the machine going over ten
foot embankment.