The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1913-03-27
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Deckerville wants a laundry.
The ice was reported last week as
out of ST. Clair river and the ferries
are running as usual.
No more free phone service for de-
pots is the recent ruling of the Mich
igan state railroad commission.
The school building at Harbor
Beach was made an almost complete
wreck by the wind last Friday.
The Caro- Gun Club has a list of 50
members. This club would like the
state shoot which is to be held in
July.
DR.. j. w. Inches, of st. Clair, start
ed last Sunday for New York city and
will go sightseeing to the Panama
canal, Jamaica, Cuba and Florida.
Levi Kinsey who has been drilling
wells north of Port Huron, has moved
his machine to Port Huron where he
will put down oil wells on oath street
Marine City is having an outbreak
of smallpox in mild form. Seven
cases were reported last week and a
large number of exposures. 1t is
hoped there will not be a severe
epidemic.
The Standard Oil wagon started out
of Amanda one day last week with
six mules on the front end. Looks as
though Macomb county roads were in
about the same condition as in ST.
Clair county.
The prizes offered the school chill
Of
option essay contest have been award
ed to thirteen high school students of
the different schools, and to as many
below the eighth grade.
The Peck Times says that news re-
ceived from the South states that
Harry Waterman is improving rapid
ly and that he feels much better.
This will be good news to his many
friends in these parts
Il. S. Knox, of Detroit, has become
heavily interested in the Meisel store
at Port Huron, and. this already big
business will be further enlarged and
broadened and new departments add
ed. G. c. Meisel will still be actively
in charge of the store.
The first boat passing up st. Clair
river this season was the new steel
ferry steamer Sainte Marie, built for
the ferry service across the straits
of Mackinac. The boat was built in
Detroit and this was her maiden trip
of Friday March 14th, 1913.
Capac business men are doing a lot
of agitation in regard to landing for
their own town and vicinity better
roads, better lighting, grist mill and
a business mems association. And
when the agitation settles a sure and
safe plan for the successful carrying
out of these projects will be evolved.
w. B. Thompson, Of Memphis, has
been taking census of his little
home town for his own amusement.
He finds the following: There are
100 dwellings, 155 families and 500 in
habitants in the burg IS miles south
of Yale and these SOB inhabitants are
justly proud of the pretty, lively
burg
The Congregational church society
at Armada are again agitating the
building of an attractive new church
edifice of suitable size. September
1913, will be the 18th anniversary of
the dedication of the old church. 1t
would seem that the old building had
served its time and a new up-to-date
one would add much TO the beauty of
the town and thriftiness of the So
ciety.
At the Ok Bow farm of Melvin
Spence four miles south of Port HUI
ron, in a gully a quarter of a mile
from the house, was found buried
last Friday the skull and bones of a
woman. Every indication points to a
fould murder committed perhaps a
score of years ago. Sheriff Names
will investigate. The bones were
taken to Falks' undertaking rooms in
Port Huron.
Macomb county votes against the
hiring of an agricultural expert, who
will teach their farmers how to farm
The farmers know how to farm and
the failures are the result of weather
conditions. The Armada Times idea
is that an expert is an unnecessary
expense and that the village and city
residents would be taxed for thing
which really only could benefit the
farmer.