The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1915-12-02
THURSDAY, December 2. 1915
HERE AND THERE.

Peck has since December l, closed
pouch mail service on its new railroad.
Gordon Kettlewell and Lila Harnden
of Peck, were married last week We'd
nesday.
A Bay City electric company would
like to install all electric lighting sys'
tenn in Peck.
There is much talk in Sandusky of
building six miles of state reward road
south of Sanilac county seat
The Peck Times doesn't favor the
Handy Bros railroad coming to Yale
and says "Roseburg next, so of course
that goes.
While playing with dynamite cap
a small DeckerVille boy had his left
thumb and fore finger taken off when
the cap exploded
Roy Vincent, in charge Of the Pere
Marquette office in Brown City for the
past seven years has been promoted to
Bad Axe and left Brown City Decem-
Der first.
l.. Nj. Decker, proprietor OF the Rexall
ljewelry store at Harbor Beach, died
very suddenly OF heart disease on Sat
urday night. He leaves wife and two
young children.
Port Huron is to have a fine self
serve lunch room. 1t will be located
on Huron Ave-, in the building former
ly occupied by the Wooden Mills Co.,
and the interior will be Of marble,
James A. Bradley, OF Fremont town
ship, has moved TO Gladwin, thus leav-
ing the office of township treasurer
vacant Dell Aiken has been selected
by the township board to fill the office.
Up at Harbor Beach tests made from
the city water works during the past
ten days show little bacteria, but from
g 10 10 per cent of dirt No one as yet
knows just how to eliminate the dirt
from the drinking water.
George Windsor, cashier OF the bank
at Melvin, has been appointed trustee
of the McPhee Lumber Co, which it
seems is in financial straits. The plant
and stock were destroyed by fire Nov.
III. McPhee has been ia very poor
health for some time.
Today and tomorrow the 18th ami.
versary of the building Of the M. +.
church in Lexington is being observed.
The District superintendent and sever
al of the former pastors are present,
and a fine program is under way, with
the Lexington band to help out with
. it's music.
The sugar factory at Caro- has been
the scene of two fatal accidents this
fall. The first was that of j. Foster
Clark, assistant superintendent, who
died shortly after a beam fell OH him
crushing a knee and breaking leg.
Last week Glenn Blake, II years old,
working on the cross cOnveyor, dropped
his knife into the moving chain, stOop.
ing to pick it up a bucket on the chain
took his head clean of, carried and
dumped it with the beets He had been
working at the factory since it opened
i'll the fall.
Tuesday morning Charles Kempf
received word of the death of Fred
Kempf, a nephew, near Columbus, Ga.
According to news dispatches passen-
ger train and circus special met in a
head on collision Monday night The
heavy passenger locomotive battered
its way through several of the light
cars. In q few seconds twelve of the
circus cars were all ablaze The four
year old daughter of Fred Kempf was
thrown out of window by Mrs. Kempf
when both exits were blocked by the
flames. The child was picked up un-
hurt. The bodies of her parents were
among the first recovered. Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred kempf lived at Capac He
made and operated miniature city and
spent the season with a carnival COM
pany.-lmlay City Times. This mini.
allure city was shown in Yale several
years ago, and was considered quite a
wonderful piece of work.