The Yale expositor., 1916-10-05
THURSDAY, October 5. 1916
HERE AND THERE.

Brown City farmers have opened a
co operative blacksmith shop.
The local ministers of Capac have
organized Ministerial Association.
The Mcintyre school near Jeddo has
been closed on account of infantile
paralysis.
Fred Moore, of Kinde, has purchased
the Bowling hotel and feed barn at
Shower.
Marlette will have strong lecture
course of five numbers from the Nat
ional Alliance.
Caro- wants $4,000 for a new high
school. The voters will be asked to
decide the question of bonding.
A slaughter house was burned in
Capac one night last week, with the
loss of some meat, hides, feed, etc.
A real old fashioned Republican pole
raising and rally will be held at Peck
in the near future, date not yet been
set.
| Lexington's base ball team will stage
play soon as means of making up
the deficit that shows on their books
after the base ball season is over.
Marine City would be glad to get
back the old honors of her former ship.
building port and is offering induce
ments to winter big fleet of boats.
The Exchange Bank Of 4. II. Pinney
IL Son at Cass City, has been in bust
ness just thirty years, and is considered
one of the strongest banks in the state.
Tenniswood Bros. have sold their
stock of general merchandise in Peck
to Geo. III. Griggs, of Elk township,
who will take possession about the first
of January.
A new dredge, used in digging drain
age bitches, was totally destroyed by
fire last week, north of Brown City.
The dredge was owned by Ross Davis
and valued at $4,000
Edward NJ. Dennis, formerly trav
elling salesman of Saginaw, who recent
ly purchased the Burnside store, has
become mentally unbalanced and been
removed to hospital.
The Ramstein Bros mill at Lambs
which burned in June, will probably be
rebuilt soon. A bonus of $4,000 will
be raised by the vicinity farmers, 81 400
| Of xuhfnh 10 oil caenrad
Jerry Armstrong, of Wales, had his
arm crushe d so badly in the gearing of
his engine that amputation was neces-
sary. Armstrong was using his engine
on the stone road at GOodells.
Mrs. B. 5. burgess, of Detroit, has
grape vinyard at Richmond and while
having the fruit picked last week, es-
timated that as many as Is bushels had
been stolen. Her portion was 6 BUSH
els.
st. Clair Daughters of the Revolution
have placed large granite boulder to
mark the historical Fort Sinclair and
soon a bronze tablet suitably inscribed
will be set on the stone, lasting re-
membrance of this spot.
The Free Methodist church in Ma.
rine City has been purchased and will
be remOdelled and equipped for the boys
of the Y. M. &. A. A large gym, read
ing and committee rooms, kitchen, etc.
will be made ready for the winters
work.
A Novesta farmer has brood SOW
which gave birth to 20 pigs last week.
Old and young are enjoying the best of
health. I he pig kingdom is really do.
ing very well this season. We read
that Louis Marion of near Marlette has
a pig that contributed last week nine
teen squealers to the world.
Thomas Leslie, of Apologize, is the
owner of peach orchard from which
he had calculated to get this fall about
forty bushels of nice peaches. Going
into the orchard with all equipment
for picking, he finds someone has gone
ahead of him and picked the trees near
ly clean. Mr.. Leslie's family must
content themselves with three bushels
of fruit instead of forty. Such low
down thievery should be punished.
Albert Bolly, proprietor 81 the Ger
man hotel at Harbor Beach, Is the
proud possessor of white crow which
was shot near that place recently. The
carcass has been sent to a taxidermist
to be mounted, and will be placed on
exhibition in the hotel. Special inter
est is excited by this specimen because
1t is stated on scientific authority that
crows never turn white until after
reaching an age of two hundred and
fifty years, so this must be quite a ven
cradle bird