The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-08-30
THURSDAY, August 80, 1917
HERE AND THERE
Caro- fair this week.


Cass City fair last week was sue
cess.
The Library board in Marlette has
sent applications for Carnegielibrary.
Lewis b. Marks, Sc years old, re.
spected citizen of Marine City, was
found dead in his bed on Aug 20.
When an /. WV. speaker attempted
an address at Port Austin last Sunday,
the citizens chased him out of town.
Brown City's first Chautauqua was
success in every way, and a contract
has been agreed upon for its return
next year.
The annual "IllinOis" reunion will be
held at the home Of Mrs Melvin White
pa miles northeast of Capac, on sep
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Some of the flax pullers around Rose
burg are earning $500 a DAY. There
are 175 people pulling flax for the Sum-
mers Linen Company.
The Vassar Farmers Elevator Co.
just closed a successful year, and also
declared Is per cent dividend The
same officers were elected for another
year.
Several of Melvin's business places
and houses will be lighted by the Dalco
system, an electrical lighting plant
having been purchased by Edward
McPhee.
The handsome new building of the
Capac State Savings Bank will be open
to public inspection tomorrow, Friday
and Saturday, August 3lst. and Sep
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A teachers institute will be held in
Sandusky, October II and Is, with DR..
I. II. Green, of Westchester, Pa, as
instructor. Harold Jarvis, of Detroit,
will sing at this institute,
Rev. b. f. Brundage, former pastor
of the Presbyterian church in Marine
City, also of the Ross Memorial church
in Port Huron, has enlisted with the
Indiana troops as chaplain.
The largest well in the Thumb of
Michigan has just been completed for
the Borden Condensory Co., at San
dusky. The well is 2l9 feet deep and
furnishes rs gallons of water min
ute.
The 3year-old daughter of Dallas
Walker, of near Brown City, got into
the path of a. binder cutting wheat,
and had one toe completely taken off
and another badly lscerated. The
driver did not see the child.
VIM. Watts, a farmer living apart
from his wife, near Richmond, became
Respondent, set fire to his house and
barn, shot his favorite horse and dog,
then himself and was burned to a
crisp in the ruins of his home on Mon.
day of last week.
While driving 4 team attached to a
load Of sheaf wheat, Esther Schultz, of
Sanilac county,fell from the load as the
wheat slipped and sustained a broken
arm and some bad bruises. The horses
became frightened, ran away and
smashed the wagon.
DR.. Nj. NJ. Wickwarp, of Cass City,
who has been appointed supreme med
ical examiner of the Cleaners, and who
is moving to Detroit, was rendered a
banquet by many of the business men
of Cass City, at Hotel Arlington, Ubly,
on Friday evening last week. The doc
tor was presented with handsome
gold watch.
Some excitement was created in ST.
Clair the other day when two men were
arrested as they stepped off Rapid
car The charge against them was
carrying concealed weapons. The con-
ductor had seen a revolver sticking
from the pocket of one of the men and
had telephoDed ahead to have them
taken in charge. One was let go, the
other was taken to Port Huron to
await trial, He claimed he had been
in the English army in France.
August Kelch German farmer near
Shower, with fine farm and 80 acres
of hay, which he refuses to harvest as
long as the u. s. sends foodstuffs 10
the allies, was taken to the county jail
and brought to see that he must cut
his hay at once. He finally agreed to
do so, and was allowed to go home, but
the sheriff will keep in touch with the
man. He left his hay on the ground
last year, and the matter was brought
to the notice of the authorities when
1t was seen that he proposed the same