The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-02-22
THURSDAY, February %. 1917
HERE AND THERE

A Chautauqua will be feature for
Mayville next summer.
The Boy Scouts of ST. Clair will put
on Minstrel show soon.
Croswell schools have engaged their
superintendent Mr.. Powers for another
year.
The Seniors of Marlette high school
building last Friday evening with num-
erous unique attractions and music.
"a PrairieRose" is ahome talent play
Peck people are putting on tonight at
Harmony hall in Peck under the aus
pices of the o. +. ).
Officers of the Cass City fair who re-
Gently selected September dates for
their next fair, were obliged to change
them to August 81, %, % and "a.
Almont holds a remarkable old lady.
She is Mrs. Carter, is go years old and
never wore glasses. She makes as good
use of her eyes as when she was young.
a handsome new brick fire proof
garage 35xll0 feet will be built in
Deckerville as soon as it is possible by
Hartshorn 81 Jones, local Ford agents.
The Marlette fire company was or
ganized just thirty-one years ago and
Of the charter members just one is q
member now, Marshal w. n. Rodgers.
Scarth Ingles, superintendent of the
Dryden schools, will enter at once upon
the duties of new position, that of
head of the physics department in
Flint.
The bad weather for several seasons
has decided the Sanilac County Agri-
cultural society to change its fair dates
from the last of September to the 4th,
5th, 9Th and Eth.
DIR. John Hartley, rector of Christ
church in Croswell, for the past three
years, goes to Kewaunee, III. 1t is not
decided whether the church at Croswell
will call another pastor or not.
Mrs. Rachel Parkin, wife of Charles
Parkin, Melvin merchant, died at the
home in Melvin last week Wednesday,
aged IS years. The funeral was held
on Friday from the Baptist church.
While her mother was out of thehouse
the 4-yearold daughter of Orville Ell
we'll, of Decker, went too near the fire,
the flames catching her clothing. She
was so terribly burned that she died in
a few hours.
There are four or five mild cases of
scarlet fever in Croswell which have
been well quarantined. 1t has mot
been thought necessary to close the
schools as no spread of the disease is
apprehended.
Hon. Herbert Ii. Hoffman, of San
dusky, has been named by Governor
Sleeper as a member of the Michigan
board of pharmacy for the term ending
December 81, 1921. Hoffman succeeds
Z. Z. Faulkner on the board.
The furnace in the Sheppard drug
store at Brown City in some way caus-
ed fire last Wednesday night. Goods
were badly damaged by smoke and
water. A barber shop and stock of
goods in adjoining buildings were also
some damaged. Ali damages covered
by insurance.
Emmett will soon be built up again
after the big fire which devastated the
business portion of the village. The
new buildings are bank, drug store,
a barber shop, meat market and an
opera house. Material Is on the ground
for big garage and Tom Reid will
erect store building.
Three men were injured and consld
cradle damage done last week when an
explosion of the water heater at the
Paper Company's plant in Capac occur
ed. The force of the explosion was 30
great that it drove part of the boiler
through brick wall. 1t took some