The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1918-11-14
GERMANY HAS CAVED
Yale Fittingly Celebrates the Cessation of
,Hostillties Last Monday. ay.-Armistice
Signed and the Kaiser Sneaks to
Holland Between DayS.

Holland Between Days.
It's mighty good thing for Kaiser
Billium and his Six Simp Sons that
their special train stopped in Holland
Sunday instead of coming to Yale,
Michigan. They sure would have been
mussed up considerable.
That there is something in the old
saying, practice makes perfect" was
proven beyond doubt by Mondays
demonstration. The little rehearsl
which was held last Thursday only
made the people anxious to see the
curtain go up for the real show.
At $3.50 Monday morning the Expos
itor received word that the armistice
had been signed. OF course the hour
was a trifle early, but the news was so
good that we just had to pass it on.
There was one place where we didn't
trespass, however, and that was near
the lair of our city clerk, for Dusty is
a holy terror when awakened from his
peaceful slumbers, either night or day.
After what seemed like hours, the
old boy came down town and when he
had verified the report to his own sat
isfaction, he calmly walked to the
phone, called No l3 and said, "twist
her tail, boys W And believe us, the
boys were there with the goods.
All this happened at about seven
o'clock, and from that time until late
in the evening there was large and
varied, continuous, noisy program.
There was no work in town, every bus
iness place and factory in the city
made little holiday of its own for
the occasion and all joined in to make
this better than an ordinary celebra-
tion. And for town the size of Yale,
we did very well, thank you.
People from the surrounding country
were prepared for the news, and when
the noise of the siren whistles and
exploding shells, mingled with the
shouts of our happy people reached
their ears, many of them took the day
off and came to town to Join in the
jollication.
The members of the Yale Cornet
Band hastily donned their uniforms
and "got in the game" furnishing lots
of good music all day.
Everybody fell in line at about $3.50
and, head ed by the band, marched to
the depot TO meet the incoming trains,
so the passengers thereon might know
that we had heard the news. They
must have at least suspected from the
happy racket that something had hap.
pened
A huge bonfire was kindled at the
corner of Main and Mechanic streets
which was kept burning all day and
around which there was happy, jolly
crowd, each one trying to make more
noise than the one next to him.
In the afternoon an impromptu pro-
gram was gotten up and large crowd
assembled to listen to the nice words
spoken by the pastors of our different
chur shes. The band played selection
which was followed by prayer by Rev.
Kelley of the Free Methodist church
Rev. Merrill, of the Methodist Episco.
pal church, gave very interesting
talk and got the people worked up to
the proper cheering point, and every
time he called for "three and tiger"
1t was given with a will. The main
address of the afternoon was delivered
by Rev. Crandell, pastor of the Metho-
dist Protestant church. 1t was truly
patriotic speech, which was thoroughly
enjoyed by the large crowd which had
gathered. His utterances against pro-
Germans and suggested punishnents
for the Imperial family were met with
rousing applause.
The program was interspersed with
music by the band, singing by the
crowd, the Girl Scouts and Elan Sloat,
and reading by Marie McNulty.
There were two speoialties on the
days program which would call
for more than passing mention did
we not lack both time and space. The
snare drum playing by Henry Steen-
burg and mouth organ selections by
Elan Slost called forth much applause
from the crowd, and the baby cannon
manipulated by Chas. Barr and Geo.
Green sure furnished lot of pep"
for the celebration.
After this part of the days doings
a mammoth parade was formed and
the line of march extended through
the principal streets of the city.
In the evening the crowd gathered
around the fire and the noise went on
fast and furious. To make IL the lend
of perfect day." an efigy of Kaiser
Will was strung up In front Of the post
Office and burned. Shortly after this
ocourrance a crowd WAS noticed com.