The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1918-01-24
HERE AND THERE


soon be in operation.
Marlette electric lights will be dis
continued until the coal situation i'm
proves.
Sanilac couuty's drains and bridges
built during 1917 cost the taxpayers
the sum of $lO9,9S0.
The men of the Methodist church in
Richmond gave big, old'fashioned
oyster supper this week Wednesday.
Twenty-seven new Buick autos 60
ing through to Buffalo from Flint were
caught at Goodells in the recent sat
urday blizzard.
Marlette's recent poultry show was
fine success There was splendid ex-
hibit of grains, but not SO large show
of poultry as last year.
Peck people had to pay nine dollars
ton for slack coal last week, and so
poor was the quality that it was al
most .valueless for fuel.
Col. Ed. Picker, former publisher of
the Harbor Beach News, who was
stricken with paralysis several months
ago, died at his home in that city last
week.
Marlette Masons will meet in regular
communications with their overcoats
and mittens on, that the coal thus
saved may be placed where more
needed.
Now that Croswell is assured of the
new canning factory, she has decided
to hold community day on February
LIST, with the object of interesting the
farmers in the enterprise.
A new industry for Shower is con-
crete plant for the manufacture of
concrete stave silos and other concrete
work. IL. M. Macklem, of Marlette, is
at the head of the concern.
One of the insane inmates in San
dusky Jail set his bedding on fire one
day last week and the fire department
was called upon to put the blaze out.
Some damage to the cell was done.
Hy button, south of Bad Axe, shot a
wolf this winter and received bounty
of 1886. 1t was matter of discussion
as to where the wolf had come from
and whether it was timber or prairie
wolf.
The village of Capac confscated a
carload of chestnut coal which stood
on the siding last week and also seized
some soft coal from the paper mill,
which tided over few days of fuel
shortage.
The Sanilac County Medical Society
has for its 1918 officers John +. Camp
bell, of Brown City, president; Lewis
+. Cochrane, of Peck, president;
j. w. Scott, of Sandusky, secretary
and treasurer.
Joshua Sharrard walked sixteen
miles from Gagetown to his home nine
miles from Cass City during the recent
Saturday blizzard. One foot and his
face were partially frozen, otherwise
he is all there.
Alice M. Waun, of Shower, and Har-
old Phelps, of Sandusky, were married
recently in Port Huron. Mr.. Phelps
has enlisted in the Radio corps and
will be stationed at the Great Lakes
training school.
Judge Watson Beach, of Sanilac
county is the oldest Circuit Judge in
the state in years as we'll as in point
of service, it being thirty-two years
next February since he first assumed
the Office of Circuit Judged
Fred Kemp and A. Seaman, of Min
den City, and Chas. II. Smith, of Charl-
eston, have sent In to the Red Cross
sweater and three mufflers knit by
their own masculine hands just as
nicely as the feminines could do it.
Mrs.. Will Justin, of Sandusky, was
badly burned when her apron caught
fire from hot stove and she ran out
| or doors 10 ner husband at the Darn.
He threw pail of water over her and
put out the flames but she is in bad
condition.
Oswald Fischer, of st. Clair, was the
owner of two celluloid combs and
some matches which he carried in the
same pocket to high school last week.
The. combination was too much. for all
at once he found himself ablaze, and his
hands and hip quite badly burned.
VIM. L. Fox, who was arrested for
stealing $40 from house in Jeddo
recently, was recommended by the
Sanilac county court to try the army.
If he fails to enlist or to pass the ex-
animation, he will receive sentence for
| his offense when court cOnvenes In