The Yale expositor., 1918-12-26
Local and Otherwise.

The old year is fast dying.
Our next issue will be in 1919.
Was Santa Claus generous to you?
Did we ever have a more perfect
December?
j. f. Crysler attended the Chicago
horse sale last week.
Leta and Bernice Holden were in
Port Huron Monday.
H. p. Dinner was at Port Huron
the first of the week.
Mrs. BENZ. Lane visited with her son
Will at Flint this week.
N. b. Herbert was in Detroit the
first of the week on business.
Mrs. e. j. Rice left Tuesday morning
to spend the holidays in Detroit.
Port Huron City has adopted Eastern
Standard time for the year round.
Chas. Montney spent Christmas with
relatives and friends at Algonac.
Mrs. Purl w. Harding, of Melvin,
was in Yale on Thursday of last week.
Mrs. Chas. Rounds is at Bennington,
Ont, on visit to relatives and friends.
Snow Tuesday morning gave US a
white Christmas instead of a green
one.
Jas. Mann, of Detroit, has been here
this week on visit to his parents and
friends.
John Irving left Monday morning
for weeks visit to relatives in Grand
Rapids.
Floyd Ferguson and family are
spending Christmas with relatives in
Inlay City.
Capt. +. w. Sheehy is now employed
with the Michigan State Telephone
Company at Detroit.
Rawley G. Mailman is home from
Camp Custer on furlough. He will
return to Camp Friday.
Mrs. VIM. X. Tomlinson, of Albion,
is spending Christmas week with her
parents and friends here.
Our merchants report a very satisfy
ing trade last week, Notwithstanding
the awful condition of the roads.
Henry Pearce and daughter Msyme
are spending the holidays with Mr..
and Mrs. Fred Locke ia Port Huron.
Harvey Sayles, of the Great Lakes
Training Camp, is spending the holl.
days with his wife and friends in De-
troit. He will return 10 camp Jan. 4.
Saturdays casualty list contained the
name of Lumber Taylor, Abbottsford,
among those who we're wounded Sc
verely. He is nephew of Fred Tay-
lor, of this city.
e. J. Rice was home from Detroit
over Sunday. Ensign Harold L. Rice
who is stationed at Pensacola, Fla,
and who is home on furlough, &C.
companied him.
The total number of country week
lies and dailies that have gone out of
business in this country since we got
into war is 2,l36 and they are falling
by the wayside everywhere.
Rex Holden is home from the Train
ing Detachment Of the University OF
Indiana, Bloomington, Ind, receiving
an honorable discharge. He is in gooC
health after being in the hospital FOL
several weeks.
The bad roads and rainy weather Of
last Saturday failed to keep the farm
ers from coming to town to do theil
Christmas shopping. The stores were
crowded with people from early in the
morning, and our merchants report 9
large business.
Sgt. +. M. Conway, son-in-law of Mr.
,and Mrs. VIM. Leacock, of Old Brock.
way, has arrived home from port OF
embarkation to visit his wife anC
daughter Agnes at 2lS Broad St, Port
Huron. Sgt. Conway was formerly Of
Old Brockway.
The Michigan Training School fol
Women, new reformatory, will be
started next spring on a 80 acre tract
bordering Cedar river near Okemos
five miles east of Lansing. The build
ing Of the necessary cottages was au.
thorized by the 1917 legislature.
| The attention of Exposition subscrib
ers, who are reading the serial, "Bride
of Battle" now running on the inside
pages, is directed to that part publish.
ed on the supplement in this issue be-
fore reading chapter XVII in the regu-
lar section of the paper. This will
give you the chapters omitted last
week.
The Christmas mail at the Yale post.
Office was heavy on Monday. Over
1900 packages were mailed, a majority
of them being insured and each one