The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1919-11-06
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prevent the spread of diphtheria.
Tom Hillock is having a new
house built on his farm in Lynn
township.
Sandusky council has hired a
night watchman, who will patrol
the streets. =
John Leitch, 60 years a resident
of Sanilac county, died last week,
aged 81 years.
l.. r. Kaiser, a farmer north
west of Capac, has purchased the
milk route in Capac.
Brown City stores will close
every evening at six o'clock eX-
cept Saturday evening.
John Krakow, a pioneer of
Capac vicinity, living there for
AZ years, died last week.
The new lodge rooms for the
Sandusky |. o. o. f. are now
completed and ready for occu-
pancy.
Everything in Brown City will
continue to run on Eastern Stan
dard time, as adopted by the city
council.
Peck is considering the advis-
ability of putting on big cele-
bration for "Armistice Day." No
vember 18th.
Anthony Fashbender, aged 80
years, for 68 years a resident of
st. Clair town, dropped dead at
his home last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jeremiah Tarte,
of Marine City have been married
fifty-three years and celebrated
that event on October 18th.
A permanent organization of
the Thumb Breeders and Fanciers
Association has been effected at
Sandusky and officers elected.
The Peck Times says that from
6$4 acres of land Roy Kennedy
marketed 125 tons of sugar beets.
The beet crop is a bumper one
this season.
The Standard Oil Co. will not
erect its new oil tanks at Peck
before another year, and Brown
City will still supply Peck for a
time at least.
The Marx Brothers dry goods
store in Port Huron, doing busi-
ness for 80 years, has closed it's
doors and the brothers will retire
from active life.
VIM. Mcqueen, sr., of near
Shower, was given a pleasant sur
prise by about seventyfive friends
and neighbors on the occasion Of
his S0th birthday.
SO many mix-ups and mistakes
were gotten into at Marlette over
the two times that it was finally
agreed to run everything on Gen.
tral Standard time.
A fifteen piece orchestra has
been organized by the young peo-
pie of Sandusky L. d. S. church.
Prof. T. H. Campbell, Of Caro-, has
been secured as instructor.
Cass City people are having a
whole festival week of bargain
days, which their merchants are
giving them, with inducements
to buy anything and everything.
The Wills-Lee Company have
contracted for the building of six
hundred houses at Marysville
They will be of the bungalow type
and will sell to employees for
$1,000.
Croswell expects very soon to
be given free mail delivery. The
city promises to place more street
signs and complete the number
ing of the houses and then the
delivery service will be installed
Two small Cass City lads got
hold of several shot gun shells
opened them up and applied q
match just to see whether the
powder would explode. IL did and
both boys have badly burned
faces.
Hotel Dupont in Marine City
which has catered we'll to the
public for many years, has closed
its doors and gone out of bust
ness. The building has beer
sold and will be converted into
handsome stores.
John Cawood has again assum
ed the management of the Brown
City Banner. He says of the re
tiring editor, Joseph Koeppe, whC
has returned to Washington, like
many young men he is alway!
seeking fairer fields, more money
and less work"
| A house on the A. B. Simonsor
farm near Sandusky, occupied by
Steve Skobler, burned to tn,
ground last week with all its con
tents. Skobler lost his wife las
winter and has since been keep
ing his children together by work
ing both in the house and on tn,