The Yale expositor., 1919-12-18
NEWS ITEMS FROM
NEARBY CITIES
Thumb Tales Tersely Told
Interesting Items Cleaned
From Our Exchanges


A new high school for st. Clair
is real need.
Croswell school children are
having a siege of chicken-pox.
Minden City wants two things
badly, dentist and butcher or
meat market.
The DeCou opera house in San
dusky has been sold to w. j. Cos
tine and A. B. Simonson.
The Kenyon g. Zaetsch Ice Co.,
of Algonac, are putting up new
buildings for ice storage.
Port Hope has a beautiful new
store building now complete and
occupied by the Engle Mercan-
tile Company.
Owing to the acute situation in
the news print market, the Sandus-
ky Tribune is restricting its size
to eight pages.
James TAFT, resident Of Lexing
ton, aged IS years, suffered para
llytic stroke recently whica affect
ed his right side.
DR.. Keyser. of Peck will contest
lthe charge upon which he was re-
Gently arrested, that of putting
out poison for the purpose of dog
killing.
Walter Barr, for the past six
lyears linotype operator on the
Morenci Observer, has taken up
the management of the Brown
City Banner.
Sandusky has been running on
the slow time, but at recent con-
ference of city dads and citizens
1.-The time was officially changed to
one hour faster
The Agricultural classes of the
| Croswell nigh school gave a fair
Friday and Saturday last week
with exhibits of all kinds, lectures
moving pictures, etc.
Tie New Haven Iron Works,
lbig enterprise in that section, has
been purchased BY FIJI. McCrack-
en-, of Clayville, Pa, who is an
experienced foundry man.
A North Branch citizen bought
new gun for hunting purposes
and proposed to practice bit out
in the barn. He missed the tar
get first shot, but killed a pig.
A big, old elm on one of Marine
City's streets, that had stood the
vicissitudes of two hundred years,
went down in the gale of Novem-
Der 20. 1t is missed and regret
ted.
The local telephone Office at
Lexington was closed to the public
for three weeks on account Of
case of scarlet fever in the fam
,, lily Of the operator, Mrs. Fred
Hyde.
The new firm of Bauslaugh &
| Vollmar in Croswell will start the
, manufacture of bread for whole
sale trade as soon as the building
/. and machinery can be gotten into
shape.
, Following the custom OF sever
J al years, number of the Thumb
+ Towns will have community Xmas
ltrees. In Caro- all Christmas eve
: celebrations will be centered in
: the community festivities.
: Mrs. John Nichol, of McGregor,
! was overcome by the fumes from
1 the exhaust of gas engine in the
basement of her home and fell to
the floor unconscious. She was
found before life became extinct.
: Edwin Beedon. of Port Huron
newspaper man 20 years ago, but
!, not in the work since, has got in
to the harness again and is work
e ing on the Deckervile Recorder.
Joseph Dave. the editor. is SUI
: fering from rheumatism and at
Itacks of appendicitis.
The Macaroni factory at Harbor
l Beach is filling an order of 1,200
boxes of macaroni. % pounds TO
the box. to be shipped to Bel
gium. This macaroni is said to
be superior to the best Italian
L brands, and the order stands as d
! strong endorsement to the product
: of the Harbor Beach factory.
n Probably the best crop of beans
r raised in St. Clair county this
O year were threshed by Fred Park
o. He had 8H2 acres that will average
2 better than % bushels per acre
: and will pick less than a half 10
One of the secrets of Fred's sue.
cess as a farmer is that he makes
the best of weather conditions ant
n attends strictly to business whe,
" the weather is good.-Memrhis
+ Bee.
IS Crockett McElroy, 83, discovers
of Michigan's salt deposits, man
n ufacturer. shipbuilder. poet, nov
elist. former state senator an,
r, author of Michigan's liquor Ia,
IN law, the Sunday and holiday clos
rs ing amendment and other legisla
a tion. died Nov. 23rd, at the hom
r of his daughter, Mrs. Howard {
1t Beck. Baltimore, Md. Had h
n lived until Dec. 81, he woul
have been 81.