The Yale expositor., 1919-12-25
NEWS ITEMS FROM
NEARBY CITIES
Thumb Tales IerseIy Told
Interesting items Cleaned
From Our Exchanges

St. Clair council has purchased
gas masks for the use of their
firemen.
A new navy recruiting office has
been opened in the postofiice
building in Port Huron.
The d. u. X. estimates its.loss
by the recent heavy storm at not
les than $250,000. The Rapid
lost all its years profits.
Vassar business men have Sc
cured nearly sufficient funds to
buy site and build a factory for
an automobile parts foundry.
The largest deer shipped out of
the north woods through the
Mackinaw City gateway this year
was a buck weighing 248 pounds.
Neils Anderson, with a herd of
all Jersey cows, is delivering milk
to Inlay City people, who have
been without milkman for long
time.
Two Tuscola county Jail "trus-
ties" made a getaway last week
with the sheriff's car, his over
coat, shoes and other articles.
Sheriff. Morris was in Detroit.
The Summers Linen Co., Port
Huron has shipped nine cars of
flax seed to Ireland. The total is
11,700 bushels which will be plant
ed in Irish soil to raise flax.
Rev. William Oliver, former
resident of Wales, dropped dead
in Detroit last Thursday. His
body was taken to Wales for fu-
neral and lnterment. Rev. Oliver
was SO years of age.
Port Huron's school children
have been learning Christmas
carols which they will sing on the
streets of Port Huron from six
to seven Christmas eve. Houses
and porches will display lights.
The pulp warehouse of the
Michigan Sugar Co., at Caro-,
burned last week. Many tons of
dried beet pulp and large guam
tity of beet seed was destroyed.
The st. Clair hotel in Port HUI
ron was robbed of an overcoat,
and Hotel Beckton of $3.50 in cash
on Thursday night last week.
Another night the Cochrane store
lost about $400 worth of silks and
a fur cap was taken from Higer's.
The police seem to have no clue to
work on.
Alfred Turner, the negro, who
was mentioned in this column
two weeks ago, who had lived
two years at South Park and was
arrested as a Jail breaker and es-
capped convict from a Georgia
prison, has lost his fight for free
dom and has now been taken back
to the South, where he was serv-
ing a life sentence for murder.
James Duchene, an old and
highly respected resident of Mem
phis for the past fifty years, died
quite suddenly last week of heart
trouble. In early days, before
Memphis had railroad Mr.. Du-
chene drove the stage between
there and Ridgeway, now Rich
mond. He was a civil war vet
eran.
On the Chris Pinkle farm two
or three miles southeast of Mem
phis an Illicit still was discovered
last week by officers. Six barrels
of mash, several gallons of whis-
key and a quantity of raisins were
found and an up-to-date still.
which the officers burned. The
two Assyrians who occupied the
farm were arrested and taken to
Mt. Clemens. 1t is believed that
there are more of these places
along Belle river.
Philo Tyler, aged 83 years. Ja-
cob Collins, aged 81 years, and
Horace Smith, aged sc years, all
of Carsonville, held their second
annual bowling match recently
and scored respectively AZ, rs and
54. Regardless of age the score
is good, but the feature of the
game is the fact that competition
between three octogenarians is
possible. All these men are of the
sturdy pioneer stock that has
developed this country. They are
long residents of Carsonville and
vicinity. The game was staged
In the bowling department of
Smith Bros. Electric theatre
building.