The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1919-01-30
HERE AND THERE

The flu epidemic is bad again at san.
dusky.
The flu quarantine has been raised at
Almont.
Melvin residents are talking strongly
on bonding for electric lights.
Mrs Anna Connolly, of Marlette, died
last week at the age of 80 years.
The flu epidemic caused the postpone
ment of Circuit court at Sandnsky last
week
The German society at Saginaw is no
more. The Lincoln Club takes it's
place.
Croswell proposes having good roads
II talk and deeds will accomplish any
thing.
On February 18th the annual Zach
Chandler Club gathering will be held
at Lapeer.
The Minden City Herald was not
published last week on account of a
broken linotype.
The drug store of e l.. Moore of
Minden City, has been purchased by
Emmett Higgins of same place.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Walker, of Mar
lette, celebrated the tiftieth anniver-
sary of their marriage on January Is.
The Thumb Lumber Co held it's an
nual meeting of stockholders at Mar
lette recently and reelected all the di.
rectors.
The movie theatre at Brown City will
be obliged to close Tuesday and Thurs
evenings unless it is given better pat
ronage.
The big hay compressor at Sandusky
has finished the government order for
10, 600 tons of hay and will now handle
commercial hay.
Ex-sheriff Stone of Sandusky, had his
right hand badly cut in buzz saw last
week. He went to Port Huron to have
his hand attended to.
| Another examination has been called
to fill the Office Of postmaster at INLAY
City. The salary is $500. The exam
nation will be held at Lapeer Feb. 10
About 1875 ar employed in the Ma
rine City shipyards. Two of the tel
government tugs to be built are now
we'll under way. They are OF wood and
steel.
Marlette business men are holding
mass meetings and becoming enthusi
astic over the future welfare of the
community. 1t was planned to hold 8
Home Coming Day for the returning
soldier boys.
Chris Sauder farmer near Marlette
was found dead in field with bulle
wound through his neck. 1t will never
be known whether the deed was acci
dental or suicidal. A wife and aight
children are left.
The plan of a union church at Har
Dor Beach and Inlay City has received
a setback in both these places. Aftel
seeming unanimity of all churches, tn,
Methodists of Harbor Beach draw on
and the Baptists at Inlay City d.
the same. For different reasons tn,
unity plan 10 again in the air.
When the mail bag was thrown upor
the distribution table at the Harbo
Beach postoflice the other day an ex
plosion occurred, bullet being dis
charged from a loaded 32 Colt revolye
in the bag, going through the hard
wood table, through the Dashboard ant
within few inches of man standin,
in the lobby.
William Ewes of Sanilac County dice
at the county farm last week. Afte
the death of his wife he lived with hi
two daughters at Deckerville for a time
and then went to the county house. HI
willed the residue OF his estate to tn,
Methodist church of Minden City afte,
his funeral expenses and a tombstone
were paid for.
The oldest enterprise in the town o.
Richmond, known as the Weter Il Fan
ing Company, egg dealers, was sold las
week to w. A. Bruce, produce man a
Cass City and Deckerville. This In
dustry was started in small way som,
fifty years ago and has grown to nam
moth proportions. 1t has remained un
der the same management by different
branches of the family since 1872.
Theodore Wilson, the defaultins
cashier of the Lexington State Bank o.
Lexington, who disappeared In August
1918, re-appeared last week and gave
himself up to the authorities at San
dusky. His accounts we're short $s0,OO'
to $4,000, TO which he pied guilty anC
was sentenced by Judge Law to tern
at lonia of to 10 years. recommendinl
A maximum of two years Mr.. WixsoI