The Yale expositor., 1919-11-20
NEWS ITEMS FROM
NEARBY CITIES
Thumb Tales Tersely Told
Interesting Items Cleaned
From Our Exchanges

work in Sanilac county.
The streets of Sandusky will be
paved in the early spring.
Mrs. Frances Carman of Lexing-
ton, "a years of age, died last
week of apoplexy.
A post of the American Legion
has been organized at Shower and
named the John Adair Post.
r. T. Willoughby, of Memphis,
has purchased hardware store
at Capac and will move there.
Rev. Harold F. Sayles, of Chi
cago, is conducting evangelistic
services at the Baptist church in
Goodells.
The Journal says that one big
way to boom Capac at the present
time is to organize volunteer fire
department.
Lieut.. A. A. Glassford, of Capac,
died in France over a year ago. His
trunk and other baggage has just
arrived in Capac.
Lloyd Stone, of Sandusky, pro-
ducsd beet that weighed 1912 lbs,
and then a pound or so seemed to
have been broken off it's lower ex-
tremity
Farmers of Unionville and vicin-
ity at a meeting recently, decided
to form a stock company capital
lied at $4,000 to purchase the
Unionville Milling Plant.
Cass City, the champion foot
ball team of Tuscola county and of
the Thumb, was held to a tie in a
closely fought game last Friday
with the Brown City team.
1t is understood that the bank
at Brown City recently vacated
is offered as a postoffice building.
The present office is considered
rather small and the change would
be welcomed.
A great many Croswell homes
are being turned into two-family
flats on account of the scarcity of
houses to rent. 1t being almost
impossible to find a whole house
to rent any more.
Port Huron's Chamber of Com
MERGE will give a musical comedy
entitled "The Masquerade Party"
in the near future. Miss Zura, of
New York, will put on the attrac-
tion with local assistance.
The bodies of Sergt. Fred Mar
riot and Private Daniel Robbins,
two Port Huron boys, who were
killed in Northern Russia, were
brought to their homes this week
and accorded military funerals.
James Davidson, president of
the Mt. Clemens Sugar company,
presented the Business Mems as
sociation with a check for $500 to
aid in raising fund of $4,000 as
a bonus to bring Handy Bros rail
way into the city.
Two machines, in one of which
Norman Tacie was riding and Mrs.
Hazen Randell in the other, collid-
ed with a terrible crash on acorner
in the city of Port Huron last Fri
day, badly injuring these two and
entirely wrecking both cars.
The Muscauroot Land Company,
Of Detroit, who have a large acre
age on Harsen's Island, will make
great improvements next season,
building bungalows and houses,
dividing land up into small farms,
building farm homes and putting
in drainage.
The Sunday school room in the
NJ. E. church at Sandusky, by de-
cision of the church board, will be
used on week days as a gymnas-
ium. All kinds of sports for high
school boys, for younger boys, for
ladies and girls will be prepared
on different nights.
Four men escaped last week
from the Flint Jail, two of whom
had escaped before and been re-
captured. In the four different
Jail breakings the total number of
prisoners who have escaped is %.
Eight of these were recaptured,
but two again escaped this last
time.
Although S27.00 was paid out
by st Clair city authorities for
special officers on the night of Hal
lowe'en, undoubtedly there were
more acts of vandalism and law
lessness than ever before in st.
Clair. 1t seems that something
should be done to cheik the foolish
should be done to check the foolish
and reckless acts of young people