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Capac school has this fall one
of the largest enrollments in it's
history.
Christian F. Bach, millionaire
lumberman and founder of the vii
lage of Bach, Huron county, died
August 22nd.
Henry Ford's sea-going yacht,
Stalia," is anchored at Harbor
Beach Resort while Edsel Ford
and family are occupying the Ford
cottage.
Silas Harrington died recently
at his home in Attention at the age
of 81 years. He was a resident of
Armada and Attention the most of
his life.
Twelve foreign residents of
Port Huron and one of ST., Clair,
were naturalized as citizens of
the United States at Port Huron
last week.
Carl Olson, a pressman in the
Bad Axe Tribune office, had his
hand caught in one of the big
presses last week, getting it bad
ly crushed.
A couple of small boys, Hungar-
ians, living near Kingston, were
playing with a gun in the barn
when it accidentally went off,
shooting the younger boy in the
breast, killing him instantly.
The people of East China have
voted to build a new town hall to
cost in the neighborhood of $1,000.
1t will be 30x90 feet in size and
equipped with kitchen, smoking
room, rest and cloak room and
large dancing floor.
The Commercial hotel at Rich
mond, which has stood empty
since the state went dry, has been
purchased by two public spirited
Richmond citizens, who will con-
vert 1T into an apartment house,
to relieve the shortage of houses. |
AT the special election held in
st. Clair last week. the people of
that city voted 374 yes and 65 no
to ratify the action of the Com
mon Council to accept the offer
of the Detroit Edison Company of
$4,000 for the city's Electric
Lighting equipment.
Creighton Cathcart fell from
the third floor of the Condensory
plant at Cass City to the cement
driveway, breaking one wrist,
spraining the other and both ank-
les and receiving other painful
bruises. 1t was almost a miracle
that ne was not killed outright.
Out of 165 gardens examined
IN Port Huron, John Schwikert.
jr., was awarded the silver cup
given by the Federal Commercial
and Savings Bank for the best
garden plot in the city for a model
garden. James A. Taylor gets the
prize Of five dollars for second
pest.
John w. Scully, whose death S
occurred at his farm home near i
was born in Brockway {
.ownship, st. Clair county, in
1865, and moved away when he {
vas eleven years old. He held
many Offices and had a very ex-
.ensive acquaintance, and was a
friend to all.
Joe Solley, Hungarian beet s
veeder, living on the Albert Pro- Q
,ow farm southeast of Attica,
'ound a dynamite cap, and not
what it was started in to A
investigate. Application of 7
hammer to the cap soon divulged h
he mystery, and the thing ex.
'!oded, tearing off one finger and
,arts of two others and the l
humb. G
Mrs. John Weaver, 20 years of t
.ge, was burned to death We'd
lesday afternoon in the fire which
destroyed her home in Arthur a
ownship, near Reese. The aged N
voman had left the building b
nee but returned to get some be-
ongings and was unable to get
ut again. The body was not re- h
overed until after the fire was p
p
Two men, one colored, sawed =
heir way nearly to liberty at st. q
lair county Jail on Thursday :,
light. Sheriff Windsor became 9. .
uspicious and investigation ID
howed five bars in the window
awed apart and about two BUSH
Is of brick under the sill unear-
ned and hidden from Wow It ia r.