The Yale expositor., 1920-04-01
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A Community Council is being
organized in st. Clair.
Mrs. Olive Gordon, of Lexington
has been adjudged insane and
taken to Pontiac.
Handy Bros. railroad report
from fifty to sixty cars of freight
a day, going to Marysville.
Forty-two business places in
Harbor Beach will be closed on
Good Friday from II to 3.
Mrs. H. L. Allen, of Armada,
suffered a crushed foot and one
broken toe when a stove fell upon
her.
Supt. B. NJ. Hamell, for twelve
years at the head Of the Pigeon
schools will go to Corunna next
year.
Romeo juniors gave play last
week at which they cleared $3.50.
They repeated the play and cleared
$500.
The new Observation-Disclosures
store in Port Huron was opened 20
the public last Friday. 1t is on
Huron avenue.
The case of Henry Binkle, Har-
Dor Beach bank cashier defaulter,
has been set for April IL in Huron
county circuit court.
Lexington's new electric street
lights are going up. There will be
forty-fve of them besides the boul-
eVard lights on Main street.
r. A. Ambrose, Of Leslie, will
be the new superintendent of the
Memphis schools. Mr.. Ambrose
served 20 months in the late war
st. Clair people must boil the
water they drink. The chlorina-
tion plant is out of commission,
and st. Clair river water is unsafe.
George Fifer, of Fremont, was
recently seriously in $50 Zen a
horse kicked h'7' Dtea4,i.... his
celia, ho..2 All otherwise injuring
lin.
M. H. Crissman, of Romeo, cele-
brated his 93rd birthday last week.
Mr.. Crissman is in good health
and able to get out among his
friends.
Culprits entered Romeo yh
school building one night last
week, turned the water on and
flooded the floors. Damage about
$780, No one knows who did the
deed.
Harold Weston, of Almont, was
held up at the point of a gun last
Saturday night, on Iroquois street
Detroit, and robbed of S113. He
had just finished changing a tire
when two men drove up in Dodge
touring car and held him up and
then drove quickly away.
Lee Glassford, of Capac, has a
building on the rear of his lot in
that village erected in the COS,
which he is now very carefully
taking apart, as most of it is a
clear yellow pine and is very val
,uable. In fact Mr.. Glassford init
mates that he has a gold mine.
Brown City Washington Chap
ter o. E. S. gave a splendid fare
well reception to Mrs. James Ben
edict and Mr.. and Mrs. John Ca
wood one evening last week, these
people on the eve of moving to
Port Huron. "A fine banquet was
spread and speeches and social
chat finished the evening.
| Flames burst out of the roof of
the Emmett house at Emmett early
Sunday morning, and the building
would probably have been destroy
ed if the nightwatchman on the
G.. T. tracks had not given the
alarm. The damage was confined
mostly to the roof. This old land
mark is about the only building
getting clear of the flames a few
lyears ago when nearly the whole
Village was wiped out.
When Henry SchlegePs coal sup.
ply gave out at Port Austin, he
speculated on how he could get
some heat from the cold ashes
that were left in the stove. A
small pipe, with valve in it, was
inserted near the bottom of a tin
can which he filled with distillate
costing between z and 8 cents O
gallon. And now, while the oil
drips down on the ashes and burns
, fiercely, the stove is making the
Office comfortable. And there are
no ashes to empty.
Martha, the five-year-old daugh.
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. James Brad
ley, of Fremont township, is af
fected with very serious disease
About month ago growth wa.
noticed on her face. This has sine,
developed into sarcoma or, cancer
and her condition is now critical
and physicians say there is n,
chance for her to recover. Cance-
developing in child five year
old is very unusual and doctor
say that sarcoma in the head i
very, very scarce. Peck Times