The Yale expositor., 1920-10-07
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nual fair this week.
William McGregor, of McGreg-
or, had eleven crates of onions
stolen from his place recently.
C. II. Saph, who has been city
clerk of Marine City for the past
II years, has resigned that office.
Beets are coming in fast to the
Sugar factory at Croswell and the
mill will soon be grinding out 1920
sugar.
c. p. O'Sullivan, of Chicago, has
become a lawyer in Port Huron
and has entered the firm of Walsh
& Walsh.
Mr.. andMrs. Bye Munro, of East
Kenockee, have packed their
household goods and gone to New
York to live.
'rhe hardware men of this dis
trict held large and spirited con-
vention and dinner in Port Huron
Oh T.'sday last.
The st. Clair River Country
Club has raised its price of men,
bership and will also increase its
numDer of members.
The Port Huron police force
made 121 arrests during the month
OF September. Ten arrests were
made for intoxication.
The Inlay City Masonic lodge
is now occupying its new quarters
which was formerly the Bolly ho-
tel. The new arrangement is COM
plete.
County Red Cross nurses, Mollie
Mckinney and Flora Neal are
working this week among the
school children of Marysville and
Marine City.
The Temple theatre in Croswell
has had the inside all torn out
and the whole space thrown into
the Biller store which makes that
place big emporium.
The Michigan Sugar Co. has
opened weigh station at Valley
Centre, and the beets coming in
are No. grade and promise
yield of Is tons to the acre.
The Athol Manufacturing Co.
will be the first industry to start
work in Marysville. This plant is
producing auto top material and
mas force of about 100 persons.
Rev. Henry Mosley, pastor of
the Congregational church in
Richmond is teaching Esther Hills
school while she is recovering
from a severe automobile acci-
dent.
&C. r. Townsend, aged 80, of Cass
City, driving new car, met with
an accident last week which was
thought would be fatal, and taken
to his home with broken back
and 3ther injuries
Clarence Fitzgerald, G. 7. car
inspector at Richmond, had his
face and eyes badly injured when
a can of chlorine of lime exploded
in his hands. The burning powder
caused him intense agony.
June, as usual, was the banner
month of weddings for 1920, nine
ty licenses being granted from st.
Clair County Clerk Vincent's Of
fee. September went pretty good
too, with sixty-eight licenses.
Fruit thieves were loading their
truck in an orchard of a Romeo
farmer, when the farmer located
the half dozen men with shot
gun. They managed to make good
their escape without being plug
ged.
The Victrola owned by the pub
lie library in Port Huron has a
list of rural schools in the county
which it goes to visit and enter
tain for a stated time and a stated
sum. 1t has started on its annual
trip.
C. l.. We'll, consulting engineer
of the Diamond Crystal Salt COM
pany, has purchased the beautiful
home of Frank j. German on St.
Clair river. The property has 1872
feet frontage, and runs 600 feet
back to the highway.
Fostorias school building, which
housed the high school and all the
grades, burned to the ground on
October 1st. A week before Fos-
toria's grain elevator, which con-
tanned the village electric light
plant, was destroyed by fire.
The morning after the annual
sophomore reception to the fresh
men in the Bad Axe school, about
twenty-five of the latter appears l
in school with shaved heads. We
tEol ght h..zing was back num-
Der these days and being done
away with.