The Yale expositor., 1920-02-05
NEWS ITEMS FROM
NEARBY CITIES
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Interesting Items Cleaned
From Our Exchanges


sary last Sunday, Feb. 1st.
Marine City is putting forth ef-
forts to land the Waterbury Foun-
dry plant which desires a suitable
location.
The State Encampment of the
Grand Army Of the Republic will
be held in Port Huron next sum-
mer, June GIL.
Since Monday Croswell has had
free mail delivery service. mail
being delivered twice a day. There
are two mail men.
The condition of the roads was
so bad last week that the LeXing-
ton-Port Huron autO-bus could not
make regular trips.
The churches at Deckerville
have united and are holding evan
gelistic meetings, with 2 ii. Kad-
ey, of Detroit as leader.
Lobie Fischer, a young farmer
near Marlette, hurt his foot so
badly while cutting wood that
dmputation was necessary.
The S-months-old child OF uIr.
and Mrs. Leland Phelps, OF Brown
City, fell on the not air register
and received painful burns.
On February 18th, special
election will be held IN ST. Ciau 10
bond the city for S325,000 Tor the
building of new high school.
Mrs. NJ. ID. Squires, Reu cross
nurse, OF Marine City, has gone Co
Port Huron to assist Or, DeGurse
and the local nurses to care Ior
the many influenza cases.
The Community Brotherhood OF
Brown City held their month
ly banquet on Monday evening
last with sixty or eighty present,
a splendid 1east and a good pro-
gram OF entertainment.
John Cole, veteran newspaper
man, formerly located at Klnue.
now OF Bad Axe, bought the Car
lsonville Journal last week and
plans to assume management of
the sheet at an early date.
The .Marlette Leader editor is
intending to make a collection of
local poems and publish some of
the best of them iii the near future
We will scan the Leader columns
with much attention hereafter.
| Weeks Brothers, Of Richmond.
are furnishing Henry Ford en-
ployees several thousand dollars
worth of dressed pork and an al
most continuous procession of
sleighloads of hogs is on its way
to the shipping station.
Ernest Pelton of near Cass City
was smothered to death, when a
straw stack fell upon him. He had
been doing his evening chores
and was not found until IL clock.
Pelton was % years of age and
leaves a wife and four children.
A suit has been started in the
circuit court by Wilbur Beach VS..
The Lexington Milling Company
to dissolve the company so the
property can be disposed of. The
mill in the village was built a
good many years ago, but OF late
has remained idle. This is valu-
able piece of lake front property
and in all probabilities the mill
will be dismantled and a fine sum
mer hotel built ON the lot.-Lex-
ington News.
For sixteen years Port Huron
} people have talked an emergency
hospital and accomplished moth
ing. 1t is now proposed that they
J set about getting a permanent
. emergency hospital and do some
; thing more than talk "A meeting
has been held for general discus
sion of plans which will lead to
something definite. In the mear
. time the trustees of st. Johns s
Evangelical church have placed
, their church house at the disposal
of the city and already there are
! several cases of influenza being
. taking care of in this building.
Charles Ellsworth, of Croswell.
was awarded personal and charac-
ter damages in the amount of 81
600 In the circuit court last week
in a suit against Albert Massacar
also of Croswell. His claims were
based on actions of mob of about
90 who visited his home and en-
ticed him out and mistreated him
on the night of May 3, 1918. of
which Massacar was a member.
Ellsworth brought suit for So. 900.
: He had been charged with being
un-American, but evidence estab-
lished that Massacar was a for.
Y eign subject at the time and has
l only recently applied for natural
: lzation papers. And the iury
!. found for the plaintiff. Regard
f less of extenuating circumstances
d it shows good judgment on the
f part of the jury to render 4 YER
dict in condemnation of ,,,nhs