The Yale expositor., 1920-01-29
NEWS ITEMS FROM
NEARBY CITIES
Thumb Tales Tersely Told
Interesting Items Cleaned
From Our Exchanges

melvin SJOTeS ClOSe IHIee HlBHIS
in the week.
There is fine location at Brock
way for a general store.
The first "fu" case was reported
in Port Huron on Thursday last.
There are 81 Federal prisoners
in the county Jail at Mt. Clemens
at present.
John Emory Day, a Macomb
county pioneer, died January IL,
at the age of 80 years.
About fifty thousand dollars is
to be used in enlarging st. Mary's
Catholic church at st. Clair.
Marlette's business men have
Ihad an enthusiastic meeting and
will organize a Booster Club.
The Detroit Creamery is the
largest taxpayer in Macomb coun-
ty. It's bill this year is $13,800.
The second annual Macomb
county Corn Show will be held at
Mt. Clemens on Thursday, Friday
and Saturday, Jan. 20, 80 and 81.
st. Clair people are strong for
having the Edison people furnish
that city with water and light, as
the municipal plant is operating
at great loss.
| Unless Melvin people keep the
number of mail pieces up to stan
dard, they will lose their mail
route. Mail matter has been drop
Iping off lately.
Mrs. Julia O'Dette, said to be
the oldest woman in Michigan,
died at her home in Avoca last
week at the age of 103 years. Her
one son Lewis O'Dette, is himself
an old man.
The diphtheria ban has been
lifted in Sandusky and school
and other public places will be
open, but only adults may attend
the latter and only school children
who show a negative swab card
may attend school.
The state has contributed to st.
Clair county two Peerless and one
Kelley-Springfeld auto trucks,
each three and a half tons capa-
city. Two more are expected,
which will equip the county with
six trucks for road work.
The business men of Richmond
held a largely attended meeting
the other night and organized a
Chamber of Commerce. These
men will join hands in a common
purpose to get out after things
that will add to and aid in build.
II ing up their town.
, The appeal case of the people OF
: the state of Michigan against Ig.
mace Marski and Sebastin Meznal
ski, has been filed in circuit court
The case grows out of raid stag
ed by sheriff's officials on an al
J legged whiskey distilling apparatus
| on the Memphis Ridge some time
: ago.
A number of Memphis Masons
and Odd Fellows have bought lots
: lon Stag Island, st. Clair river. The
lisland was purchased some time
ago by the |. o. O. f. and Masonic
Lodges and is being plated anc
: Twill be improved for the benefit o.
the members of these societies
| The present price of the lots i.
l$105.00.
Marine City and Algonac ex
lpress is delivered by truck from
st. Clair. Last week express wa,
held up at st. Clair for severa
days on account of the snow drifts
{ on the road to these places, max
ing it impossible to get through
At the same time the east an,
i west roads were swept clear o
4; snow by the high winds which de
: posted it on the north and soutl
roads.
!, George Luxenberg, state war,
d from the Coldwater home, who ha
a been living for some months in tn
d family of Floyd chisholm, of Ell
i township, ran away a week age
f and after several days was foun
f in barn with both legs badl
i frozen. He has been sent to An
n Arbor, where both legs will hav
s to be amputated. His conditio
is serious. The boy is only twelv
e years old.
II Leo Parquette, the youth VIII
IS shot and killed John LaFranc,
% the Fair Haven fisherman, fo
d what money he had on him, whic
l. happened to be about $67.0O, wa
given twenty-five years in Jacl
n son prison by Judge f. F. Law
ID Harry Bonnie, the younger of tn
Y, two and an accomplice, will spen
Is the next twenty years of his lif
lie in the same prison. Parquette hs
a been behind prison bars befor
h He will be forty-four years of az
ID when he comes out this time. Tn
IN will be Bonnie's first entrance int
Is jail and he comes out when he
Is thirty-nine. There will be a chanC
10 for both to make good in the
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