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pioneer, died recently at the age
{, of 81 years.
The Zach Chandler banquet
will be held at Lapeer on Wednes-
day, October 9th.
Almont local sports have reviv-
ed the clay target shooting and
great enthusiasm is being shown.
O. A. Tuck, for many years a
Brown City merchant, has sold
out his business on account of
poor health.
The electric light and water
plant at st. Johns was totally de-
stroyed by fire last week. The city
is without water or lights.
Augustus p. Harsen, one of AL
gonac's most respected citizens,
died very suddenly on Monday of
last week at the age of 65 years.
The proceeds from the Shower
fair, some three hundred dollars,
will be applied on fund for the
building of Community house in
that town.
Recently road was opened
west of Brown City which reduces
twO-mile, detour to two blocks,
and is boon to those living west
of Brown City.
l.. j. Leonhard, who recently
sold out his business in Peck and
moved to Port Huron, viii. return
to his first love and enter the mer-
camille trade again.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. A. Merrill, of
Inlay City, have started for Los
Angeles, Calf, in their machine,
with fishing tackle. guns. tent and
other pharaphernalia.
Robert Ramsey, Romeo youth
driving alone in an automobile,
received fatal injuries when the
machine turned over on "a bridge,
pinning him underneath.
Cornelius A. Bates, postmaster
at Marine City fo nearly two years
and assistant for two years before
that has resigned his position be-
fore his time has expired.
Henry Watson, Sanilac coun-
ty farmer, about 60 years of age
and unmarried, committed suicide
by hanging in his corn crib. His
Tact is attributed to ill health.
A proposition up to Caro- voters
to bond the village for $4,000 for
buying the T.W. Atwood residence
and using for school purposes,
was lost by a narrow margin.
--Hazen Schouman, st. Clair
man, was held up by three tough
looking highwaymen on Thursday
night last week and robbed of his
money and valuables. The police
are looking for the men.
The Memphis band gave it's
first concert on the streets of the
home town last Monday evening,
and the merchants, wishing to
fittingly celebrate the event, gave
five per cent discount on all cash
purchases during the evening.
The 10-year-old daughter of
John Mater, of Carsonville, was
found lying unconscious in lane
back of the barn, where she had
gone to take the horses to pasture
1t is thought one of them, kicked
her in the head. She is in a SER
ious condition.
Marvin Arnold, a Marine City
boy, who has sailed the lakes all
summer without a mishap, is now
laid up with a broken leg which
he received his first day on dry
land. He had secured work al
Marysville, when heavy piece of
steel fell on him.
Roy F. Barker, 32 years old
with wife and 6-year-old daugh.
ter, of Port Huron, fell 40 feet
from a gas container which he
was painting, when he trippec
over a live wire last Friday noon
He died that night in the hospital
The Sanilac County Creamery
at Brown City is out three or four
hundred pounds of butter which
thieves loaded on to machine
one night last week and drove tc
Detroit, where they disposed o1
the goods. They have not been ap
pretended as yet.
A Harbor Beach youth, thirteen
years old, is implicated in severa
stealings both in Harbor Beach
and other places. He was up be-
fore Judge of Probate in Bad Axe
recently and sent to the Indus
trial school for boys at Lansing
until he is II years of age.
Two hundred cases of choic,
liquors, bonded goods are now tn,
property of Uncle Sam, having
been discovered by tunnel ocffiial'
smuggled in carload of rags
coming from a Canadian poin
and going westward. A few day,
before one hundred cases of we
goods were unearthed in carload
of potatoes which came through
the st. Clair river tunnel. The Of
fcials are kept busy solving tn,
various ways that are taken t,
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