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ident of Avoca, died at her home
last Thursday.
Mayville has a new lodge of
Rebekahs,r with six charter men,
bers and fifty-fve initiates.
Thomas McNally, member of
the Port Austin Coast Guard for
many years, died recently.
The st. Clair flour mill has in
stalled three electric motors in
place of the steam power hereto
fore used.
Impressive dedication ceremon-
les marked the opening of the new
Masonic Temple at Harbor Beach
last week.
Rev. Muyskins, of Detroit, was
installed this week as pastor of
the Presbyterian church at Har-
Dor Beach.
The Weller canning factory has
started canning kraut at Almont.
There are 40 acres of cabbage
to be harvested there.
The Almont school was the hap
py recipient of set of buck ant
lers and a mounted deer head,
presented by P. H. Shafer.
Memphis Masonic lodge has
purchased a building and will
spend $4,000 to make it one of the
finest lodge halls in the state.
Marine City is on the hoping
seat for another industry. This
is the Pernault's Paper Products
Co., which is considering the
move from Detroit.
The Lexington band furnished
music at the big Republican rally
in Sandusky last week. The Hon.
Webster Davis, of Kansas, was
the chief speaker. -
Charles Cox, employed by the
Detroit Edison Co. in Port HUI
ron, was killed last Friday when
a pole fell upon him. Cox was Al
years old and unmarried.
Mrs. James Lozon, nearly all
her life a resident of st. Clair
county, recently passed her seth
birthday at her home in Marine
City. She is very active yet.
A new barn on the Westbrook
farm near Marine City, myster-
iously burned early last Sunday
morning, together with team of
horses, two cows and a new Ford
car.
In the store of X. II. Mckenzie
at Sandusky, two measuregraphs
have been installed. They meas
ure yard goods& show the pur-
chasing price and cut the goods,
all in one operation.
While excavating recently on a
street in Marine City, road en-
ployes dug up rattle snake
whose honor had gone to sleep
for the winter under two feet of
earth. 1t had six rattles.
st. Clair county will have it's
Centennial celebration. The
Board of Supervisors has appro-
priated $4,000 by vote of 26 to
ID, to assist in defraying expenses
of monster celebration in 1921.
w. B. Thompson, who has been
in the shoe repairing business
since he was 10 and who is now
81 years of age, sold out his busi-
ness in Memphis last week. Mr..
Thompson could build boot or
shoe by hand from the sole up.
While Joe Elspass, of Armada,
was working at gravel pit at the
High Banks, a load of coal was
being unloaded by steam shovel
enough of the coal being dumped
upon Elspass to break his left
arm, left rib and one finger. He
may be internally injured.
st. Clair county board of super
visors go on record as being op-
posed to the further maintenance
of the state constabulary. The
expense of maintaining the con
stabulary is enormous and if ar
additional Appropriation asked fol
is given, the total cost will be ont
million dollars annually.
Some of Croswell prominent
citizens, representing the differ
ent churches have organized fol
the purpose of dealing with thu
rapid growth of the cigarette hab
it among young men and boys, anC
also with other law breakings. i
is more than possible that grea
amount of good can be done IL
this way.
Bryan and Gordon Babcock
brothers, were born and raised il
Elk township and attended Peel
schools. Bryan, "a years old, wen
to live in Detroit. Gordon, 20
lives in Wolverine. Quarrelini
over a school teacher, Bernie,
Shook, of Owendale, whom bot
were paying attention to, Gordon
put five bullets into his brother
and he was taken to Receiving
hospital, where physicians sa,
he may live. The injured maj
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