The Yale expositor., 1920-01-15
NEWS ITEMS FROM
NEARBY CITIES
Thumb Tales Tersely Told
Interesting Items Cleaned
From Our Exchanges


diphtheria in Sandusky.
Croswell city is nearly ready
for free delivery Of mail.
The Almont Mfg Co. has closed
a contract for big order of auto
mobile castings.
The Algonac Boat plant is hav-
ing an addition built as large as
its main building.
Lexington's auto bus line be-
tween Lexington and Port Huron
is making schedule trips.
The Almont theatre has run nine
years and this week an anniversary
special was given by way Of eel
ebration.
The Caverly family, once of
Tyre, Sanilac county, are wanted
by Jefferson Caverly, of Bowsman
River, Manitoba.
Mrs. John Salisbury, for more
than SO years a resident of Map
lie Valley township, died at her
home, aged II years.
Jacob C. Durling, one of st.
Clair county's oldest pioneers,
died at his home in Marine City
last week, aged 80 years.
Leander Shavon, Of st. Clair, is
90 years of age. His children and
grandchildren watched with him
the old year out and ne yeawr III.
M. II. Crissman has been dea-
con in the Baptist church at Rom
60 for 53 years, and was recently
elected an honorary deacon for
life.
Lewis VanMeer, 14-year-old
Croswell boy, had his leg broken
by getting it caught in the spOkes
of an automobile as he attempted
to help move it.
The Warner Pharmacy school at
lSandusky breaks all former at
tendance marks when the mid
winter term opened with forty en-
rolled in the course.
The three-year-old child o. Mr..
and Mrs. VIM. Maier, Of Palms,
fell against a table and injured
his tongue, dying the next morn
ling from loss of blood.
The 3b-year-old child of Chas.
IChsmbers, of Sandusky, died at
1.-THE depot there while the parents
Iwere waiting for the train to Lakl
the child to the hospital for an
Operation.
A spur is being built from the
Pere Marquette railroad to the
iShanahan-Jo ohnson gravel pit
lwhere oil was found recently.
Memphis and vicinity are expect
ling big things doing shortly.
| The family of Willis Kelley,
living near Melvin. were turned
out in the cold last Friday when
the house caught fire and burned
to the ground. Most of the con-
tents were saved. Insurance.
$4,000.
; Henry Goseline, of Marysville,
who recently purchased the Bey-
schlag building in St. Clair, will
convert the first floor into a movie
theatre and the second floor into
, a dance hall, home talent plays,
theatricals, etc.
; The new Delco lighting sys-
tenn has been installed in Melvin
: and the only drawback seems tc
, be that only a few members are
: benefited. 1t may be the village
: will bond and buy the plant, en-
3 llarging it for village power.
Surveyors have been operating
in certain portions of st. Clair
lately and people are surmising
e that it may mean another rail
e road seeking a right-of-way thru
to Marysville. st. Clair is sure
} ly excitedly looking for anything
z and everything.
,, The st. Clair County Press has
4 now decided that st. Clair is the
real high class article and an up
and-coming town and for that
treason should have the best kind
of newspaper. This calls for q
MISUNDERSTANDING front page
: and from now on the Press stands
: for this rule.
q Mr.. and Mrs. George Smith, OF
' Sandusky, have started on a trir
/ to their native land, Scotland
r where they will spend the next
e few months. Mr.. Smith left Scot
: land AZ years ago, 80 of which ht
;. has spent in Sanilac county. Mrs
e Smith came over from Glasgow
n ten years ago.
t The Sugar factory at Croswel
h will conclude this week the long
e est run for the past nine years
g The mill began work on Oct. It'll
and the run will be about 95 days
a Sixty-eight thousand tons of beet
e have been converted into suga
u and $680,000 have been paid on
d to the farmers in the vicinity
, Most of the employees are resi-
It dents of in or near Croswell an,
y upwards of $4,000 has been pai,