The Yale expositor., 1920-07-01
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ity Play Ground.
The Jack Kelley stock company
is playing Croswell this week.
An Alumni Association was or
ganized at Sandusky and a ban
quet held last week.
Marlette High school Athletic
Association has $4,000 left in its
treasury at the close of the school
year.
James Hallock, of Detroit, an
experienced hotel man has leased
and will operate the Sandusky
hotel.
The civic improvement associa-
tion at Lexington are planning
big homecoming for Aug. IL, II
and 13.
B. B. Ellsworth has been re-en-
gagged for his sixth year of super
intendency in the Richmond
schools.
Twenty-Five thousand pounds of
butter are being shipped weekly
at the present time from the
Brown City Creamery.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Hooper, of
Carsonville, celebrated their gol-
den wedding recently. About $50
persons participated in the event.
During recent electrical
storm barn on the farm of Philip
Helmka, near Inlay City, burned
with COW, calf and several pigs.
With the consent of the Com
mon Council, the business people
of Algonac may run their places
Of business on Sundays if they
want to.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Flynn. of
Croswell, celebrated their fift:eth
wedding anniversary on Sunday,
June 20th, with thirty-fve rela-
tives present.
Weekly Community sings, with
band music will be held in Pine
Grove Park, Port Huron, during
the summer. Thursday, July 9Th.
will be the first date.
Changing the waterworks plant
from steam to electricity has cost
Algonac $4,000, but it has the
very best sanitary conditions and
is a credit to the village.
The Mueller Metals Company,
of Port Huron, have erected a rec
reation house for their employees.
The place was dedicated one eve
ming last week with a dancing
party.
Isabel Phillips, a member of the
graduating class in Marine City
is i'll in the Port Huron hospital
and was unable to receive her di-
ploma with the seventeen other
graduates.
Josephine Burk, 12-year-old
! st. Clair girl, while playing about
the dock, fell into the river, but
managed to hang on to the edge
of a scow until assistance reach
ed her, 1t was narrow escape.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Hood, Mar
lette pioneers, celebrated the 55th
anniversary Of their wedding last
week. Mr.. and Mrs. Hood were
married in Scotland, where they
lived few years and coming to
the States, went directly to Mar
lette, where they have lived since.
A sudden and tragic end to COM
mencement time in Brown City
was the death of Sheldon F.Stokes
aged II, the youngest of the junior
class. The juniors and seniors
had gone to Lake Pleasant and
while in bathing Sheldon got be-
yond his depth and went down be-
fore help arrived. His body was
recovered in an hour.
Frank Quail, member of the
force at the big canning factory
over at Croswell, got married re-
lsently, and when he returned to
Croswell with his bride, was met
at the depot by big crowd of
associates and a truck decorated
with numerous household furni-
ture and other toys. The bride
and groom were picked up bodily
put on the truck and given free
ride on every street in Croswell.
The bride took the noisy affair
very gracefully which won her
the good will of all.
Mrs. Louisa Fusee, pioneer of
lGreenwood, st. Clair county, died
at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
John Engel, of Elk, on June 22nd,
at the age of 90 years. She was
Iborn in Ontario in 1921. There
were then no telegraph, no tele-
phones not a mile of railroad in
the world, no city of Chicago,
and Michigan was not a state.
She and her husband came to
Greenwood in 1863. She had III
children, the oldest being at the
time of her mothers death, SO
years of age. There are II grand
children, 134 great grandchildren
and &c great, great grandchildren
Mrs. Fusee was buried in Spring
Hill cemetery.