The Yale expositor., 1921-07-28
Seventh District News
Items Boiled Down
Items Taken From Newspapers of
NeighbOring Towns and
Villages

mere Is great uemaEu Tor
houses IL Capac
Thieves are entering Port HUI
ron Beach garages, stealing cars
and accessories.
Work has started on the NAM
moth new club house for the Ma
comb Country Club on the lake.
Last weeks Capac Journal was
No. /, Vol. 35. The Journal
grows better and brighter each
year.
The Memphis Bee will not be
published for a few weeks, Editor
Blackmer having gone on q va
cation.
Through all the weeks of in
tense heat Bad Axe had no ice,
bit is assured of some at the pres
ent time.
The Oddfellows OF A!mont get
III the hay and wheat for Robert
Glover, cne Of their members, who
has been very i'll.
Il. V. Bell, of Linwood, is the
superintendent Just engaged TO
the Peck schools the coming yeat
at a salary of $1.700.
The Port Huron Salvation Ar
my autoed to Memphis one eve
ning last week and gave the peo-
PIE an open air service.
The fine Community House at
HarbOr Beach proves a splendid
attraction TO tourists as we'll as
home folks. Dances are held ev-
cry Wednesday evening.
b. Robinson, an 83 year old
man of Capac, was doing some
work with a team last week when
the horses ran away, and in the
miX-up Robinson's leg was brok-
Ell.
The large barn or the farm of
VIM J. McPhee in Maple Valley
tC> nship was ,otally destroyed
by e re H.. It is thought the
fire was |a- e. srontapCous com
/ Istion.
The Franklin louise one of the
oldest places IN Croswell. has
been sold. Larry Middleton has
been running lunch room there
fol some time. going out of the
regular hotel business on account
of lack of help.
Ira Lapoirs, aged % years, of
I4k township was instantly killed
while at work in hay field at the
farm of Merton Ball. The team
ran away and he was thrown un-
der the rake. His neck was brok-
en- and skull fractured.
The Port Huron-Detroit Grand
Trunk train left the track near
Richmond last Friday morning,
the baggage car and one coach
going on their sides. frightening
and bruising all the passengers,
but with no fatalities.
In going through the possess
ions of the late William Austin,
who died last March at Jeddo.
certificate of deposit for 500 was
found with the request that the
money be used to pay funeral eX-
penses. Up until the discovery
of the deposit certificate it had
been believed that he died virtual
ly penniless.
Monday afternoon the grain
| n~lA n
farm near Almont, caught fire
while threshing and was burned
to the ground. 1t was filled with
grain, and the fire spread so rap
idly it was impossible even to get
the separator out. Two large
stacks of grain outside also went
up in smoke, as well as many
farm tools.
+. +. Muxlow suffered the loss
by fire of his barn and silo near
Burnside. A fine team of young
horses and IL pigs perished also,
besides two loads of wheat and
about 20 loads of hay and har-
nesses and the usual contents of
a barn. The origin of the fire is
unknown unless it was caused by
the terrific heat on the steel roof.
1t was only by the heroic work of
the neighbors that the other
buildings were saved.
When the Croswell jeff came
out recently with few remarks
concerning the police protection
of the city the marshal was led to
put in his resignation and the
next meeting of the Council saw
Editor Hubbell appointed to that
worthy position. Brother Hub
+. bell was bit undecided and is tax
ing the allowed ten days to make
+. up his mind. If Hubbell becomes
F. marshal of Croswell, we safely
bet there will be doin's a-plenty.