The Yale expositor., 1921-02-17
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Marine City wants more COM
modious quarters for it's library.
A Board of Commerce has beer
organized in the city of st. Clair.
A new 5000 loaf oven is being
installed in the Vollman bakery at
Croswell.
Albert Henderson, pioneer of
Memphis, died last week of pneu-
monia. He was 81 years of age.
Marine City held a Mother and
Daughter banquet last week which
was a great success. 1t will be re-
peated annually.
The sugar beet factory at Mt.
Clemens closed the season last
week, having produced 17,5OO,OO0
pounds Of sugar.
There will be big horse racing
event staged in Port Huron during
the week of the Centennial Cele-
bration, July SO.
The Jeffersonian is cheerfully
confident that at least dozen new
houses will be built in Croswell
the coming season.
Martin Smith, a Melvin farmer,
received broken arm and other
injuries, when a horse squeezed
him against a stall.
The contract for building the g
mile road between CroswelI and
Lexington has been let to Karrer
q Wilson for $4,000.
The channel in st. Clair river,
work on which was begun last
year, is expected to be completed
this coming summer.
In a basket ball game at Brown
City the LEGAL girls team beat the
Saginaw Eastern team 20-18. 1t
was the fastest game of the season.
Richmond has a fine, new enter
prise which the people hope has
come to stay. 1t is the Russell
Cafe, owned and managed by Fred
Russell.
Marine City will have a $4,000
theatre. 1t will be known as The
Peoples Theatre and will be own
ed and controlled entirely by the
people.
The throe-year-old daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Gatke, OF
Richmond backed into tub OF hot
water and was scalded to death on
Friday last.
Nestle's Milk condensary at Cass
City has resumed manufacturing
after being closed down for sew
eral weeks on account of over
production.
Charles II. Danger, for years a
government inspector Of lake sur
vey and dredging, died at his
home in Port Huron last week,
aged 76 years.
The Grand Trunk shops at Port
Huron closed down last Saturday.
to remain closed until March 1st.
Four hundred and fifty men are
thrown out of employment.
Lexington citizens turned out
two days last week to repair all
roads in the corporation. A lot OF
good work was done. The mer-
chants served dinners each day.
The eight-year-old son of WV.
VanSickle, of near Deckerville,
fell on the ice on Thursday of last
week, resulting in spinal menin-
gifts, from which he died Monday.
The Armada State bank has out
grown it's present quarters and
moved into larger rooms. Soon a
new building will be erected that
will meet the demands of the bank
in every way.
Edward Klein, a Macomb coun-
ty farmer, was killed and robbed
while on his way home from De-
troit last week, where he had sold
a load of hay. Klein leaves a wife
and several children. No clue to
the murderers was found at the
time.
The Presbyterian ladies of Cros-
well met for an all day session
last week in the Community house.
Five quilts were quilted. Pot-luck
dinner was served, and also sup
per. There were II present. Fifty
five dollars was taken in for the
dollar day fund and S32.05 in dues.
This was some day.
The Majestic theatre in Port
Huron has been sold tow. S. But
terfield, Michigan's theatre mag
nate. Butterfield has also pur-
chased the Family theatre, which
will make him 38 playhouses, all
but two in Michigan. The Males