The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1921-04-28
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An Eastern Star organization
will be formed in Marysville.
There are 80 members OF the
class of '21 graduating from st.
Clair high school,
The Thumb Association OF the
Order Of Eastern Star win hold it's
spring meeting in Sandusky on
May 9th.
After the heavy rains Of last
week Port Huron citizens were
asked to boil the drinking water
until it cleared up.
| Joseph Casello, Italian, Port.
Huron's pioneer fruit merchant
died last week Of pneumonia. He
was "a years of age.
Thieves are working in and
around Capac. Sheriff Names
and a deputy were out that way
on the job last week.
The employees in Uncle Sans
service in Port Huron are now
armed, and woe to bandits who
seek TO loot the mails.
Thirty-six bushels of wheat
were taken from the John Doty
farm near Capac last week and
foreigners are suspected.
The Port Huron Horticultural
Society will hold an exhibition
Of wild flowers at the public Ii
brary, Port Huron, on Saturday,
May 7th.
A Memphis man secured 236
names on a petition to restore the
train service of the Pere Mar
quette to it's old schedule. All
were glad to sign.
Mrs. Louisa Fenton, aged "a,
fell at the home Of her daughter.
Mrs. II. M. Fierstine, in Memphis
on Wednesday last week, and died
III a few hours from the shock.
Black and white signs showing
the way to Marysville, are being
put up along the roads in conspic-
uous places. Both directions and
distance are told by the signes.
A big crew of yorkmen are OF
the Job of building the Port Huron
Sarnia Clubs park in South Park.
1t is expected that the park will be
IN readiness for the opening game
with Kitchener Nav 14th.
Irving and Bruce Kempf, of Ca
pac, who have been travelling
with their Swiss village for many
years, have built model city dur
ing the past winter, which they
will exhibit along with their other
attractions. G. H. Wills hasn't
thing on the Kempf Brothers.
There are twenty-seven grad
yates from the Richmond school
this year. The motto of the class
is Finished, Yet Beginning" Dor
othy Simmons has been chosen
valedictorian, her standing being
the highest, 93.74 per cent, and
Frances st. Dennis comes next as
salutatorian, her standing 93.73.
per cent.
A man supposed to be Logan
Lee, a negro, who is charged with
slashing his wife's throat in De-
troit passed through ST. Clair on
his way to Canada. He stopped
at George Miller's house and ask
ed for a meal and money enough to
get across the river Miller, not
knowing Lee, complied with the
fugitive's request and gave him
soc. When last heard of the negro
was on his way down the river, on
the Canadian side.
The old Moran house in Algo-
nae is believed to be the oldest in
ST. Clair county. 1t was built in
1921 by John Moran and his wife
and they raised a large family,
two sons are now living there, 73
and 65 years of age, both bache-
lors. John Moran was 110 when
he died and his wife lived to be
96. The house occupies corner
I<of a city block the land in which
the two sons cultivate. They also
fish for living. Their home is
something of curiosity.
Anthony Obar from near Elk
ton, who was arrested last Janu-
ary on statutory charge, made
by his 14-year-old daughter and
released during the present term
of court because the daughter re-
fused to appear against him, re-
turned to the county jail for pro-
lection. He stated that he had
been given a tar and feather par
ty by some of his neighbors, none
of whom he recognized. He told
the sheriff that he was taken out
in car about midnight, given a
coat of tar and feathers and left
in the road. The story was sub
stantiated by the tar still on his
body beneath his clothing.