The Yale expositor., 1921-04-14
Newsy Notes From Our
NeighbOring Cities and Towns
Thumb Tales Tersely Told--inter-
esting Items Cleaned From
Our Exchanges

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Fire destroyed the home of
Mrs. Sarah Gunthin' in St. Clair
and burned up all her savings,
$4,000.
Building operations continue
to increase at Marysville. There
are many contemplated new hOus-
! es and business places.
Twenty St. Clair business men
have contracted with the Travers-
Newton Chautauqua for a five
day presentation in August.
! Rev. A. Muyskens, pastor of
the Presbyterian church at Har-
Dor Beach, has accepted a call to
church at Long Beach, N. j.
Memphis has such scarcity of
houses to rent that the old Nation
al Hotel is being occupied by three
families and a blacksmith shop.
P. O. Decker, for nine years sup
erintendent of the public schools
at Carsonville, has resigned and
will accept a mole lucrative po-
sition.
Rev. Peter Kruszka, pastor of
st. Michaels church at Port Aus
tin, has been called to Wyandotte
to fill the vacancy caused by the
murder of Rev. Leo Jarecki.
Mrs. Henry Buchler, aged 68
years, died at her home in Capac
after three weeks illness from
sleeping sickness. She leaves a
husband and eleven children.
Ray Hilborn, we'll known young
farmer near Snover, has develop
ed a religious mania and his con-
dition has become so bad that he
was locked up in the county jail.
Frank Quintet, Of Port Huron,
grew respondent on account of the
I loss Of an eye, and attempted TAX
ing his life by inhaling gas. He
was found before his condition
became serious.
While helping his father buzz
wood near Bad Axe, Billy Cyckos,
10-year-old, had his arm taken off.
Neighbors and school children
took up a collection to pay for
operation and hospital care.
Asa II. Wright, owner and man
ager Of a wagon and repair busi-
ness in Port Huron for the past 81
years, is 80 years Of age and goes
to his work every morning. He
says he enjoys every minute of his
life.
a band of gypsies, many with
automobiles and some with wag-
ons, were travelling through st.
Clair county last week. Deputy
Sheriff Thompson drove them out
OF st. Clair, when they invaded
that city.
Henry Miller, a Richmond far
mer, ran over Helen Monnier, Z
year-old girl in Mt. Clemens with
his automobile and she was in
stantly killed. The girl got off a
street car and stepped directly in
front of the machine.
David Zans, manager of hotel
at the Flats below Algonac, was
arrested last week charged with
furnishing liquor TO several Algo
nae youths and three girls from
Detroit, all of whom were the
worse for liquor and the girls
acting in a disorderly manner.
While cleaning house Mrs.
Aitken, of Croswell threw out
what she supposed was pack
age of seeds. When the boy of
the house burned up the rubbish
pile, this package, later discover
ed to be gunpowder, naturally
exploded and the boy received
some bad burns on face and hands.
Judge Beach set a record in the
Huron county circuit court when
he imposed a fine of $1,000 on r.
F., Mercer, a Bad Axe liveryman,
convicted on the charge Of selling
booze. Mercer has the alternative
of year in Jackson in lieu of the
fine, and the judge gave him 10
days in which to decide which he
would take.
There was a law passed in
Michigan which prohibits an alien
, from having firearms in his pos
session. There is a provision in
the law whereby an alien may OBJ
tain a gun by having two citizens
, recommend that he be given a
permit to possess same. The law
was signed by Governor Alex j.
Groesbeck and will be effective 80
, days after adjournment of the leg
. islature.