The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1921-08-04
Items Taken From Newspapers of
NeighbOring Towns and
Villages

All stores and business houses
IN Port Huron will close all day
August II for the big picnic to
Tashmoo Park.
"A house was moved from three
miles east of Capac into the town
last week by the use of two trac-
tors to do the hauling.
The seven-year-old daughter of
w. j. Weisner, Of Bad Axe, died
from burns received while throw
ing kerosene oil on a bonfire.
Elmer Thompson, of Brown
City, had his right wrist broken
at a gravel pit near Yale. while
trying to crank an unruly Ford.
Some Almont person is addict
ed to playing the horse-fiddle at
all hours of the night and the
neighbors are getting real uppish
about it.
a campaign is on in Carson
vile to sell stock in the new pro-
posed plant of the Michigan Can
ned Food Co., that will be erect
ed there if the quota Of stock can
be sold.
Tuesday, August End was a gala
day in St. Clair as the merchants
held cooperative sale and for
another attraction balloon as
cent and parachute drop was wit
messed.
The village of Cass City has
authorized the purchase of a new
pumping equipment for the water
works plant. The new pump will
have a capacity of 100000 gal
Ions daily.
Sheriff Names arrested Tony
Mayer an unnaturaliZed foreigner
at his home in Port Huron and
conhscaJed still and five gal
ions Of home made liquor Thurs
day last week.
Chas. i. Hammond American
Legion Post, Port Huron, has held
its 25th military funeral to date.
it is thought that this Post holds
the record for the largest number
Of funerals held
EXcavating has been finished
for the soldiers memorial to be
erected in front of the court
house at Sandusky and the base
Is laid. 1t will be two months
before the monument arrives.
Noble Hunter, editor OF the
.JAc journal, has not missed
week from his office for several
years, but last week he was so ill
that he was obliged to stay al
home and have trained nurse.
Work on Miss America IL, the
speedy boat being built at AlgO-
nae, is fast nearing finish. II is
expected that this boat will make
80 miles an hour She will be
given trials in the river before
competing in the races at Detroit.
Harry Guyor, formerly employ
ed on the Algonac Courier. will
be the publisher of Marine City's
third newspaper, to be issued
about August 10. Guyor plans to
run an eight page all home print
sheet and will call it the Marine
City Leader.
Henry Peasley, an old man
seemingly without home or family
who has been staying around I'M
lay City lately procured some laud
anum and made an effort to take
his life. Physicians brought him
through and he was sent to the
Lapeer county infirmary.
While emptying a carton of sui
phuric acid, G.. w. Pelton, of Inn
lev City, accidentally spilled the
fluid ever his arm and down his
body. The acid burned him sew
erely before he could get off h
clothing, inflicting some painful
wounds which will be slow to
heal.
The substantial dwelling house
on the Ralph Gardner farm near
North Br. nch, was burned to the
ground during the night of last
Sunday. Leo Doherty, who lived
in the house, said that he had re-
ceived an anonymous note threat
ening to burn him out and he had
kept watch for several nights pre-
vious, but this night had fallen
asleep.
Jud Wood, employe of the Dec
ker Grain Co. at Decker. started
up in the elevator, the mechanism
: of which he was not familiar
: with, and losing control, the lift
shot up to the top of the elevator,
the force being so great that the
cable broke, and lift and man
came down with great speed,
, striking the bottom of the base
! ment. Wood had a broken leg
and several cracked ribs and 9TH