The Yale expositor., 1922-03-09
THUMB TALES
TERSELY TOLD
Items Taken From Newspapers of
NeighbOring Towns and
Villages

March IL on the granting of a
franchise for electric lights.
Agitation is being made in
Lexington for prohibiting the
playing of base ball on Sunday.
G.. w. Patton, of Almont, has re-
ceived a shipment of small mouth
black bass which he will plant
in Echo Lake.
Jerry Ryan has purchased the
Hotel Clifford at Clifford. 1t will
be renovated and re-furnished
and opened April 1st.
A new kind of "fu" has appear
ed in Bad Axe. 1t is called "intes-
tinal influenza" and effects both
the throat and the stomach.
C. M. Youngs, who has a berry
farm at Almont, has purchased
three acres of land on Main street
which he will put into cherry
trees.
Orders for 5000 cars on hand
at the present time, gives evil
dence that the Wills-Lee plant at
Marysville will be in operation
steadily throughout the year.
The Aid society of the Harbor
Beach M. E. church has compiled
a cook book of over 100 pages, the
profits of which will go to the
church.
Governor Henry J. Allen, of
Kansas, lectured for Port hur
onites on Thursday night last.
His subject was THE RESPONSE
bility of the State for Domestic
Tranquility"
A two-story frame house on
the farm of Hopkins Dean, near
Brown City, was destroyed by fire
last Saturday. The blaze started
from an oil stove. Practically
nothing was saved.
Through clinics and examina-
tions conducted by the state de-
partment and County Nurse Mol
lie Mckinney, ten tubercular per-
sons were found at the present
time in Huron county.
| Charles R. Osius, jr., of Port
Huron, lately associated with the
Port Huron Press as editor and
general manager, has assumed
charge of the Lapeer County Clar-
ion as editor and manager.
From March Is to 25 Port HUI
ron will have several entertain
ments on display for the public,
1t is the time of the Auto Show
the Industrial Exhibit; the final
concert of the Music Memory con-
test and throughout the ten days
the merchants will feature their
commodities to the best advan.
tage.
Two years ago the two-year-old
J child of Mr.. and Mrs. John Gylinh
of Sanilac county, drank lye in.
J stead of milk and came near dy.
| ing. She has been in the Child
ren's Hospital in Detroit since
seemingly improvig, excepting
that her throat was closed anc
she had to be fed artificially. Re
Gently she became very i'll anc
} died last week, aged four years.
After the Port Austin Electric
6 company set a price of $4,000 OF
, it's plant, and the public utilities
commission roughly estimated i
to be worth $4,000, and that i
would cost $4,000 to replace, tn,
village council did not act on th'
resolution to permit the peopl,
to vote on bonding for $4,000 t,
purchase same, Henry Schegel. ;
! company official said he woult
6 withdraw the offer.
When a 1890 pound bull beini
d shipped to Bad Axe last week
y which was travelling in combi
d nation car broke loose and backe,
into the smoking compartment o
a Pere Marquette train abou
eight miles from Saginaw. ther
was a near-panic among the pas
: sengers, who made hurrie
n scramble for safety and the ami
; NAL jumped from the train. TIL
q dispatcher at Saginaw was not
. fed and a party of men sent t
: search for the bull. which wa
O recaptured, and was apparentl
O. uninjured.