The Yale expositor., 1922-11-23
Neighborhood News
From Nearby Towns
ITEMS TAKEN FROM NEWSPAPERS OF NEIGH
BORING TOWNS AND VILLAGES.

Cottages at the Port Huron
beaches are being entered and
ransacked by thieves.
Capac's new bakery put out its
first loaves last week. The bread
is called Honey Crust"
Forty bushels of wheat were
stolen from Will Bristol's gran
ary near Almont recently.
About thirty men attend the
night school recently organized
in the Marine City schools.
An important business change
in Capac is the taking over of the
H. P. Stoughton grain elevator
and property by Albert Tosch &
Sons.
VIM. Tincknell, a Romeo man,
~ years of age, fell a distance of
II feet in his barn on to a cement
floor. He has no broken bones or
internal injuries.
The Towns Foundry & Machine
Co., of Capac, is considering the
manufacture of washing machines
and the proposition has been put
up to the directors.
Besides meeting this years OBJ
legations and paying up in full
deficit of $1,182.92, the Cass City
! fair association has still a small
balance on hand at the close of
the 1922 fair.
Down river towns and islands
have organized the st. Clair Ser
vice Corporation with a capital of
$4,000 which will be used to ex-
tend Edison cables to the islands
and Flats and also on the range
lights.
The board of canvassers finish
ed the official count of the Sanilac
county ballots last week and
found no discrepancies. The vote
on all the officers remains exactly
as reported rY the various town
ship boards.
The Romeo Business Mems AS
sociation is putting on a Musical
to be held in the near future. 1t
is hoped to secure a chorus of
sixty voices, besides the assis-
tance of the local band and an or
chestra of twenty-five pieces.
Edgar A. Guest, Detroit news
paperman and poet, has joined
the ranks of Pointe aux Barques
summer resorters. Announce
ment has been made that he has
bought summer cottage at the
Thumb point and will occupy it
with his family next summer.
The investigation board at Sell
fridge field was unable to deter
mine the cause of the recent fire
that destroyed $250,00O worth of
supplies stored in the quarter
masters building. A new fire
truck has been allotted the field
and greater supply of water
will be provided as result of
the fire, which had gained such
headway before the Mt. Clemens
fire department reached the reser-
vation, that it appeared for
time the entire camp would burn.
There are lots of ducks on
Lake st. Clair this year," says
Chris Smith, speed boat builder
of Algonac. But not many of
them are being killed" The ducks
are becoming educated, Chris
believes. They are learning the
wiles of man. An intelligent
flock of ducks nowadays can spot
decoy several miles away, and
having spotted them, will steer
several miles clear of the wooden
images which would formerly
have lured them to an appetizing
position on the dinner table.
S. H. Blakely, a pioneer resident
of Bad Axe, passed away on Sat
urday at the age of rs years, from
cancer. He was a civil war vet
eran, Knight Templar and Shrin-
er, and had been engaged in the
shoe business for 30 years. 'ic
was formerly a member of the
board of managers of the Soldiers
Home, Grand Rapids. He brought
the first train into Bad Axe from
Saginaw, and was conductor
on that line for many years. He
had also served as mayor o. the
city and resigned as probation
officer of Huron county only
few weeks ago on account of his
lmalady. -