The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1922-03-23
THUMB TALES
TERSELY TOLD
Items Taken From Newspapers of
NeighbOring Towns and
Villages

MIS-. OIdId ". Il OIOCot you Id
peer court, Port Huron, the widow
of the late Harvey f. Forbes, who
met his death when the U. S. col
lier, CyclOps sank in 1918 learned
only a few days ago that she had
$1,000 coming from the national
and state governments. A neigh
Dor asked her recently whether
she had applied for her husbands
state bonus. She investigated
and found that she was entitled
to nearly $1,000.
Few counties have been as for
tunate as st. Clair in receiving
awards from the state and in hav-
ing trunk line highways built
through it. Oakland county,
which has received $1,611, ,033
from the state for highway i'm
provement tops the list. While
st. Clair's exact position, in rela-
tion to Oakland, cannot be deter
mined from figures available with
S1,592,191 apportioned to it, it
cannot be Tar DenlnQ.
Dwight Lockwood, of Port HUI
ron recently sold a large amount
OF timber off his farm which is
located on North Street, one half
mile north of North Street sta
ton. The timber was sold to Bay
company. The logs are being haul
Cd to the siding at North Street
station by Carleton Dunsmore of
Goodells. There are approximate
ly 100000 feet. Mr.. Dunsmore eX-
poets to complete the hauling in
"a few days, after which the logs
will be loaded on cars and ship
ped.
The Almont Manufacturing Co.
has taken on more men. They
have contracts enough to keep
them busy all summer.
Sometime during Saturday night
the Cass City Grain Co.'s elevator
at Cass City was entered and
thirty bags of choice beans ready
for shipment were stolen. The
beans were valued at 5000.
Rev. c. M. Burkholder, pastor
of the Alpena Congregational
church, has accepted call to st.
Clair to succeed Rev. Steensma,
who has gone to a pastorate at
jackson.
Seven year old Carl Mayhem, of
st. Clair, has mysteriously disap-
peared and all searchings seem to
bring no clue. He has been miss
ing since March ID.
The new Harbor Beach city
band of % pieces made its first
appearance at a community con-
cert and dance on st. Patrick's
day. The affair was given for
the benefit of the band.
There is much discussion in
Port Huron as to where the pro-
posed Armory shall be built.
The Bad Axe Driving Park As
sociation and the Huron County
Agricultural Association have
been merged into one organiza-
ton, to be known as the Bad Axe
Fair association. The new pres
ident is Joseph Fremont and the
secretary is George E. English.
A protest has been made in
Sandusky against the high tele-
phone rates.
Emerson Coats and Robt. Dillon
two Croswell youths, were arrest
ed last week for disorderly con-
duct. Coats was fined $50 and 81
costs and 20 days in Jail. Dillon
got 500 and 81 costs and 10 days
in Jail.
Mr.. and Mrs. George B. Wilcox,
of Brown City, celebrated the Goth
anniversary of their wedding last
week, entertaining more than sc
guests.
Two children were burned to
death, two were seriously injured
and the parents were badly burn
ed last week, when the home OF
Berent Reichert, of Mt. Clemens
was destroyed by fire.
An old frame building which
has stood on Romeo main street
for 100 years and more, has now
been torn down.
The Rey Wheel company will
locate in Inlay City, it is now
definitely stated. 1t is said that
$4,000 has been placed on deposit
in the local banks as a guarantee
of good faith on the part of INLAY
citizens to back the company. This
is the factory that Sandusky was
aiming to land, but some enter
prising citizen threw a we
blanket.
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