The Yale expositor., 1922-02-09
THUMB TALES
TERSELY TOLD
Items Taken From Newspapers of
NeighbOring Towns and
Villages

ne AlgOnac school VIII pup
lish its first annual this year.
Floyd Scott, of Belle River, had
his arm so badly crushed in a
corn husker that it was necessary
to amputate it.
Rutsey M. Sischo, aged "a years,
a pioneer Of st. Clair county, died
at the home Of his son in Port
Huron, Feb. 1st.
A new steam engine has been
installed in the electric light and
power plant at Croswell. The new
engine will cost $10,500.
A milk station will be establish
ed at Memphis by the Schlaff Milk
and CIR amery Co., if 100 cans of
milk per day can be guaranteed.
Mrs. Minnie Briggs, OF Cros-
well, formerly of Speaker town
ship, died of pneumonia last week
resulting from a weeks sickness
from the Flu.
The re-opening of the Grand
Trunk shops at Port Huron now
gives employment to more than
500 men and the Wills plant at
Marysville has taken on $50. The
increased activity is welcomed.
Ebenezer Cowles, a veteran of
the Civil war, grandson of a Rev
olutionary soldier, and son of a
man who fought in the war of
1912, died at his home near Good
ellis last week at the age of 80
years.
John S. Ash a resident farmer
of Peck for the past thirty years,
died Jan, 25-' aged one hundred
years. He was born in larry
town, N. Y, in January, 1922.
One son and two daughters sur
vive him.
Forty-eight marriage licenses
were issued at the office of the st.
Clair county clerk during Janu-
ary, the records for the month
show. During the same period
five divorces were granted by the
circuit court judges.
Indications are that Minden-
Palms will be out of the County
League this season. The Minden
City Herald says that catcher
Joe Walsh may play with Carson
vile and pitcher Mike Flannery
is wanted at Croswell.
Timothy D. O'Brien, several
years deputy internal revenue
collector for Port Huron, and
William Innis, deputy internal
revenue collector for Macomb Co.,
have, for no apparent reason, been
asked to tender their designations.
L. d. Cole, Blaine; c. j. Reid,
Avoca; Albert Tosch, Capac, and
w. A. Wurzel, Fargo, have their
pictures in the Port Huron Times
Herald of Thursday last, as the
delegates representing st. Clair
County Farm Bureau at the state
meeting in Lansing last week.
More than 5000 persons attended
Farmers Week at NJ. A. G.
There were 255 couples united
in marriage during the year in
Tuscola county, according to fig
ures issued by County Clerk, Guy
N. Hill. During the same period
there were 20 DEGREES of divorce
granted through the circuit court.
AS comparison there was one
divorce to every nine marriages
during 1921.
Port Huron has some bad chill
dren. Beause Mary Roy, aged Is,
was brighter in her studies at the
st. Stephens school, and was get
ting ahead of her class. the 9TH
ers became jealous, is The lain,
and going home from school on
Thursday of last week, many of
them set upon the child and pum-
meled her into insers;bility. a
thorough investigation is being
made by the Prosecuting Attor-
ney.
Edward Kapanka, a former
alderman in the eighth ward, Port
Huron, was found guilty by a jury
of liquor violation, and sentenced
by Judge Law to pay $500 fine
or serve 100 days in the county
Jail. If he pays the fine, $3.50
of it will go to the county library
fund and the remaining towards
the cost of court work. Kapanka
last fall ran for nomination as a
candidate for commissioner of
public safety.