The Yale expositor., 1922-04-20
THUMB TALES
TERSELY TOLD
Items Taken From Newspapers of
NeighbOring Towns and
Villages

Romeo people are discussing
plans for holding a May festival.
The Port Huron Drainage Co.
is beginning the work of laying
the new sewer system in Romeo.
The light in the Fort Gratiot
light house is now lit and will di-
rect passing boats until late in
the fall.
Brown City Juniors will stage
the play, comedy drama, "Unac-
quainted With Work." on the 18th
of April.
The recently organized Cham
ber of Commerce at Capac has
passed the 100 membership mark
and was duly celebrated by a
banquet at Hotel Jackson.
Marysville citizens will vote to-
morrow on bond issue for a new
$4,000 school building to be
erected on land donated by C. H.
Wills for the purpose.
The Inlay City Business Mems
Association are holding their an
nual banquet and program Of
speaking, toasts, music, ETC., to-
day, Thursday, April 20.
The American Legion Post of
Lexington, has started a drive
rolling by giving a Poverty Party.
This will be followed by other
dances and entertainments.
Mr.. and Mrs. David Porter
Wadsworth, residents of the
Thumb district for 40 years, cele-
brated their golden wedding last
week at their home in Port HUI
ron.
Frances Smith, of Memphis had
fourteen registered barred rock
stock chickens stolen from her
coops last Sunday night. One was
prize rooster purchased for this
years incubation.
John Bowen, an Almont man,
fell from a load of hay last week
and suffered a broken neck. But
the neck bones were put together,
held tight with adhesive tapes,
and the man will live.
The j. S. Mcdonald new audi
torium being built at Sandusky, is
expected to be finished and opened
by May Is. 1t is to be used for
lectures, shows and dances, anG
will seat 1000 persons.
The recent heavy rains have
flooded the sewers so at Marlette
that cellars in homes and busi-
ness places are swimming. Mar
lettes mains are not large enough
to carry away the surplus of
water.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. C. Crosby
have returned to Lexington after
a six weeks honeymoon trip to
California. Mr.. Crosby is direc-
tor Of the Lexington band and
Mrs. Crosby, nee Carol Nichol,
is a member.
Erwin r. Cady, city controller
of Port Huron from 1898 to 1910
and since auditor for the Haynes
Lumber Co., died last week at his
home after a few days illness,
aged 5S years. He was a brother
of Burt d. Cady.
Mrs. Fred Downs and two chill
dren, of Marine City, escaped
from their burning home at mid
night in their nightclothes, and
their $4,000 home with contents
was entirely destroyed. There
was no insurance.
The building which Mayville
citizens were to buy and remodel
as Community House, blew down
one day last week in strong
wind, narrowly escaping people
passing along the sidewalk and
knocking down a horse, breaking
its leg. 1t will take some time to
clear away the wreckage. Some
people thought there had been an
explosion when the building fell.
The Diamond Crystal Salt Co.
has now put in the new machine
with which to make block salt,
which has not been manufactured
here before. Each block will be
Sx8x11 inches, and will weigh ex-
actly fifty pounds. There is now
but one kind of commercial salt
which the Diamond does not make.
This is a coarse pressed rock salt,
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