The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1922-06-01
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Items Taken From Newspapers Of
NeighbOring Towns and
Villages

Marlette business places have
adopted the Thursday afternoon
holiday.
The Jack Kelly Stock Co. is
playing to crowded houses in San
dusky this week.
A brass band will be organized
in Sandusky with twenty-four
members to start with.
The Equator Oil Range COM
pany will give Richmond an op-
portunity for it's establishment
there.
Robert Schwab, of Port Huron,
has been engaged by Sanilac
county league as umpire for the
season.
The 9-year-old son of A. A.
Kicker, of Cass City, died of lock-
jaw last week after few days
illness.
G.. V. Black, of Blacks Depart
ment store at Pigeon has been ar
rested, charged with selling adul-
teitted food.
The opening game of the Sani-
lac county league was played at
Marlette last week between Peck
and Marlette, with the latter
team winning.
The Tuscola County Normal
graduates number seventeen stu
dents this year. In place of the
usual exercises the class will pre-
sent an Operetta at Caro- on the
evening Of June 7th.
The Sanilac county Federation
of Woman's clubs will meet in
Sandusky on Thursday, June 8.
Mrs. Alvardo, state president,
will be present, and also Mrs. E.
j. Ottaway, president of the Mu-
sic clubs.
st. Clair will uso twenty tons
of calcium chloride on it's streets
for keeping the dust down. The
chemical is bought from the Dow
Chemical Co., of Midland. 1t is
claimed to be much better than oil
fer the purpose.
Men, tractors and teams are
busily engaged in making the
new race track at the Armada
fair grounds. They are rushing
the work through so as to have IL
in first class condition for field
day which will be held there in
early June.
Mrs. Joseph Law, of North
Branch celebrated her Goth birth
day on May 10Th. She is hale and
hearty and enjoyed the visit Of
relatives, and a birthday dinner.
Mrs. Law was given 9G tulips in
bouquet. Her husband, who is
sc years old, is also enjoying
good health
| An odd scene occurred over at
Almont recently. A house built
over 80 years ago, standing on a
farm four miles south of the viii
lage, was divided into two Sec
tions and moved by tractors to a
point 112 miles north Of Almont.
While on the move the roof of one
section caught fire from the trac-
tor stack, but little damage was
done.
"Col." John c.. Gaines, who has
had charge of the drilling for oil
launched by the Thumb Oil and
Gas Development Trust in the vi
cinity of Brown City, reports
that he will resume operations
there in the near future. Plans
are also well under way to start
operations to sink two wells in
the vicinity of Peck soon. The
exact locations of these sites
have not been made public.-San-
lilac County Times.
Bay Port fish companies report
the market in New York last week
as all shot. Fresh iced her
ring in New York brought only
one dollar a package of 150 lbs.
The express on a package to New
York is S2.65. Pickerel sold for
r eight cents a pound in New York.
One year ago the same market
paid SOC a pound. A Bay Port
fisherman dropped into the local
t barber shop last Saturday and
E traded $50 pounds of fresh her
ring for a shave. The low price
t is only temporary owing to the
New York market being glutted
with fresh fish.-Pigeon Progress.