The Yale expositor., 1922-02-23
THUMB TALES
TERSELY TOLD
Items Taken From Newspapers of
NeighbOring Towns and
Villages

brand new head. 1t looks fine.
Interest in the Music Memory
Contest is beginning to lag in
Croswell.
The Grand Trunk shops in Port
Huron are closed again, affecting
nearly 500 men.
The Atlantic & Pacific Tea
Company will open one of a chain
of stores in Richmond.
The Holmes Foundry at Romeo
was damaged to the extent of
$1,000 by fire last week.
A new jack-knife drawbridge
over Black river at Port Huron
will be built by the Pere Mar
quette.
An ungrateful horse bit off
part of James McCrimmen's nose
at Bad Axe last week as the man
was giving the horse a pail of wat
er to drink.
There are over 270 students in
Bad Axe who cannot be accommo-
dated in the present public school
building. A new and larger school
is needed much.
Arnold Greenwood, of Rose
burg lost his barns by fire last
week. All the horses were saved
but fifty chickens were burned.
Loss covered by insurance.
The three-weeks-old child of
Mr.. and Mrs. George Gorsline, of
near Brown City, was found dead
in bed one morning last week. 1t
is supposed that it was smoth-
cred.
Marlette's younger class of bus
iness men and farmers have or
ganized, for the purpose of Great
ing a better feeling of fellowship
between farmers and town busi-
ness men.
Port Huron Automobile Deal
ers Association is putting on the
first Automobile show for Port
Huron. 1t will be held March 10
to 18 in the new Parfet building
on Military street.
John Leach, Of Richmond, car
ries a cane which he made him
self and which contains over
1000 pieces Of wood of Z various
kinds. He also constructed
w rk box for his wife out of 10,-
900 different pieces.
The Star Oil Company has pur-
chased two corner lots in Mem
phis and will build a central sta
ton, to supply several towns
nearby. The buildings on the
lots are wooden landmarks and
will be removed by the owners.
Fishermen who went to Lake
vile this week visited the Saliva
tion Army camp there, and state
that engineers are planning
bathing beach at the east landing.
Teams are drawing hundreds of
loads of gravel and piling it on
the ice so that it will settle into
the water when the ice melts.
Anthony Scully, aged 40, an in
mate of an insane asylum at var
ious times, but recently living
with his father, aged 80 years,
and sister in Port Huron, sud-
denly became violent last week
and killed his father with a ham,
mer and knife, and seriously
wounded his sister. He is now in
a padded cell at the county Jail.
The new Inlay City Chamber
of Commerce was instituted last
Tuesday evening at the meeting
held at the city hall and the fol-
lowing officers were elected to
preside during the year: 7. F.
Holden, president; Brice Kempf,
secretary; Elmer Cleveland, treas
urer. The new organization is the
outgrowth of the Community
club.
While drawing logs Wednesday
George Stanlake, "a years old,
Almont, met with an accident in
which his leg was fractured and
ankle bones crushed. Stanlake
was working on the farm of Fred
Stannard, and while he was
punching the logs one of them
caught on a tree and his leg be-
came wedged between the log and
tree. He was removed to the hos
pital following the accident.