The Yale expositor., 1922-12-07
Neighborhood News
From Nearby Town
ITEMS TAKEN FROM NEWSPAPERS OF NEIGH
BORING TOWNS AND VILLAGES.

Verne Morrill, and family, Q
Peck have gone into Northeru
Michigan to spend the winter.
All seven of the 1922 road cor
struction jobs in Huron county
have been completed and accept
ed.
The Fireman's annual ball at
Lexington last week was ATTENDED
by 130 couples and was a big
affair.
Work on concrete walks anG
landscape gardening has been be-
gun around the new high schoo.
in st. Clair.
Rev. A. w. Littrell and D. L.
Moody are conducting a two
weeks evangelistic meetings il
the Federated church in Capac.
Caro's sugar plant had a run
of only about fifty days this sea-
son, the shortest in its history.
Forty thousand tons Of beets were
sliced. Checks issued to the grow
ers will approximate $220,000.
Adam A. Bennett, aged SO yrs,
cashier of the New Haven bank,
died at his home last week, from
blood poisoning, caused from
scratching his hand on rusty
shovel while firing his furnace.
The Atlantic hotel in Port HUI
ron was raided recently and sew
eral men were arrested, some o.
them old-timers. Charges of be-
ling intoxicated were made against
them. The police are looking for
the fount of the intoXicants.
The Security Trust Company,
of Detroit, is the receiver for {
H. Wills G. Co., Marysville auto
mobile manufacturers, which wen
into insolvency last week. TIL
company will be re-organized on a
stronger financial basis and con-
Itinue operations.
In point OF production the Mt
Clemens Sugar Co. is having the
Igreatest run in it's history. This
500 ton mill is averaging more
.han $50 tons day, and has slic-
ed in "a hours as many as 86J
tons. The beets are high in sugar
and very clean.
Macomb county has one of the
largest cow testing associations
in the state as reported by VIM.
Murphy, county agent. There are
"a members and 224 cows were
tested. Thirty-three cows produc-
ed over 40 pounds of butter fat
and 10 over 80 pounds.
Rev VIM. WIedenheoft, pastor
of the Congregational church al
Memphis, and teacher Of Englisl.
in the school, suffered a stroke O
apopleXy at the home of his son
in Detroit last week and it is
thought he may not recover. Nh.
Weidenheoft died on Friday.
Herbert S. Beatty, AZ years old,
proprietor of the Beatty MarblC
works at Richmond and veteran
of the Spanish-American war
died at his home last week as &
result of over-taxing himself dur
ling the election campaign il
working for the Rutledge-J Johns
ton combination.
Automobiles destroyed in the
fire at the Oatman garage, Avocs,
last week belonged to E. Potter,
Laura Maynard, Park Oatman,
Henry Brinkman and F. Oatman.
The value Of the autos burned
was $4,000. Oatman's loss was
$4,000. The garage will not be
rebuilt until spring.
Forty-three black silver foxes
captured on Prince Edward Is
land, came into Port Huron re-
) Gently and were taken by Clinton
Gordon and Thomas Wilbur to
the Gordon Fox farm near Trav-
erse City, where they will be used
for breeding purposes. The duty
on these foxes was $1,749.
Mrs. Carl Downing, of Caro-
caring for a four-months-old baby
of her brother and wife, put tn,
child in the baby buggy near 6
r stove while she left the house. f.
spark from the fire must have
caught in the blankets and the
. aunt came back too late to save
the baby, which was so badly
, burned that it died in a few
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