The Yale expositor., 1922-10-19
Neighborhood News
From Nearby Towns
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An unusual acreage of wheat
is being sown around Memphis.
Capac farmers want better beet
prices or they will not raise any
more beets.
Jurors for thea October term of
circuit court for st. Clair county
are to report on Nov. 9Th.
A new Orange lodge was or
ganized in Sandusky last week
with .seventy-fve members.
The Standard Oil company will
build glazed tile service station
on their property in Sandusky.
The Michigan Union opera. "In
and Out" will be shown at the
Desmond Theatre in Port Huron
on December 29.
The play entitled THE Mer-
chant of Venice Up-to-date" is to
be played by the st. Clair High
school in the near future.
Only one candidate for Algonac
postmastership took the examina-
tion last week. He is Willis
Richardson, a rural carrier.
c.. F. Hathaw, of Memphis, vet
eran of the Civil War. sc years
old, has just purchased a new
car and is learning to drive it.
Fourteen contractors have bic
on the new armory to be built in
Port Huron. The bids were to be
opened in Lansing last Monday.
The BARRIERS of Pigeon have
started price cutting war. ac-
cording to the Progress, whose
editor has been waiting for the
reduction.
Jas. P. Mugan, Port Sanilac
banker will be tried on the charge
of issuing worthless check for
$4,000, either the last of October
or the first of November.
The first Smith Hughes Hign
School Agricultural Department
in st. Clair county, is now in
stalled in the new high schoo!
building in st. Clair with twenty
nine enrolled.
A. V. Pierce, of Memphis, a ma
tive of Indiana, has raised sew
eral hundred pounds of sweet po-
tatoes this season on his farm
west of Memphis, starting the
plants in hot bed.
Three Port Huron undertakers
and others to the number of twen-
ty from various towns around as
sisted in the funeral services for
the daughter of undertaken Chas.
Whitcomb at Oxford last week, as
a mark of sympathy.
Charles Wellman, who was in
jured in a gravel pit at Roseburg
and confined in the Port Huron
hospital for ten weeks, has been
returned to his home and is slow
ly convalescing, being able to get
about with the aid of crutches.
John Cranston is the third mem
Der of his family to die of ty-
phoid fever at Ubly. There are
four others of the same family
still seriously i'll in the hospital.
The epidemic came from a camp
meeting. There were over forty
| cases.
The Student Lecture course at
Sandusky with Brooks Fletcher as
first entertainer last week, went
over the top financially when the
students sold over 5000 worth of
season tickets before the first
number. Brooks Fletcher was
winner in Sandusky.
Croswell people are so pestered
with rats that a subscriber to the
jeff advises that a campaign
against rats should be started
and carried out in Croswell this
! winter. The rodents breed in
the old unused barns around the
town and do untold damage.
More than 800 letters. stolen
from a mail pouch in the tunnel
depot September "a, destined for
the Thumb district, were found
one day last week scattered
around the woods west of the de-
pot, many opened and others in
bundles still intact. They have
all been now sent on. There was
no registered letters or other
valuable matter in the pouch. The
thief is not known.