The Yale expositor., 1922-08-31
Neighborhood News
From Nearby Towns
ITEMS TAKEN FROM NEWSPAPERS OF NEIGH
BORING TOWNS AND VILLAGES.

Miss Elliott, of Jeddo, will
teach the school at AvOca this
year.
Eight hundred new street signs
are to be placed on Port Huron
streets.
Capac will celebrate Labor
Day. Funds have been raised for
entertainment.
Sandusky schools, which open
ed on Monday last, have an en-
rollment of AIS, with 100 paying
tuition.
1t is reported that the st. Clair
county poor farm was never run
more efficiently than at the pres
ent time.
A lung motor was tried out at
Lexington recently and it has been
about decided that the village
own one.
Croswell fair. to be held Sept.
12-to Is, will give one day over to
Port Huron. Friday, the 18th will
| NC OTI IuTOH udy.
Clifford Anderson, 19-year-old
Shower youth is in jail in Sandus-
ky on a charge of assaulting a 49,
year-old Snover girl.
The Walpole Island Indian fair
is on for this week. September 1
and 2. The Indians have been
making big preparations,
Three thousand dogs claim
Sanilac county as their home, but
their owners are very delinquent
in paying the dog license.
Mrs. Ellen O'Brien, the second
st. Clair county pioneer of Irish
birth, died at her home in En-
NETT last week, at the age of 80
years.
Electric lighting is assured
Harsen's Island and st. Clair
Flats homes soon. The Detroit Ed
ison will start work on installa-
tion in the near future. Island
residents must provide the funds,
Next week, from Sept. 5 to 9Th,
marks the 25th anniversary Of the
Sandusky fair. A big midway,
night carnival, three league ball
games and a $1,000 fire works dis
play are features of the fair this
year.
Margaret, daughter Of Mr., and
Mrs. Franklin Moore, of st. Clair,
has won the first prize in a state
wide contest promoted by the
Knights of Pythias. as the writer
of the best essay on American
Citizenship" The prize is a trip
to Charlevoix Sept. 9th, with all
expenses paid, Miss Moore to read
her essay at the convention being
held there.
While bringing his cows to the
barn one afternoon last week Roy
Haddrill, who lives southeast of
Hunters Greek, found that he
could not drive them through a
gate into a lane nearby. Roy's
temper was just about at the siz-
zling point when his children saw
a huge rattler before the gate.
running into the house Haddrill
obtained a rifle and shot the rep
tile. The rattler measured three
and one-half feet long and had
81 rattles.
Preliminary announcements were
mailed at Caro- Aug. "a for the
annual reunion of the Twenty
third Michigan Volunteer Infan-
try, to be held in Caro-, Sept. IA
The occasion is the 57th of its
kind since the disbanding of the
old Civil war regiment. The vet
erans of the town who are men,
bers of the association which sur
wives the regiment and the towns
people are preparing entertain
ment for the few old soldiers VIII
remain. Robert Anderson is sec
retary of the association.
An unlocked for honor was be-
slowed on Mrs. Lulu McAulay,
Huron county woman sheriff when
she was placed on the same plane
with Mrs. Warren G. Harding and
Mrs. Calvin Coolidge by a south
ern correspondent. Mrs. Nc
Aulay received a letter from
woman in the south, who states
that she would consider it an
honor to have a cooking recipe
from "the only woman sheriff in
the United States" She is COM
piling a book of the favorite re-
cipes of famous women. Mrs.
McAulay appropriately returned
recipe for "rock" cookies. Mrs.
McAulay is one of three women