Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-10-02
Minor State Items.


Mrs. Sarah j. Frazier, a resident OF
Saginaw since 1856, Is dead.
l.. ID. Smith, one of the first persons
born in Cass county, is dead.
Dan Voorhees, of Indiana will soon be-
gin campaign work in the state.
oSurveys for third railroad at Ben
ton Harbor will soon be commenced.
MAYOR Robinson of Charlotte, who
was shot few weeks ago, is slowly raj
lying.
Hudson merchants have organized a
protective association 10 beat dead
beats.
"Ren" Barker of the Reed City Clar-
ion will soon put new power press in
his Office.
Pontiac has been named as the place
for holding the Detroit M. +. confer
ence next year.
Miss DIR. Abbie Beasom, a Hudson
young lady, has gone as medical mis-
sionary to China.
More students have entered the uni
versity this year from other colleges
than ever before.
Mayor Donovon of Lansing, vetoed
the ordinance permitting the saloons to
stay open after 10 p. NJ.
Q Nearly oil the lumbermen at Luding-
ton are talking of restricting the har-
vest of logs this winter.
The body of Calvin blood, Jr., who
was drowned at Marine City, was re-
covered near Swan island.
Prof. Stanton of Oxford has been ap-
pointed pension examiner and ordered
to Columbus, Ohio, for duty.
Many Michigan farmers are becom-
ing impressed with the belief that it pays
better to raise beef than wheat,
Reported that Gil r. Osmun, q De-
troit journalist, has been appointed U.
S. consul to Auckland, New leland.
Alex. Mckay, Muskegon book
keeper has left for parts unknown with
$4,000 belonging to his employer.
Gov. Hendricks will speak in Detroit
shortly after the Ohio election. He will
make but one speech in Michigan.
c. ID. Hale's large saw mill and salt
block at East Tawas was burned Sept.
23. Loss $50, 900. insurance 800, 200.
There will not be over two-thirds the
usual cut OF logs in Roscommon county
this winter, it is stated on the very best
authority.
An eight-oared lifeboat, built at Glou-
ces.er, Mass, has been added to the
equipment Of the East Tawas life-sav-
ing station.
IL e, an,
will be had before Judge Gridley soon
for change of venue in Henry Hol'
combs case.
The Western Michigan fair recently
held at Grand Rapids is pronounced by
all to have been the best fair ever held
by the society.
M. b. Marin, one of the first settlers
of Shiawassee county, having located
in Bancroft in 1885, died recently Of
general debility.
Owing to sickness st the state public
school in Coldwater, the superintendent
announces that no more children car
be received at present.
The common council OF Battle Greek
has refused the petition TO allow tenn
perance billiard saloons TO run later
than o'clock at night,
Upon recommendation of the Detroit
M. Z. conference, the Thursday pre-
ceding election day will be observed az
a day of fasting and prayer.
Mrs. Harper Reed of Mason gives s
special premium to the girl at the Ing
ham county fair who can show the best
head of hair that has never beer
changed"
A hotel is to be built by the g. K. q
/. railroad company at Long
Lake. near Kalamazoo. 1t is the in
tention of the company to start sum
mer resort there.
John T. Brown of Plainwell has beer
convicted of selling liquor without Civ.
ing the required bonds and sent tc
all for 60 days and ordered TO pay
$40 fine and costs.
A stock company is to be formed al
Wyandotte for the manufacture of iron
gas pipes. provided the citizens car
raise the 1900 demanded by the pro.
| jectors of the scheme.
Michigan philanthropists will take
prominent part in the doings of the
18th national conference of charitie:
and corrections to be held ut St Louie
Mo-, beginning Oct. IS.
Several Grand Haven men are pro
posing to visit the New Orleans exposi
ton by making the trip thither by small
boats, via Chicago. the canal, Illihoi:
river and the Mississippi.
Judge Smith of Stanton has sen
fenced Mrs. Vanderburg, the woman
who was recently convicted of murder
in the second degree, to 20 years in the
| Detroit house of correction.
Benjamin Thurman, is years old, ia
tally shot himself Sunday, Sept. 81
while hunting near Kawkawlin. The
charge entered his face and passed out
through the top of his head.
Tho body of Edward Raymond, one
| of the men Who was lost in the Huron
dam disaster, at Houghton January 1st
was found on the lake shore about q
mile west of Hancock on The 21st inst.
The committee Of the stockholders OF
the suspended Adrian bank have de.
cided TO make systematic and
thorough investigation of the manage
ment and condition of the institution.
The Tekonsha News advertises as lost
a ''seal brown lady's shawl" Seal
brown ladies are not uncommon in the
districts where slavery once prevailed,
but they have rarely been seen at re.
| konsha.
Three Lenawee county farmers are
under arrest for violating the statute