Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-11-22
THURSDAY. NOVEMBER %, 1888.
COUNTY COLUMN.


Democratic paper in st. Clair county.
y negro was struck by the cars near
Emmett last week and fatally injured.
The +. 81 A.. NJ, of Capac, gave Mrs.
Margaret Carr wood bee one day last
week.
The Custom House and Post Office
at Port Huron are now heated by
steam.
w. 5. Hopkins and family. of st.
Clair, have gone to California to spend
six months.
Miss Mary Cannis, of Capac, and
George Graham, of Berlin, were mar
ried Nov. Sth.
Port Huron has a brute of man
who they say regularly beats his wife
every Sunday.
David Robson, of Port Huron, and
Miss Anna Baine, of Marine City, were
married Nov. 9TH.
The Port Huron hack drivers find it
hard work to obey the rules laid down
by Mayor Haynes.
f. G. Recor, of st. Clair, has shipped
between 10000 and $4,000 bushels of
oats to Alpena this season.
John Hall, of st. Clair, has been ar
rested for forging the name Of John
Mayhem to an order for goods.
l.. A. Sherman, editor of the Port
Huron Times, is laid up with malarial
fever and nervous exhaustion.
John Ruff and Miss Anna Otter,
both esteemed residents Of st. Clair,
were married Thursday Nov. 18th.
Probably the oldest man to poll
vote last election day was Judge Bunce,
of Port Huron town, age 1Ol years.
1t is expected that the Upton Manu-
featuring Co. of Port Huron will man.
ufacture the Madden Two Wheel Pony
Binder.
The circuit court calander contains
% criminal cases, 1l2 jury cases, 20
court cases. IL chancery cases and l
imparlence.
Edward Grace, of Detroit, and Miss
Hattie NJ. Rood, very popular young
lady of st. Clair, were married last
week Wednesday.
Gage Cooper, the supervisor of the
township Of Port Huron had stroke
of paralysis from which it is thought
he will not recover.
The new steamer now being built at
Marine City is claimed will be the lar
gest boat of any description ever built
on the st. Clair river.
The Wales and Kimball Farmers
Club held meeting recently and elect
ed officers for the ensuing year. The
next meeting will be held Nov. 80.
The Ladies Aid society of the NJ. +.
church at Fort Gratiot gave a grand
concert Tuesday evening. The pro-
ceeds are to go towards the parsonage
fund.
There were imported during the
month of October at Port Huron from
Canada, %, 1863 barrels of apples, and
1913 horses for breeding purposes valued
at $4,000.
The residence of James Bloodgood,
Port Huron, was entered by burglars
recently. and silver watch, S25 in
money, and other articles were taken.
Suspicion rests on two Sarnia toughs.
A supposed case of small pox in Port
Huron caused good deal of excite
ment, but the sick child having been
vaccinated a few days before, it is said
to come from that. A pest house has
been ordered built.
Two carpenters at work on house
in Port Huron fell from staging, a
distance of 30 feet. One received two
broken arms and injuries about the
head. The other had three ribs broken
and other injuries.
Geo. Allen and Chas. Hart, of Port
Huron, INDUCED in Il fight at the Abb
on house in that city while under the
influence OF liquor and Hart was knock
ed insensible with an iron poker. Al
len has been arrested.
Byron Walker. Of Capac, has gather
ed over 1900 pounds of honey the
past season, and claims that it is only
half crop after ALL lie had $50 colo
MES at the end Of the season, but des-
troyed 60 WHEN preparing for winter.
Last week a young lad named Bert
Gray, was shoveling coal off the staging
at Port Huron to schooner. when he
fell headlong TO the hold of the vessel,
striking on his head, receiving such in
juries that he died the next morning.
Here is specimen of an election bet
made in st. Clair: One man is to
wheel another a certain distance, and
every time he is tipp9d from the wheel
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