Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-11-22
GENERAL NEWS.

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to be sold.
Thomas Reep, of Mt. Clemens, won
81 800 on Harrison.
The Almont band, as an organiza-
ton, has disbanded.
Inlay City masons will give their
annual bah Dec. 9Th.
Romeo young people are INDUCING
in phantom parties"
The Patrons of Industry have organ
lied lodge at Attica.
n new parsonage is to be bttflt by
the Methodists at Lapeer.
Mrs. Simeon Balch, of Almont, died
Nov. 18th, after long illness.
Scarlet fever is reported rs raging in
the northern part of the state.
About ten thousand dollars changed
hands on election bets at Flint.
The Marlette Leader has been bought
by ID. +. Hubbell, of Lexington.
Miss Minnie Barnes, Of INLAY City,
is studying telegraphy ut Lapeer.
In getting off from the cars at INLAY
City Mrs. Adah Snow broke her leg.
The Marlette Leader is complaining
about the poor sidewalks in that place.
An Inlay City sidewalk was the
cause of Norman II. Forr's broken leg.
Charles f. Gee. of Inlay City, is pub
fishing sheet called the Dryden Re-
view.
The pupils in the high school at
Algonac publish very creditable
paper.
Ten men from Dryden have gone to
st. Ignace to work in the lumber
woods.
Wildman Mills, Of Crosswell, is off
on tour, and is now at Nantucket
Island.
The township of Harrison, in Macomb
county, was named after "Old Tip
Harrison.
/ The city poor of Mt. Clemens re-
ceived the results of William Cottrells
election bets.
Mr. and Mrs. J. w. Dyar. of Romeo,
celebrated the 5Oth anniversary of their
wedding Nov. 18th.
Levi Bell, of Leonard, dropped dead
of heart disease November 9Th, while at
work in his cornhcld.
The people of Lexington may now
indulge in roller skating. The rink
has opened for the season.
Two hundred marriage licenses were
issued by the clerk of Lapeer county in
the first ten months of 1888.
The people of Marlette want a new
schoolhouse, and are beginning to talk
quite strongly of building one.
David Holmes of Lapeer, was arrest
ed recently for stealing a $50 watch
and 1925 in cash of VIM. Pratt.
August Seeley, of North Branch
stole several pairs of boots from il
front of store, and now is in Jail.
While sinking a well at Rochester
John Shoemaker brought to the surface
several Jumps of coal with the sand
pump.
The Methodist society at INLAY City
issue monthly called "Our Paper" II
is devoted to the interests Of thu
church.
A grand concert was given at The
town hail at Almont last night by thu
l.. l.. G. G. Orchestral and Glee Club OF
Lapeer.
The Newton Manufacturing Com
pany and II. j. 1Iosner, of Romeo, vii
experiment in using crude petroleum
for fuel.
The fruit evaporator at Richmond
employs over twenty persons. Thu
seasons business will be closed up il
about three weeks.
The new water works system at Pom
tiac has been completed. The cost wa!
$4,000, and $500 more will have to b,
expended for fltering basin.
Josiah Sanbom's residence, two miles
south of Almont, was totally destroyed
by fire last week Monday night. Los
about $4,000: partial insurance.
Some one used lamp-post for
hitching post at Almont. and the re
suit was Il broken lamp. Perhap
hitching posts are scarce there.
Fifty men were thrown out of EN-
ployment by the burning of Green &
Stevens saw mill at East Saginaw
Loss $4,000; insurance $4,000.
While Robert Stewart and wife wer
absent from their home at Lexington
for short time, the house was broker
into and two hundred dollars stolen.
a man came all the way from Wash
ington to Lapeer to vote for Cleveland
but after getting there found that, b.
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