Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-01-05
Tho Weekly Exp0sitor.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1888.
COUNTY COLUMN.

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People of Sturgis are complaining of
high taxes.
Marine City cornet band gave a
grand ball on the evening of the I'd.
Drunken men were numerous on Port
Huron streets Christmas eve.
Fifteen Port Huron people will leave
for Los Angeles, CAL, about the 18th
of Jan.
Mr.. 5. c. McLouth and Miss Mary
Wonsey, Of Marine City were married
Dec. %.
The Port Huron Sunday Herald gave
| it's New Years edition outright to its
newsbOys.
The Ladies Library of Port Huron
has been presented with portrait of
Gladstone.
Postmaster Granger, of Fort Grati0t
has received notice that his salary has
been fixed at 81, 900 per year.
Berville wants larger hotel, and
thinks it would be good thing for
some one to invest his money in su CHI.
The operetta "Belshazzer' was very
successfully produced in Port Huron
last week BY the Musical Society Of
that city.
There seems to be large number Of
weddings in Marine City lately John
Leityh aud Flora NJ. Brown were marj-
eel the 18th.
Geo. Kyle, of Port Huron, has been
sentenced to the reform school for
two years The boy could not keep
from drinking.
Entertainments given under the aus
pieces Of the |. o. G.. T. of Fargo are de-
cided successes. Fargo Good Templars
have come to stay
Eli Perkins still keeps his record
good for lying Promising to be at
Marine City the 18th he HOW changes
the date to the 18th.
Two ladies of Marine City have re-
Gently placed an organ in small church
erected in Sanilac county. They are
both energetic workers.
Reported that j. b. Parker one of the
editors of the Port Huron Sunday Her
aid will sever his connection with that
paper, and leave for California.
The Sunday edition of the Port Huron
Herold German is called Sonntags
Bote. L. ii. Krause is now the proprie-
tor instead of Chas. Laesch & Co.
The good people of Smiths Creek
held bee last week for the purpose OF
cleaning and repairing their church. y
days good work was accomplished.
Miss Lulu L. Geel, of Port Huron
township, and John w. Bockius, q well
known young boot and shoe dealer Of
Port Huron, were married the 9th inst.
Marine City claims that nearly half
the marriage licenses Of the county are
issued to it's residents and fully half Of
the real estate transfers reported from
that city.
A fire in Burtchville the 9th destroy
ed the stables of VIM. II. Sterling. with
a yoke of oxen, one cow and all his
winters feed. Believed to be the work
of an incendiary.
VIM. N. Myron, Of Grant Centre. has
been appointed postal clerk on the p.
II. q n. w. R'y in place of y. i. Fitz-
gerald, who has been assigned to po-
sition at Washington ID. G.
Numerous marriage licenses were
flying around the week before Christ
mas. The Port Huron Herald com
plains that among ali those who got
out licenses, there did not appear the
name of even one old bachelor Of that
city.
James Gore, q fireman Oh the L. lI.&
n. W. R'y made the streets OF Port
Huron lively during the holidays by
going along while drunk and waving u
knife in the air. BY some means he cut
himself badly, and WAS finally caught
and imprisoned.
In The United States Circuit Court at
Detroit OH Thursday, the case Of Mrs.
Mary stock VS.. Horatio n. JeX. OF Port
Huron,ca up for hearing. Mrs. Stock
set mp the claim that she arrived in ri.
Huron one night last summer, md be-
ing anxious TO secure lodging for her
self and child. asked Mr.. Jex IT, direct
her TO u suitable place. )e& furnished
her room over his saloon. aud duras
the night attempted TO assAuit hex,
pointing q revolver at her 5avarai times
aud threatening to shoot her Mrs..
Stock sued for $500 damages. and
the court allowed her 500.
Geo Beacraft and f. w. Ernst were
arraigned before u. :. Commissioner
Harris on Tuesday, oil a charge Ct
counterfeiting John Mack, who has
been confined in the county jail for
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