Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-11-08
The Weekly Exposition,
THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 8. 1888.
COUNTY COLUMN.

Police arrests are scarce in Port HUI
ron lately.
The Palace rink at Port Huron, is to
be moved and rebuilt
John Morash, of Kimball, died Nov
LIST, at the age of "A years.
Marysville has just discovered two
secret marriages in its midst.
The seats in the NJ. e. church of Ma.
rine City will be free this year.
Laundey Carney, Of Gratiot Centre
died Monday morning aged % years.
The pulp works at Port Huron have
received five car loads of sulphur from
Italy.
Peter Goulden, a resident of Port
Huron for IS years, died Nov. 1st, aged
GS years.
w. Bowman, of Columbus, had two
cattle killed recently on the railroad
crossing.
A teamster at Port Huron has a
horse which chews tobacco, and is fond
of it too.
The Salvation Army in Port Huron
expect to have grand celebration on
Nov. 18th.
There have been 296 criminal cases
before Justice Wellman since the first
of January.
Forty-two dollars have been expend-
ed by the county in repairing the roof
of the court house.
Halloween was celebrated by the
Somerville scholars with a private
masquerade party.
George Gursky, German living in
Port Huron, died of malarial fever last
Sunday, aged 26 years.
Goodells people are considering the
ACCESSIBILITY of building new M. f.
church IN their village.
Miss Jennie Hanver, Of Lakeport,
and Will Childs, of Grant township,
were married Nov. 1st
The young ladies of Fort Gratiot are
to give grand Leap Year party, to-
morrow friday evening.
The ladies of the w. c. T. U. of Port
Huron, served dinner on election day
in Shaw's ice cream parlors.
Hon. S. S. Babcock, of Detroit, adj
dressed the Republicans at st. Clair on
Friday evening of last week.
Garrett McNutt, for so years a resi-
dent of this county, died at his home
in Clyde, on Monday, Oct. 29th.
y new water tank is being built at
the approach of the round house in Fl.
Gratiot, with capacity of $1,000 gal
Ions.
1t has been estimated that it will take
$4,000 to dredge Black river, at Port
Huron, to uniform depth of eighteen
feet.
The Phoenix Iron Works at Port HUI
ron have the contract for building a
large boiler for the steam barge West
ford.
An addition has been built to the en-
CINE house at Goodells, by the railroad
company. to be used for dwelling
house.
The Masons have been presented by
r. $. Patterson with a fine clock for
their new hall in the Knill block, Port
| Huron.
Fort Gratiot's locomotive works have
recently turned out new engine, num-
bered 81. 1t will run between Battle
Creek and Chicago.
The colored democrats of Port Huron
expected to hear an address from Rev.
II. G.. Lewis, a colored orator, last week,
but he failed to show up.
The Masons have dedicated their
new hall in the Knill block at Port
Huron. The rooms are very commodi-
Gus and elegantly furnished.
A new steam barge is being built at
st. Clair, designed especially for the
lumber trade. She will be ready at the
opening of navigation next spring.
A woman named Dorwood, who has
lived at Lakeside park above Fort
Gratiot for number of years, has been
taken to the asylum. She was proving
q great nuisance.
One day last week as farmer was
crossing the track of the p. II. 81 N. w.
R'y, near Fort Gratiot, he met with a
very narrow escape. The engine took
one of the hind wheels from his wagon.
Slate roofs have been substituted in
place of iron on the G. Il G.. L. black
smith and forge shops at Fort Gratiot
The gas arising from the burning coal
corrodes the iron and causes the roofs