Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-03-08
The Weekly Exposition.
THURSDAY, MARCH 8. 1888.
COUNTY COLUMN.


The Memphis creamery has closed
for repairs.
Smiths Creek HIS a newly organized
brass band.
st. Clair county can boast of 1oC
physicians.
Work will soon be recommended on
the st. Clair tunnel
belle River is having trouble over
their stock running at large.
Wm.Springer has been commissioned
postmaster at Port Huron.
Two women escaped from the county
jail last week Thursday night.
Talbot. Of the pt Huron Commercial
has a young printer at his house.
y. q Z. Mills, of Marysville. desire a
more pleasing name for Stag island.
The Somerville school gave a fine con-
cert Tuesday evening in 81. Clair.
The roller mills at Emmet have re-
ceived n thorough relitting of the best
machinery.
Judge of Probate Avery has bought
back his farm which he sold recent
.y for $4,000.
Mrs. Broughey, an insane woman Of
Port Huron. has been sent to the in
sane asylum.
Lyron Kelly. of Fmmet died last Fri
lay. Emmett loses highly respected
citizen in his death
The Maccabees Of st. Clair are pros
pering, meetings to initiate new men,
5ers every Monday evening.
Adar young men attend revival
meetings and afterwards proceed to get
glorously drunk OH lard cider.
The Diamond Crystal salt block at st.
Clair has commenced running again.
y large warehouse is being built.
Twenty men have been LAID off at the
car shops, Fl. Gratlot. and exported
that 80 more will follow April Isl,
j. b. Parker. formerly of the Port
Huron Sunday Herald, is now at work
on the st. Louis Evening Chronicle.
$1,000 pounds of wire nails to be used
in building the new Botsford elevator
a Port Huron. VIII be furnished by ;.
l.. Boyce y Son.
Yrs. J. NJ. Kinney, of Port Huron.
las been appointed a member Of the
board OF control of the state school
for girls at Adrian.
y pair of scissors has been found in
the heart of an oak tree, which was II
inches in diameter, standing on the
Harder homestead in 1T. Huron.
Port Huron can have any number of
manufacturing establishments, wood
pulp company and turbin wheel and
saw mill machinery want to locate
there.
John Cowan, of ut. Huron, has sued
the ,. I .. y. W. company for $4,000
damages lie was injured lay being |
run into by an engine while operating
a switch.
The Port Huron Mineral water COM
pany intend building large sanitarium
before summer. The business is pros
pering. About 20 people from abroad
are in the city taking baths and treat
ment.
Frank II. Morse. of st. Clair. was for
several years proprietor of the st. Clair
When the war broke out
he enlisted in the Eighth Michigan cav
airy. was promoted to company ii as
second lieutenant, and was honorably |
discharged in 1865. When he returned |
to his wife and children in st. Clair he |
engaged in several vocations. In 1870 |
he came to Detroit. leaving his wife |
and family in st. Clair county. In this |
city he was reporter on the defunci |
Daily Union and later on the somewhat |
alive Evening News. I'm 1919 lis wife
obtained Il divorce on the ground of |
non-support Shortly afterward he left |
Detroit with Mrs. Jennie jerks. who |
kept disreputable house in this city. |
and with one of his children little |
daughter, removed to 1T. Louis. III
that city he married Mrs. jerks; and |
the latter bought out small hotel and |
the pair conducted il for about year.
Then he returned to st. Clair in an adj |
vanced stage of consumption and died
in his married sisters house. Mrs
jerks returned 10 Detroit about tie |
same time. Tne divorced wife recover
ed possession of her child from the
second wife, applied for AMI received
the pension to " lich her children were
entitled till they were 10 years of age.
Last winter Mrs. .Jenks-Morse applied
for pension rs a soldiers widow, her
attorney being ID. w. Brooks, of the
city. The United States special exam
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