Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-08-16
The Weekly ExpOSit0r.
THURSDAY. AUGUST IS. 1888.
COUNTY COLUMN.

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of Wales, died August 5.
Port Huron will soon have five large
elevators in full operation.
A Cleveland and Thurman club has
been organized at Fort Gratiot.
st. Clair county manufactured 1865
barrels of salt during the month of
June.
Daniel Quincy, an early settler of st
Clair, died August eth, at the age of IS
years.
There is some prospect of Port HUI
ron having paper mill with 100000
capital.
VIM. Quibell, young man living at
Algonac, was drowned on the 9th of
August.
Il grand harvest ball is to be given
at the Kavanagh House, Emmett, Aug
ust 21st.
The value of merchandise shipped
from Port Huron during the month of
July was S979,792.
The fare on the river boats between
Port Huron and Detroit runs from %
cents to one dollar.
1t is probable that another bridge will
be built across Back river at Tenth
street, Port Huron.
Fourteen ladies put in their votes for
new school house at Fort Gratiot at
the recent election.
A patent has been granted to Thos.
II. Bottomley, Of Capac, on an apparat-
Us for heating cars.
The letter carriers Of the city of Port
Huron handled 1858 pieces of mail
matter during July.
The three weeks session Of the Teach
ers' Institute at Fort Gratiot has closed.
There were 1919 members in attendance.
Tho Port Huron mineral water is be-
coming celebrated \ large number Of
people from abroad are taking baths
there.
The lands in st. Clair county. which
are to be sold for delinquent taxes will
be published in the Port Huron Times
this year.
1t is expected that TT. Gratiot will
have as fine a school building as any in
the State. The village has been bonded
for $4,000.
c. F. Abel, who has been the emf
grant agent for the G. Il. Railway at
Port Huron for several years has re-
moved to Chicago.
1t is reported that the Republicans
will have Congressman Mckinley, r..
G.. IngersOll and other noted speakers
at Port Huron this fall.
A voung lad of Port Huron was
struck in the eye by the cork of a pop
bottle with such force that it is thought
he will lose the sight of that eye.
Miss Bina West, of Capac. who was
elected member Of the County Board
of Examiners, is the first lady ever
placed on the board in this county.
n young lad living in Port Huron,
named Willie Morrison, fell from the
limb of a tree. 30 feet to the ground.
He was picked up unconscious. lie
cannot live.
Ed. Jones, brakeman on a Grand
Trunswork train. had his foot crushed
between two flat cars at Fl Gratiot the
other day, and it will probably have to
be amputated.
a Democratic pole-raising and pub
lie meeting will take place in st. Clair
this evening. A. L. Chadwick, 5. S.
Merriam and j. S. Dufiie, of Port Huron,
are the speakers.
Kenockee people have been attending
the suit at Port Hurou in which Jack
son Ward was complainant and Del
Brown and Mrs. Ward defendants. The
case was discharged.
The Port Huron electric railway
company intend putting in a switch be-
tween Fort Gratiot and the Winder-
mere, and soon the cars will run through
to the Windermere every trip.
The story Of the prisoner in the
Kingston, Ont, penitentiary. who
some time ago claimed he knew who
Don Ewer's murderers were, has been
found to be false. He thought he could
effect an escape during his removal
from Kingston to Detroit, and Ia;
since written letter stating that sucf
were his reasons, and that he knew