Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-05-10
The Weekly Exposition.
THURSDAY. MAY 10, 1888.
COUNTY COLUMN.

| lie Mcilpllo cltdlleIy 10 HOW Luli'
ming.
Capac is talking of having a new
elevator. e..
Work has begun OH the new Touring
mill at Marine City. -
The salt blocks at Marine City are
now in running order.
a Mr.. Shaw has been assigned to
the NJ. +. charge at Capac.
There are 27young men in Pt. Huron
who are owners Of bicycles.
st. Clair talks of building a $4,000
brick block there this season.
An effort is being made to organize
q painters union in Port Huron.
\ Democratic county convention
was held in Port Huron last Saturday.
Locke & Long gave their first enter
tainment of the season at Capac last
Saturday evening,
The young people at Goodell'S, have
organized social called the ~ Dung
Christians Endeavor.'
100000 young white fish were plant
ed in Lake ST. Clair recently by the
state Fish commission.
Thos. Conroy, Of Belle River, has
cleared 10 acres of swamp land this
spring and put it into crops.
The revival meetings at Goodell's
have closed. twenty-five having been
added to the Baptist church.
1t is reported that the customs
authorities made seizure Of $50
worth of silk. at Port Huron, last week.
Teachers from all over the country
are asking for the position of superin-
tendent of the public schools at Port
Huron.
The policemen. of Port Huron, want
higher wages. They receive $50, a
month at present and would like $40,
increase.
\ fire at Marine City the other day
burned "A house belonging to {. y.
Blood, and occupied by two or more
families.
y. Cawthorne, Of Port Huron, will
shortly give another children's concert.
Two or three hundred children will
take part.
Belle River has taken measures to
prevent stock from grazing on the pub
lie highways. and now there is peace
once more.
w. II. Ballentine, of Brockway, will
build a roller mill at Capac if the
people will give bonus of two thous-
and dollars.
Anna Nelan. from Wales, who is
crazy, is confined III the county Jail
until she can be taken to the Eastern
Michigan Asylum.
The receipts at the county treasurer's
office for the past seven months have
amounted to S99,51005. The dis
bursements were S94 5000.
Three young men of Fort Gartiot,
have been helping themselves to wood
by the cart load, belonging to Richard
Cochrane. On being found out, they
left the country.
The stumps in the new Woodland
cemetery at Port Huron, are being
blown up with dynamite. Fifteen or
twenty are charged at once and explod-
ed by an electric current.
j. Lothian. who has carried the Mt.
Salem mail year for nothing, was the
other evening made the recipient of
$40 from the Mt. Salemites who receiv-
ed their mail at that office.
Hon. Crockett McElroy, of st. Clair,
has received an invitation to deliver
the Fourth of July Grafton at the Mag
ara Falls international Camp Meeting
Association. in Wesley Park, Niagara.
The case of Mrs. Clementine Doolit-
tie against the p. III. Il n. w. R'y for
$4,000 damages for the death of her
husband. which was decided against
her two years ago, will be taken to the
supreme court.
Three brothers, by the name of Rad
kie, from the township of China, were
tried last week in port Huron, on a
charge of catching suckers with a seine,
but verdict of not guilty was finally
brought in by the jury.