Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-08-30
The Weekly Exposition.
THURSDAY. AUGUST 30. 1883.
COUNTY COLUMN.
Capac school begins Sept. 3.

day.
The st. Clair Light and Fuel Co. have
decided to sink several wells at Port
Huron at once.
Over 1000 people from London. Ont,
visited Port Huron by excursion last
week Wednesday.
The st. Clair mineral springs COM
pany shipped 400 cases of Salutarus to
Cleveland one day last week.
Andrew Schrepferman, a resident of
st. Clair, died suddenly of heart disease
last week, aged lifty-six years.
The yrosecutny attorney Of the
county thinks tia. the Capac council
men have no right to draw pay.
The Republican and Democratic
"boys" of st. Clair played game of
ball last week The Democrats won.
The Capac Journal office keeps two
rattlesnakes and any number of other
curiosities to attract public attention.
Geo. Thompson, undertaken of Port
Huron, who has had branch business
at st. Clair has discontinued the same.
The Grand Trunk company are erect
ing q large cooler at Fort Gratiot in
which to store butter and eggs from
the west.
Kimball and vicinity was visited by
quite severe storm on the 10th. scatter
ing trees, fences, barns, bee-hives etc,
around promiscuously.
The farmers annual picnic Of KIM
ball and other adjoining townships was
held yesterday Aug. Goth. in the Kim
ball Grove south east of Thornton.
Harvey Tappan. secretary of the
board of schoo! examiners IN this coun-
ty, says that of the 1913 school-houses.
II are in such bad condition as to be
unit for use.
The Van Camp furniture store in
Port Huron was completely destroyed
by fire, about o'clock ON the morning
of the 22hd. residence adjoining being
nearly consumed also.
y. Cawthorne, the organist of the
Congl church. Port Huron. has receiv-
ed an offer from the Presbyterian
church at Flint. Port Huron will do
well to keep the professor there.
There is a clock in Fort Gratiot own
ed by Wm Fuller, which is over 100.
years old 1t has been in his family for
generations, has wooden works, and is
probably good for generations to come.
4 Fort Gratot man found bottle
of 32-year-old-whiskey the other day
while digging a well and now, although
the village has fine water works every
other citizen thinks he must have well.
The Democratic club of st. Clair have
erected hickory pole which they claim
to be the highest Democratic hickory
in the state 1t is 152 feet high from
the ground to the bush. with eight feet
in the ground.
The excursion of over 200 OF the b.
of l.. L. to st. Clair and the Oakland on
the 18th was treated to a barbecue, the
first ever witnessed in st. Clair. but not
withstanding the novelty there was not
much left Of the 400 pound OK when
the feast was over.
The new steamer VIM. b. Morley,
which has been under construction at
Marine City for several months past. is
now finished and has been successfully
launched 1t is claimed that she is the
largest and most complete steamer ever
constructed on the st. Clair river
1t is stated that pick. pockets made a
big thing out of the Thurman demon
stration at Port Huron last week Re-
ported that J. b. Eldredge. of Mt. Glenn
ems. lost $500, Congressman Whiting
$500, besides others of small amounts.
Even ladies pockets were picked.
The Democrats of Port Huron were
full of Indignation on the occasion of
Humans visit to the city, against the
superintendent Of Public Works Car
Isle who took that especial day to blow
up dead trees and stumps and otherwise
defacing the park, when the judge was
to deliver his address. The work was
stopped however and everything clean
ed up in good shape again.
One Of the G. e. g. L. freight engines
ran off the track into Black River at
Port Huron on Wednesday of last week,
the bridge being open at the time. An
other engine was assisting in switching
and there was some mistake in regard
to signals. The engine lay in the water
in such a manner that the bridge could
not be closed, and of course no trains
could cross until it was taken out.
The Marine City hook and ladder
company were used rather meanly by
the judges on the occasion Of the tour
nament at Sarnia. 1t was conceded on
all sides that they made the best time
and won the contest, but the judges