Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-09-13
The Weekly Exposition.
THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 10, 1888.
COUNTY COLUMN.

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superintendent of the Poor Saph vii
hand in his resignation soon.
George Chapman, of Emmett. is build
ing a grain elevator at that place.
Rev. John Russell addressed the peo
pie of Capac on the evening of Sept. eth
There are II old soldiers in Brockway
township, % in Riley. and Is in Green
wood.
The late Chas. y. Jex, of Port Huron
left will which the relatives have beer
unable to ind.
Port Huron was treated to some in
teresting temperance talks last week by
Thos. n. Doutney.
The Cavanagh House at Emmett has
been leased for three years to Mr.
Martin from Canada.
The editors of the Capac Journal are
getting tired of being asked questions
about their pet snakes.
Richard Liscomb, one of the pioneers
of st. Clair county, died in kimball
recently, aged 50 years.
Capac people are circulating paper
for the purpose of raising money to
paint their NJ. L. church
The Pt. Huron Herald base ball boys
played game with the lawyers last
week Friday and got left.
Memphis people are said to have paid
band of gypsies Sl60 one Sunday re-
Gently for fortune telling.
The value of merchandise exported
from Port Huron during the month of
August reached Sl,l03,229.
Robt. Murray's second trial will come
off at the September term of circuit
court which opens on the 18th.
over 500 buggy tops have been turned
out this summer by Anderson Il Co.'S
buggy top factory at Port Huron.
The new hotel on Military street,
Port Ia on. managed 10y Chas. IIecKer,
is known as the Germania House.
The cottagers at Iiuronia have all
left for their homes, and the season.
which has been so successful, has closed.
Thomas Symington's orchestra have
closed their engagement at the Oakland,
s.. Clair and returned to Port Huron.
The shaft on the American side of
the tunnel, ut Port Huron, is down 60
feet, and 80 men are hard at work night
and doy.
A new firm in Port Huron is known
as Gray & Thompson. Wall paper will
be carried besides their art and decorat-
ing stock.
l.. {. Boynton and Miss Cora Shepard
popular young people of Marine City.
were united in marriage one week ago
Saturday.
VIM. Baldwin, brakeman on the u.
II. & y. w. R'y, sprained his ankle at
East Saginaw one day last week and
was laid off for time
The Captain of the Guards, Port
Huron, has received $4,000 from the
State, as settlement for the late en-
campment at Mackinac.
There are known to have been robbed
at the Thurman demonstration at Port
Huron. about 80 people, and very likely
many more not heard from.
The Ingalls, Oil Co. are to erect two
tanks, 30 X feet in size for their trade
in Port Huron. A side track from the
Grand Trunk reaches them.
Port Huron is in danger of losing
some of her handsome shade trees un-
less something is done to get rid of the
worms which are eating into them.
The county Jail is in good shape, at
least so say the Judge of Probate, the
poor commissioner and county agent
Doyle, after making an inspection.
d. ITagel, of Wales, was arrested last
week Wednesday on the charge of at
tempted rape on the person of Mrs
John II. Hoffman, of the same place.
1t is thought that the police got the
wrong man when they arrested Capt.
Durant, of Sand Beach, for smuggling.
No traces of opium have been found
At the Prohibition Congressional con-
vention held in Port Huron last week
Wednesday, Orson ingalls,. of Huron
county was nominated for Congress, on
the second ballot.
There are over 1000 chattel mort
cages on file in the city clerks Office
Port Huron. Every kind of security
that can be imagined has been given,
even to bicycle and row boat.
Capt. Henry Durant, arrested on the
charge of smuggling opium, was ar
raigned last week Wednesday before
United States Commissioner Harris,
and his examination adjourned to Sept
IS. Bail was fixed at five thousand
dollars.