Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-12-20
The Weekly EEp98iiOr,
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1855.
COUNTY COLUMN.

The Sunday school at LakepOrt has
been re-organized.
Melvin Lamb, an old settler of Wales
township. died recently.
Wales Tent, X. 0. r. NJ, elect officers
Dec. 22d, at Lambs hall.
The county poor house contains 20
inmates at the present time.
Capac expects more brick stores to
be built in that village soon.
China township is again the first to
pay its state and county taxes.
The Fort Gratiot Sun has reached
its seventh year and still prospers.
Ninety-two boats that are now on
the lakes were built at Marine City.
From GO to 100 men will be employed
on the tunnel OH this side all winter.
Lakeport held bee lately at their
parsonage and repaired the house and
barn.
There are two fourishing lodges of
Patrons of Industry in the town of
Lynn.
1t is stated that the opium habit is
growing strong in the city Of Port
Huron.
The NJ. p. Society, of Capac, will ded-
icate their brick church next Sunday,
Dec. %.
Mrs. Wm, Troy. of the town of st.
Clair, died December 1st, at the age Of
70 years.
The Port Huron CONGRATULATIONS
sells for cent paper now, or % cents
a month.
The roller process mill Mt Capac is
now running full blast and is crowded
with work.
James Purdy, of Smiths Creek, died
recently. His wife died only eight
weeks before.
The German Catholics of Port Huron
want a priest and will ask Bishop Fo-
ley for one.
Mrs. Alex Geru, a twenty years resi-
dent of Port Huron, died Dec. 18th,
aged 80 years.
The bonded Indebtedness of the city
of Port Huron has been decreased
5000 this year.
Granger * Co, of Memphis, general
merchants, have assigned to +. Cobun,
of the same place.
Berville is again without a physician
and holds out open arms to anyone de-
string to locate there.
A Port Huron doctor claims to be in
possession of some Of the bones of Mo-
Fart, the great composer.
Fifty engines and l25 separators are
to be built by the Upton Manufacture
ing Company this winter.
S6O7G62 has been paid out to town
ships and cities in the county, of the
primary school interest fund.
Dunford q Alverson will employ
about POO men during the winter in
their ship yard at Port Huron.
The young men of Marine City have
organized Terpsichorean club. They
will give six dauces during the winter.
The Huron House partners, of Port
Huron, Knill & Emerson, have dissOlv-
ed. Mr.. Knill becomes sole proprietor.
The Marine City council have order
ed all persons in the city vaccinated
free of charge, who are u nable to pay.
Not loss has been met yet in the st.
Clair and Sanilac county Insurance Co.,
which was organized little over year
ago.
Capt. Frank Holland, of the steam
barge Porter Chamberlain, has become
totally blind and is at his home in Port
Huron.
A young woman from Germany liv-
ing in Port Huron, has gone insane. 1t
is supposed to be from the desertion of
her lover.
Del Robertson young man well
known and esteemed in Marine City,
died at his home there, December
10th, 1888.
1t has been decided that Robert Muir
ray should receive his second trial in
another county. Lapeer county is the
one selected.
Coal gas nearly suffocated Mrs. EN-
ma Bills and her son of Fort Gratiot
last week. They were discovered just
in time to be saved.
Port Huron claims to have the finest
system Of waterworks in Michigan.
$4,000 worth of Improvements have
been made during the year.
In the st. Clair county poormaster'S
Office the following notice is posted:
mo inmate of the poor house will be
allowed to get into bed with his boots
on"
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