Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-11-15
The Weekly ExpOSitOr.
THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 10. 1888.
COUNTY COLUMN.

Hay at Port Huron brings 81 ton
Port Huron is having a run of coun.
terfeit nickels.
Port Huron proposes having another
steam laundry.
Squirrels are numerous in the woods
around Port Huron.
Sneak thieves are annoying the good
people of Fort Gratiot.
The ferry boat Dormer, of Port
Huron, is to be rebuilt.
The Custom House employees wear
sober faces nowadays.
The Sylvan City creamery has about
closed up for the winter.
Charles J. Seely has resumed control
of the Marine City Magnet.
Mrs. Joseph Smith, of Port Huron,
died Nov. at the age of 30 years.
Port Huron woodward dealers are
growing over the scarcity of wood.
John McCarty has been arrested at
Fort Gratiot as professional thief.
The Marine City Stave Company
have closed their mill for the season.
Not a single torchlight procession
did Capac have during the campaign.
John Sharrard, of Mussey, raised 70
| bushels of barley from two bushels of
seed.
Port Huron needs q meat inspector,
as there is a lot of diseased meat being
sold there.
Clara Findley, of Port Huron, died
Nov. 5, of consumption. She was 90
years of age.
c. W. Fitz, of Wales, raised over 800
bushels of corn from less than three
acres of land.
The German Evangelical church that
is being built in Mussey township is
progressing finely.
a cigar and confectionery store has
been started in Port Huron by Samuel
Harris, of Duluth.
Capac people are at variance as to
whether or no they shall have recesses
in the public school.
Joseph Goulait, of st. Clair, has been
missing since Nov. Sd. 1t rs believed
that he must have fallen into the river.
William Burns, an employe of Henry
Kingsley, of Grant, died last Thursday
night at the latter's farm, aged 81
years.
Miss Hattie Sleeper has returned to
Port Huron, after having had charge
of the Marine City Magnet for one
month.
The foundation of the new Episcopal
church in Port Huron is said to cover
more surface than any other church in
the city.
John Miller and wife, of Brockway
township, celebrated the first anniver-
sary Of their wedding on Saturday,
Nov 3D..
Port Huron Business college turned
out two graduates last week-Fred w.
Hays, of Clyde, and Frank Wilson. of
Port Huron.
It is said that Charles McDougal. of
Port Huron, has abandoned his family.
Mrs. McDougal has sought relief from
Poormaster Roberts.
Henry Cannis, of near Capac, held a
stump bee recently, and the busy bees
built him 40 rods of stump fence and
then danced all night.
Louis Yearn, ten years employe of
Charles Hubel, of st. Clair, has left for
Detroit to accept position in a gro
Gerry store. His departure will be re-
GREETED.
The banks in Port Huron will be run
on the metropolitan scaleafter the LIST
of January. They will keep open dur
ing the noon hour, and close one hour
earlier in the afternoon.
st. Clair had quite serious runaway
last week Thursday evening, whereby
Rev. FIR. Schenkelberg was injured,
and one of the two ladies who were
with him was also considerably hurt.
Arthur Ellery, young lad of Mays
vile. who robbed Y. Il b. Mills store
in that place, has escaped three times
from the Reform school where he was
taken, each time returning to his home.
The Journal remarks that a person
on the streets of Capac last week Tues
day might have thought he was in Ger
many, as large majority Of the people
in the township are of that nationality
Hop Lee, the Chinese who runs a
laundry in Port Huron, wants badly to
visit a friend in Sarnia, but is afraid if
he crosses over that he will be detained
there. lie swears much at the Mclean
man.
Xfter the fourth of March next
Monsieur Buzzel proposes to travel