Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-01-26
The Weekly Exposition.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1883.
COUNTY COLUMN.
Diphtheria reported around Lynn.

brated Mary Somervllle day, Jan. 18th
Port Huron has new social organic
ltion of young men, called Our boys
Capac win indulge in roller skating
TINS winter. Fred Locke opens the
rink.
Capac wants her hitchlng posts haul
cd down and street lamps posted in
stead.
John Turner. Of Ruby, died Sunday
The 18th. A wife and six children are
left.
The postmaster at Smiths Creek, NJ.
Sperry has resigned. Cause, his poor
health.
Ten new locomotives are being made
at the Grand Trunk Machine shop 1T
Huron.
Church & Co.'S. Saleratus Company
are preparing to move their works to
Port Huron.
Capac business men have organized
an enterprise society to advance the in
forests of the place.
Burns birthday was celebrated by
the Scotchmen of Port Huron on the
evening of the 25th.
John +. Ward and company gave
play Monday evening for the benefit Of
the Port Huron Guards.
School has been closed in Kenockee
Oh account Of the measles, no less than
twelve families being sick.
A special telegraph wire between Fl.
Gratiot and Chicago is being put in ex-
pressly for their train dispatches.
Judge Walker. of Capac, received a
heavy fall on the icy sidewalk, and is
now laid up with broken arm.
The Capac Journal has changed its
quarters. The old Office becoming too
smoky for even its devil to live in.
st. Clair loses its dry goods firm of
G. b. & J. A. Forester. who go to Mil
lingtOn to engage in the same business.
Port Huron will have an electric
light plant costing $4,000. 1t will be
operated by the water works machinery.
The Sunday Herald is so considerable
of the ladies that it does not publish
the ages in giving the names of those
licensed to wed.
The German Aid Society OF Port
Huron will give their Goth annual mas
querade ball, Feb. 18TH. S2l in cash to
the best maskers.
Andrew Parks, of Wales, was hurt
severely while drawing wood by his
horses becoming frightened and tramp
ing him under their feet.
The Journal makes an example of q
lady who went to Port Huron. sold her
butter and came back to Capac with
the money to do her trading.
Thomas Paine's birthday will be cele-
brated by the Spritualists, Liberahsts
and Free Thinkers the 29th of Jan. at
the Maccabees Hall, Port Huron.
The Port Huron Commercial COM
plains that the police are never around
when fights and rows are going on but
can always find saloons open after
hours.
st. Clair has Workingmen's Benevo-
lent society. To give help in sickness
is the object, and for the benefit of the
families of deceased members. life in
surance.
Part of the machinery for the roller
process mill at Capac has arrived and !
is being set up. The Journals earnest |
efforts to secure this mill have been
successful.
The trial Of Robert Murray for the |
murder of John Young, of Port Huron |
is slowly dragging along. Our readers
will remember that Young was killed
last March.
The 18th anniversary of the wedding |
Of Mr.. and Mrs Andrew McElroy. of
Marine City, was celebrated by about
loo friends, who passed the evening or
the 10th with them.
j. B. Parker, who lately severed his
with the Sunday Herald,
eft with his family for Savannah, Ga.
asst week, where he will still continue
TO be newspaper man.
About $4,000 in bonus notes for the
Detroit 81 st. Clair railroad
has been raised at Marine City, three
fourths of the right of way secured and
the work goes bravely on.
Tuesday, farmer, of Brockway, by
The name of Mcleod. came to the city.
He put his team up at Walsh's barn
and engaged lodging at the Walsh ho-
Tel. At 10 o'clock in the evening lie
eft the hotel saying he would be back
m few minutes. lie did not return
and this morning the police were noti-
led of his disappearance. He was
found at Fort Gratiot about noon howl
ng drunk. He had meta friend on the
streets Tuesday night who assisted him