Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-08-09
Tie Weekly Exposition.
THURSDAY. AUGUST 8. 1888.
COUNTY COLUMN.

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Bread is being sold in Port Huron for
three cents.
Tne people of Emmett would like a
Protestant church.
The county clerk issued 20 marriage
licenses last month.
Port Huron police made CT arrests in
that city last month.
The city of st. Clair has been full of
visitors this summer.
Mrs. J. Whoopstone died at her home
in Kimball, June 2Sth.
A pension has been granted to John
Wagner, of Smiths Creek.
Port IIuronites will listen to Allen
&. Thurman, August 22nd.
The new pumps for the Port Huron
city waterworks have arrived.
During the past month II different
persons were confined i'll the county
Jail.
st. Clair is waiting for big Demo-
cratic blowout which is expected very
soon.
Mrs. VIM. Upton, of Thornton, died
the 2Sth of June with tumor of the
breast.
The Port Huron police have been
prohibited from talking politics while
on duty.
The United States detectives at Port
Huron, are looking out for more opium
smugglers.
The W. c. Z. L. of Port Huron and
Marine City picnicked at Gratiot Beach
last Friday.
1t is announced that st. Clair will be
soon treated to breach of promise
case in high life.
Ten men have been laid off from the
fibre works in Port Huron. The brick
work is all completed.
A subscription paper is going the
rounds of Fort Gratiot, to raise a
fund to organize a band
Hon. Wellington II. Burt, of East
Saginaw, will be present at the Macca-
bee Jubilee in Port Huron.
The salt blocks at st. Clair are expert
menting in using oil for fuel instead of
coal and are finding it success.
a Fort Gratiot doctor, who loved
John Barleycorn too much, has been
sent up for 80 days. His name is Har-
per.
The Marine City base ball club play
ed with the Detroit Evening Journal
newsboys one day last week, AID beat
them too.
The Port Huron bicycle boys expect
to attend the meeting of the League of
American Wheelmen at Grand Rapids,
August Is.
VIM. Harper, a resident of Port HUI
ron, will take term Of 80 days at the
Detroit house of correction for abusing
hi; family.
The members of the Lotus club of
Detroit, Port Huron and Fort Gratiot
picnic at Grand Point, below Algonac,
to-day, Aug. 9.
$3.50 has been raised for building
new German Evangelical church in
Mussey township, and work will be be-
gun Immediately.
The body of an unknown man was
found in the river about three miles be-
low st. Clair city, June 30th. 1t was
buried in East China.
Chas. Porrett, of Marine City, has
purchased half interest in the grocery
business of Frank Smith, and the firm
is now known as Smith & Porrett.
George Whites residence in Wales
burned Saturday night, June 2Sth. The
family had a narrow escape from death.
The loss reached $4,000, and insurance
81 400.
Grove meetings commenced in the
Easton grove at Thornton, August 9Th,
and will continue four days. A num-
Der of ministers will assist the Rev. j.
&. Scott.
The cadet of the Salvation Army in
Port Huron had her pocket book stolen
from her room the other night. She
didn't sing "glory hallelujah" the next
morning.
ii. J. Bradbeer, of Fort Gratiot, is
the owner of an old arm chair that was
at one time the property of General
Cass while he was governor of the Ter
ritory of Michigan. 1t was made in
1924.
The committee of the council who
were appointed to investigate the
charges made by the Rev. Sam Bettes