Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-11-01
The Weekly ExpOsitOr.
THURSDAY. NOVEMBER l. 1888.
COUNTY COLUMN.


finished.
st. Clair county gets $4,000 liquor
tax yearly.
Thieves are plentiful in and around
Port Huron lately.
The new Masonic hall at Port Huron
is to be dedicated Nov. l.
Mrs. Lydia Carlton, an old resident of
st. Clair. died Saturday, Oct. 90.
The aged Judge Bunce, of Sturgis.
has become quite feeble of late.
The only son of A. A. Haskell, Of
Kenockee, aged eight years, died Oct.
2lst.
Mrs. Mary Evans, of Port Huron
township, died Oct. 22nd, at the age of
SO years.
a daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. E. NJ.
HOOK. of Fargo, died Oct 10th, of mala-
rial fever,
Water in the st. Clair river is three
feet lower than at any previous time
this season.
Several professional gamblers have
been plying their vocation in Port HUI
ron of late.
Hattie b. Kingsley, aged 16, died at
her home in Clyde, October 20. of typho
malarial fever.
Samuel Edison, of Fort Gratiot, has
been named as elector-at-large on the
Union Labor ticket.
The cantata Little Red Riding
Hood" will be produced at Marine
City November and ..
The old Pinewood cemetery at Port
Huron has been plated into lots,which
will soon be offered for sale.
The Young Mems Lyceum at Marine
City are busily engaged in discussing
the leading questions of the day.
Twenty-eight secret societies in Port
Huron make the men wish there were
more nights that seven in the week.
The Congregational church at Port
Huron celebrated the fiftieth anniver
sary of its organization last Sunday.
F. Parker, of Algonac, has lately sail
ed for Europe. where he will remain
for a year visiting points ofinterest.
DIR. Cumberland, popular young
physician, of Fort Gratiot, was married
this week to Peterborough young
lady.
And now potato which weighs five
pounds is credited to farmer living
on Black river, who raised the same.
Next.
B. w. & r. ii. jerks, of st. Clair.
have shipped to Indian River, Canada.
over 100 tons of hay, during one week
lately.
Capt. John Kennedy, of the schooner
J. NJ. Hutchinson, died at Marine City
OH Sunday of last week. His home was
in Chicago.
Memorial services are to be held at
Fort Gratiot next Sunday by the Odd
fellows of Port Huron, Point Edward
and Sarnia.
The house of Eugene Chase, who
lives north of Port Huron, was burned
down OH Sunday, Oct. II. and nearly
everything was destroyed. Loss, 81, 500;
insurance, $500.
Burglars have been at work at Marys-
vile lately. n. & b. Mills store was
opened and So and a number of notes
taken from the safe, and other articles
of value from the store.
There is great demand for natural
gas in Port Huron, consumers can hard
ly get enough. About seven miles Of
gas mains are connected with the wells
and other wells are to be sunk at once.
a little son of &. S. German, of Port
Huron, was run over by an electric car
one day last week, and had his feet
crushed so that he will be cripple for
life. 1t will be necessary to amputate
one foot and probably both.
Some trouble is being experienced in
the Bonker district school house, CO.
lumbus township. The teacher, Miss
Wilson, has been accustomed to read
ing the Bible to her scholars, and some
of the patrons of the school do not pro-
pose to allow it.
a horse belonging to J. J. Shaw, pro-
prietor of the Albion house, Port HUI
ron, became frightened at some object.
and running along Military ST., jumped
off the bridge, which was open for tug
to pass through, and was drowned. Mr..
Shaw will bring suit against the city
for damages, as there should have been
gates before the open bridge.
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