Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-11-28

James cooper, OF Nit. Salem, has
plowed 50 acres on the Lothian farm.
The Capac agricultural society have
borrowed $500 to pay up all indebted
ness.
Seneca Youngs, late of Riley Centre.
will locate saw mill at Capac this
| winter.
Marine City's hook and ladder boys
hold their annual ball this Thursday
evening.
John Richardson, of Algonac. re-
Gently had leg amputated to rid him.
self of cancer.
S.B. Coddington and A. d. McGeorge,
of Capac, have been granted patent
OH a sleigh gear.
Elliott is the name of the new station
established in Lynn and Conrad Feiger
is the postmaster.
| John w. Porter bought Mustard &
Merritt's bankrupt stock of goods at
Port Huron for 1853.
The first will written with type
writer was filed with Judge of Probate
j. l.. Black last week.
Chas. Click, of Ruby, has purchased
lot in Port Huron upon which he will
build brick residence.
Marcus Young is having new brick
Office built just south of the CONNER
cial House, Port Huron.
j. NJ Sanborn and family, of st. Clair,
have left for California, where they will
make their future home.
December LIST will see the Upton
Works at Port Huron commencing
operations with 100
Capac citizens formed themselves in
to bee the other day and did lot of
work on their fair ground.
The Petit estate in Port Huron has
been given $1,000 for the land con-
demned for tunnel purposes.
Z. f. Percival, of Port Huron, was
relieved of handsome gold watch the
other night by some pickpocket.
There have been one thousand mar
riages in st. Clair county since the new
marriage license law went into effect
in 1887.
John Mackey, of Columbus, shot
himself last week. 1t is supposed that
he is partially insane. His recovery is
doubtful.
Robert Walsh. wealthy Port Huron
man, has $50 houses which he rents in
that city, all being on the north side of
Black river.
Alex. Bassett. OF Marine City, who
recently broke his ankle. was obliged to
have his leg amputated, as gangrene
was setting in.
David Lowe, of China township, took
dose of paris green last week. report
ed to have been done with suicidal in
tent, but he recovered.
Thomas Facer and family, after liv-
ing in Dakota for eight years, have now
returned to their old home in Lynn,
thoroughly satisfied with Michigan.
Theodore Schultz. of Marine City.
was drowned Saturday night, by falling
off the gang plank as he was helping
coal boat. He was 20 years of age.
There are at present five prisoners
from st. Clair county in the Detroit
house of correction, three from Fort
Gratiot and two from Port Huron.
Daniel Lawrence, young colored
man whose home is in Port Huron, has
not been seen or heard of since last
week
The Episcopal and Presbyterian
churches. of Fort Gratiot. gave a bust
ness mems carnival Monday evening in
Fort Gratiot and Tuesday evening in
Port Huron.
Geo. Mallory, of Smiths Creek, and
Jas. Davidson, of Port Huron, have
formed a co-partnership and intend
going into the lumber business in the
new state of Washington.
The Port Huron telephone exchange
has the largest number of subscribers
at the present time than at any one
time before since the exchange was
established. The number is 1876.
The body of four months old baby
boy was found in Black river at Port
Huron last Saturday by some boys.
The police are investigating the affair
in the hope of finding who it belongs to.
John Butler, Of Emmett, who was
taken to the asylum at Pontiac two
years ago and returned home last jan
uary pronounced cured. has been taken
back, as he has lately showed signs of
insanity.
The grocery store Of A. Il. Carlisle, of
| Port Huron. was closed last week on q
chattel mortgage held by Jacob p.
Haynes. The mortgage is for $1,000,
and it is understood a large amount
besides is owing.
James Tobias. an Italian working at
the tunnel. is in the county Jail, charg-
ed with stabbing his wife. They live.
near the junction and have been marri-
ed little over year. 1t is limited that
Tobias has another wife in Italy.
A new scheme has been started in
Marine City by John j. Spinks. For
small commission charged the farmer
he proposes to allow them to bring in
their horses, cattle or whatever they
wish to sell every Saturday, and have
them sold at auction.
Workmen in the tunnel employed in
front of the shield get III cents per
hour and Is cents an hour
for working behind the shield. A large
number of men find steady employ
ment and the changes are necessarily
often where so many are engaged.