Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-10-31
The Weekly Exposito!.
THURSDAY. OCTOBER 81. 1889.
COUNTY COLUMN.
Circuit court convenes Nov. IL.

NlICulb COllNtlltS NOV. II.
Rev. f. ii. Townsend, of Detroit, is
the new M. f. pastor at Capac.
Hugh Higgins, of Port Huron, has
gone into the real estate business.
There are over forty doctors in Port
Huron and new ones arriving daily.
Algonac's saw mill and hoop factory
turns out about 5000 hoops each day.
A branch of the Chicago loan and in
vestment society has been established
at Marine City.
Simpson, the Port Huron barber, who
was missing for short time, has been
heard Of at Flint.
&c. Moorhouse, postmaster at Ber-
vile, has been removed, VIM. Abel be-
ing put in his place.
Port Huron's building boom still con-
tinues, and numerous houses are being
erected all over the city.
Gen. Poe, of the L. s. A., is consult
ing engineer of the proposed canal from
Port Huron to Black river.
Will Mcdonald, of Fort Gratiot, has
received 800 from the st. Paul r. Il.
Co. for the loss of an arm.
There are 100 people in the employ Of
the city of Port Huron, who draw
81, 1855 each month for pay.
A fight will come off in Port Huron
tonight between Geo. Peters, of that
city, and Frank Connolly, of Duluth.
The Capac school children will have
a flag over their school building, hav-
ing contributed SIS toward that object.
Fort Gratiot claims to be the only
city in the United States which has
neither an express nor telegraph office.
Mrs. VIM Leel and daughter, of Belle
River, were recently thrown from a
buggy, Mrs. Leel sustaining serious in
juries.
st. Glars Sunday school teachers are
establishing union meetings to be held
weekly for the study of the internation-
al lessons.
Mike Doyle attempted to burn the
Gallagher house, in Port Huron. the
other night, by setting the articles in
his room on fire.
Yesterday. flags were raised over all
the school buildings in Port Huron, ap-
propriate services being observed by
teachers and scholars.
c. p. Farr and his son. of FIT. Gratiot
were thrown from load of hay by the
horses becoming frightened. both recei-
wing serious injuries.
Enough money has been appropria.
ted to paint the court house and the
register of deeds office will undergo
some necessary repairs.
Somerville school at st. Clair ha;
been closed owing to lack of patron.
e. There were only five boarding pupils
| OF l,n Of ha
r. Shoulders, of Port Huron, has been
awarded the contract for building 500
miles of telegraph line for the United
telegraph company in Minnesota.
b, G. BeDell and Fred Buzzell of the
customs force step down and out Nov
/. 1t is understood that Geo. +. Adams
of Armada. will fill Mr.. BeDells place
n. Mills, of Marysville, erected seve.
raj buildings on Stag Island the past
season getting his material from the
states. Now he has had to pay the
customs officials Sl,470 to settle the
matter.
Two Port Huron men will be tried in
the L. 5. court at Detroit next month
Geo. Beacraft on the charge of counter.
feiting and VIM. Rariden on the charge
of using the mails for Matchmaking
purposes.
VIM. Elliott, son of Robt. Elliott, OF
the Elliott House, Port Huron, took
$3.50 from his fathers safe last week
and skipped. He was arrested in De-
troit the next day and placed in the
county Jail.
Some trouble is being experienced at
Marine City as to whether or not GER
tain buildings encroach on the street OF
whether the street is wrong, All work
on several new buildings has stopped
until the matter is settled.
Harry Truman, the young man who
skipped to Canada with money belong
ing to the Sherman company, Port HUI
ron. has been arrested at Toronto
where he followed girl with whom he
was much in love. Truman admits his
Huron for trial.
On Tuesday of last week James Nc
Gee, a farmer living just out of Port
Huron, drove his team in front of a
moving train, while in a drunken con-
dition, killing both horses, but escaping
unhurt himself. This man was only
just released from the Detroit work
house for wife beating.
Chas. Leayan, of Wales, who forged
G. i. Taylor's name to check last
spring and was sent to Ionia tor Is
months, escaped from the prison last
week and walked to his home in Wales
Before night he was found by the keep
er of the prison and Sheriff Mann and
taken back to be kept behind the bars
until the end of his sentence.
Judge Garfield has announced the
time for holding the several terms Of
court in the sixteenth judicial circuit
the counties of st. Clair and MacOmb-
for the years 1890 and 1891, as follows:
Macomb county, third Mondays Of Jan
uary, April, August and October; ST.
Clair county, third Mondays of Febru-
airy, May, September and November.
Robert Hartung, the forger and
swindler, who is confined in the county
jail, is very anxious to get out. He of
fered Mrs. Mann, the sheriff's wife, $35
in cash if she would unlock the door
and let him escape. E. Boice, who