Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-10-17
The Weekly ExpoSitO!.
THURSDAY. OCTOBER II. 1889.
COUNTY COLUMN.


$500 for sparrow heads this year.
This county has sent sixteen insane
people to the asylum since January last.
VIM. Shelter, of Thornton, has left
his farm and will reside in Port Huron.
John Stebbens, of Thornton, has
rented and will work farm in Kenoc-
kee.
John Ryan, a prominent citizen of
Columbus, has gone to st. Clair to re-
side.
A Chinese opium pipe was seized by
the customs officers at Port Huron last
week.
Ben Drawe, of Marine City. drew
house and lot in that city at a recent
rattle.
&C arrests made in Port Huron dur
ing September, Al of which were
DRINKS.
1t is reported that October is the
dullest month in the year for real estate
transfers.
A little son of Henry Adams. of Port
Huron, fell out of a door and broke an
arm and leg.
The new bridge in the township of
| Fort Gratiot, across Black river, has
been commenced.
| S. Eastman is now superintendent of
the Capac M. Z. Sunday school, n.
Hunter having resigned the position.
Policeman John Thompson. of Port
Huron, is failing from brain softening,
from which it is thought he cannot re-
cover.
James Brandymore, who so mysteri-
ously left his home in Port Huron sew
eral weeks ago, has been found at Sault
Ste. Marie.
Rudolph Frank, Ozias Dudley and
John M, Stevens, natives of Germany
and Canada, have been admitted to full
citizenship.
! The Smith bell ringers gave a good
entertainment at Marine City the other
night for the benefit of the hook and
ladder boys.
Frank McElroy, of Marine City, pre-
seNted the new third ward school house
With handsome flag which now floats
from the building.
The grocery stock of Wesley y.
/ Smith, of Port Huron, was attached
last week by w. w. Campbell s. Co.,
for money due them.
Five skeletons were found while dig
CINE a trench at Port Huron lately.
They are supposed to be men buried by
the government years ago.
Moore Bros, VIM. Jenkinson. w. l..
jerks and others as stockholders have
organized new savings bank in the
Moore block at Port Huron.
B. II. Williams. formerly publisher of
| "a,
! in England recently, where he had gone
for the benefit of his health.
The new Methodist Episcopal chapel
in Port Huron was dedicated Sunday
last. \ Sunday school was organized
with John ). Dutie as superintendent.
A bridge is to be built across Belle
river on the town line between CascO
and Columbus about which there has
been trouble between the two township
for good many years.
A new mining company called the
"Ben Hur Mining Co." has been organ
lied and articles of association filed
with the county clerk. The business
office is at Port Huron.
The Capac Journal Office is well
stocked with curiosities. the last being
fossil which resembles q rams horn,
but which the Journal says may be the
tail of petrified serpent.
A new lumber company has been or
ganized with headquarters at Marine
City. The stockholders are VIM. b.
and ii. T. Morley. of Marine City, and
Chas. T. Morley, Of Cleveland.
The South Lyon Picket remarks that
l. II. Wadsworth. of Port Huron, is
| .,,.. - 4. De- n
Industry. This will probably be sur
prising news to Mr.. Wadsworth.
The 18 months-old child of Joseph
Thomas, of Marine City was fatally
burned last Saturday by getting toe
near the fire. It's mother was also seri.
Ously burned while extinguishing the
flames.
VIM. Martin fell between two cars OF
a moving train in the f. q =. M. yard
at Port Huron last Saturday and re-
ceived bad wound on his head II
was very close call as he might have
been cut in two.
w. w. Allen, superintendent Of the
Sunday school at Smiths Creek. receiv-
ed a visit from his friends recently. who
presented him with handsome hang
ing lamp as a token of the esteem in
which they hold him.
a. G.. Wesbrook, who had commenced
the erection Of several buildings in
Marine City, was served with a notice
by the common council, stating that he
was encroaching on city property sew
eral feet. and now Mr.. Wesbrook will
do no more building.
A sad accident occurred at the G. &
G.. r. elevator ut Port Huron last week.
Henry w Dawson, workman in the
elevator, fell into the receiving bin and
was covered by the oats and smothered
before help could reach him. He
leaves wife and three small children
Peter O'Sullivan, who was killed al
the elevator in Capac last week by fall.
ing from the third story and breaking
his neck, was the son of Alderman
O'Sullivan, of Port Huron, who has the
contract for building the new elevator
Young Sullivan was but II years OF
age, and his death is sad blow to his
parents.
The county poor board were in ses.
sion last week. The expenses for the
past year were over S4.0 900 less than last
wear. amounting to Sl5.93795 A debt