Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-05-30
The Weekly ExpOsitOT.
THURSDAY, MAY 80. 1889.
COUNTY COLUMN.

The circuit court opened Monday
morning.
A. j. Mcknight is the new postmas-
ter at Capac.
There is still talk of Port Huron and
Fort Gratiot being united.
Sixteen acres has been added to
Lakeside cemetery, Port Huron.
The ladies of the NJ. +. church at
Capac have organized an aid society.
Peter Burns. of Wales, is putting up
"a large barn on the site of the old one
burned.
The house of Barney O'Rourke at
Thornton, burned last week, with some
furniture.
Patrick Ryan, of Emmett, was taken
suddenly insane, and has been sent to
the asylum.
Marine City School Board have en-
gagged the present corps of teachers for
another year.
Collector Geer has appointed John
NJ. Robertson deputy collector of Gus
toms at Algonac.
a Port Huron dealer has offered a
prize to the lady who will name the
LATEST man in the city.
ID. Scott, of Capac, caught cat owl
in a trap in his barn yard recently,
which measured /! feet from tip to tip.
The st. Clair county Poor Board
were in session last Monday for the
purpose of insuring the county build
ings.
An angled gear for transmitting
power has been invented by Sanford
d. Kinsey, OF Columbus, and patent
received.
Michael Welch and John O'Keefe; of
Emmet, were struck by lightning last
week Monday, and were paralyzed for
some hours.
:. +. Aldrich, of Capac, has a hand
some piece of woods near that village,
which he designs for a park, and is so
fitting it up.
Commencement exercises of Somer-
vile school are to be held on the after
noon of June 9Th at the Congregational
church at st. Clair.
The school board of Capac have en-
gagged the present corps of teachers at
500 to principal and 1913 to each of the
assistants, per month.
: The butchers of the state are to hold
a reunion in Detroit on June goth, and
the Dist a banquet will be held at the
Oakland House, ST. Clair.
\ young lad by the name Of Bis
kener, of Marine City, was struck on
the head by Il ball club while playing
ball last Sunday and seriously injured.
The Salutarus Company, of st. Clair,
have filed articles of association with
,, the county clerk. The capital stock of
/ the company is 100000, all paid in.
The wife of Albert GalernO, of Port
Huron, has eloped with David Sim
monds. Mrs. Galerno was laundress
? and carried off large amount of fine
clothes.
The steam barge Tempest burned at
Marine City last week Thursday. The
cause was cargo of fire-damp which
got wet in heavy shower. She was
valued at $4,000.
1t is understood that Christian
Wager, of Port Huron, charged with
counterfeiting, is not insane as he has
pretended. He has been brought back
from the Pontiac asylum to Port
Huron.
John Cochrane, who twenty years
ago, was prominent merchant of Port
Huron, was sent the other day to the
poor house. Little by little he lost
everything until now he will end his
days in poverty.
Lightning struck two large barns be-
longing to Joseph Stevenson wealthy
farmer of Burtchvllle last Saturday eve
, ming and destroyed them entirely with
1000 bush. of grain, 20 tons of hay farm
ing implements, carriages, wagons, etc.
The loss is estimated at $4,000, partl-
ally covered 10y insurance.
Port Huron is to have new enter
prise which will give employment to
about 100 women and a number Of men
b and boys. The Il. c. Nudge Paper
Clothing Company, of Detroit. is TO
locate there and the product of the
Sulphite Fibre Works will be used for
the manufacture of their articles of
clothing.
James Spry, saloon keeper in Port
) Huron, has sworn out complaint
against one jim LAWYERS, charging him
with being common drunkard, This
is the first time on record that saloon
: man has to sworn and as there is law
against selling liquor to common