Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-08-22
The Weekly ExpoSitOr.
THURSDAY. AUGUST %. 1889.
COUNTY COLUMN.

There are 113 business firms in Ma
rine City.
A new foundry is being built at
Marine City.
Mrs. Gotfriet Schmok, of Adair, has
been stricken with paralysis.
The celebrated drama "She" will be
presented at Port Huron, Aug. Goth.
The grist mill at Abbottsford has
been fitted up with ahalfroller process
Ten thousand tons of coal have been
brought to Port Huron since June 1st.
22,172 barrels of salt were inspected
in St Clair county during the month of
July.
w. b. Mallory, postmaster at Thorn
ton, has resigned, VIM. Ruddock taking
his place.
Isaac Armitage, of Abbottsford, was
quite seriously hurt recently by being
thrown from his buggy.
Robt p. Thompson, dealer in artists
materials, ETC., in Port Huron, assigned
last week to z. II. Phillips.
The st. Clair County Bible Society
held its annual meeting at the NJ. E.
church in st. Clair last Sunday.
School district No. 6, in Kenockee,
propose to repair its school house
and put in patent seats this fall.
Chas. w. Fitz, an old veteran, of
Wales, has been granted a pension with
back pay amounting to about $500.
The st. Clair and Sanilac counties
Sunday School Association will hold
their ninth annual picnic at Amadore,
on Tuesday, Sept 9TH.
The r. G. Nudge paper clothing fac
tory now in operation at Port Huron,
employs Il girls at present and expect
TO increase the number
It's said that the awful stencil arts
ing from Black river at Port Huron is
almost unbearable. Investigations are
being made as TO the cause.
Junior Camp, No. 1, of Port Huron
took first prize of 800 for the best
Uniform Rank in the Maccabee process
sion at Muskegon. The X. o. T. NJ.
band of the same city took the Bird prize
of $25.
The July meeting of the Wales and
Kimball Farmers Club was a very
pleasant and interesting one, being
held entirely in the interest of the
children. The August meeting is to be
held at Peter Burns in Kimball.
The F. q p. NJ. R'y Co. have offered
to carry free of expense all stock and
articles intended for the Port Huron
fair, and to carry passengers at one-half
fare. Special trains will also be run
between the city and the fair grounds
every 20 minutes for five cents fare.
A sad story comes from Wales. Mrs.
Ellen Nestel married q man named
Woodward last week. lie claimed TO
have a farm in Sanilac county, and
started with his bride to go and see it..
They went as far as Lapeer. where he
borrowed $50 of his wife's money and
left her at the hotel. She was obliged
to walk from Lapeer home.
Andrew Bromley, an old resident of
Wales, died at the county poor house
last Friday. A number of years ago
he moved his family, consisting of his
wife and four daughters, to town in
the northern part of the state. Not
long after his wife and daughters died
with the small poX, he also had the
same disease, but recovered and be-
came deranged. He again visited his
old home. He has often been heard to
remark "he wished he was dead for no.
body wanted him. Last week he went
to the county house and the next day
had paralytic stroke from which he
died.
County Treasurer Burns has received
a copy of the new tax law which went
into effect June 9th. The most i'm
portant changes are those regarding
the sale of land for the non-payment
of taxes. In the old law the land on
which the taxes had not been paid for
the year of 1887 would be sold by the
auditor-general of the state i'll the usual
manner on the first Monday in October
of 1889, the county treasurer of the
county having in the meantime adver-
tised the property to be sold in the
usual manner. But the amended law
sets the date for the sale over to the
first Monday in May of 1890. The pro-
ceedings for sale are also different The
auditor-general must now secure de-
cree in chancery from the circuit court
in the county in which the property is
situated, declaring its sale in much the
same manner as the foreclosure of a
mortgage. The methods of making
the redemptions and sales is not chang
pd from thp pptbOd prpeprihod r1pder