Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-07-25
The Weekly Exposition.
THURSDAY, july 25, 1889.
COUNTY COLUMN.

Six lawyers are trying to make-a liv-
ing in Marine City.
st. Clair city has new safe in which
keep its documents.
Marine City papers are claiming the
Detroit peddlers to be nuisances.
1t is expected a large planning mill
will be built at Marine City by NJ. Sick
en-.
The Port Huron Council thinks it
costs too much to have their payements
cleaned.
Judge Bunce is said to be very feeble
and doubts are entertained Of his be-
coming any better.
Marine City's hook and ladder boys
will attend the national Greman'5 tour
nament at Detroit in september.
rive Grand Trunk engines are being
repaired at the TT. Gratiot shops. They
had been pronounced unfit for use.
Frank Robinson, Port Huron news
boy. has several thousand silk worms.
lie proposes to make his fortune By
them.
Mary J. Nestle, Of Wales, has been
granted a pension of $12 per month
and Joseph Nestle, of same place, an
increase.
The Port Huron Knights Templar
expect to attend the Triennial Conclaye
to be held in Washington ID. c. Octo-
Der next.
Harvey Tappan, secretary of the
Board of Examiners, has just published
a new work on the educational system
of the state.
The work on the fair grounds and
race course at Port Huron is being rap
idly pushed forward and it is expected
that a far will be held this fall.
The steamship Italia, which is being
completed at Marine City this week, is
the largest ever built in the Marine City
yards and the largest wooden craft on
the entire chain OF lakes.
The value of st. Clair County poor
farm is S1G,OOO;the live stock, S1,672;
farm implements, $500, The value of
the products raised last year was
81, S43.9S, of which there was sold S362S3.
John Mcqueen, whose parents reside
in Port Huron, fell a distance of 30 feet
from the landing of the first stairway
of the new custom house at Erie, Pa,
to the floor below and died shortly af-
terward. His remains were brought to
Port Huron for burial. His age was q
years.
y Port Huron woman has been draw
ing pension as the widow of ]. With
erell, when it became known to the pen
sion office at Washington that she was
married again. y detective was sent
to Port Huron to investigate the mat
ter and the woman will probably lose
her pension.
Collector Geer removed sixteen dem
ocrats from office last week. They were
removed by the consent of the Secretary
of the Treasury. They have informed
the Collector that they are waiting to
GO to work and also forwarded a state
ment Of their grievances to the I. 5.
civil service commission stating that
they were discharged without cause
and without a hearing. All the matter
with them is they are democrats instead
of republicans.
In 1883 Rev. Anthony Lincoln, wife
and three year old daughter went to
Central Africa, from Smiths Creek.
Within year the parents both died and
the little one was left alone. Mission
aries interested themselves and sent her
to this country to her grandparents at
South Lyons. She arrived in Port HUI
ron last Thursday, having travelled
5000 miles alone and having been four
months in making the journey. Her
grandfather is Israel Nudge.
For the year ending July 1, the poor
commissioners expended $10,6S0 for the
temporary relief of the poor outside of
the county house; total expense of the
poor house, S3,961.S1; to the superin-
tendent of the poor was paid $1.l50; to
supervisors, S235.70; to paupers outside
of the poor house, $2,275; the whole
amount expended for the poor aggrega- |
ting S16,S76.7O, to which can be added |
$5,097.44 paid for the maintenance Of
40 insane people during the year. SO
people had home at the county house, !
where deaths occurred and two illegi- |
innate children were born. The county |
farm and stock are valued at S1S,132, |
and S1,S43.9S of products were raised |
during the year.
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