Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-11-21
The Weekly ExpoSito!.
THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 81. 1889.
COUNTY COLUMN.

| A wedding is on the taplS at hlmDall.
Port Huron has some cases of scarlet
fever.
A ladies band has been organized at
| Capac.
Canadians are moving into Port HUI
ron daily by the dozen.
Mile Rhea played Josephine" in 1T.
Huron Tuesday evening.
Thomas Burns, of Kimball, will
spend the winter in Washington.
The new Moore block which is being
built at Port Huron will cost $4,000.
A new highway running across sec
ton IL in Lynn. was laid out last week.
Geo. haywood, lawyer from Bad
Axe, has opened an Office in Pt. Huron.
Moore, of the st. Clair Republican,
will probably get the postoffice in that
city.
The Port Huron Universalist society
intend building q new church in the
spring.
Since November /, 1883, there have
been commenced in this county 253
criminal cases.
Mrs. Barney Mills, of Marysville, had
valuable gold watch taken from her
house last week.
Mrs. Barnett, of Fort Gratiot. fell on
a slippery sidewalk the other day and
broke her lett arm.
The Port Huron merchants are en-
tirely satisfied with the early closing
scheme after six months trial.
Cooley 81 Campbell, of Port Huron,
will not build furniture factory and
planning mill in that city as reported.
Four of Port Huron's young lad,
have not attended school in three years
The authorities will look into the
matter.
An accident occurred in the elevator
in f. 5. Baggs store, Port Huron, on
Monday, whereby four men were
injured.
John f. Rensburg, of Kansas, lectur-
ed in Port Huron one evening last week
on the subject "False Claims" He is q
free thinker.
} Fred Locke, of the Locke & Long
show, has taken up his occupation OF
paper hanger and painter, now that his
show season is oyer.
I. r.. c. Nudge 81 Co, Port Huron, have
: given dozen paper blankets to the
: Hospital and Home, also to each mai
carrier of the city paper vest.
VIM. Wastell is the veteran druggist
of Port Huron, having opened the frs
E drug store there in 1855 and having
: kept it continuously ever since.
Geo. Jackson, of Fort Gratiot, receiv
! ed 81 800 from the insurance company
! for the loss of his house and furnitur,
by fire recently. He will rebuild a
once.
!. The Washburn-Crosby mills at MINI
eapOlis are looking for new location
and Port Huron would like to ge
them. An offer of five or ten acres o.
land has been offered by n. p. White.
One hundred new freight cars viii bC
built at Fort Gratict during the winter
Four new coaches and two baggage
cars are now under construction and {
new dining car will soon be commeced
Quarterly reports will not be pub
lished any longer by the county super
intendents of the poor but at the close
of each year yearly report will bt
published, and the name of each person
who receives aid.
Chas. Z. Barber. corporation law
yer from Washington, ID. c., is after the
r. c. Nudge paper clothing company
to remove their plant away from Port
Huron, offering large attractions. 1t i:
an unsettled question yet whether they
go or stay.
Some crooked work has been going
in Port Huron lately, certain cigar
makers placing their cigars on the
market without the necessary revenue
stamps. Deputy Internal Revenue
Collector Joe w. Selden, of Sand Beach
is making it warm for them.
The Pacific House property, on the
corner of Huron avenue and Butler
street, Port Huron, has been sold to
several Port Huron gentlemen. VIM
Canahom, one of the purchasers, will
build large brick block, which he will
occupy with his large wholesale
business.
BY the county's new contract with
the Detroit house of correction the
following are the rates which will be
paid for the board of prisoners for five
years: For four months sentence OF
less $1.75 per week; for six months to
one year, $1.25 per week; one year OF
more 81 per week. The majority OF
our representatives make short stays
at the h. C.
The Port Huron Times says: A Ger
man called at the st. Clair county
clerks on Saturday. His errand was a
delicate one. A few days before he
had obtained marriage license. Be-
fore he could get the license home the
girl ran away and married another man
What the German wanted to know was
if the license would prevent him from
marrying some other girl he had his eye
on. The clerk answered him that he