Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-02-07
The Weekly ExpOsitOr.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY Z. 1889.
COUNTY COLUMN.

running at Wales.
The Port Huronites are having their
city charter revised.
The Macca6ees, of Capsc, will build
a new hall 20x6O feet.
The X. o. T. n. are talking OF build
ing hall at Abbottsford.
A kissing club has been organized by
Fort Gratiot young ladies'.
Thos. Farmer, of Fort Grstiot, died
last Sunday, aged 30 years.
Marine City wants her waterworks
extended TO the third ward.
There is great deal Of sickness in
Port Huron just at present
The Sacred Heart Academy at Port
Huron has over 800 pupils.
Ora Tidgeon, q resident OF Wales,
died Jan. 25th, at the age of 30 years.
VIM. II. Hunter and Miss Lille
Green, of Wales, were recently married.
Mrs. D. II. Goodwille, Of Fort Gratiot
has large bed of psnsies in full bloom.
1.-THE annual meeting of the Humane
Society was held in Port Huron last
week.
An East Saginaw Attorney, Daniel
Barbita by name, will locate in Port
Huron.
Every four weeks it takes $685. to
pay off the teachers of the Fort Gratiot
schools.
During December there were 1913
bushels of wheat marketed in st. Clair
county.
A process for freezing and moulding
ice has been invented by DR.. :. ID. Pace,
Of Port Huron.
No empty houses in Capac and the
Journal thinks now is the time to build
tenement houses.
The Sulpliite Fibre works in Port
Huron will probably start up about the
middle Of February.
The new German Evangelical church
few miles northeast of Capac is to be
dedicated on the 10th inst.
Marine City vessel property has
changed hands to the amount of
100000 worth this winter.
Capt. Cotton is intending to build n
new hotel on the site of the one recent
ly burned at Old Brockway.
Miss Florence Bowers, of Port Huron
and Jas. Macarthur. Of Cass City, were
married last week Thursday.
1t has been reported that the Star
Printing Co. has consolidated with the
Sunday Herald. Port Huron.
The receipts at the County Treasur-
er's office for January amounted to
S27, $50 %. and disbursements Sl8,021.52.
The Port Huron guards and X. o. T.
NJ. band will give a dress parade ana
entertainment in Palace hall, shortly.
DIR. G. c. Westell, of Somerville
school will retire from the management
of that institution at the close of the
year.
NJ. W. Birchard, of Detroit, lately
deceased left q fortune of $4,000 to his
grandson, Rev. L. Il. Willard, of St.
Clair.
1t is talked Of building a bridge
across Black river, from Sufrern to
Short Street, in Port Huron. Estimat-
ed cost $4,000.
The Port Huron Times has published
in supplement form, 500 descriptions
Of real estate in that city to be sold for
unpaid assessments.
Cleophas PheniX, grocer of Port
Huron, and who has resided there a
good many years, fell dead last Friday.
Cause, heart disease.
A proposition to spend $4,000 for a
geographical index of all the real estate
in st. Clair county will be given to the
people to vote on in the spring.
The Evening Commercial-Tribun
entered upon its second year, Feb. 1st.
1t is bright and newsy paper and we
wish it all further success possible.
The Port Huron Salvation army
held a jubilee wedding last Monday
evening, Charles Holtborg and Lydia
Macarthur being the contracting parties.
VIM. Csnham, of Port Huron, was
greatly surprised when on purchasing
a ton of coal he found a roll of bills
amounting TO S45 in the center OF the
load.
An auxiliary to the Brotherhood of
Railroad Brakemen has been organized
by the Fort Gratiot ladies', which is the
first organization of the kind in the
world.
Arnold Saph. poormaster for many
years. accumulated fortune for his
old age by saving % cents out of every
dollar he has earned since he was II
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