Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-08-29
COUNTY COLUMN.

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Huron is receiving extensive additions.
Port Huron will have balloon as
sension and parachute jump at its fair.
Detroit and Windsor will no doubt
have tunnel under the Detroit river
similar to the one at Port Huron.
Huronia Beach is called by some
witty writer IAN Adamless Eden" ow-
ing to the scarcity of men at that resort.
The Northern Pacific railroad have
promised the Port Huron fair author
tiles an extensive exhibit in a separate
tent.
Wallace Johnson, of Marine City,
died suddenly on the steamer Mary last
week. He was apparently in his usual
health.
John Edwards. of Port Huron, fell
from a building last Monday and was
badly hurt. y leg and collar-bone were
broken.
A census report is being worked up.
in Port Huron, of all manufacturing
interests there. Willis Bush is the
enumeration.
Not even water is cheap at Fort
GratiOt: and when the people use it too
freely the superintendent kicks, as he
has recently.
Mrs. +. Cunningham. of Kimball, tri-
ed TO kill every child she saw. She was
at length declared insane and sent to the
Pontiac Asylum.
Divorces are becoming epidemic at
Marine City. Mrs Anna Layery now
asks the court for a divorce from her
husband James Llvery.
The Port Huron Times has published
recently Il thorough description of the
tunnel including the engravingS that
lately appeared in the Scientific Amer
lean.
The Patrons of Marlette would like
to hold a Farmers Institute there dur
ing the winter. to be conducted under
the supervision of the Agricultural
College.
A collision occurred in st. Clair river
last Friday between the schooner Belle
Hanscomb and steamer Egyptian, near
Marine City. The schooner was badly
disabled.
The telegraph cable between Harsen
Island and Algonac, which was carried
away recently. will be replaced by a
new heavy armored one at a cost of
about 81 900.
Britain Clark, Fort Gratiot's ex-
celent marshal, was shot at last week
by couple of rowdies. They were rec
ognized. and warrants have been issued
against them.
DR.. Mills. of Port Huron. inserted a
letter in the Port Huron Times of the
25th inst. in which he condemns the
action Of the School Board as being
likely to cause panic.
There is now division in the coun-
ell about Quay street in Port Huron.
Some wish it lowered and some raised.
If this turns out in Port Huron style,
the road will stay as it is.
Robert Lane has been foreman in
the Port Huron tunnel ever since it
started and never has felt any effects of
the compressed air until the day hole
was put through. He is now confined
TO his house.
The Fort Gratiot schools open next
Monday. Sept. /. Nevertheless at last
reports there had been no superintend-
ent appointed owing to a bull-headed
minority on the Board. Nearly all are
in favor of Prof. Parker's reappoint-
ment.
The first opening beneath the ST..
Clair river through which man ever
penetrated was made about $3.50 q. m.
last Monday morning. Chief Engineer
Hohson was, moreover the first man
TO walk on ground from Canada to the
United States.
V. f. Boehmer. of Casco, was fooled
in his little scheme to capture q posi-
ton on the Board of School Examiners.
Bina West in the opinion of the Board
holds the seat. Boehmer will COM
mence proceedings against Miss West
to recover the seat. although it is said
he can not pass third-grade teachers
examination.
ii. Meggs of Ruth. Sanilac county, is
rushing cattle buyer. Desiring to
ship some cattle and not having a cat
tle-car, he shipped them in box-car.
When they arrived in Port Huron, their
destination, they all were standing in
their places; but they were stone-dead.
Such an exceeding "rusher" should be
crushed" down to Jackson for a term
of years.
Before the majority of our patrons
read this article the tunnel under the
st. Clair river between Port Huron and
Sarnia will be an accomplished fact;
and but short time will then be neces-
sary to prepare approaches and clear 1T
for traffic. This surely marks an era
i'm engineering. Tunnels have been
made before, and through the hard