Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-02-06
The Weekly ExpositG,
THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 8. 1890.
COUNTY COLUMN ,

COUNTY COLUMN.
a G.. a. r society has been organized
at Memphis.
Rivival meetings are being held at
Riley Centre.
b. G. Farrand, of Port Huron, has
been very i'll.
The st. Clair county poor house con-
tains 81 paupers.
The Hospital and Home in Port Hur-
or has SIX patients.
The Fort Gratiot Sun Office has a
brand new job press.
Port Hurons fair will be held Sep
TENDER 90, "a and 25.
w. j. Lamb has the appointment of
the Jeddo post-otlice.
Revival work at Capac is not attend
ed with much success.
The late Thos. Forbes, of Port Huron,
left $4,000 to his wife.
ID. w. Finlay. Goodells dentist, is
working at present, i'll Clio.
A new electric light company is to be
established in Port Huron.
Clayton Downing. of Goodells, is at
tending school at Ypsilanti.
DR.. J. p. Aiken wants to be mayor of
Fort Gratiot, it is reported
Berville wants hardware store, with
some prospects of getting one.
The school lyceum at Capac, are talk
ing of getting up play soon.
James Durfee, of Memphis, gets out
alone, fifteen cords of wood from one
| tree.
Franklin Moore, editor of the St Clair
Republican. is now postm aster at st.
Clair.
The daughter of Charles Kendall, of
| Wales, has been sent to the Pontiac
asylum.
An infant of James Myas, of Wales,
was buried last week, being sick only
"a hours.
There are IL candidates for the Office
to follow.
Roy Lindke and Frank Baade, of Ca
pac, have manufactured small print
ing press.
a series of meetings is being held at
the Burch school-hOuse, at .leddo, 10y
Elder Greg.
The proposed new canal from Lake
Huron to Black river will be nearly TO-
900 feet long.
VIC. Huggett has been appointed
postmaster at Belle River, taking NJ. b.
Changers place.
a Patron of Industry association has
just been organized at East China, with
| fourteen members.
Several hack drivers were arrested in
| Port Huron last week for doing bust
ness without license.
The Port Huron Driving Park asso-
citation will hold races July 3. 4 and D.
The prizes will amount to $1,000.
II. L. Emerson, of Port Huron. has
the appointment of restaurant keeper
for the house of representatives at
| Washington.
1918 deaths during the past ten years
have occurred in Port Huron, and $3.50
is the total number now buried in the
city's cemeteries.
| VIM. Johnston, of the firm of Bondy
& Johnston. Port Huron. has bought out
Mrs. Bondy's interest and will continue
the business alone.
The business, together with the fran
chises, of the Madden Two Wheel Pony
Binder Co. of Port Huron, has been
sold to Marcus Young for S100.
Mrs. Ann Vaughn, a widow lady of
Port Huron. was found nearly dead at
her home last Monday morning and the
house full of coal gas. 1t is thought
she cannot live.
Richard Taylor, of Port Huron, hay
ing just ended term of Imprisonment
at Ionia, was again arrested for getting
beastly drunk, and will spend two weeks
in the county Jail.
st. Michaels Benevolent Society, of
Marine City, have filed their annual re-
port with the county clerk. There are
50 members and the society is worth or
has $3.50 in property.
Anew bank which has been organized
at Marine City starts with 500, 900 CAPT
tai. 1t is called the Peoples bank with
Capt. Robert Leitch as president and
p. j. Kean. as vice president.
A young man by the name of w. NJ.
Donohue, who was arrested recently in
Port Huron, for obtaining goods under
false pretenses, will probably stand trial
for bigamy, as it has come out that he
has two wives.
Joseph Ham has been arrested, charg-
ed with breaking into a G. 81 G. T. R'y
car at Goodells and stealing several cas-
es of shoes, then trying to sell them.
He was photographed for the rogues'
gallery Monday.
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