Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-03-07
The Weekly Exposition.
FRIDAY. MARCH I, 1890.
COUNTY COLUMN.


A dancing club has been organized in
Port Huron.
There are 100 people by the name of
Rose in Marine City.
If Capac can only raise the bonus, a
flax mill will be hers.
II Marine City gets the railroad they
may have stove company locate there.
Joseph Frenett, of Capac, has remov-
ed to Port Huron and opened up bak-
cry.
Prof. f. NJ. Fisher and John Cool.
have opened a grocery store in Marine
City.
Port Huron letter carriers handled
1857 pieces during the month of Feb
ruary.
The st. Clair County Humane Society
held meeting in Port Huron on Tues
day, March 4.
A new German paper is to be started
in Port Huron, by b. Muehlen, of Lam
sing. 1t will be a weekly.
The receipts at the county treasurer's
office during the month of February
were $l2.484.l7. Disbursements &c.
1880.
The Railway Building and Loan AS
ISOLATION have established a branch or
their business in Fort Gratiot. There
are 33 stockholders.
John Mccormick. of Port Huron, has
been elected grand treasurer of the
Royal TemplarS,a meeting of which was
held ut Lansing last week.
At the close of revival meetings re-
4. Nsa..
made confession of faith and twelve
united with the NJ. Z. church.
st. Clair county belongs to the second
census district. comprising Genesee.
Huron, Lapeer. Macomb, Oakland, sag
inaw. st Clair and Tuscola counties.
The Cadillac house, at st. Clair, has
been sold A lady from Sarnia will
now take charge. Amos james. former
proprietor, thinks of settling i'll Chicago.
The Sherman Company, Port Huron,
now occupy the whole ground floor of
the Times block and now have much
more commUdiOus and convenient quar-
tiers.
On account OF family troubles. Mrs.
John Riker. OF Port Huron. took guam
tity of chlorOform. for the purpose of
ending her life, but through great eff
forts. was saved.
Port Huron has a chinese laundry
man who has recently helped four of
| his countrymen over from Sarnia.
against which there is law. The five
men have been arrested.
A colored boy was drowned by break
ing through the ice while skating at st.
CLAIR, recently. Several other boys and
girls broke through at the same time,
but all were rescued excepting the one.
a social sensation is being enacted in
Port Huron, in which Mrs. II. &. Knill
and James Nelson, u young unmarried
man, take the prominent parts. Fur
ther particulars are awaited with inter
est.
w. Hutson, who was arrested on the
charge of stealing a shot gun from a
Capac store was tried and allowed to go
| free for lack of evidence. The Journal
thinks the cost to the county would be
about $500
The tire iiend is abroad at Marine City.
| Mysterious notes are found thrown a.
round warning citizens that they will
be burned out. The detectives are at
work and probably the facts will soon
be brought to light.
Another sensation is being brought
out in Port Huron, r. o. Kinney and
wife being the principals. Mr.. Kinney
claims his wife is unfaithful to him
Port Huron gossip lovers have plenty
to feed upon nowadays.
The Trade and Labor Council asks OF
Port Huron's Common Council that
eight hours be made days work for
all city employees; that wages for men
working on streets shall be not less than
$3.50 day and that the city employ
none but American citizens.