Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-01-23
The Weekly Exposition.
THURSDAY. JANUARY "a. 1890.
COUNTY COLUMN .

Smith people would like to have a
general store.
Capac citizens are getting worked up
over the flax mill project.
Port Huron has had 40 marriages
during the past three months.
The population of Marine City has
doubled in the last three years.
There are seventy-fve members Of
the Salvation Army in Port Huron.
During the year 1889 the county clerk
issued Sl8 orders on the county treas
urer.
Chauncy Stevens of Port Huron, had
a stroke of paralysis Monday of last
week.
DR.. A. j. McKillop. recently from
Richmond, is practicing at Adair at
present.
The Wales NJ. p. parsonage has been
sold to Charles Stone who will move
into it.
Ida a. Fayram, of Port Huron, wants
a divorce from her husband, Oliver
Fayram.
Anderson & Co., of Port Huron. now
manufacture nearly 100 carriage tops
each week.
S. b. Jones. of Marine City, has trad
ed his property in that city for farm
near Avoca.
L. Z. Trim, of st. Clair, drew an ele-
giant phaeton at the Catholic fair held
at Marine City recently.
The Catholic bazaar or church fair,
held at Marine City last week, Melted
the society about 81 POO.
Rev. Sidney Beckwith, of Port Huron,
will take three months vacation in
the south, for the benefit of his health.
Seventy-seven pieces of property in
the city of Port Huron, it has recently
been discovered, have paid no taxes for
some years.
George Lamb, of Wales, is doing lots
of ditching. clearing up and making
improvements on the roadside south OF
Lamb STATION.
The Marine City post-oilice is receiv-
ing some repairs and improvements at
the hands or the new postmaster, Frank
McElroy.
The Crane Elevator Co. obtained q
Judgment of $1,42l.55 in the circuit
court on the 9TH inst, against the St
Clair Mineral Springs Co.
The poor of the county were cared
for to the extent of S4,5l333 during
the three months ending December 81.
Brockway received $34.75.
David Johnson, of Wales, suddenly
disappeared about year ago, and now
it is claimed that his body has been
found in the woods near there.
Mrs. Agnes Gereau, of st. Clair, now
receives pension of Sl2 a month after
striving for it nearly three years. She
also gets back amount of more than
$500.
The Capac council proceedings are
not published in the Journal, owing, it
is said, to the lack of funds. However.
the Journal is willing to publish the
matter at half price.
Wales farmers are disguised with
creameries, having been compelled to
settle with the Memphis creamery at
40 cents on the dollar, and some not
receiving anything from other cream
cries.
Mr.. and Mrs. Giles Cooley, of Kim
ball, celebrated the golden anniversary
of their wedding last week Tuesday.
There were many guests present who
brought numerous offerings to their
host and hostess.
G. L. BoyDton, of Marine City, has
been offered SIS, 900 for his patent cash
carrier and store service apparatus, by
Cincinnati parties. If Port Huron
capitalists will organize stock COM
pany for its manufacture and sale, Mr..
Boynton will probably not sell.
There is so much rivalry between the
two bus lines of Port Huron that the
humane officers have been notified to
give the matter some attention. One
driver has driven his horses to the depot
every morning for two or three weeks
at two o'clock in the morning and wait
ed until 10:40, so as to be able to get the
nearest place to the track