Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-06-13
COUNTY COLUMN.

Ralph Ward will erect store at Ruby.
Leander Schovan, of st. Clair, has
been pensioned.
Thornton is having a fair share of
weddings lately.
A new school district has been or
ganiZed in Lynn.
Reuben Wicklin,.of Fort Gratiot, is
reported as insane.
DR.. 5. ID. PAGES duties as consul at
Sarnia will begin July LIST.
The Port Huron German Aid Socie-
tvs picnic was a grand success.
The NJ. +. church at Grant Centre is
being presided over by Elder Craig.
Marysville school has had fifteen ap-
plications for the higher department.
Port Huron police made 80 arrests
during May, 70 of which were DRINKS.
DR.. ID. L. Parker, formerly of Marine
City, has taken up his residence III De-
troit.
Several of Marine City's young bust
ness men will commit matrimony very
soon.
All the cottages at Huronia Beach
have been rented. The season opens
June 18th.
John Burgers barn at Mt Salem was
recently Struck by lightning and some
what damaged.
st. Clair people have fully decided to
celebrate the fourth, and will do it up
in grand style.
The cantata THE Berry Pickers' is
soon TO be presented in the NJ f. church
at Port Huron.
The Upton works near Port Huron
haveibeen made a regular station of the
G. \ &. 7. railway.
The men IN the neighborhood of
Locke Bridge near Capac have organ
lied base ball club.
Chris. Kern. of Port Huron, has pur-
chased the Cooper farm of y acres at
the junction, paying $1,000 for it.
John Mitchell, of Marine City, had
his left arm broken last week by his
horse tanning him against post.
An excursion to Stag Island given by
the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
from Port Huron is set for June %.
W. F. Hunter. an expert pianist from
Wyandotte, will give instructions in
music at Marine City during the sum-
mer.
The Marine City Lutheran church
now has handsome new carpets and
mattings, presented by Mrs. George
Koenig.
The friendship ring craze has struck
st. Clair, and the citizens have to pass
over the pennies and nickles to the
young ladies.
Marine City high school juniors held
interesting exercises i'll the city hall
last Friday evening. The young ladies
gave fan drill.
a little Poland child. nine months
old. died in the G. ~ G. II. railway de-
pot at Port Huron last Sunday. The
parents were on their way to Duluth.
Lake Huron division l. B. of r.. c.
was organized at Fort Gratiot recently
with % charter members. This is the
second lodge of the kind in the state
Robt. AIRED, of Port Huron, received
severe shock from lightning during
one of the recent heavy thunder storms.
lie was unable to go to work for sever
al days.
The Port Hurons were defeated by
the Flints in a game of ball last Mon
day. 1t was expected that the Port
Huron club would disband as outside
clubs are breaking up.
Craig & Lang's fishery at Fort Gratiot
was recently the scene of a big fish
story. 4 sturgeon caught there is said
to have weighed 165 pounds, and con-
tanned 80 pounds of eggs.
During the month of May. the re-
ceipts at the county treasurer's Office
amounted to S38, 1852 and the dis
bursements S2,272.34. Twenty three
thousand dollars of this was received
for liquor licenses.
A pile driver belonging to ID. n. Run
nels. of Port Huron, was sunk in Black
river the other day. Some one bored
hole in the bottom. Mr.. Runnels offers
$500 reward for the apprehension of the
person who did the deed.
Mules are now being used in the tun-
mel to draw the tram cars instead of
horses. as when the compressed air
was put in it was found that the horses
could not endure the air pressure but
the mules do not mind it in the least.
Thursday, June 26, will witness the
eighteenth annual reunion of compan-
les III. 81 l., Fourth Michigan Infantry,
i'm a picnic at Belle River, when the
soldiers will be treated to hot coffee in
an old oyster can, and a few old army
beans.
Mrs. John Baldwin, of Port Huron,
after living with her husband for 20