Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-01-30
The Weekly ExpOsitOT.
THURSDAY. JANUARY 30. 1890.
COUNTY COLUMN.

IL. y. WOOley, OF GOOQellS, mas several
singing classes organized.
He. Seigel, of Capac, has commenced
the erection Of planning mill.
The Lutherans of Capac are talking
of building brick school house.
A dramatic entertainment given by
home talent is talked of at Memphis.
Frank Leonard. of Belle River, sold
a team recently to lumbermen for $3.50.
Mrs. John May, of Fort Gratiot, fell
one day last week and broke her arm.
The rumor is being started that Port
Huron will soon have another daily
paper.
Dan Foley, of Mt. Salem, who has
been down with an abscess, is now re-
covering.
The first church erected in st. Clair
county is the Catholic church at Cot
trellville.
Port Huron has 80 elective city offic-
ials whose salaries aggregate $l5,5OO
per annum.
a young man named Mayhem, living
near st. Clair, was severely bitten by
dog recently.
The city editor of the Port Huron
Times is down with the popular dis
ease, la grippe.
Over S10.000has already been expend
ed by Port Huron Episcopalians on
their new church.
The Patrons of Industry held their
annual county convention at Port HUI
ron yesterday, the Goth.
The Belle River teacher is i'll with la
grippe, and meanwhile the school house
is being repaired and cleaned up.
Emmett Richie, of Algonac, has been
charged with stealing $l60 from Mar
shall Townsend. He denies the charge.
There are 6S captains, 80 mates, GA
engineers, II firemen. 20 wheelsmen
and Fl stewards of vessels in Marine
City.
1t is rumored that the f, e. p. NJ. R'y
Company will lay narrow gauge track
from Port Huron down the river to
Algonac.
There are 2,090 colonies of bees in the
county which yielded during the year
81, 1902 paunds of honey and 249 pounds
of beeswax.
The Port Huron business college has
over 100 students. The new school
room in the Moore block is one of the
finest in the state.
Some one broke large light of glass
in SeigePs hardware store at Capac the
other night and stole a breach-loading
shot gun worth S14.
The young men of Algonac have Or
ganized society called the Sailors
League" They have small library.
several papers and periodicals.
John O'Halloran, a switchman, had
his leg broken last Friday by falling
under the wheels of the cars at the
Grand Trunk yards in Port Huron.
The law firm of Atkinson, Vance &
Wolcott, Port Huron, have moved their
law offices into the third story of the
Howard block, adjoining the law
library.
The German evangelical society at
Capsc will make extensive repairs and
improvements on their old church and
will not build new one as contsm-
plated.
Joseph Lambkin, who was injured on
the railroad track at Port Huron recent
ly, is recovering slowly, although it is
feared that his mind will always be
affected.
VIM. Burger, of Mt. Salem, had an
arm broken besides being otherwise
badly injured by being caught in some
of the machinery in the sawmill at that
place the other day.
While driving home from Capac re-
Gently, Jerry Sullivan's horse baked.
Getting down from his wagon he took
out his pocket knife and cut the horses
throat, allowing him to bleed to death
in the road.
A fve-year-old son of +. j. Mann,
station agent at the G. 81 e.. Il. juno
ton, swallowed dose of carbolic acid
the other day, but by prompt medical
aid his life was saved. The boy had
been sick and went to the pantry to
| take his own medicine.
w. Cook, of Toronto, while switching
in the G. T. r. yard at Port Huron, last
Friday night, caught his right hand and
arm in the deadwOods. His arm was
so mangled that it was necessary to
have it amputated. The injured man
was taken to Harper's hospital in De-
troit.
The st. Clair Mineral Springs COM
pany is trying to explain before a COM
mittee at Washington how it is impos-
ed upon. 1t has to compete with bot
tied water from Europe, which comes
in duty free, and yet it has to pay duty
on the minerals used in its own manu-
factory.
For the past 80 years the county of
st. Clair has been gradually running
into debt to the state for unpaid taxes,
etc. About two years ago the board of
supervisors appointed Supervisor Vim
cent to go to Lansing to investigate the
matter. He returned and laid petit
ton before the board that it would take
over $4,000 to cancel the debt. The
county treasurer was instructed to pay
the state the amount in small INSTALL
ments, so as not to cripple the county's
finances. So well has the scheme work.
ed that this week the treasurer for
warded to the state authorities S9,027.-
20, being the entire balance due. Here
after the county will try and keep out
of debt.