Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-02-28
The Weekly ExpositOT.
FRIDAY. FEBRUARY %, 1890.
COUNTY COLUMN .

Scarlet fever at Wales.
The school at Jeddo has been closed.
James Webb, of Wales, has gone to
Tennessee.
Mrs. Robert q. Sweet, of Wales, has
become insane.
Revival meetings are being conduct
ed at st. Clair.
Blaine boasts of not having saloon
or hotel in town.
The Marine City ship yards are busy
places these days,
Byron Walker. of Capac, is shipping
honey TO Ann Arbor.
Melvin Lambs widow. of Wales, has
been granted a pension.
DR.. III. Lonsberry, formerly of Peck,
is now located at Emmett.
Belle Riverites are dissatisfied with
the change of postmasters.
1t is expected that Port Huron will
soon have two or more wards.
The new steam barge Mystic has re-
Gently been launched at Marine City.
Mrs. Taylor, of Smiths Creek. broke
her wrist recently by falling on the Ice.
A meeting of citizens has been held
in Capac TO forward the flax mill move
ment.
There is possibility of wooden
ware factory being started at Port
Huron.
The Advent minister at Memphis,
Mr.. Wicks, has moved away from the
village.
A teachers association has been org
anized at Smiths Creek TO meet
monthly.
y mad dog occasioned some excite
ment in Fort Gratiot on Tuesday and
was shot.
The treasurer of Clair township is
the first to settle with The county
/ treasurer.
Walter Halland, OF Port Huron, 10
years Of age, has been sent to the re-
! form school.
Lewis Potts. of Port Huron, owes
81. 100 back taxes and thinks he ought
not TO pay them.
Marine. City ship yards are getting
their lumber from Canada and towing
it over from Sombra.
Fred Pickard. of the wooden track,
near Port Huron. hao his leg broken
by a log rolling over 1t.
An Indiana paper mill will locate in
Port Huron. Nine different sites have
been placed at their disposal.
The New England tea store which
opened out in Port Huron few weeks
ago, has left the city for other parts.
Miss Lillian Soils, of st. Clair, is the
music teacher at Alma college. Miss
Soils was educated at Oberlin conserva-
tory.
st. Clair county has sent six delegates
to the annual state convention of the
Patrons of Industry which was held al
Flint last Wednesday.
The furniture firm of J. w. Smith &
Co, Port Huron, have made an assign.
ment. Liabilities between $1,000 and
$1,000; assets nearly as much.
John Mackley of Columbus. shot and
killed himself. on Monday of last week
He tried the same thing but short
time ago. lie was insane.
John Jenkinson, of Port Huron
owes $500 in taxes. 1t was ordered
that his furniture be seized, but the Of
ficers could not get into the house.
There have been confined In the coun.
ty Jail during the past six months 42g
prisoners. There are at present nine
Eve awaiting trial and four serving sen
tence.
A new Catholic parish is to be estab
lished in Port Huron, of which Rev
Father q. +. Herbs, of Gagetown, viii
have charge, and a new church viii
be erected.
Joseph Hand, one of the prisoners
who escaped from the county Jail, wa:
arrested at Watford, Ont. A Wyoming
doctor extracted the bullet which the
turnkey put into him.
Geo. II. Soils and Fred Smith, of st
Clair, held a ticket in the Louisiana
lottery which drew one-twentieth OF
the capital prize of 100000. The boys
are lucky to get 1900 each.
Marine City has population of 3, 75l
a correct census having been taken for
the Magnet. 1t was confidently believed
that there were from five to seven hun.
dred more people in the city,
On the evenings of February IL and
10, rails and timber were laid across
the track mile east of Capac, in order
to wreck the passenger train, but q
slow freight going through first no,
much damage was done. No clue to
the person who would do such a terrible
deed.
A fire partially destroyed the store of
Leiberman a. Sadewsky at Marine City
last week, supposed to be the work of
an incendiary. Many goods were stolen
while they were being removed from
the burning building, which leads some
to believe that il was set atire for the
sake of plumber
DIR. G. e Ross, OF Capac, died very
suddenly on Thursday of last week of
neuralgia of the heart. He had been