Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-09-11
Messrs. Eveland, Knickerbocker & Co.,
OF Mayville, will establish a bank at Man

from s22 to s2G per month.
The Masonic bodies of Bay City are
making preparations for fair to be given
| the week before Christmas.
Rev. Father Duling, chaplain of st.
Joseph's retreat at Dearborn, died at Jack
son, Saturday, of pneumonia.
Sanilac county received 500, 900 pounds
of milk during August, from which 26 tons
of cheese were IN manufactured.
williams g. Chapman, of Perrysburg,
o.. are erecting a building at Copemsh for
their butter dish and bowl factory.
Leroy S. Upton, of Big Rapids, who
graduated from West point this summer,
has been ordered TO Sidney, Neb., for duty.
N. Whitley, popular citizen of near
Marlette, suffered stroke of paralysis on
the 3rd inst, from which he cannot recov-
er.
BY mistake o. ]. Williams, Of Van
Buren, county, filed a lamp with gasoline.
1t exploded, badly burning himself and
wife.
r. r. Wakefield, of Fowlerville, has
thrashed 574 bushels of oats from eight
acres, an average of seventy-two bushels
per acre.
A Photographic counterfeit of new S.
bill was presented at tho First national
bank, of Bay City, Saturday. 1t is sup
posed to be OF local origin.
An organization similar to that to the
Epworth League, has been formed under
the name of the Young peoples union of
the Huron Baptist association.
Commander-in-C Chief John Palmer, of
the G.. A. r., has appointed c. w. Grant
senior aide-de-camp and d. U. Quick, of
Brooklyn, N. Y, assistant adiutant-gener-
al
The board of managers visited the SOL
diers' home at Grand Rapids last week,
and expressed themselves as pleased with
the manner in which things are being con-
Quoted.
Peter w. Walter, tailor, of Kalamazoo,
who has been addicted to drink ended his
life Saturday morning by taking the con-
tents of n box of rough on rats. He was
50 years old and leaves four children.
The fruit evaporator at Coldwater was
burned Sunday with all it's contents.
Loss 81, 500, with no insurance on con-
tents. The fire originated in one of the
dryers, and was beyond control when dis
covered.
The second union fair by the Sanilac
county and Croswell agricultural societies
will be held at Lexington September %
and 26. A race meeting, at which liberal
purses will be offered, will be conducted
in connection with the fair.
The body of a man probably sailor,
wasned ashore about five miles north of
Lexington the other morning. 1t had evil
IDENTIFY been in the water long time, and
was badly decomposed. The remains were
buried in the Burlingame cemetery.
The report of the state salt inspector
shows that AS, 953 barrels of salt were
inspected during the month of August. by
counties as follows: Manistee, 1873, $40;
Saginaw, 100. 506; Bay, 80, 43S; Mason,
80, 933; st. Clair, 81, 600; Iosco, 81, AS;
Huron, $500; Midland, 1900.
Geo. G. Cooke, for more than twenty
years purchasing agent for the Flint and
Pere Marquette railroad company will
retire Sept. IS his services would not be
required. 1t is understood the place will
be filed by classmate of General Man
ager Baldwin.
Herbert Cook, John STANCE, A. Swan
son and Ira Warren have been arrested at
Manistee for cashng fraudulent time
checks at the auditors Office of the Manis-
tee a. Grand Rapids railroad. Cook was
timekeeper and made out the checks which
the others passed in.
Supt. G. f. Newkirk, of the state public
school at Coldwater, has accepted lucra-
| tive position as general western agent OF
the Houghton, Minin publishing company,
| with headquarters at Chicago. Mr.. New
| kirk vacates his present Office October Is.
| He has made an excellent record at the
school except in the Nellie Griffin matter.
Albert limerick, aged 80 years. who dis
| appeared from his home near Ypsilanti
about three years ago. and who was sup
posed to have been murdered, his brother
| identifying some remains as those belong
| ing 10 the missing man, was found recent
| ly in an Indiana insane asylum, and brought
| back home He has recovered his reason.
Gen. nj. B. Cutcheon, of Manistee, has
moved to Grand Rapids with his family.
| A delegation of several hundred citizens of
Manistee called upon the family before
their departure TO wish them prosperity
ard happiness in their new home. An adj
dress was made by Mayor Wheeler, who
also presented in behalf of the citizens u
set Of resolutions handsomely framed.
While Abe Sanqust. a marine diver,
was working ut Muskegon Saturday the
air tube in connection with the air pump
broke. He was without signal cord or life
line, but he managed to crawl to the sur
face by the aid OF ladder. His head and
shoulders within the helmet were longest
ed and blood was gushing from his eyes,
ears and nose. He now lies in a critical
condition.
Andrew Thompson, sailor on the
schooner Trowbridge, was drowned at
Cheboygan by the capsizing of the yawl
while returning to the schooner Friday
night in heavy weather. Thompson ship
ped from Chicago, was % years old, and
single. The mate chung to the bottom of
the boat, drifted ashore on Lighthouse
Point, and found his way to the light
keepers residence almost dead from ex-
haustion.
Aaron WEIGH has a farm near Seville,
Gratiot county. He gave dancing parties
in his baru, and sold lemonade" to the
guests. The boys and girls patronized
that impromptu stand with an eagerness
| haA x.y,,a a,,,.,1,iafno aud THAR antics after