Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-07-24
County Column.

Port Huron will have new hose
house.
Capac fair will be held oct. :, s
and 9.
Nellie Farrand, of Port Huron, has
sailed for Germany.
Capac expects to have some good
races at its annual fair.
The Port Huron Guards are at home
again from their encampment.
Ella Bushnell, of st. Clair, broke
her arm by falling from cherry tree.
Z. +. Trim and family long residents
of st. Clair, have removed TO Npsilanti.
1t has been discovered that Algonac
saloon keepers sell liquor to the In
dians.
The new Commercial bank, in Port
Huron, will be ready for occupancy
by August 10.
Andrew Gibbs, of Kenockee, has
gone to the southern part of the state
on horseback.
Fifty people want the position of
market clerk in Port Huron. The Of
flee is worth S25.
Simon Klemmes shot rattlesnake
near st. Clair last week, from which he
took eight rattles.
The contract has been let for the
construction of the railroad from De-
troit to Port Huron.
J. X. Burgess, of Port Huron, has in
vented an appliance for holding rail-
road rails together.
James Lynch, of Emmett township,
came near being run over by the train
at Capac last week.
Robert p. Durling, an old and well
known citizen of Marine City, died
July 18th, aged II years.
Mrs. Wm. jackson, of Fort Gratiot,
died very suddenly Tuesday while en-
gagged i'll doing washing.
During the past six months l79 cases
of drunkenness have been before the
police court at Port Huron.
The Westcott House, Marine City,
had a narrow escape from fire last
week by the explosion of lamp.
The work at the summer school in
Port Huron is progressing most salts
factorily and the attendance is large.
The pioneer priest of st. Clair coun-
ty, Rev. Father Kilroy, died at his res
idence in Columbus Thursday, July l6.
Twenty residents of st. Clair county
have declared their intention of be-
coming citizens during the past Is
days.
Marine City is still talking railroad.
A road between Detroit and Port Hur-
on via Marine City is now a sure thing,
if the right of way is given.
The stave mill at Abbotsford has
been shipped to Roscommon. The
employees we're given supper in the
grove at Abbotsford before leaving.
The body of man foated into the
river from Lake Huron on Tuesday
and lodged near the Wolverine dry
dock Port Huron. 1t was not iden-
titled.
Mrs. Harvey Sparling, of Port Hur-
on, two children and servant girl, were
taken down with diphtheria last week.
One child two and half years died of
the disease.
Bertha Clark, of Columbus, has re-
turned from the normal school at
Ypsilanti graduate. She has been
engaged to teach at Grayling, at sal
airy of S400.
Morton Potter, of near Marine City,
has plowed up number of Indian
relics lately, an axe and knife, both of
stone, a number of flint arrow heads,
hatchet, tomahawk, etc.
An old pioneer of Port Huron is
Isaac Hamilton. lie is 73 years of age,
has lived in Port Huron 90 years, and
has watched it grow from six small
houses to its present size.
A suit has been commenced in the
circuit court by Watson Wesley against
the Electric Railway Company, of Port
Huron, for $4,000 damages. Mr..
Wesley's little boy Glenn was run over
by the cars in January last and re-
ceived injuries from which he died.
1t is charged that the car was running
at a high rate of speed and no proper
outlook was kept.