Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-09-09
MICHIGAN STATE

MlSfISAN . ! - MS
Hancock has spent $780, this year
on street and sewer improvements.
David Mather has been commissioned
postmaster at East Leroy, Calhoun
county.
The Armada agricultural society an
nounces its fair for the three last days
of September.
Young lady Republicans, of Lapeer,
raised n Harrison and Reid pole and
unfurled flag.
The Plymouth fair dates will be from
Sept. - to 80. A first-class fair in
every respect is promised.
Caterpillars are lunching on the foil
age of Grand Rapids trees TO such an
extent that the trees destruction is
feared.
c. w. Luce has superseded Milo East
man as superintendent of the Detroit,
Bay City IL Alpena railroad. The
headsman's axe is already at work.
A spasm of sobriety has struck AL
pena and the liquor law will be en-
forced until the fad gets stale. The
first person made an example of was a
woman.
There are springs at Spring Harbor
turning out daily 10000 gallons of cold,
microbeleSs water and the city fathers
of Jackson are talking about piping it
into town.
Albert Pack, of Alpena, has
200, 000,000 feet of standing pine on the
atnich ,.itvn,. -, hn 10
country, and this winter will com
mence cutting it.
Adjt. Gen. Farrar has received assur-
ances from 10 companies of state troops
that they will participate in the
Worlds Fair dedicatory exercises at
Chicago in October.
Miss Ida Sherman, of Charlotte, was
consecrated TO the Baptist ministry
with appropriate services. After few
years of study she will probably enter
the missionary field.
DIR. S. A. johnson, of KalkaslIa, is
having hard luck in the matter of
wives. In May he lost his first one and
about four weeks ago was married
again. His second wife has just died
of quick consumption.
A Hoppertown mother left her baby
in the buggy while she picked black
berries. When she returned, called by
the little ones cries, rattlesnake
crawled from under its dress. The
child had been bitten six times and
died on the way home.
Adjt. Gen. Farrar has issued commits
sions to Lieut.. Col. Chas. ii. Rose, of
Grand Rapids, and Capt. Fred ii. Case,
of Three Rivers, who were elected col
onel and major respectively, of the
Second infantry during the recent en-
campment at Island Lake.
Walter Longfellow, aged 10 years,
while walking across the Detroit,
Grand Haven & Milwaukee railroad
bridge at Grand Rapids fell into the
river and was drowned. A boy in
swimming tried to rescue him but
failed. The body was recovered.
Joseph Grice, conductor on one of
Alger, Smith & Co.'S log trains, was
run over and instantly killed by his
train at Mud Lake junction, near Al
pena. The coupling pin gave way,
causing Grice to fall under the moving
cars. He was a married man. He was
baggageman on the Detroit, Bay City
81 Alpena railroad for several years.
The sixth annual conference of the
African NJ. Il. church was held at Jack
son with an attendance of about 500,
Bishop III. M. Turner, of Atlanta, Ca,
presiding. John NJ. Henderson, OF
Detroit; John l.. Watkins. of Grand
Rapids, and Il. e. Gregory are sec
| retaries.
Just fifty years ago Mr.. and Mrs.
Brownell. of Portage township, Kalama-
ZOO county, were married in Pennsylva-
MIA. In memory of the event they enter.
tanned large number of friends and
relatives. They are a well-preserved
couple and are the parents of eight
children, all but one of whom are liv'
ing.
William Navess, farmer living in
the township of West Bloomfield, Oak
land county, was instantly killed by
being thrown from his buggy near the
Orchard Lake hotel. He had just taker
his son and daughter to the train, when
his team became frightened at bicycle
and ran away, throwing him out anC
down a steep enbankment. When aiC
arrived he was dead.
Machinist William Wilson was walk
ing on the Michigan Central track
when he was run down by an engine
and instantly killed. His home is il
Tecumseh, where he leaves q widow