Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-09-16

logan, nave celeDraIeu lheH Boiuoh
wedding.
The Manistee & Northwestern road
will build depot at Traverse City,
costing $4,000.
Joseph HARDWOOD, of Banks, Charlie
voix county, has sold his crop of 1000
bushels of apples to Chicago man.
The fourth annual festival of the
United Polish singing societies of
America was held at Grand Rapids.
Big Rapids has a fund on hand
amounting to So, 900 which the city
dads do not know how to dispose of.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. P. Bell, old residents
of Saginaw, have just celebrated the
fifty-fourth anniversary of their mar
riage.
During the Dowagiac fair beginning
Oct. 4, Sc, 500 will be paid out in prizes.
Fully, s., 900 of this will go to the fast
horses.
Alpena has a few cases of diphtheria
and three deaths are reported. The
most stringent methods are being used
to stop its spread.
Mrs. Margaret Clark Stuart, % years
old, died at her home in Texas town.
ship, Kalamazoo county. She was one
of the first settlers.
A cyclone blew every leaf from a
cherry tree near Hudson a month ago,
but it is again clothed in living green
and decorated with blossoms.
The Christian Endeavor Societies of
Saginaw, have decided TO boycott the
L. 4 Il
and next year will have a resort of
their own.
Charles Messenger, living near
Marshall, shot a bald-headed eagle
measuring six feet from tip to tip
Three of the mammoth birds were fly
ing in company.
A piece of land containing 40 acres
has been purchashed near Grand Rap
ids for the sisters of the order of st.
Dominick. A mother house and col
lege will be built.
Mr.. and Mrs. Darius Stone, of Flint,
were married Sept. o, 1921. They are
still living and celebrated the seventy
first anniversary of their marriage at
the home of their son.
1t is highly probable that the trouble
between the mill men and their en-
ployes at Menominee will be settled by
conference in which the owners will
grant a slight advance.
Marine City is being torn up from
one end to the other, n complete system
of sewerage being put in. Officers are
also employed in disinfecting and other
wise preparing for cholera, if come 1T
must.
The controller of the currency has
declared a third dividend, Is per cent,
in favor of the creditors of the National
City bank, of Marshall, making in all
S5 per cent on claims proved, amount
ing to Sl55,0iS.
The Manistee, Filler City & Eastlake
Railway Company has been incorpor-
ated with capital of S15O,000. Gen
eral George A. Hart, of Manistee, and
| w. +. Davidson, of Port Huron, are the
principal stockholders.
A "Jack the Hugger'' makes his APP
pearance about twice week after
nightfall on one of the business streets
of Negaunee. AS his presence does not
tend TO keep the girls in, he is said to
be fairly pushed with work.
The report of State Inspector Casey
shows there was inspected in August
in the state asa, 500 barrels of salt. The
total inspection for the year to date is
2,713,S10 barrels, as against 2,675, $50
barrels for the same period last year.
II. w. Sibley and party are in Sagi-
nav on the yacht Wapiti. Mr.. Sibley
says that the cook, Shomin, who sent
the lying telegram that caused so much
trouble, skipped out of Collingwood
when he found he was wanted, and
has not been heard of since.
A house-painter at Lowell has mys-
teriously disappeared; also, $50 from a
house where he was at work, and a
horse and buggy which he hired from
livery stable. The three events are
regarded as suspicious, and two war
rants are chasing him.
The largest amount of tolls collected
from any one boat at the 500 canal
since President Harrison's proclama-
ton went into effect was paid by the
steamer Rosedale, bound from Fort
William to Kingston. She had 1,73s
tons of wheat, on which she paid tolls
amounting to S347.G0.
The property and franchises of the
Lansing City Electric Railway com
pany were sold at receivers sale tC
Charles IL. Osband, representing the
Continental Trust company, of New
York, the owner of the bonds. The
price paid was $35, 900, and the sale was
made subject to mortgage of $50, 900
The road will be operated by the trus
company.
Uncle Sam may be little slow, bu
he always gets there. Eldoras S
Shepard, postmaster and grocer at Nc
Donald, Van Buren, county, has jus
, been hauled up at st. Joseph, charged
with selling liquor without a govern
J ment license in July, 1891. He wa
) released on his own recognizance, AM
will appear for trial in Grand Rapid
on October 4.
Peter NetkowslSi, of West Bay City
met with a horrible death at hi
: fathers farm, three miles south of Al
burn. He was about leaving hi
1 fathers house to go hunting when tn
gun he carried was discharged in som
r unknown manner, the shot enterin
r the right side of the face, tearing