Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-09-02
MICHIGAN STATE ITEMS.

Dlphtherla rs proving tatal IN Ial-
myra.
Chambers is reported at Port Huron
and Fort Gratiot.
Ironwood will spend $4,000 for kim
dergarten attachment TO its public
schools.
Young lady Republicans, of Lapeer,
raised Harrison and Reid pole and
unfurled flag.
The Spring Lake basket factory
turns out 5000 grape baskets daily and
is behind its orders.
Adrain is tickled because Somerby
didn't start an Iron Hall lodge there.
lie wanted to badly.
A Marinette family which has run
out of names has christened the latest
arrival Thirteenth"
Moses jay, at Medina. has fine fish
pond, but no tish. Thieves cleared it
with nets few nights ago.
Capitalists are planning to connect
Coldwater and Union City by motor
line. They are IL miles apart.
The Marquette prison may be made
into an insane asylum. The next legis-
lature will consider the matter.
A. C. Brook & Co.'s wholesale candy
, store and factory burned at Grand
Rapids. Loss, Sl3, 900; insurance, So
900.
Burglars lugged off $500 worth of
hardware from Pfaff's store at Grand
Haven, and neglected to get SO which
was in the till.
Comrades of the First Michigan cav
airy association should remember that
there will be an annual reunion at
Lapeer on Wednesday, October 10.
Beavertown is very wild because
John Pawley has a new well which
spouts gas. 1t makes a noise like
freight train going 60 miles an hour.
Lake Harbor is the latest fashion
able resort along Lake Michigan-since
Grover Cleveland's sister, Mrs. Bacon,
of Toledo, honors it with her presence.
Mrs. Robert Perry, of Battle Creek,
committed suicide by taking poison.
| She died in 20 minutes. A note was
left stating that she did it intention
ally.
For being polite and nice Miss
Della McCombe. Madison school
teacher. is willed 1000 by Samuel
| Graham, who recently died in that
township.
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.
Baby Mason, of Flint, fell into tub
of water. The little tot was lying with
her head under the water, unconscious,
when found by her mother. There was
only spark of life left.
Iropwood and vicinity sent so lame,
halt and blind pilgrims to the mirac-
ulous shrine at St. Ann de Beaupre,
at Montreal. They expect to be healed
by rubbing one of the saints bones
upon the ailing part.
Grand Master Workman A. n.
Tinker, of the A. o. u. W., of Jackson,
has appointed John +. G. Holdings, of
Detroit, deputy grand master work.
man, vice c. j. Byrnes, resigned. The
appointment took effect September l..
Mrs. Trombley, of Grayling, had
been dosing her baby for diphtheria
and finally went to Bay City to have it
cured. The doctor made an examina-
ton and removed from the child's
throat a pin which had lodged cross
wise in the tissues.
A new town is being started on Hop
kins lake, near Ludington. Hopkins
lake is beautiful sheet of water three
quarters of a mile long and half mile
broad, fairly well stocked with fish land
in the midst of the best peach country
in the world, perhaps. The resorter TO
Hopkins lake can add to his fish diet
peaches and cream. He has, little TO
the westward, a magnificent view of
old Lake Michigan from an elevation
of some 200 feet.
"Bert' Webb has brought his respec-
table parents into disgrace at Mason
because he has mania for stealing
lie was arrested for stealing wool, wa;
bailed and Immediately seized for q
theft of cloverseed. A box in hi
fathers barn was found TO contain {
large quantity of property that hat
been stolen in the neighborhood
+ Young Webb is supposed TO belong u
7 an organized gang, two alleged mem
, bers of which have been arrested an'
others will also be cared for by tn
sheriff. ~ rs fN 49, 81
The st. Mary's water power com
D pany at the 500 will issue $780, 90
worth of bonds.