Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-08-05
News In General.


moved from Croswell to Port Huron.
May d. Grottke, of Capac, and Il. j.
Bailey, of Flint, were married July y.
$500 will be raised to build an addi-
ton to the Richmond school building.
Nearly 200 additional call boxes have
been placed in the st. Clair postoffice.
Samuel Utley, of Dryden, offered
stuffed wool for sale and got fine of
$50.
Ralph Graham and Miss Nealie
Breeze of Columbus, were married
July p.
Prof. w. NJ. Conn, veterinary Sur
geon, from Niagara. y. y, has located
at Brown City.
Mr.. and Mrs. John b. Robertson, eff
Almont, celebrated their golden we'd
ding last week.
Two large shipments of cheese have
been sent to England from the Croswell
factory this season.
Noble Hunter, editor of the Capac
Journal, has been on the sick list for
two or three weeks.
The Sanilac Jetfersonian has just
put in new boiler and engine to run
Its printing presses.
C. X. Dodge, Il Port Huron lawyer,
has a collection of 900 differentplants
of which he is very proud.
VIM. Kirkham, an aged citizen of
LenoX township, dropped dead last
week, while loading wheat.
A COW belonging to VIM. Cook, near
Croswell, gave birth to twin calves last
week. All three doing well.
A. b. Troup, of Lexington, has been
awarded the contract for building the
new NJ. Z. church at Brown City.
The sale of the Inlay City Optic has
been postponed indefinitely-no bids
being received for it on the day set last
week.
Morley Lynch, a 1G-year-old boy,
was drowned in Phelps Lake, near
last week, while trying to
swim.
1t is reported that the spring wheat
crop in Sanilac county is almost fall
ure owing to an insect working in the
stalk.
Frank McDougall and w. L. Tobey,
of Brown City, have purchased the
2:l94 trotter Cyclone from Detroit
parties.
The Mirror is new paper published
at Akron, Tuscola county by Winni-
fred Walker, lady who is Il practical
printer.
Mrs. Frank Knill will bring suit
against the city of Port Huron for
damages resulting from falling on the
sidewalk.
1t is learned from the official report
that there are 5000 more Maccabees
in Michigan than there were at this
time last year.
The postoffice at Columbus has been
discontinued. Mail matter addressed
to Columbus is now delivered from the
Richmond Office.
A. 5. Whiting, perintendent of the
Mt. Clemens school for the last seven
years, accepts like position at Sagi-
nav with salary of S24OO.
The INLAY City Driving Park Asso-
citation will hold its fall meeting Au-
gust Is and 10. On the first day there
will be three races, on the last four.
Mrs. Dixon, of Almont, broke her
collar bone and sustained other injuries
by falling down cellar at the home of
+. =. Currier, where she was visiting.
Horace Perkins, highly respected
citizen and leading business man of
New Baltimore. died very suddenly last
week of heart failure at the age of 80
years.
A Marlette farmer drew his last
years crop of wheat to town and sold
it for 70 cents a bushel. Last fall he
was offered 81 cents for the same
wheat.
Several Port Huron houses were
entered by burglars while people were
down town witnessing Barnum's pa
rade, and numerous costly articles
were taken.
The employees in the salt blocks and
brick yards and other workmen in st.
Clair were obliged to quit work on
Monday last week on account of the
excessive heat.
A Richmond man keeps l25 pigs in
one pen back of the creamery, the
stencil arising from which is making
people i'll. The place has been de-
nounced as a nuisance.
The firm of Sherman & Rice, hard
ware dealers of Brown City, has been
dissolved, Mr.. Sherman retiring, the
new member being 4. G. Mapes, of
CarsonYille, and the new firm Mapes
d Rice.
Lightning struck barn belonging to
John Luedeman in Casco township
last week, destroying it with twenty
tons of hay and some machinery
Insured for $40 in the German Farm
ers' Mutual ms. Co. of st. Clair county
A large barn belonging to j. b. Nc
Intyre, near Mayville, was consumed
by fire one night last week with con
tents including new binder, a stallion
valued at 81 900, and 20 tons of new
hay. Loss about $4,000. Insurance
800.
child of Mrs. Jackson, of Mt
Vernon fell into an open cistern where
upon its mother plunged in after il
and held the child above the water
which came up to her own neck, unit
help came. That's specimen of
mother love.
While attempting to charge his sods
water fountain, DR.. A. j. Abbott Of
Emmett found the pressure becoming
so great that he knocked the plug oui
when the escaping gas burst out with
great force seriously injuring both eyes
The DIR. was obliged to go to Port Huron