Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-08-12
YALE ST. Clair County. Mich. FRIDAY AUGUST IL, 1892
News In General.

A summer hotel is to be built on
Walpole Island.
Eight dogs were poisoned in Armada
one night last week.
Chubb Brothers, of Berville, have
dissolved partnership.
Port Huron sent S203.40 to the Bay
City fire sufferers last week.
The Albion house at Port Huron is
being retitted and refurnished.
During July 2,S40 barrels of salt were
manufactured in Huron county.
The Hazelton saw mill at New
Haven has closed down for good.
Chas. Weichsler has been appointed
game warden for st. Clair county.
Davidson & Wonsey, of Marine City,
are making 450 barrels of salt day.
Water i'll .St. Clair river rose seven
inches in July and continues to gain.
The Lexington wooden mill is run
ming day and night to supply orders.
Lightning recently killed nine sheep
belonging to John Cochrane OF Almont.
st. Clair city receives two hundred
copies of the Port Huron Daily Times.
An S-year-old son of David Sellman
was drowned at Port Hursn last week.
During July Al ,94S barrels of salt
were manufactured in st. Clair county.
Croswell school opens Aug. Goth with
the same corps of teachers as last year.
The new hotel in Port Huron will be
a fac-simile of the New Vincent in
Saginaw.
The recent hot weather has brought
1 tl.oo xyi5it 10 in
full force.
Grandma Mcknight, of Capac, cell
ebrated her S0th birthday last week
with her children.
Robert Judge, who was sentenced TO
| ten years in the House of Correction,
was released last week.
A. Derusha, of Brown City, fell from
scaffOld, breaking two ribs and 9TH
erwise injuring himself.
Military street, Port Huron, will
probably be widened to 100 feet as far
south as the city limits.
A union picnic and excursion of the
Almont Sunday schools will be given
to Stag Island, Aug. 18th.
Port Huron Electric Railway tracks
have been extended to the grounds of
the Driving Park Association.
Brown City Driving Park Association
will give their first series of races Au-
gust 26 and %. 5000 in purses are
offered.
A bell boy at the Somerville Springs
hotel was instantly killed last week
Tuesday by being crushed in the
| elevator.
During the year 1891 there were
200 births and 500 deaths in st. Clair
county, according to the returns of the
county clerk.
Steven Mcdonald, of Sand Beach,
had the misfortune to drive rusty
nail nearly through his hand and has
had bad time of it.
A German subordinate lodge of In
| ternational Accumulative fraternity
was organized in Port Huron last week
with twenty members.
Chas. Alderman, of Marine City, has
killed ,666 sparrows in less than a
month, while his brother Frank has
killed 3l7 in one week. These boys
have already made Sl75 this season.
A piece of copper weighing one and
one-quarter pounds, was picked up in
Columbus recently. Samuel Gloss, of
that township is of the opinion that
that locality will be great mining
country some day.
A human skeleton was found on
Saturday, by workmen digging in
front of the c. & G.. L. house in Fort
GratiOt. 1t was not two feet under
ground and not known whether to be
that of a white or red man.
Brown City has fire department
e.
men who have not drilled nor had the
engine out for ten months. One can
hardly see the engine and hose cart
on account of dust and cobwebs. Re-
form is sadly needed here.
Capt. Newton Talbot, of Port Huron
while at work adjusting electric wires
on Monday, was killed in handling the
wires. The deceased leaves wife
and three children. The terrible ac-
cident is very much regretted by the
| Electric Railway Comnanv