Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-07-01

News In General.

A band will be organized at Almont.
Marlette is in favor of cemetery,
by 63 to votes.
Bina West will organize an L. o. T.
NJ. at Inlay City.
The Inlay City cornet band play at
Gagetown the 4th.
Marlette is offering great induce
ments for brick yard.
S. l.. Smith, of Capac, now has a
pension of Sl2 month.
Romeo firemen will attend tourna-
ment at Strathrey July IA.
The Marlette band will soon come
out in bright new uniforms.
The elevator at Capac was broken
into last week but no cash found.
The Mansion House at Inlay City
will hereafter be called the Johnson
House.
The acreage of corn in Sanilac county
is said to he greater this year than for
many years.
A tabernacle meeting commenced
| to-day in Kimball and will continue
over Sunday.
Over 200 pioneers, past rs years of
i hBC, uiSu III OShihHu SOuHtJ uuiihs
the past year.
Arthur Fuller, of Capac, has pur-
chased the drug store of ii. +. Harrison,
of Richmond.
The young Republicans of Inlay
City will organize y Young Mems Re-
publican club.
o. Culver, of Richmond, has present
Il ell the columbus usCongregationalc church
with new pulpit.
The principal of the Almont school,
w. j. McKone, was married the 30th
10 Minnie Townsend.
Il A Lenox man recently captured a
young frog which weighs 81 pounds
and is still increasing.
The Job plant of the Port Huron
Commercial-Tribune is advertised for
sale in Toronto papers.
A. B. McElrOy and Grace Mcmillan,
two popular young people of st. Clair.
were married June Is.
Joseph Porter, of Port Huron town.
ship, will harvest about 500 bushels of
strawberries this season.
The annual meeting of the st. Clair
county Pioneer Society was held in
Port Huron on Tuesday.
May Owen, of Lapeer, was drowned
recently at Lake Orion. She was taken
with cramps while bathing.
The first issue of the Port Huron
Weekly Times was published 23 years
ago last week Wednesday.
The body of Geo. f. Langell, of
Marine City, who was drowned May
25th was recovered June 2lst.
John Stone, of Romeo, has invented
an extra seat for carriage which will
accommodate three persons. He will
patent it.
Three barns at Dryden were set on
fire one night lately and all burned
with their contents. Some scamps in
that vicinity.
Robert Lynd, an old Marlette boy
has recently been installed as pastor OF
a Presbyterian church in Saginaw. Mr.
Lynd has now gone to Europe.
Capac people are holding bee all
this week for the purpose of putting
gravel on their main road. Capac il
bound to have good roads and they
know how to go at it.
To support the poor of the county
for the past quarter it has cost S5,776..
| VI WulCu iiuu 2lCO.fO
The amount paid outside the poor
house for the relief of the poor i:
So, ,743.06.
Burglars have been at work in Rich.
mond. II. S. Ballentine's grist mill
the tin shop of Chas. Stretch and black.
smith shop of X. j. Smith were entered
but beyond few tools nothing of great
value was taken.
The will of Geo. Hubble, of Colum.
bus, who died June II, is being con.
tested. Deceased had five children
three of whom are married. Theprop-
erty was left equally to the two un.
married. Now the married ones want
it divided among the five.
VIM. Banker, a young man living
near Clifford, made a bogus note fol
$64.S4 with Robert o. Curtis, a respon-
sible farmers name appended. Geo.
L. Hitchcock, of Cass City cashed the
note, and now is looking for Banker
who purchased ticket for Saginaw
but was seen getting off the train al
Leonard, south of Inlay City.
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