Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-04-15
County Column.


John Hewitt, of Capac, has beer
granted a pension.
One of the inmates of tho county
poor house recently died.
The Pearl Base Ball Club has been
organized in Port Huron.
st. Clair county has eighty different
insurance companies doing business. .
The Port Huron Gas Light Company
have 40l gas metres in use in the city.
1t is reported that work will begin
May. ''' ''''' '"'"'"N '"' "'' u
A branch Of the German Aid Society
OF this state has been organized at st.
Clair.
Itcost $500 to support the poor of
the county during the quarter ending
March 3lst.
During the quarter ending March 81 i,
$4,000 was expended for ST. Clair's
needy poor.
Capac wants new town hall, the
floor of the old one settled six inches
on election day.
"a Marine City could find tenants for
= twenty or twenty-five houses. Some
zone should build.
A Sunday School has been organized
at Garden Dale, called the Gravel
Road Sunday School.
The Spiritualist society of Port HUI
ron has been reorganized with James
II. White as president.
Judge Vance will take up the duties
of circuit judge May IS, and serve
until January 1st, 1894.
Helen Rutledge, of Richmond, goes
to st. Clair rs Organist of the Catholic
church at a salary of 5000 per year.
Nellie Howard, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. James Howard, of Port Huron,
died April 9Th, of consumption, aged
81 years.
j. S. Loomis, of Chicago, has placed
electric light wires in j. K. Writings
new house at st. Clair and in Somer-
vile Springs.
Twenty nine foreign born residents
of st. Clair county have declared their
intention of becoming citizens of the
United States.
There have been ten cases Of diph.
liberia at the residence of Norman b.
Cole, of Wales. Seven haye recovered
and three died.
Jno. II. Eber, formerly of Detroit, hal
been appointed to the u. s. postal
service on the route between Detroit
and Fort GratiOt.
Joseph Mc(irath and John Sullivan,
of Emmett, were arrested in Port HUI
ron last Friday night for creating a
disturbance on the street. In the
morning they were fined.
Frank May and Geo. F. Logan, who
were indicted for smuggling clothing
across the river to Marine City, plead
ed guilty. May was fined $50 and $40
costs and Logan 500 and $40 costs.
The st. Clair Republican gives an in
teresting account of the life of Charles |
Hubel, who has just retired from
the grocery business in that city and |
who will now engage in the real estate |
work.
The st. CLAIR mail pouch which was
stolen last winter from the mail carrier |
between st. Clair and Marine City, |
was found last week by some boys, in |
u field. The pouch was cut along one |
side and of course empty.
In about 60 days plant will be in
operation on Black river near the Fibre |
works, Port Huron, for the manufac-
ture of paving brick, common brick,
pressed brick and tile. The clay at
this point is said to be of fine quality
and will make excellent brick.
Nellie McClayton, OF Port Huron,
aged Is years, died of poisoning Tues
day of last week. Benz. Mackey, a
candy maker, who had been paying
her attentions, drugged some candy
with cantharides and gave the girl,
who, after eating it, became deathly
sick and died as stated. Mackey
skipped, but was arrested in Detroit
and brought back to Port Huron.