Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-01-15
County Column.

ties.
A general store has been opened a
| Thornton.
Every lot in st. Clair cemetery has
been sold.
The American hotel at Fort Gratiot
has been closed.
Port Huron city has been divided
into eight wards.
A new club in Port Huron is called
the an X X Club"
Ten aldermen will be elected in Port
Huron this spring.
A race takes place on Belle River at
Marine City to-day.
The Marine City Magnet in threaten.
ed with n libel suit.
Smiths Creek people are nearly al
down with the grip.
Cohn Bros. Port Huron dry goods
merchants, have failed.
Robert Harris. of Smiths Creek, fell
recently and broke his arm.
Nicholas Wonderlich, a resident OF
st. Clair town, died recently.
Counterfeit 50-cent pieces are in cir.
culstion around Marine City.
Mrs. Euphemia Puget, of Columbus,
nearly 80 years of age, died recently.
John Kerr will open up an agricult-
ural implement shop Mt Grant Centre.
Rev. NJ. w. Knapp is conducting re-
vival meetings in Port Huron this
week.
The goods in Cohn Brothers store
xwora anIH M Ohio ~ A ynnrtns 10 10 NJ
Saturday.
Several Port Huron people were
poisoned last week by eating pressed
corn beef.
Port Huron city filed over 200 deeds
IN Tuesday which made the Register
of Deeds smile.
The Marine City Presbyterian young
people are rehearsing for the cantata
"Queen Esther"
Port Huron and Fort Gratiot locomo-
tive engineers are making preparations
for grand ball.
John Thompson, a former member
of the Port Huron police force is i'll at
his home near Goodells.
Anderson & Co., of Port Huron, will
establish "A repository in Saginaw for
the exhibition of their vehicles.
Willard Mckay, the Marine City boy
Mesmerist, is giving exhibitions of his
power in Port Huron this week.
small paper is being published at
Marine City i'll the interests of the
First State Savings Bank of that City.
A man who burglarized n house in
Mansfield, Ohio, some time ago, was
just recently captured in Port Huron.
The publishers of the Commercial
Tribune, Stephens 81 King, have dis
solved partnership, Stephens retiring.
The superintendents Of the poor
have elected for President Nelson l..
Roberts and for secretary Martin
Stapleton.
John Mitchell, of Marine City, II
years of age, was shCt in his right arm
while attempting to climb fence when
out hunting.
A water pipe bursted in grocery
store at Fort Gratiot one night recenS-
ly, nearly flooding the store and ruin
ing great many goods.
John Wanamaker is in the county
iail charged with stealing watch.
He claims to he nephew of Post
ma ster- General Wanamaker.
William Jameyfield, IL tunnel switch
man, had his right hand so badly
crushed while coupling ears that it
was necessary to have it amputated.
The Port Huron Fire Department
have moved into their new quarters, a
large and handsome building near the
corner of Seventh and Water streets.
DR.. Merritt, of Fort Gratiot, wants
everybody to call ola grippe" 1.-the
sympathetic disease" "a he has heard
the former word so much he is tired
of it.
The st. Clair county horticultural
society held a very interesting meeting
in Port Huron last week, officers were
elected with Hiram Anderson as presi-
dent.
James Hill, of Port Huron, deserted
his wife and eight small children,
Christmas and has not been heard of
since. The family are in destitute cir
cumstances.
The river between Fort Gratiot and
Point Edward was frozen over on Sun
day last so that people could walk
across. This has not occurred before
In several years.
The repairs on the Flint & Pere Mar
quette depot, foot of Court street, Port
Huron. have been finished and very
neat building inside and out is now the
result. The telegraph Office is located
on the second floor.
The late Jacob F. Bachelor, of Sagi
nav, left an estate valued at $4,000,
$40 900 of which he left for q soldiers
monument in Port Huron, $4,000 to
the Hospital and Home and $1,000 To
the Ladies Library association, besides
numerous sums to Saginaw associations
VIM. Mcdonald, of Fort Gratiot,
will spend three months in the Detroit
house of correction. Some years ago
this young man was paid $4,000 by a
railroad company for the loss of an
arm, since which time he has been
squandering his money until he is now
penniless.
John Lowell is in the county Jail
charged with forgery. Lowell was a
canvasser for the Singer sewing ma
chine company at Croswell, when it
became known that his affairs we're not
going straight. He skipped but was
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