Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-03-03
YALE, st. Clair County Mich, FRIDAY MARCH 8, 1898
General News.

A dry dock will be constructed at
Marine City.
Work on a large two story hotel will
soon begin in Marlette.
There are three Lapeer citizens at the
Mt. Clemens Gold Cure.
There are seven tents of Maccabess
in Port Huron and Fort Gratiot.
A. X. Haist, of Croswell, broke his
leg by falling upon an icy sidewalk.
! J. A. Patton, of Richmond, will move
with his family to the upper peninsula.
John Butler, of Emmet, recently
lost some valuable papers and $S5 in
money.
Local talent gaye the drama, "Among
the Breakers" ut Croswell last Saturday
evening.
The mill yards at Capac are better
supplied with logs :han for several
years previous.
Port Huron has II miles of sewer, ii
miles of cedar block pavement and 40
miles of water pipe.
Brown City boys and girls found
catching ON sleighs through the village
streets are now punished.
G.. Earnest Meisel and Miss Aline
Hugill, both of Port Huron, were mar
ried last week Thursday.
II. X. Rice, formerly of Rice & Mapes
of Brown City is thinking of locating
hardware store at Croswell.
1t is reported at Memphis that Mar
tin Bros, of Port Huron, will locate
branch store at that place.
A priest in Tawas seems to be pos
sessed of magic power. He cures
diseases otherwise incurable and makes
no charges.
DIR. Hull, a Port Huron dentist, has
poisoned his eyes, presumably by rub
bing some matter into them after
working over patient.
1t is reported that there will be an
electric road built between Port Huron
and Marine City. Citizens of the latter
place would prefer something better.
A school entertainment was recently
given in Richmond and the Review
having given several dollars worth of
advertising gratis was duly rewarded
by receiving one complimentary ticket.
DIR. Seth l.. Andrews, pioneer of
Romeo died last week, aged 81 years.
Deceased was at one time II missionary
to the Sandwich Islands. He has one
son now a resident of Honolulu, Sand
wich Islands.
1t is stated that the present heavy
snow fall must necessarily raise the
great lakes to a marked extent the COM
ing season. This will be pleasant news
TO boatmen, low water having threaten
ed to seriously interfere with navigation
at the 500 and several other places on
the Lakes.
1t is astonishing what grit the Capac
people have. Nearly the whole town
seemed to be engaged for visit in the
blizzard and go they would and did, but
the Journal devotes nearly a column
to the mishaps and adventures of these
daring people who braved the elements
on that day.
A Marysville man left his bed one
night, collected his sons watc IA, a new
overcoat, ten dollars in money and five
dollars from his wife's pocket and
skipped by the light of the moon.
This is not the first time this man has
deserted his family, but if he would
not steal from them, his absence could
better be borne.
Application has been made to send
DIR. Thos. Strudgeon, of Port Huron,
to the Pontiac asylum. For several
weeks the DR.. has bothered people
about signing petition to appoint
him collector of customs. Numerous
fictitious names have been signed for
the fun of the thing until at last ac-
counts the paper was 43 feet long.
Now the DIR. is getting loony and the
people are getting tired.