Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-01-06
YALE, County. Mich, FRIDAY JANUARY 6, 1898
General News.

Port Sanilac school has new organ.
DR.. Mead, of Ypsilanti, will probably
locate in Richmond.
Miss Basner, of Burnside, is the new
teacher at Brown City.
John T. Brink has been appointed
deputy sheriff for Mussey.
A lodge of United Friends will soon
be organized at Richmond.
A Farmers Institute will be held at
Memphis February Is and 16.
Frank fuckers company showed in
INLAY City Wednesday evening.
Diphtheria is reported as being quite
prevalent around Port 'Sanilac.
Will Johnson, of Richmond, cut his
foot badly while splitting wood.
The Sanilac County Alliance meets
at Sanilac Centre today Jan. 9th.
The graduates Of the Lexington In
ion School have organized an Alumni.
Port Huron and Fort Gratiot butch
ers have raised the price of all kinds
of meat.
Clerk-elect Mason has appointed
Russell Wade, of Capac, as deputy
county clerk.
Marlette postoffice is the first Office
in Sanilac county TO be raised TO the
presidential class.
There are 100000 Knights of Mac
cabees in this country of which number
Michigan has AZ 900.
An agricultural implement factory
will be located in Richmond if suffici-
ent Encouragement is given.
The new school house at Lexington
was recently dedicated with appr0pri-
ate and pleasing exercises.
The Brown City road scraper is kept
by the side of the road about ! miie
out of town. So as to be handy, we
suppose.
People are crossing the river at
Marine City on the solidly frozen ice
which is very rough. AtAlgonac there
is good skating and ice boating.
Patrick Bruin, of Columbus, lost 40
chickens last Saturday night, by thie-
yes. j. Streeter and John Osunker-
hind are now in Jail for the theft.
Babcock & Isles, who have been
publishing the Croswell Democrat the
past year, have retired and the paper
again goes into the hands of its owner,
w. Macklem.
Neil stephenson, near Sanilac Centre,
while watching a man hewing timber,
was struck above the knee of his right
leg by an axe and an artery severed.
He died i'll two hours.
The Sarnia express Office was broken
into about two weeks ago and 5000
taken. Late last week the manager
received n note stating that the money
could be found under the barn in the
rear OF the Office. The barn was visited
and the money recovered.
During the year 1891 there were ever
300 deaths in Port Huron and Fort
Gratiot. There were 81 alarms of fire
about two thirds being false. The loss
by fire is estimated at about $1,000. |
III arrests were made during the year. |
Licenses were issued for 479 marriages. |
Oyer 200 new houses haye been built, |
besides other buildings and business
has been good throughout the year
only one failure of any importance !
occurring among the business men.
The Sherman Company of Port
Huron has divided its business into |
several interpretations, the newspaper |
now bearing the name of
the Port Huron Times of which l., A. |
Sherman will be president, manager,
and editor as before; the Riverside |
Printing Company" will carry on the
job printing and book binding business,
Fred G. Adams will be secretary and
manager; the "Port Huron Art Associ-
alton" will take the art department
managed by Thos. Cook; the "Sterling
Jewelry company" will take the jewell
ry department and the Sherman Com.
pany will continue to carry on all other
branches of the mercantile business,
of which Fred w. Sherman will be
secretary and manager.