Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-09-15
General News.

General news.
Vocal music will be taught hereafter
in the Almont schools.
Richmond Sunday schools held a
union picnic last Saturday.
A mail route will be established be-
tween Almont and Dryden.
There are IA nonresident pupils
attending the Capac school.
The Adventists will hold two days
meeting at Peck September 16 and II.
DeSteiger Bros, Port Huron music
firm, have dissolved, Albert DeSteiger
retiring.
III. S. Ballentine is making arrange
ments to rebuild the flour mill at
Richmond.
Croswell business men are talking of
closing their stores on the second day
of their fair.
The safe OF j. w. Benedict, of Port
Huron was opened by Il sneak thief
and $l07 stolen.
The Observer is advocating the or
ganization of business mems assOci-
alton at Romeo.
The number of school children in
Sand Beach is 49l an increase of 80
over one year ago.
During the year 1892 there were 592
deaths in st. Clair County, | | of which
were from Brockway township.
The young people Of the Baptist
church, Port Huron, are planning to
give an old fashioned corn husking
bee.
Mechanic Girl, race horse, fell up
on the track i'll heat at Port Huron
last week and suddenly ceased to
exist.
Miss Kitty wilkins, of Idaho, the
only lady horse dealer in the world 4,
spent few days in Port Huron last
week.
On Thursday, Oct. 10, reunion of
the surviving members of the First
Mich. Veteran Cav. will be held at
| Romeo.
Mrs. John Bessav, of st. Clair, broke
her arm by falling on her doorstep.
She was just able to be out after long
! illness.
The seyen-year-old son of Capt. Tim
Paquette, of Marine City, was drowned
in st. Clair river last week while
bathing.
Policeman Ross, OF Port Huron, has
been suspended for striking and severe
| ly injuring a man about the head
without excuse.
w. II. Acker, of Richmond, lost
his valuable mare, Idlewiid recently,
from injuries received by stumbling
over sidewalk.
Mrs. Catharine Hyde, of Lexington,
will be 100 years old on NoY. 6 and a
grand reunion will be held by the six
generations of the family.
James A. Burgess, editor of the Bad
Axe Democrat, had his right hand
terribly crushed in his press last week
1t is reported that his hand cannot be
saved.
A shed burned IN Marine City the
other night and it was with great diff
Guilty that two near hotels and
other business places were sayed from
the flames.
The Croswell Democrat had the
misfortune to break the cogwheel OF
their press last week while printing bu
the Jeffersonian helped them out by
the use of theirs.
VIM. Roy, of Capac, has had hi,
mind unsettled by church affairs ano
had bad attack while at church
recently and it took several men tC
get him home in Il carriage.
The Richmond party who started
about five weeks ago with j. Il. Chap
lin, to visit the far west and Olympia
Wash, have returned full of enthusi
asm over the beauties of the trip.
| Joseph H. Parks. n member of Tho
Port Huron Salvation army, has des
erted MS family, and the family are
looking to the county for aid. Parks
is being looked after to do his duty.
The barn of Louis Deemer, near
APPLICABLE, was recently struck by
lightning and together with 80 tons OF
hay and stack of straw, was entirely
destroyed. Loss 81 800 with no insur.
ance.
Last year the Port Huron elevator.
handled over 100000 bushels of grain
while this year it is likely that moi
more than 2,000,00 will be handled
Marine interests being at Il standstll
seems to be the cause.
Levi French, farmer living near
Port Sanilac, committed suicide last
week by cutting his throat. 1t il
thought the mans mind has been un-
balanced for about fifteen years when
his house burned together with his
wife and three children.
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