Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-08-25
General News.

The circuit court adjourned this
week, conyening again on Monday.
Algonac business men are raising a
purse for yacht race about Sept. l.
A scheme is on foot to organize a
branch of the y. NJ. c. A. at Armada.
The Croswell cheese factory has been
closed down, owing to the scarcity of
milk,
Flowers and plants are being stolen
from Lakeside cemetery near Port
Huron.
Grasshoppers have done Il great
deal of damage in the surrounding
districts.
The ACCESSIBILITY of adopting electric
transit through the tunnel is being
considered.
An Inlay City man has received
letter from the Whitecaps, telling him
to move on.
Railroad crews are having some
trouble with the numerous tramps
along the lines.
The new Lapeer county atlas and
directory is now completed and is said
to be fine work.
Ten foreign born residents of the
county haye. declared their intention
of becoming citizens.
Lena Christmas, of Port Huron, tried
to kill herself with dose of laudanum
but was finally saved.
The Romeo Touring mill has been
purchased by Josiah Cole and JAS. X.
Davidson, of Dryden.
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entered by thieves who broke in a
window and took $40 in cash.
The mid-harvest picnic given last
week by st. Phillips church of Column
bus Melted the society about S4OO.
DR.. Strudgeon, who has been miss
ing from his home, has been found
living near Sand Beach with his son.
Hiram Schrell, of Kenockee, was
seriously injured by being thrown from
his buggy by runaway horse while in
Port Huron.
f. NJ. Ketchum, a Jeddo farmer,
got drunk in Port Huron saloon and
was robbed by a Canada man who was
arrested and locked up.
The ministers of the county neglect
ed to return 80 marriage licenses to the
county clerk during 1892. An invest
igation is being asked for.
II. S. Ballentine, of the Richmond
Roller Mill, is sinking four inch
drive we'll at one side of his mill to
! furnish him water supply.
The Sunday schools of Almont and
vicinity, picnic at Stag Island today.
A ball game between Armada and
Almont teams will be an attraction.
DR.. Geo. Northup, veterinary sur.
geon, who has made his home in
Richmond for few months, has taken
sudden departure, leaving several
creditors.
An unknown passenger on the
steamer Badger State jumped from
the boat when near Marysville and was
drowned although efforts were made
to save him.
1t is said that st. Clair county farm
ers never before harvested larger
aggregate of crops in any one year
than when they shall have everything
gathered in this.
Lutte Wright, l2-year-old Port
Sanilac boy, accidentally shot himself
the ball entering the abdomen, passing
upwards and lodgingin the heart. lie
died in 20 minutes.
1t Is rumored that the Pontiac,
oxford and Northern railway will build
a branch line from INLAY City to
Detroit taking in Almont, Romeo,
Washington and Utica.
Word was received from Germany
last week that Mrs. c. c.. Meisel, OF
Port Huron, who was in Germany for
her health, had been accidentally
burned and died from the effects.
Fire got into the swamp east of
Inlay City recently and spreading did
considerable damage, destroying four
or five acres of buckwheat and numer-
Gus fences before it could be checked
A four-year.old Sand Beach boy was
running with Il sharp stick in his
mouth when he encountered a door
at the other end of his stick. Result
an ugly wound in his mouth and
throat.
Thieves entered the house of +. NJ.
Hamilton, of Port Huron, last week
in the absence of the family and car
ried off $3.50 worth of property after
locking all the desks, closets, drawers
etc. and taking the keys with them.
An 1S-months-old child of VIM.
Ayers, living near Mayville, was pois-
oned from dose of corrosive subli-
mate, the bottle of which the child
found and drank Of. 1t died in great
agony. Last May their only other
child died from poisoning also.
A tramp newspaper writer, by name
Geo. w. Childs who was employed by
the Port Huron News in writing up the
towns of Marine City and st. Clair,
has been forging numerous checks,
getting them cashed at Port Huron
and the other cities. His work was
soon found out but himself missing
and the police are unable to track him.
Frank Mills, of Port Huron, former.
| ly of Lapeer, died at his home Tues.
day, Aug. 10. He was special deputy
under Collector Geer during Harrison's
administration. he had been ill near.
ly all summer with nervous prostration
He was an able lawyer, formerly pros.
ecuting attorney of Lapeer county and
brilliant man. He carried Sl4, 900 in
insurance policies in several organiza.
tons and was held in esteem among
fraternal orders.
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