Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-07-21
General News.

NilC SOiA hAS ~ - nRiNs
Several new buildings will be erected
on the Nassar fair grounds.
1t is talked of haying bicycle
tournament at Mt. Clemens.
1t is said that the disease of fruit
trees, black knot, Is spreading.
In Richmond thieves strip the rasp-
berry bushes in private gardens.
An organization of the Woodmen of
the World has been started at Peek.
A new bridge is being bull over
Belle river three miles south of Capac.
Five cases of beer were stolen from
off II dray at Minden City the other
day.
Lexington young men have organ
lied themselves into II minstrel COM
pany.
1t is reported that the f. & p. NJ. is
getting ready to widen the Sand Beach
division.
A special civil service examination
was held ut the custom house on
Tuesday.
Yesterday the united choirs of Wat
erloo and immediate points picnicked
in Sarnia.
Port Huron police are going through
the throes of difficult examinations
these days.
Croswell boasts of having more
churches than any other village of its
size in the state.
Mrs. j. Anderson of Lexington,
found silver coin, in her garden
which bears the date 1884.
A daily stage is now run between
Memphis and LenoX since, taking the
trains oil the narrow gauge.
A movement is on foot in Port HUI
ron to organize II society of the Sons
of the American Revolution.
Two girls l3 and years of age, left
their Port Huron homes on Monday
and have not been seen since.
4 spark from Il railroad engine set
fire to and burned ten acres of hay in
Il field near Carsonyille last week.
Scott, Stevenson Il Dunbar, of Port
Huron, have been awarded the con-
tract to build II ST. 900 sewer at st.
Joseph.
The Capac Journal starts on its
seventh year this week. Editor Hunt
u 10 Si'ihS ms p"tOho a. III SG-SlooS
local paper.
During the ensuing year steamboat
dock and many new cottages will be
built at Gratiot Beach besides other
improvements.
Mrs. Emma Boyce, wife of VIM. J..
Boyce, of Port Huron, and daughter of
Michael Plant, of Clyde, died suddenly
on Friday last.
Game wardens have confiscated the
nets of those persons who have been
using them illegally at the Flats near
Algonac, recently.
The Harsen Island liquor dealers
Attorney Avery. About 81 900 was re-
allied by the county.
The Minden Herald has again
changed hands going from the man
agenent of Wallis Cogswell to the
Herald Publishing Company.
A supervisor in Macomb county
marked everyone of the birth returns
for his township as "illegitimate" He
must lave been little confused.
An elsctric car ran over fine mas.
tiff in Port Huron and the motorman
has beer discharged, there being no
excuse for the act of carelessness.
Joe Farmer, of Emmett, while in the
lumber woods, had u leg broken and
several ribs fractured by log rolling
upon hims- lie was brought home.
A petition requesting the +. d p. NJ.
R'y to replace the midday train on the
AlmOnt division has been signed by
nearly every business man in Port
Huron.
Thos. DcbsOn, of Palms, who has
been wanted for the last six weeks on
a charge of rape was arrested at King
ston and taken to Minden for exam
nation.
A Colombian" special edition of
the Port Huron Times was issued
on Monday. 1t contains an his
torical and descriptive sketch of Port
Huron, etc..
Suit has been commenced in the
circuit court for $4,000 damages
against thee. g. G.. T. R'y by the rel
atives of Elson Hubbell, who was
killed July ID, 1892.
VIM. Rose, of Marine City, was quite
badly injured while in Port Huron by
catching his feet between Military
street bridge and the railing when the
bridge had been swung.
Croswell Maccabees are arranging
for an immense picnic to take place
some time in August. Besides all the
tents in Sanilac, those III northern st.
Clair county will be invited.
Lottie Woods, Sand Beach girl, has
been taken away from her home by
some unknown person, on account, as
it is supposed, of an important law
suit, in, which the girl is principal
witness. A trace of her was discovered
in Port Huron but she has not yet
been fonnd.