Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-03-16
General News.


Work is being pushed on the Port
Huron opera house.
A fire in Fostoria recently DESTROYED
several houses and stores.
Thompson Bros salt block at ST.
Clair, has resumed operations.
Grant Gray, of Port Huron, is miss.
ing, leaving home and family.
Florida oranges are being sold at q
Port Huron grocery for 40 cents peck
Robert Brough, of Lynn, died March
Bird, of Typhoid fever. He was 81 yrs
of age.
Curry & Thompson's store at Sarnia
was recently burglarized of $3.50 worth
of goods.
j. III. Hartshorn, an old and respect
ed citizen of Sanilac county, died last
week, aged 81 years.
There are 1920 Epworth League
chapters in the United States with q
membership of $4,000.
Charles j. Mccormick is now super,
visor of Kimball township, to succeed
James Lindsay, resigned.
The new postoffice in Columbu:
township is called Columbus Mills
Daniel Hunt is postmaster.
Richmond Review of last issue gives
a good writeup of the representative
business firms of that town.
The Port Huron Bicycle Club pro-
pose to build cinder track. The cost
will be from ST 200 to 81 800.
Twenty-Five thousand brook trout
have been planted in the small brooks
and streams around Romeo.
Ligfred Volkenant, of Mt. Clemens,
met his death by the caving in Of an
old we'll which he was digging out.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Walker, of Clyde,
are the happy parents of three healthy
daughters, born on Friday of last week.
Carl A. Wright wants the st. Clair
Tunnel company to pay him $4,000 on
account of injuries received while at
! work.
The old soldiers of Deckerville and
vicinity recently enjoyed barbecue,
prepared for them by one of their
comrades.
About 200 pounds of flour were re-
Gently stolen from the mill at Carson
vile and the thief finally located in
the person of Abraham Stocks who
was arrested.
Carsonville will have a wooden mill,
to be in operation by the first of June.
Mr.. Jones, of Ubley, will be propri-
etor. The cost of the mill will be
about 81 800.
The oldest resident of Macomb
county has been found in the person
of Mrs. Charlotte Inwood, of Washing
ton, who is 81 years of age and is ex-
ceedingly smart.
About l25 Marlette ladies raided
the new Leader office on Satur-
day last week. They were almost too
much for the editor, but he managed
to nicely entertain them.
Chas. l.. WEIGH, who some time ago
was injured in a silo at Armada and
was obliged to have leg amputated,
has commenced $500 suit for dam.
ages against his late employer.
The Phoenix Iron works, Port HUI.
ron, are obliged to close shop for a
time until business brightens. They
have given steady employment to over
90 mon during the winter months.
An unknown person hired livery
rig at Cowan's livery stable, Port HUI
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return it. 1t was finally discovered
that the man had taken it to Marine
City and sold it.
The G. q G.. L. are now constructing
heavier and stronger passenger cars
which will sustain terrific shock
Since the recent horrors at Battle
Creek and Jackson it has been found
that the cars are mere shells.
The Supreme Lodge of the United
Home Protectors Fraternity has recent.
ly been incorporated under an act OF
the Legislature of Michigan. Some OF
Port Huron's leading citizens are in
corporators and officers and the princi
pal offices will be located in that city
A stranger went through the pockets
of boarders at the American house in
Memphis, said pockets belonging to
coats, wraps, ETC., hanging in the hal
and made quite raid of different ar.
ticles together with pocketbook con.
tanning $3.50. OF course the fellow
could not be found.
While Samuel Carey and Mary
Hickey, of Grant. were in Port Huron
last week getting their marriage Ii
cense, Carey was arrested on charge
of assaulting j. Newman, of Grant
He was taken to the county jail where
he pleaded not guilty and his examin
alton adjourned two weeks. Judge
| Robson took Carey's personal recog-
nizance then married the couple and
sent them off for their honeymoon.