Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-03-02
MINOR MICHIGAN NEWS.


Iron Mountain will vote on the
country road system in April.
Work has been started on Mar
quette's new $4,000 city hall.
The fish hatchery at Charlevoix has
been completed and is now in opera
tion..
The new S55 600 First Baptist church
in Lansing will be dedicated Sunday,
March Is.
There are within the boundaries Of
Michigan 5000 Indians, including 1000
Indian school children.
Robert Ruble, of Keller, was driving
with his daughter, when he instantly
died from his heart disease.
Over 200 people have been converted
at Manistique as a result of the recent
revival services at that place.
The Bear Lake village council has or
dained that the saloons of that village
must go or suffer the consequences.
Several hundred acres of swamp
land will be reclaimed at Decatur this
season and devoted to the culture of
peppermint.
The younger Democrats of Muskegon
have organized for the coming cam
paign, and will call their organization
the Tilden Club
The annual meeting of the Michigan
Christian Missionary Association, dis
trict No 2, will be held at Hartford,
March to IL.
The Centennial mine at Red Jacket
will hn in 10 in Mt
once, as a rich deposit of copper has
been recently struck. o.
James Corless was run over and
killed on Chittenden e. Herrick's rail-
road, near Lake City. He leaves n
wife and four children.
Charles German, of Muskegon, has
brought suit against the city for SIS, 900
damages for injuries received by means
of defective sidewalk.
Dowagiacs lodge of Modern Wood
men has 1876 members, a greater NUM-
Der, it is claimed, than any town of the
same population in the state.
Cassopolis Presbyterians dedicated
their handsome new church last De-
cember, since which time 81 new mem
bers have been added to the society.
Herman Weidernger was fatally in
iured Thursday in Scion township,
Leelanaw county, by being struck on
the head by falling limb. His skull
was crushed.
A rally of the school teachers of Che
boygan, Otsego, Crawford, Roscom-
mon, Oscoda, Ogemaw and Montmor-
ency counties will De held at Gaylord
March and TO-
A Florence, ST. Joseph county man,
has discovered a process of tempering
drills in such way that they may be
used to bore through the hardest iron
or steel with ease.
Grand Haven has won her case
| against the Wiley water works people,
and taxpayers say that they are $780,
600 better off than they would have
been had the case gone the other way.
One hundred and ten students have
enlisted FOR military instruction under
! Lieut. Helmick, at Hillsdale college.
| A heavy canon will be included in the
equipments furnished by the govern
ment.
| VIM. II. Borden post of Ionia will
! endeavor to get the q. A. Il. annual
| encampment of 1895 to meet there.
| The matter will be laid before"th the vet
Grams at their meeting in Owosso next
month.
Experts who have examined it say
that the clay in the vicinity of Water
vliet, Berrien county, is of the finest
quality for brickmaking, and it is pro-
posed to establish a brickyard in the
village.
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Ronde, has a scheme for developing a
water power at that place to furnish
electricity for power or lighting pur
poses to the villages of Marcellus and
Decatur.
The Tamarack cooperative store at
Calumet has probably made more
money the past year than has the mine
itself. 1t will divide among its stock
holders S35, 900 as the profits on last
years business.
Capt Alexander ST. Bernard died at
his home near ST.. Clair aged SO years.
lie had charge of one of the first
steamers on the great lakes, and was
pilot on the United States gunboat
Michigan during the war.
Marlette citizens will vote at the
regular spring election on the question
of bonding the village for an amount
suffi cient to build 24-inch sewer, and
the chances are that the question will
be decided in the affirmative.
Jonesville is to have a tannery and
rope factory. A company, composed
of the prominent business men of the
village, has been organized with S10,-
900 capital, and work will begin at
once in the. old cotton mill building.
The village lookup at Manistique
will probably be an unpopular place
with tramps hereafter, the council
having passed an ordinance providing
that prisoners must work for the city
from now on during their terms of i'm.
prisonment.
On the thirty-frst anniversary OF
the founding of the order of Knights
of Pythias, Nepessing Lodge No. 81, OF
Lapeer, gave grand musicale, ban.
quet and party in commemoration of
the event. II was the SWEETEST affair
for years. Six hundred people at
tended.
A man giving his name as Albert
Fisher eallad on John Kannar a farmer