Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-05-11
General News.

INLAY City people want fair.
INLAY City feels proud of new post
Office.
Lexington races have been postpon-
ed until May 80.
Lexington is to have street signs plac-
ed on all its streets.
Caro- dedicated a new $4,000 NJ. E.
church last Sunday.
There were twelve persons in the
county Jail last week.
Capac citizens want to raise about
81 900 by tax this year.
Croswell people want broad guage
railroad and want it bad.
Lexington bad boys turn out the
street lamps on dark nights.
II. II. Lippincott, of Memphis, will
open dry goods store in Port Huron.
Deckerville is to have large new
brick bank of which it will be exceed
ingly proud.
If Inlay Cityites will contribute $3.50
a town clock will be placed in the new
Catholic church.
Frederick Platts, ST., one of Port
Sanilac's oldest inhabitants, died very
suddenly last week.
The G.. A. X. of Croswell and vicinity
will hold a grand basket picnic at
Croswell on Decoration day.
According to the Merchants Ex-
change list, one-twentieth of Port HUI
ron people do not pay their bills.
Mrs. Lovejoy, of Marine City, the
woman who deserted her baby at st.
Clair, has been in Jail the past week.
Gavin Hamilton, farmer living
about one mile west of INLAY City, is
stricken down with an affection Of the
brain.
The st. Clair County Women's
Christian Temperance Union conven-
ton was held in Port Huron on the
Sth inst.
Two circuses will exhibit in Port
Huron this month. Nelson's World
Show May l6 and II and Sells Bros. on
the 25th.
Four Inlay City boys aged about 13
or IA years, have left their homes.
One returned later but the others
still wander.
The building which l.. A. Sherman is
erecting In Port Huron, will be used
by the Port Huron Times, when fin
ished next fall.
Sixteen foreign born residents of st.
Clair county haye recently declared
their intention of becoming citizens of
the United States.
The Newmarket Hotel in Port HUI
ron, will hereafter be run as temper
ance house and only lemonade is to be
purchased at the bar.
The fourth annual celebration of
Oddfellows day at Mayville last week
was grand success and is considered
to be the best one held.
1t is reported that more grain has
been brought TO Port Huron during
the past month than in any month
since the elevators were built.
Nearly twenty warrants were issued
on Wednesday of last week in Port
Huron for the arrest of saloon keepers
selling liquor without a license.
The Emerson-Chase case which has
been the prevailing topic of talk in
Memphis recently, has now reached
climax by Miss Chase marrying the
doctor.
A stock company has been organized
at Carsonville called the Carsonville
Driving Association. Races will be
held there July 4th, also grand eel.
ebration on that day.
The cracking of a safe in the Saw.
| ings bank at Mt. Clemens recently was
the boldest burglary ever perpetrated
in that city. However the thieves did
not reach the money.
The people of Breckenridge, Mime
sofa, have petitioned the department
to change the name of their postoffice
The request is proper and reasonable
and should be granted.
One hundred and fifty Lexington
women signed a petition and presented
it to the common council asking tina
all liquor bonds be refused. The trus
tees felt they could not grant this bu
promised to see the law enforced ir
regard to Sunday closing.