Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-04-13
General News.


pany.
Richmond people are still talking
roller mill.
A Sunday school has been organized
in East Greenwood.
Carsonville has resolved to celebrate
the glorious Fourth.
Eight or ten dogs were poisoned in
INLAY City last week.
A Woman's Relief Corps will be or
ganized in Port Huron.
There has been great excitement in
Coleman during the recent election.
Dogs killed eighteen sheep belonging
to John Walden, at Cass City last week.
The National Police and Sheriff's
Union meet at Cincinnati next month.
Andrew Brown, of Inlay City, broke
his shoulder last week while unloading
wood.
Marlette will have an electric light
ing system in operation within six
weeks.
An unoccupied house in Brown City,
belonging to John Sullivan was burned
recently.
Cass City has a So, 900 damage suit on
its hands, resulting from a defective
sidewalk.
On the Gratiot road between Detroit
and Mt. Clemens there are ten saloons
and ten churches.
Sergeant Kessel, of Port Huron, has
been suspended for sixty days for sleep
ing at his post of duty.
Carsonville young people have or
ganized dramatic society called the
"Thumb Comedy Co."
INLAY City citizens are expressing
some dissatisfaction with their school
principal and his work.
1t is expected by Richmond people
that new foundry and machine shop
will soon be located there.
Everett X. Whitney, a Thornton
liquor dealer, has been arrested for
selling liquor without license.
Port Austin people are walking in
darkness and are praying for few
good street lamps on their main street.
The members of the Richmond high
school will present the drama "The
Deacon" to their townspeople April
Dist.
Capac citizens have allowed the ques-
ton of a new town hall to slide over for
another year on account of the hard
| times.
Robert Landers, of Sarnia, last week
swallowed large dose of rough on
rats for the purpose of suicide, but his
| life was saved.
| L. A. Sherman will soon begin the
construction of new building in Port
Huron. 1t will be made of brick and
stone and four stories high.
Smallpox is raging il. Chicago. The
trainmen on all the lines entering
Chicago have all been vaccinated by
order of the boards of health.
Mrs. L. d. Smith, of Port Huron, has
commenced suit against that city for
$40 900, having received severe injuries
from falling on a defective sidewalk.
Port Huron Basket Ball team is the
champion of Eastern Michigan. This
| week the team plays with the Grand
Rapids team for the championship of
Michigan.
Fire injured building in Capac be-
| longing to ID. +. Bottomley, about 5000
worth. The fire caught in the. roof by
| sparks from the chimney and was not
easily extinguished.
Thirty-fye acres of woods close to
| Romeo will be converted into railroad
ties. A portable saw-mill has been put
in operation on the place, the capacity
of which is 800 ties per day.
There will be new summer resort
established this season near Lakeport,
which will be called Lakelands. A
club house, auditorium, boat house
and probably twenty five cottages will
be erected.
AS an immense crowd were holding
dedicatory ceremonies in the new Mac
cabee hall at Capac one evening re-
Gently, loud crash startled the peo-
| pie and the floor sank several inches.
An adjournment was quickly taken to
another hall. Fears had been enter
tanned that the building was not strong
enough.
VIM. S. Rottach, young married
man of Fair Haven, has been arrested
on charge of forgery. He has lately
presented two checks of $40 each at
the First National Bank, Port Huron,
signed by the Fair Haven Stave Com
pany. The checks were cashed, but
in due time the crime came out and
the man discovered. His relatives are
trying to adjust the matter.