The Yale expositor., 1896-04-03
NEWS OF A WEEK.
Budget of Happenings in and Around ST
Clair County

tidiT SOurty
Almont has forty widows and twelve
widOwers.
"Jericho", a suburb of Upton. is to
have II new church.
There were l6 prisoners in st. Clair
county Jail last week.
A hospital is being built in connec-
ton with the st. Clair county poor
house.
The st. Clair county poor board was
in session on Monday auditing ac-
counts.
After five weeks of REVEALS the
union meetings in Port Huron closed
Monday evening.
land, employing over / 900 men, may
locate in Port Huron.
About fifty Christian Endeavor del
egates left Port Huron for Ionia on
Wednesday morning.
f. w. Nertican, the founder of the
Patrons of Industry, will move from
Pontiac to Port Huron.
George Quirk, Il 12-year.old Inlay
City lad, narrowly escaped death
through a kick from colt.
JAS. McKeevor, of Point Edward +,
night yardman at the tunnel, was in
jured by the cars on Monday.
Charles Wilcox, formerly of the
Hoyt Dry Goods Co., Saginaw, will
open up general store at Burnside.
Triplets were born to the wife of E..
j. WIemann, of Armada, on March
23rd, two girls and boy, and all doing
nicely.
The PO&N depot at INLAY City. was
entered by burglars recently, by way
of the Office window and six dollars in
cash secured.
sues the city for $4,000 damages,
claiming injuries received from a de-
fective sidewalk.
The farm house of Byron Deneen,
near Inlay City, was burned to the
ground one night last week. Loss
81 900 with insurance.
The people are considerably stirred
up oyer the project of an electric
railroad from Detroit to Inlay City via
Utica, Romeo and Almont.
j. NJ. Gaige, of Croswell, who was
announced as candidate for state
treasurer has withdrawn from the race.
The salary of $500 doesn't fill his want.
Thomas A. Edison will place IL me-
mortal window in the new chapel at
Lakeside cemetery, Port Huron, in
memory of his father, the late Samuel
Edison.
William Turner an old gentleman,
somewhat demented, was killed by the
F&PM local freight, last week, at
Retzs crossing between Mayville and
Sherwood.
Eli Dodge, aged nineteen years, of
Cass City, is missing and his friends
would like to know his whereabouts.
March 10Th was the date of the dis
appearance.
A domestic training school and in
dustrial home is to be opened in Port
Huron about the LIST of May for girls.
Girls will be trained in all sorts of
work for domestic service.
William Kessel, the dismissed Port
Huron policeman, will bring suit
against the Detroit Tribune for dam
ages, because that paper stated Kessel
was dismissed for drunkenness, which
was not the case.
JOll nOIllaS, ~ years ola, uleu Oh
smallpox, in Marine City, last week
having contracted the disease while
taking care of Capt. Hagen. The
latter is now well and there arc no
more cases in the city.
Alfred Bowers, of Port Huron, suf.
fered much pain in his left eye for
some time and finally lost his sight.
Last week he submitted to having his
eye removed when it was found that a
cancer had formed on the back of the
ball.
Downer and Smith, two young men
of North Branch, stole about 20 bush
els of clover seed from the elevator at
that place and drove to Inlay City ia
sell it. They were arrested on the
charge of larceny, and bound over to
the circuit court for trial.
Between 700 and 500 Maccabees,
from 80 different tents, were al
Traverse City last Friday evening and
witnessed the exempllication of the
new ritual under the direction of Su.
preme Commander Markcy assisted by
Charles ). Rawles, of Port Huron.
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