The Yale expositor., 1896-01-03
NEWS OF A WEEK.
A Budget of Happenings in and Around st.
Clair County.

(idiT SOuutys
Port Huron has Is drug stores.
DIR. Loud, of Romeo, died last week.
Almont has male quartette of
whistlers.
A real live robin was seen in Romeo
last week.
There are eight prisoners in st. Clair
county jail.
There are sixty-six liquor dealers in
Macomb county.
Brown City's high school has pur-
chased new organ.
Marlette has new industry in the
shape of II marble shop.
d. N. Runnels, of Port Huron, will
build new tug this winter.
The Jewish residents of Port Huron
will form a religious society.
Whooping cough prevails to an
alarming extent in Port Huron.
Thirty-two liquor licenses were
granted in Mt. Clemens the past year.
The new st. Clair county atlas will
probably be ready for delivery in about
six months.
Morleys ship yard at Marine City
will use 100000 feet of lumber and
timber this winter.
Durand Mintline, of Caseville, at
tempted to commit suicide last week
by cutting his head off with pocket
knife. He will not llye.
The Canadian Southern Railway is
to be extended to Port Huron. 1t will
open up new route to Chicago and
be competitor of the Grand Trunk.
A store operated at Inlay City by
Lee Powelson has gone to the wall
with four others operated by the same
man at Oxford, North Branch, Caro-
and Dryden.
The firm of G. G. and w. b. McGreg-
or, of Carsonville, who went under Il
short time ago, have Incorporated
under the state law. The firm is now
called the McGregor Mercantile Co.
Mt. Clemens will send out base
ball team and u band of music during
| the coming season, to make a tour Of
the state and play Sunday games.
This is to advertise the great bath
town.
John Miller, of Port Huron, has
commenced suit in the circuit court
against the City Electric Railway for
0,O00 damages, claiming that it was
| by u conductors carelessness that his
boy lost his foot.
The Almont Herald is now twenty
one years old. Out of the 33 business
houses in that town only IL are repre-
sented in the Herald, but the publish
er, who has not grown rich in the
past twenty-one years, hopes for better
| M IN
The salt product of Michigan for
| 1895 has increased from an out put of
621 ,552 barrels in 1870, to $500 1862 bar
rels during 1895. New salt wells are
being opened up. During the past
year the experiment of transporting
salt in bulk to Chicago has been tried
with success.
| Stewart q Streeter, general mer-
chants at Memphis, recently gaye chat
! tie mortgages amounting to oyer Sc 900
to +. Saunders d Co., Port Huron, and
Edison, Moore & Co., Detroit. w. j.
| Gould g. Co., of Detroit, who are also
creditors of the Memphis firm, brought
suit to collect an account OF S76.24 and
at the same time garnisheed their ac-
count with +. G. Coburn, the Memphis
banker, with whom they had a balance
of something over $50. The case was
heard before Justice Heath on Satur-
day when Mr.. Stewart appeared and
confessed judgment. He endeavored
to show that the money in the Men,
phis bank was not the property of
Stewart & Streeter because the title of
the account had been changed by add
ing the word "trustees" to the name Of
the firm. The court held that this was
too indefinite and the plaintiffs were
given judgment for the amount of
the account and costs. Another suit has
been commenced to collect a bill which
has become due since the first suit was
started. Richmond Review.