Another elegant bath house will be built at Mt. Clemens.

The firm Moore, Mapes & Carpenter, at Lapeer, has been dissolved by mutual consent.

The cornerstone of the new M. E. church at Lapeer will be laid on Thursday, May 30.

A Lapeer greenhouse ships 3,000 clusters of sweet peas to Buffalo, N. Y., every morning.

A summer school will be held at Lapeer July 8 to August 2, for the teachers of Lapeer county.

Marlette will build a $12,000 school house. Additional bonds to the amount of $4,000 have just been issued.

Over 400 bushels of flax seed has been sowed around Deckerville and farmers are daily turned away who want seed.

Snow fell at Imlay City Tuesday and a hard frost visited the place Wednesday of last week, doing considerable damage.

Decoration Day and the Fourth of July will both be celebrated at Imlay City, and races will be held there July 3, 4 and 5.

Romeo is the latest town to ring the curfew bell prohibiting children from being on the streets after eight o'clock at night.

A number of fine new residences are being erected at Imlay City this season, and many homes are having modern improvements added to them.

The Marine City Magnet is nine years old and within a week or two will come out in a different form and enlarged. It seems to be meeting with success.

Dogs killed a lot of sheep and lambs for Geo. W. Higley, David Mair and J. B. Wilson last week. The fields bore a sickening look of slaughter.—Lapeer Clarion.

The Monitor says the Mt. Clemens water works is in need of greater boiler and pumping power. They are often required in the summer to pump 1,000,000 gallons a day, the limit of their capacity.

Hiram H. Busha, a 15-year-old St. Clair boy, has completed a model of the steamer Welcome with railings, flags and ropes complete with the captain and crew in position. The work was all done with a jack knife.

During a recent thunder storm, at Carsonville, the house of David Lamont was struck by lightning. A dog standing by Mrs. Lamont's side was struck dead, but she was left uninjured. She held a babe in her arms.

The sheriff of Lapeer county has offered a reward of $100 for the apprehension of James Skinner, who is accused of the murder of Mrs. Loretta Standley, at the home of Fred Skinner, in Marathon township last October. Skinner has fled.

George Jarn, of Imlay City, was instantly killed in a saw mill near Saginaw last week. A cant hook he was using to handle logs broke and threw him against a wheel, causing fatal injuries. His remains were taken to Imlay City for burial.

Ex-Superintendent Bryan, of the Utica schools, was last week reinstated in the Methodist church from which he was recently fired. The quarterly conference at Vassar reversed the decision of the lower tribunal. He was charged with calling names and other trivial offenses.

There's a row on at Marine City over the appointment of the city health officer by the council. Eight ballots were cast and a certain gentleman only secured one, whereas two aldermen solemnly aver that each cast a ballot for that particular person. Some of the language exchanged in the matter has been so hot that it blistered the paint in the council chamber.

The First National bank received lately a financial relic of the early history of Lapeer county. It is a bill issued by the bank of Lapeer which seems to have been in existence in 1837, three years prior to the foundation of the Lapeer Democrat; though it did not live as long. N. Davidson signed as president; A. N. Hart as cashier; and they promise to pay $1 to E. O. Jones or order.—Lapeer Democrat.

The Times Herald (Port Huron, MI) Monday, 20 May 1895, page 7