Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1882-06-08


foundation TO the Duflie Block aud tie
carpenters are busy framing. Robert
Lake the contractor, is man who
will do justice to the work assigned TO
HIM.
Rev F. A. Smith, of Richmond, a
Free Methodist minister preached on
the street to large audiences two even
Tags lately. lie is holding protracted
meetings in the Jones school house
/ l-2 miles northwest of here.
The New York Sun and Detroit
Evening News, assuming the role of
| hightohed religious journals, Is the
latest sensation in paperdom. Both
papers in recent issues claiming their
| orthodoxy is the real Simon pure.
/ Well, well, what next?
An interesting feature of local
newspaper, is its personal mention de.
partment. We shall be pleased if our
readers will notify us when they have
| friends to visit them, or when they
are about to leave home themselves.
Don't be too modest about it now !;
give us the items.
The scholars with help from out
! side parties have been. for some time,
practicing for school exhibition and
now are prepared to give the citizens
of this village a few hours of social ell
| joyment at the school house tomorrow
| (Friday) evening. The parents and
friends of the scholars should all at
tend and encourage them in their good
work. The admission will be free.
Everybody is invited 10 attend.
Tues day we were shown Rev S,
G.. Bettis' Camp Meeting outfit. IL
will be, without doubt, when cOmplet-
ell the finest outfit of the kind i'll the
United States. lie has it all glained
and painted in a neat and tasty man
ner and -. q. Brttis Gospel Meetngs"
neatly lettered Oh the front of the
stand. Mr. Belts left on wednesday
for ROseDug where he will hOld meet.
ingS for the rest OF the week thence To
Elk Corners and returning will hold
meetings here for one week.
Geo V. Gillian, who murdered his
mother at Bakers Coruers, township
of Berlin, IN this county, sometime
ago, was tried in the ci:cuiG court Oh
Monday. The jury after being absent
5Olne seven hours reported that they
were unable To agre.. Oh verdict,
three for acquittal and nine Cor con-
victiun. The prisoner was advised tn
plead guilty of murder in the second
degree, and he did, Judge Stevens sen
tehcrd him 10 ten years in the State
prison ut Jackson, at hard labor.
A Temperance Lecture was given
in the NJ. T.. church last evening by
Mr. Charles L. fI~'.ei. e Detroit.
Presiding Officer for .d.u.liE n tne
Independent Order OF Good Tcmplars.
\ very large and appreciative audience
greeted him. \ Good Tcmpldrs Lodge
Was organized and The following are
the officers: w G L, j. > Duliie; w V
I, Mrs Allan Brown: w l., James
Macarthur; w + ), y. G.. Brown; w
I, c. Cooper; w NJ, y. Guns .lus; 81
l G, Miss AS,ie Duili1; " . &, Gee.
McKjOnJn.
The street preaching last Monday
evening seems 10 have taken some of
our church gotrs by surprise. OF
course the prophet ISAIAH some 2,300
years ago did say, about the wicked
Jews, some very hard things, which,
no doubt they deserved, but with three
churches in the village surely il was
trlle too much for "a stranger to make
such an application of some Cf those
Old sayings, which practically declared
The vengeance of Heaven was ready
To be poured out upon the heads of
preachers and people alike, of course
the favored few who surrounded the
speaker alone excepted. Glad there is
some salt left.