Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-11-27

BLOCK Formerly occupied Dy j. -
Duilie.
Miss Emma Ferguson, who has
been visiting friends and relatives NJ
OscOda during the summeI, came home
! to stay with her parents, MIR. and Mrs.
l.. V. Ferguson, for a while.
Jas. Brown has established no.
tary public, conveyancing and insur-
ance Office in the EXPOsIToR Book
Store building. Parties wanting any
thing done in this line will do well to
give him a call.
--Cleveianu' exact plurality in the
state Of New York, on the basis of the
vote for the highest Democratic and
the highest Republican elector, as as
certained and certified by the state
board of canvassers, is l,l40.
The Romeo Hydrant says:-"rhe
day after il was settled that Cleveland
was elected. beefsteak dropped from
fifteen cents To shilling per pound.
There might have been other reasons
but it dropped nevertheless.
Don't forget to call at the ExPOs-
IToR Book STORE when you want
anything in the line of school books,
holiday novelties, fancy box paper,
blanks of all kinds, in fact anything
kept in flrst-class book store.
To anybody who has disease of
throat or lungs. we will send proaf
that Piso's Cure for Consumption has
cured the same complaints in other
cases. Address, Z. T. Hazeltine,
Warren, Pa.
-Messrs Bellies & Co., opened a
skating rink in the Masonic Hall build
ing on saturday afternoon last. They
will run the same afternoons aud
evenings and invite all to come and
take part in the healthful enjoyment.
The latest scheme for swindling
the farmer, is to have him sign petit
tion for a reduction of taxes. In some
sections this has been worked, and the
husbandman's effort 20 relieve the
country. has returned to him in the
shape Of a note of hand.
Jas. Menzies, of the Brockway
Centre EXPosIToR, has purchased the
stock and furniture of J. :. Duties
book store al that place, and will run
the same in connection with his print
shop. "Jim" is enterprising, and
bound to get to the fror t. Armada
Artisan.
The average preacher makes a
poor politician. And after he has
played politician for while he is even
less useful as a preacher than he was
before Detroit Times. This is rath-
er hard on the Baptist minister in the
Third district OF this county. Fort
Gratiot Sun.
Mrs. Bartle aged II years walks
from her home, four and one-half miles
northwest of Melvin. to that place and
does her trading and walks home again.
This we are informed is a common
occurrence. How many of the young
lasses of this vicinity are there who
can accomplish this featf
This ia the worst one yet; Eight
years ago a Fort Gratiot man regis.
tered a VOW to the effect that he would
not wear white snlrt until a Demo-
cratic President was elected. On Sun
day he hastened 10 don "boiled'
garment, being too eager to wait for
the official count.-Detroit Times
Capt +. i. Shepherd will give
grand Thanksgiving Ball at his hall in
the Brockway House, Brockway, Mich
this Thursday evening. He intends
making this dance one of the best or
the season and invites all to come and
have a good time. An oyster supper
will be furnished and the whole bill
will only be S1.O0
We are obliged this week to
chronicle the death or another of
Brockway's respected citizens. Mrs.
Clark Washburn, who departed this
life last Friday morning. The husb-
and of the deceased and his many
friends and relatives have the sym
pathy of the whole community in his
sad bereavement.
Justice Bottomley administered
the solemn oath Of marriage TO Mr..
Thomas G. Schram, of Greenwood,
and Miss Mary Kavanaugh, of Lynn,
at his residence last Sunday evening.
Miss X. is sister of Mrs. M. Kelley,
of this place, and is well known by
many OF our young people who unite
in wishing her and hers unbounded
Joy and prosperity In decending the
rugged hill of fe.-Capac Argus.
"A down-east party has invented a
new, double back.acting automatic
salty attachment for skaters. 1t con-
sists of q cushion containing power
full spiral spring, and IL attached to
the skater so that when he or she ac-
cidentally sits down it breaks the mo-
mentum of the fall and the reaction
of the spring sets them on their feet
again. p. S.-This is not paid ad
but is published IA hint to the pat
rons of Bellies rink, who should petit
tion him to purchase a number for
their benefit.
There are lots of closets in this
village filled with good clothing of all
kinds. which will never be worn again
for various reasons. There are also a
number of families in Brockway Centre
who will face the chilling blasts Of this
winters winds, with scarcely enough
clothing to keep the biting blasts from
freezing the life out of their poorly
clad bodies. Let the perspiring heath
en- be forgotten for short time, while
you perform few christian acts Mt
home. 1t will not hurt you. and it
will make some one warm and happy.
On the first page of the last issue
of Frank Leslie's Weekly, is an illus
tration Of the arrival, at the White
House. of the aged and leg-wearied
Democrat. The old fellow has thrown
himself into the Presidential chair
and is resting" with his feet on the
fender, and his hat. labeled 1860. lying
clnsa hy ON the nnnr His clothes are