Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1885-03-12
New Orleans molasses at ID. Mills

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200 miles day.
Henry Holden. of North Branch.
visit ell with friends and relatives IN
this place this week.
Money wanted on subscription.
Cannot some of those who owe us
come III and SETTLE UP?
ID. Drake, of Wales township. was
in town this week visiting his son
Harvey and other friends in this
Vicinity.
---P. S. McGregory, who has Leen
rusticating around here for some time
past. left for the silver mines near
Cass City oniTuesday, prospecting.
Probably no man who reads THE
EXPOSlToR this week will fail To not
ice the change OF adv. for Leonard our
live hardware merchant in this issue.
There is no business in the world
that has bren sat down un So emphati-
cally as roller skating. anI yet it con-
tinues To boom just as if nobody w.s
hurt.
Strange that we do not meet with
the saw a--robin-coning- downtown
man vet. 1t must be too cold or else
some one has forgotten to mention this
Indication Of spring.
a number of the citizens who re-
side III the north part OF The village
turned in and shovrlied the snow from
the sidewalk between q Ii. Mustard's
residence and the station.
The tailor shop occupied by John
Kell caught fire from pile Of rubbish
under the shop supposed to be placed
:here by All incendlary. Fortunately
it was discovered aud before the fire
had time 10 spread IL was put out
We are running an expiration
notice" in the EXPoSIToR aud paItes
finding the sauie marked Will please
call in aud settle up their indebted
ness us we are in need of Money
Don't DC backward In coming forward
Two flies in this vicinity, one at
Amos Bd6cOck s near Sh ok 3 corners
Oa Saturday night burned IL new house
owned by him with nearly all It's COLI
tents. anotuer at Chas Adel's in Green
wood burned house and conteuts Oh
Friday night.
AS town meeting is drawing near
we would Tespt ctfully inform those in
the townships near Brockway that
the EXr0sIToR office is the place TO
get their election tickets aud slips
printed at low prices. BE sure and
give US Il call.
Patrick Gleason while chopping
wood ia The woods on Monday met
wi, sad accident by u tree lodg-
ing Ia another which fell and striking
hun on The head knocked him down
and broke his leg between tiie knee
aud hip. lie is LUing well.
u disguised victim of the wealth
er has composed the following epic: -
First ii Is slippery, then il is slippery;
now IL is skipprry, now IL Is hUppery;
jumping aud ddsnlng, plunging ANA
splashlng; muddery, sluShery, gum
shoes AMI nushrry, go,samers. wraps,
falls and niShapS arnica, lint-Words
not for print.
james Welch, who was bound
over Tor trial at the circuit court by
Justice JONES, has been committed to
the Boys Reformatory at Lansing un-
til he Is Is years old. steven Mathews,
convicted OF stealing horse in the
township of Grant, receives three
years in the state house OF correction
at luuia. Both of the above lads are
between l6 and II years OF age.
The Paper World declares that
the ten plaques of "a newspaper office
are bOIes, poets, cranks, rats, cock
reaches, Typographical errors, ex-
change Il -nds, book canvassers, delin.
quen. subscribers, aud The man VINO
always knows how to run the paper
better than The editor does himself
The World mas evidently forgotten to
in clude tax. collectors ip the list.
"A Brockway Centre man came
down IT, the sture the other morning
and he looked and acted so strangely
that his fellow clerk noticed it. and
asked: whats the matter. something
wrongY' "WrongW repeated the exas-
perated man, Il walked the hVor
with crying baby from midnight
until 6 o'clock this morning and as l
left the house the first person | met
WAS Smith who said, with an idiUtic
smirk: "Ah, old man. you look rath-
er tough. Out with the bows again
last night?" Some men make me-
sick"
The ExPosIToR staff has shivered
over cold stnve during the extreme
cold weather and chased the 1'deviP'
around the office u keep from freezing,
all the time praying through The
columns Of the ExPosIToR for some
one to bring in "a load Of wood. 1t
was hot until the ,lmy south winds
began to whistle through the openings
in our sanctum and the snow noun
tains began to melt before the smiling
face of Old Sol. we heard that abun-
dance of tamarack wood could be had
FOR $500 pr load--if we would 90 and
get il ourselves. but the weather seems
more favorable and We will try and get
along with some in the WOOD line that
Will not come quite SO expensive.
The following items of interest we
clip from The Croswell Dem ,crat of
March g.: IA little stranger called at
the hume Of Rev Mr. Belts last Sun
day night and pleaded earnestly to stay
over night which was granted. and in
the morning Mr.. Bettis and family
were 50 highly pleased with her that
they concluded To adopt her AS one OF
the family"
''oome i,lea of the condition of the