Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1885-05-07
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Will Meddaugh, Of Canada, is il
town this week.
-Thos. Weston, of Deckerville. wa
in town this week.
ID. X. Brown and wife visited a
Deckerville over Sunday.
Call and see ID. r. Browns sett,
of glass dishes just received.
The barefooted boy is rather lat,
in making his appearance this spring
"A splendid shower visited thil
vicinity Tuesday night and all day
Wednesday.
Miss Kittie Carroll Is clerking fol
M. p. Allen. Miss Carroll makes ;
splendid clerk.
Charley Gr;swold has returned
home from Fenton where he has beer
attending school.
j. f. Holden, of Brown City, made
his relatives and friends in this place
a visit on Monday.
Martin Turner, of Evergreen,
made his MANY friends and relatives a
short visit this week.
Harry Thorn. of Port Huron,
visited with his friends and relatives
in this place this week.
Doc Boice. of Port Huron, visited
his sister in this place and other
friends at Peck this week.
David Orser while scufflng on
Frank Rapley's dray fell off and re-
ceived serious injuries although not
fatal.
Our friend Jas Macarthur, of Cass
City, stopped in town over TUESDAY
night making short visit 10 his many
friends in this place.
The inside of the 1T. II. & N. w
II. r. station house at this place has
been whliewa.hed and the appearance
improved in other ways.
Hiram Allen has been in Detroit
and purchased IA fine line of goods at
low prices and will give his customers
the benefit. Notice his new adv. in this
issue.
IL. Z. Draks is not living with
| his father rs stated in the issue of the
EXP. sIToR two weeks ago but is still
residing in the house on corner of
Kenniiic and Jones street.
Frank Lampman and family re-
turned To their farm near Weldon
| Creek, Mason county. this state, on
Monday morning. They have lhe best
wishes of their many friends here for
their future welfare.
Henry Holden is at preset engag-
ed in building IL refrigerator ior Rol
lihs 81 Hisey. 1t will be tw, I've feet
high and meat will keep fresh in the
same for over two we, ks. This will
be valuable addition to their meat
market.
The present spell of fine weather
has favourablY effected trade generally.
The immediate outlook for merchants
and manufacturers is most promising
Wheat has gone up 20cts per bushel
and the fall wheat gives every appear
aEce Of being a good crop. ON the
whole, merchants and farmsrs may ex-
pect "a prosperous season the coming
year.
1t used to be that the boy could
not bring up pail of coal for his
mother because he was too tired, but
was not too tired to 60 out and play
shinny. Now it Is the girl, who argues
that roller skating and dishwashiDg
act differently upon her system. One
makes her real tired, the OtheI affords
her amusement, no matter how tired
she il Girls are no better than the
boys.
One of our exchanges prints the
names of its delinquent subscribers
wrong side up. Another. more fertile
in it's resources, publishes the obitu-
aries of deadheads. A sensible man in
Main last week willed $1,000 to each
of his country papers. If there Is any
man in this neighborhood arranging
matters for q happy exit from this
world, we call attention to this Maine
mans commendabl5 action.
Never take a quit-ciaim deed
when you can get warranty deed.
The man who gives quit.claim deed
virtually saysl "dOn't know whether
l own this farm or not, but you may
have 'all my right title and interest
in it," and the man who takes it
reasons: "Pll take this at venture,
and run my chance Of getting some
thing or rothiug." The quit-clam
deed lacks all the 'convenants,"
which make the strength of the war
ranty deed.
Our farmer friends will be inter-
ested in learning that The seventeen
year locusts will appear the coming
sum ner and that they may be expect
ed from the first To the end OF June,
according to the temperature Of the
weather. They were last here in the
summer Of 1858. There advent with
unerring certainty every II years is
very strange indeed, but il is true.
The records of the country tell us they
were here as long ago as 1715, and
every time since they have arrived OF
time. and In great numbers. Some of
our younger folks. who have never
seen these IocusIs, will soon have a
chance 10 do 50, but even to the elders
who have seen them, their appearance,
in vast swarms, Is really curious phe-
numenOn. They come up out of the
ground, and after reaching the light of
day build upon the earth habitation
very much like that Of "a "mud. wasp"
In this ''house" they remain for un-
dergoing the metamorphose from the
pupa to the image. After the meta
morphose the image flies away W
deposit its eggs, which is done 10y bor-