Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1885-10-08
BRoCKWAY CENTRE, st. Clair County,
The fair was a financial success.
Fresh oysters at w. II. Wear &
Co.'s.

Elder j. III. Patton will preach in
the A. G. chapel, Sunday afternoon at
8 o'clock. and evening at I 80.
We were the recipients of large
basket of eating apples from Nicholas
Owens. this week, for which the boys
return their greatest thanks.
"A writer asks; "Why are so
many school teachers ola maids?"
Probably because they don't want to
give up position paying So per week
for So man.
The immediate delivery" system
took effect Thursday, Oct. 1st. Ten
cents will pay for the necessary
stamp. A list of the postofllces may
be seen at this office.
Articles of association of the Su-
preme Tent Knights of the Maccabees
of the World, headq quarters Pt Huron,
were filed in the office OF the secretary
Of state at Lansing last week.
To anybody who has disease of
throat or lungs. we will send proof
that Piso's Cure for Consumption has
cured The same complaints in otter
cases. Address, L. Il. HaZeltine.
Warren, Pa.
We received a communication
from Valley Centre last week. but as
there was no name signed to the same
we consigned it to the waste basket.
Communications must be accompanied
by the name of the writer.
Rollins g. Hisey did not do very
we'll financially out of the fair grounds
with their eating house and stands.
but we hear everybody, who took
their meals with them, speak very
highly of the fare they received, and
that they got all they wanted to eat.
John ID. Grinnell Successor to
Effrick IL GrinnelD manufactures of
Plows, Harrows, Cultivators, &c,
Brockway Centre, Mich. Mr.. Grin
nell is still manufacturing the only
Genuine Wilkinson Plow in Michigan
which is endorsed by all the leading
farmers as being the best general pur-
pose plow now in use. Special atten-
tion given to foundry work and geneI-
al blacksmithing. A share of the
public patronage is solicited.
The fair as usual. attracted to our
town the regular quota of mounte-
banks, fakirs, etc, who seemed to sell
the lucky paddles, bet on the doubt
full walnut shell, come the sneak thief
act to say nothing Of the more high
handed means of gambling without
the slightest notice from our village
authorities. The sooner our marshal
wakes up to the Importance of Kidding
the town of such characters very soon
after their arrival, the safer it will be
for the community.
Sometime last Monday afternoon
a sneak thief entered rooms belonging
to j. G.. Holden and ye editor, in the
Rapley house, and stole therefrom |
two suits of clothes and a white vest. |
Cart. lost his best coat and vest, and
the other suit. which was brand new,
never having been worn, together with
an odd pair of pants and white vest
belonged TO US. We lost in the neigh
borhood of $40 worth of clothes, and
Cart. values his at $50. w. j. Rapley |
and Cart. have gone in search of the |
party who is suspected Of taking the |
clothes, but it is doubtful if 1--WE ever
see or hear any more of the clothing |
or the thief
-Brockway Centre fair was held on |
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of
this week. and thousands of people |
were attracted to that seven by nine
hamlet to sec the big sheep, tat hogs. |
and pretty girls, which are duly sxhib-
tied on such occasions. When will |
Port Huron pick up enough energy |
to enter the lists with the surround-
ing villages and make bid for some
of the advantages which flow from
these annual exhibitions. Port Huron
Sunday Herald. My dear brother you
are laboring under false idea of our
little burg when you speak of it as a
'seven by nine hamlet" 1t is one |
mile square and the largest portion of
that populated. Brockway Centre is |
about ten years ahead of Port Huron, |
and if you don't belive it come up and |
see for yourselves. "The big sheep,
fat hogs, and pretty girls" were all
here during the fair.
There is no more effectual and
enjoyable means by which young peo-
pie can store their minds with practi-
Cal knowledge and gain the power Of
giving expression to what they know
than by writing for the press. In
writing for his or her local paper the
young student cultivates the power of
Do not think that your
literary career is in writing for the
or popular literary jour-
nails. Write for your local paper. and
give the news of your vicinity in the
most pleasant language you can COM
mand. Keep on writing for the pa
per. AS regular correspondent you
will be much more appreciated. Ac-
cldents, robberies, fires, deaths. mar
riages, charities, and cruelties, are not |
the only neighborhood items worthy
of being recorded. The close observer
becomes the skillful writer There
are many things which, when proper
ly recorded, are Of deep interest,
though the careless person scarcely no
tices them. He who can write neigh
borhood happenings in plain, spicy
style. without unnecessary words, has
a beautiful accomplishment. He has
the gift of pleasantly imparting his
knowledge to others, and if he is
school teacher he will surely succeed
in that profession.