Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-12-23

ray your taxes tnlS mOntn ana save
the percentage.
Large size photograph albums for Sc
cts at &. ii. Niggeman's.
We wish all our subscribers and
friends Il Merry Christmas.
+. :. McGregory, of Cass City, is on a
visit to old friends i'll the village at pres
ent.
Miss Minnie Creighton. of Oshawa.
Ont. is visiting friends in town at pres
ent.
Toboggan caps and all styles of fash
ionable headWCar cheap at Miss G.
BMce's.
Miss Josephine Smith, of AlmOnt, is
the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Alex Braid
wood at present.
Miss Lizzie Leonard is at present
visiting with her brother and other
friends in these parts.
Don't buy your Christmas presents
until you see what is to be sold at the
EXP0HITOR Bookstore.
Dan McMartin has returned from the
north woods where he has been work
ing Tor some tlme past.
Go to Wear & Paisley's for hoods.
silk handkerchiefs, silk and cashmere
mulllers. They lead the van.
Phil McDougall and family have
moved into Geo. III. Mustard's house
lately vacated Gy +. III. Drake.
J.L. Stevenson and the Misses Boyce,
OF Port Huron, made flying visit to
this village Friday evening last.
The Misses Bessie WeIch and Lettie
Robinson, Of Peck. visited friends and
relatives III this place on Tuesday.
The Brockway Centre dancing club
will give one of their parties at Mich
aels' hall this CThursday) evening.
If You want a nice present for your
children call ut Niggeman's and get a
dissected map of United States, only
81 cts.
If You want to find suitable Christ
mas present call and see the nice new
stylish goods now displayed by Miss {.
Boice.
Miss Kittle \. Carroll invites all her
old friends to call in and look over her
fine stock of millinery. Good goods at
low prices.
Mr. and Mrs +. T. IIuntoon, Of Ma
rine City. are visiting their son and
daughter and other friends in these
parts at present.
Beautiful plush cabinet picture
frames at the Expositor Bookstore for
only 81 cents. Games of nearly all
kinds going ut cost.
Mrs. James Seamen who has been
visiting with her uncle. augusta Wilt,
during the past week, returned to her
home on Saturday last.
Attend the auction sale of holiday
goods at the EXPOSITOR Bookstore
this (Thursday) evening and tomorrow
FRIDAY evening. All goods must go.
Mr.. Chesebor0, who has been attend
ing the university at Ann Arbor, is at
present visiting his sister Mrs W. w.
Cowing and other friends in this village.
Mrs. G. S. Ney visited her parents at
Port Huron few days last week. Ada
Duffe accompanied her home and is
now enjoying herself visiting among her
old school mates.
The School Board of Brockway
Centre district have lately purchased
anatomical charts for the study of
physiology and hygiene. They are
very valuable addition to our schools.
TO avoid the inconvenience of con-
stantly tipping ones hat to the ladies |
by the ordinary hand method. a Yam |
kee has invented an automatic hat that !
comes off the head and returns to its
hU inn Inn %
Il little apparatus attached to the waist. !
We have Il regiment Of idle men in
our village who seem to fare we'll and J
wear good clothes. but how they get
living is query. They lounge around
the saloons and take drink when
some one pays for it. They say they
are busy when anyone offers them work
to do. Such men rs are here described
should be watched.
The mind of man runneth not to 4
more tersely and correctly stated SEN
tence than this. uttered few days since
by a western exchange: THE longer
we run Il newspaper and write about
people and events, the more we realize
how utterly impossible it is to scratch
every man on the spot where he itches
the most. ."-(EX.
The Tobboggan slide is all the go
now days and nearly every town in the |
state has one. Brockway Centre should |
not be behind the times. III. +. Leon
ard offers the use of the hill in rear of |
his dwelling house if the boys will get |
together and build slide. He will also |
allow them the use of his force pump |
and hose with which to flood the slide. |
This is first rate place to build one |
and it would cost very little.
We are informed that but short |
time ago, young lad of ~ summers,
who is considerably attached to card |
playing and gambling, and who spends |
many of his idle moments-and he has |
lots Of them to spend-in certain sa-
loon in the village at the card table, was
trusted by his mother, hard working
woman, doing washing to gain liveli- |
hood, to take some washing and deliver |
it collecting pay for the same. He took |
the money and lost it in this said gam
bling den. He told his mother what
became of the money and she immedi- |
ately consulted an attorney who in
formed her that she could get the mo-
ney refunded by seeing justice of the
peace and getting warrant issued for
the arrest of the party whom her son
said had the money. This she did and
was informed by the said justice that
she could getno redress, and that If he
issued warrant she would have to
give security for the costs. The poor
woman went awap disheartened. 1t is
too bad we have a justice who would
do such a thing on account of him not
having backbone enough to face the