Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-07-15


visit up the lakes.
\ change of ad. for ID. Drake will be
found in this issue.
A new lot of Holland and oil cloths
at Ovens & BraidwOod's.
Lower prices than ever in millinery
and fancy goods at Miss. G. Boices.
Alex BraidwOod's brother is here
from Almont and will help him in the
store.
A special school meeting will be held
in this district on Tuesday evening,
July 20.
Martin Menerey made visit to his
friends in this place on Tuesday. lie
is improving in health.
Miss Sarah Rapley, with Julian and
Maud Hennessy, are visiting friends and
relatives in Strathroy, Ont.
A number of our citizens took in the
excursion to East Saginaw last Thurs
day. They report a large crowd in the
city.
There will be a prohibition conven-
ton for st. Clair county held at this
place some time soon. Date will be
given later on.
There will be u prohibition conven-
tion for Sanilac county held mt Croswell,
July 49, Morning session 1870; after
noon session $50.
Lee Saunders has been appointed
postmaster at Smiths, this county, vice
G. +. Lewis removed. We congratulate
Lee on his appointment.
G. +. Pool, 81 years old, of Algonac,
will preach in the Christian church at
Menerey's Corners Sunday at l0:3O a, III.
and p. m. All are invited.
\ correspondent wishes to know how
editors spend their leisure. Leisure
hours? oh, yes; they spend them
catching up with their work.
Mrs. +. Leonard, of Lakeville, Mass.
Mrs. u. &. Gordon, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Day Gordon. of Detroit, and Miss Ella
Sampson. of Ypsilanti, are the guests
of H. +. Leonard at present.
There will be IL meeting Of the Brock
way Centre Driving Park Association,
held in Rapley's sample room on Friday
evening. July III. for the purpose of
settling up all business, and electing
new officers.
The NJ. =. church will give an ice
cream social for the benefit Of Rev. Ira
LeBaron i'm Central Hall OH Thursday
evening, July 22, to which they invite
all to come and have a good time.
Tickets % cts. or 10 cts. per couple. y
good program will be presented inter-
spersed with music by the Brockway
Centre Cornet Band.
Our school closed with an entertain
ment given by the scholars in the NJ. L.
church on Friday evening last. The ex
ercises were interesting and appreciated
by all. The able manner in which the
children recited. reflects much credit
upon the teachers who drilled them.
Mr.. Law was presented by the school
with book of Shakespeare's poems,
beautifully bound, as token of esteem
and appreciation.
Anderson & Go. have sold 10 mowers
this season. TO each purchaser ticket
OH buggy and cutter was given.
The drawing came off OH Saturday and
Geo. Clay, of Grant Centre, won the bug
gy, and Nicholas Owens, of BrOckway,
won the cutter-Pt Huron Daily Times.
Mr. Owens informs us that he is well
pleased with the working of the mower
and will prize the cutter very highly rs
it is gift unexpected.
a Clare county farmer says he has
rid his farm of that very troublesome
weed, the Canada thistle, and he wants
his fellow farmers to have the benefit
of his experience in that particular.
On patch of fully half an acre he had
tried various plans to kill out the thistle,
but without success until three years
ago, when, just before they blOssOmed,
he covered them with dry straw. This
worked well, and being repeated the
two succeeding years every thistle has
been killed. He says that he will pay
So for every thistle that can now be
found on the patch. The experiment
is certainly worth trying. -Metamora
Bee.
Shall we have brass band, or would
our citizens who advocate home patron
age so strongly, rather hire some band
at big expense to come and play for
them? Were some of them to examine
the matter carefully, through the mi
croscope of consistency they would un-
doubtedly see, that home enterprise and
patronage are as necessary to equip and
maintain band, as they are to build
up our merchants and other business
men. You say the boys never would re-
main together: that the band is short
lived: and other remarks of similar
kind. Let this be as it may, know no
period of its existence but that was of
greater duration than the subscrip-
tion list gotten up among the citizens
to support it. The unfortunate sub
scription was of fungous nature, like
a mushroom, it sprang into life but soon
withered because the fountain of home
enterprise and patronage had failed to
water and nourish it. If you want the
band to live don't feed it on mushroom