Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-06-28

Miss Jessie Allison is visiting friends
and relatives in this place.
The eagle will not be let loose il
Brockway Centre this year
ClJo Thompson, who lives north and
west of this place, died last Saturday.
Mrs. Robt. II. Menerey and Tena
Brown, are visiting friends in Windsor
Ont, at present.
Don't forget Michaels' 4th of July
ball. Everything will be iirst-class
and good time may be looked for.
Bondy & Johnston come before our
readers with another change of ad.
setting forth the merits Of their goods.
Don't fail to read it.
The junior base ball club of this viii
lage defeated the juveniles of Old
Brockway by IA score of 10 to 10, at the
latter place last Saturday.
The mercury in the thermometer has
been showing considerable elation late
ly, and the collar of perspiring human
ity has been correspondingly depressed.
Albert Allen died at his home in
Peck on Monday. The funeral services
were held Oh Wednesday and conducted
by the Masonic fraternity, of which he
was n consistent member.
The ladies of the NJ. E. church will
give a lawn social at the residence of
G. E. Roswell, this Thursday evening,
for the benefit of the pastor. A good
time assured all who attend. There
will be abundance of ice cream end
and strawberries.
4 goodly number of Sunday school
children, their parents and friends at
tended the annual excursion Of the NJ.
f. Sunday school to Stag Island on
Tuesday last. The day was cool and
nice and all enjoyed the days recrea-
ton.
The spire on the NJ. +. Church in this
village was struck by lightning during
the thunder storm last Thursday and
one side shattered into splinters. The
chimney on the public school building
was also struck, shocking some of the
scholars.
The nominees elected at the Republi-
can national convention at Chicago are
Harrison and Morton. Now the fight
will begin. for. the. presidential honOrs,
and the party that can say the meanest
things about the other side will be sure
of election.
SAvED.--A fine family of children
were all afflicted with scrofula. Two
died early; the rest would soon have
followed, but for the timely and perse-
vering use of Ayers Sarsaparilla, which
built them up into healthy and vigor-
Gus manhood.
FREE PUBLIC LECTURE-A lecture
will be delivered at the town hail in
Fremont on Tuesday evening, July 3rd,
by the Worthy Master of the State
Grange, Thomas Mars, for the interest
of any and all concerned.
BY order of Com.
Last Sunday being st. John the
Baptist's day the Masons of Brockway
Centre and other lodges went in body
to the A. G. chapel and listened to
very interesting and thoughtful sermon
by Elder j. II. Patton, prepared spec
tally for the fraternity.
Tuesday morning this week a sneak
thief stepped into S. 0. Welch & Sons
office at the mill, opened the safe and
stole therefrom about S96. Whoever
took the money knew full well where
the key to the inner door of the safe
was kept and must have been posted
about the place.
Married. at the residence of James
Brown, Saturday evening, June 23rd,
1888, by Elder j II. Patton, Peter Laing,
of Brockway Centre, and Miss Annie
Cairns, just lately from Scotland. We
extend our congratulations to the hap
py couple and wish them many years
of welded bliss.
Frank Landro's little 3-year-old boy
came near drowning in the ditch in
front of Mr.. Landro's furniture store
last Thursday. On account OF the
heavy rain storm the sewers became
full and could not carry the water away
fast enough leaving it to fill the bitches
and flood the road The little fellow
went to reach for a stick and fell head
long into the muddy water and soon
would have drowned had not his father
been near at hand and pulled him out
The rhetoricals for the close of the
: school were held last Friday, in Miss
Browns room of the high school build.
ing. The exercises were both interest.
! ing and instructive. The parts of the
, different dialogues were well taken and
the essays showed thought, and pains
{ taking care on the part of the writers
Much applause was elected by the song
/, "a fine old Irish gentleman" given by
a Newton Cook, and repetition was