Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-07-12
ADDITIONAL EXPOsITIONs i.

Up to July there has been made
this year in Michigan l,841.14l barrels
of salt THE heaviest output in several |
years for the same period of time.
Jesse y. Cole, of Brockway township. |
brought to this Office last Thursday, a
curiosity in the shape of a potato
which he had carried in his pocket as
q cure for rheumatism for the last
twenty years. 1t has become rs hard
rs a piece Of WOOD, but the eyes of the
potato can be seen quite plainly. Mr..
Cole says he has not much faith in the
potato cure, as he is still sufferer
from that painful disease.
The impression is gaining ground
that the sale of the u. II. 81 y. w. R'y
to the Flint e Pere Marquette, which
was enjOined by the courts will not be
consummated, and that the company
will soon convert its main line into a
standard gauge and make arrange
ments as to terminal facilities and
|
the line was never better than now.
George Lincoln. of Brockway Centre,
secured situation in Pullman, ILL.,, a
short time ago. On Saturday he re-
turned home for the purpose of taking
his wife to Illinois. On reaching Brock
way Centre lie was told that his wife
and her sister had left town in the
morning. Mr. Lincoln and his wife's
mother were in the city on Sunday
looking for the runaway pair The
wife has all the Oney the husband has
earned for the past six months. Port
Huron Times.
In the base ball match in Brown
City last Wednesday, only five innings
were played. Our boys had on their
playing clothes, and after the first in
nings the Brown City boys could do
nothing with the pitching of Charley
Emery, who struck out eleven men Of
the fifteen. Geo. Allen played a good
game behind the bat. George also
/ captured first prize in the hop-step-and-
jump, first in standing jump, second in
: running jump, and third in the hun
dred yard foot race. Our boys say
they were entertained splendidly b!
= the Brown City club.
f Under the recent act of Congress ap
proved by the President, any envelope
= wrapper, or postal card containing OIL
q the out side anything which reflects in
juriOusly upon the person addressed, o
anyone else. or upon his character o
u conduct, or is plainly calculated an
. intended to iniure his feelings or repu
tatiOn, or bring him into discredit. @
II which threatens him. will be exclude
g from the mails. Anything in the n5
e ture of an offensive or threatening du
apparent upon an envelope. outsid
a cover, or postal card. or conveying til
g suggestion that such dun is enclOset
y will be excluded Us non-mailable III
der this act.
Of \ genuine prairie WOLF has bee
III prowling around through the TOWNSHIP
k Of Speaker for The past two weeks mai
it ing havoc among the farmers sheep an
he lambs. Several attempts were made
I'd capture it but without avail until MOI
day when about fifteen of the neighbo,
set ont armed with shot guns and bow
knives in pursuit of the cunning ere
ture. In the afternoon a young ma
by the name of Wilson fired the fat
al shot which sealed its doom. ri
neighbOrhood has been in state OF te
re ror ever since this beast put in its a
pearance. 1t is now no more for j
or scalp hangs in the wigwam of YOU
m Wilson.