Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-08-15

Gossips are always preparing their
ears for delicate morsels.
ID. B. Northrup, paymaster for Con-
tractor Lally, spent Sunday at his
in Worthwhile.
The Port Huron Commercial-Tribune
has been leased for one year by Fred
Stevens, of Sandusky, Ohio.
Mrs. d. n. Heard, of Cedar Rapids,
Iowa, Is being entertained at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Z. II. Beecher.
Mrs. o. w. Mills, of East Saginaw,
visited among her relatives and old
time friends here the past week.
The EXPosIToR is brim full of all
the latest local. county and general
news. Invaluable as an advertising
medium.
Mrs. John Ard. of Capac, and Mrs.
Wm. Sansburn. of st. Marys, Ont,
sisters of Jas. II. Moore, are here visit
ing this week.
"a big reduction in wheat" is the
heading of S. o. Welch & Sons change
of adv. this week. They are selling
flour away down.
Richard Travellick says that if there
were no intoxicating liquors there
would be work enough for every man
in the United States, at good prices.
Mrs. Crosby and two children, of Den
yer, Col, and Mrs. G. w. Millett, of
Port Huron, were the guests of Mrs.
G.. A. Perkins the first part of the week.
a co-partnership has been formed
between Samuel White and Hiram
Manning in the livery business. They
intend adding some fine turnouts and
otherwise improving the facilities of
the stable soon.
A Meeting will be held at the office
of f. II. Drake on Thursday evening
(to-night) for the purpose of consider
ing the matter of organizing Sporting
Club at this place. Every one interes-
ted in sporting matters turn out, as
there will be some important ideas on
the subject discussed.
Brown Bros. who have purchased a
new Upton Combination separator,
have commenced operations. Tuesday
they were at 5. o. Welch's and threshed
235 bushels Of wheat which was the
yield of eleven acres Of ground. Mr..
Wech is perfectly satisfied with the
time made and work done by the boys.
The flax grown in this vicinity has
all been pulled and is now being
brought to the mill where threshing
was commenced last Friday afternoon.
n fine new tanning mill for cleaning
seed has been added this year and the
other machinery thoroughly overhaul
ed The managers have plenty of
floor room now and are doing rush
ing business.
An editor who discarded the busi-
ness of moulding public opinion, and
embarked in the barber profession. i'll
which there was more head work, but
less brain labor, showed the ruling
passion" when he absent-mindedly
wrote his advertisement as follows;
chair cutting, fifteen cents line; shay
ing, ten cents an inch, or three inches
for twenty-five cents; shampooing at
liberal rates by the column"
81 have just leased the sanitarium
property in the First ward" said Prof.
Kimball to the Journal this afternoon,
"and will remove the school to the new
quarters at once. Some Improvements
will be made on the place, and every
thing will be in readiness for the open
ing of the fall term. which will occur
on August 2sth." This will afford the
college one of the finest locations in
the country, and we congratulate Prof.
Kimball on his being able to obtain so
fine a property for his new quarters. -
Flint Evening Journal.
1t is said that soon after Charles
Dickens caused to be published his
nicholas Nickleby" no less than six,
awful mad school-masters waited
on him for the purpose of giving him
"thrashing;" deeming that in the
ridiculous "Squeers" they saw their ex-
act prototype. and that it was calcula-
ted as direct shot at each of them.
1t seems to be similar case with
some of our village people with refer
ence to some things that appeared in
our last issue; several having consider
ed themselves, each, the special objective
point of our remarks. Now, our advice
to those who seem to have been hit by
some Of our scattered shot, is to not tell
your neighbors that you are hit. Per-
haps they haven't found you out yet.
Put on a bold front and don't appear to
make home application at all. and in
this way you may slip by unnoticed.
One thing we would have emphatically
understood, and that is we do not use
our columns to vent personal spite