Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-06-13

Ernie Perkins is now employed in ID.
Mills store.
Farmers when you sell your wool
don't forget the printer.
Remember the athletic contest on
the fair grounds June 10.
Some person broke pane of glass in
the NJ. +. church last week.
Austin Lutz was visiting friends in
Marlette the past few days.
b. II. Noble has sold his lot and
building south of the Lutz block to
Geo. Raymond.
The school board is receiving nu-
merous applications for the principal
ship of the school.
Miss Della Killam, who has been with
her sister, Mrs. A. II. Braidwood for a
short time, left for her home in Almont
last Friday.
The scholars and teachers of the
public school intend having a picnic
in Morfill's grove at the end of this
term of school.
Geo. V. Reed has secured the services
of a new baker who comes well recon-
mended. Mr.. Reid is prepared to fur
nish first class bread at all times.
The civil service examination noticed
to take place on June 13 has been in
definitely postponed OH account of the
non-arrival of application blanks from
Washington.
The clerks are trying to institute the
early closing movement in the stores Of
this place. \ petition is being ciculat-
ed and largely signed by the business
men. If adopted it will be good thing.
1t will be of interest to our readers to
peruse the change of adv. for j. L.
Waterman & Co. in this issue. They
have an immense stock to select from
and invite you to call in and examine
goods and prices.
ii. A. Miller, formerly of the Vassar
Times, has begun the publication of
the Michigan Pythian, handsome
eight-paged, four-column monthly, in
the interests Of the order of the
Knights of Pythias.
The citizens meeting called for Mon
day evening last to make arrangements
for fourth of July celebration was
not very well attended and therefore
nothing was doue. There certainly
should be life enough left in the town
to have some kind of a celebration.
John Holden and James McColl have
purchased the corner property just
south of J. Il. Waterman Il Cos store,
known as the Parker property, and will
lay it out in lots which will be for sale.
We are pleased that this property has
got into the hands of these enterpris-
ing young men.
1t seems hardly possible that human
beings can be mean enough to rob
graves of the plants and flowers placed
on them by the loving hands of rela-
tives ann friends. Yet this has been
done and in this community too. The
perpetrators had better beware, for If
found out they Will find it to be an
offense with which the law does not
deal lightly.
The summer term of the Flint Nor
NAL College opened on Tuesday last
with gratifyingly large enrolment
of pupils. The future of the school
looks very promising, and new pupils
are arriving daily. The corps of teach
ers is full and efficient, and the institu-
tion should receive the encouragement
of every resident of Flint The VOL
VERNE Citizen, Flint, Mich.
Correspondents and all persons who
have occasion to write for newspaper
should avoid abreviations. Do not
write Tues. for Tuesday, ch. for church,
pres. for president, etc. The habit of
omitting the words of, the, and, is and
other words, is also annoying to an
editor. When a communication is re-
ceived that abounds with abreviations
and omissions the editor must thorough
ly revise the same, spell out the abrevia-
tions and omissions.
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany have printed statement in which
they claim that it costs them twenty
three cents to send a message for which
they charge 25 cents. The telegraph
company used the statement with the
legislative committee as means of kill
ing the bill intended to reduce the rates
of messages in Michigan. The bill will
probably not be reported. and the tele-
graph company will continue to rob the
people by charging the present high
rate.-EX.
AS a great many questions are being
asked about the cost of the band-stand
and how much the boys are in debt for
the same, we publish the following