Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-10-24
YALE County Mich, THURSDAY, "A.
Michigan has 250 Chautauqua circles,
with a membership of 5000.

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cinity of Sandusky the past week.
The EXPosIToR and Detroit Weekly
Free Press four months for only 30 cts
Now is the time to subscribe.
STRAYED-From the premises of the
subscriber, Sec. IL, Brockway, / Cots,
wold buck sheep. Any information
that will lead to the recovery will be
suitably rewarded. S. LUTz. PAP
If You are in need of letter heads
note heads, bill heads, statements, en-
velopes, etc, and want them printed in
neat and workmanlike manner. at
moderate prices. call at the EXPosIToR
office. We keep large stock of the
above always on hand.
Andrew DePeel is having quite a run
of work in the building line. He is
now employed on the addition to Z. f.
Laws house and as soon as this is COM
plete he will go to wok on houses for
Z. f. Bowman and Abe Sherrard and
an addition to 4. Goheen's furniture
store. Mr.. DePeel left for Saginaw
Tuesday to buy bill stuff.
The new $4,000 iron bridge to be
built over Mill Creek on the Port
Huron division of the Flint Huron di-
vision of the Flint d Pere Marquette,
has arrived in sections and is being
moved on flat cars to the great gully,
heretofore described in these columns.
The structure. which completes the
line, will not be finished until the mid
die of November.
The school room in District No. 3,
Greenwood township has been supplied
with new floor, new seats and desks.
The walks have been papered and the
ceiling and woodwork repainted. Sec
retary Law says that they now have
one of theneatest and best schoolrooms
in the county. Great credit is due the
school board and people in that district
for the interest manifested. School has
begun under the management of Miss
Nellie Stewart.
Farmer Brown:-"I say, Jenkins.
why are you laughing so heartily?"
Jenkins:-"Why, I've been to town,
paid my subscription one year in adj
vance for the EXPoSIToR, and the
editor felt so good he has given me one
years subscription free to that great
farm paper published at Fort Wayne,
Ind, called the American Farmer"
Farmer Brown:-"Is that so? Reckon
he would do the same by me. L will
go in to-day and subscribe"
In all voting places in Michigan, new
arrangements for holding elections Will
have to be made in accordance with the
following provisions Of the new law:
The election room is to have an EN-
trance and exit and a gate keeper, who
is to admit but one elector. who must
pass through booth supplied with all
kinds of tickets and slips. and there
unobServed he can select his ticket to
suit himself Having voted he must
pass out and will not be admitted again.
The Michigan Crop report for the
month of September has been re-
ceived at this office, and is an interest
ing document. The total number Of
acres of wheat SOWed in st. Clair cOun-
ty this year was 23.6lO. The average
WELD per acre was 1910 bushels. The
report shows that the average yield of
oats in the county was 25.32 bushels to
the acre while barley yielded 2S.97, corn
40 bushels to the acre. Potatoes yield
ed only IL per cent of the average crop,
while the apple crop is2 per cent better
than last season. The twelve elevators
OF the county report 1857 bushels Of
wheat marketed during the month, and
only 4.522 bushels since August 1st.
The complete novel in Lippincott's
Magazine for November Is entitled "a
Belated Revenge" 1t is a powerful
story, full of stirring adventures, the
scene of which is laid in Virginia in
pre-revolutionary times. The late DR..
Robert Montgomery Bird, known to
fame as the author of "The Gladiator"
!. ;oly Af la NNAAAo nr1 nfhar all
known tales and dramas, was engaged
upon this novel at the time of his death.
The manuscript fell into the hands of
his son, Frederick NJ. Bird, who has
revised and completed the story i'm
manner which shows that he has inher-
tied his famous fathers literary skill
DIR. Birds wide and ripe knowledge of
colonial history and colonial manners
and customs has borne fruit in a "A
Belated Revenge" and the outcome is
a story which is not only highly enter
tanning in itself, but also gives a gra-
phic picture of the times closely pre-
ceding the Revolutionary War, and
brings that epoch before us in way
which no history can. Such novels do
for America what Walter Scott did for
his own country.
Last Friday evening burning brush
heap just east of the village caused
little excitement in our usually quiet
village. One of our popular young
butchers, who was standing near
Palmer's store and saw the reflection
of the the fire, thought the town was
about to be destroyed by the all-devOur-
ing element and rushed TO the NJ. +.
church. but found the door locked. and
and not wanting to lose valuable time,
broke the lock and rang an alarm. Will
afterwards paid for damage to the lock.
Another of our eXcitable young men
when he heard the bell jumped up from
the supper table and not waiting to don
his coat grabbed his hat (but forgot to
put it on his head) and rushed into the
street looking for the fire. When near
the post-office Charley inquired of a
passer-by where the connagration was,
and his informant, who was aware of
the cause of the alarm. pointed to a
house near by and told him it was there.
Imagine the surprise of number of
ladies, who were sitting in the
house, when the door was burst open
and bare-headed young man, gasping
for breath, and his hair on end leaped
into their midst and started to carry
the furniture out of the house. When