Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-02-28

LlaJ he would START from lnefe one
week ago Monday. He does not like
the country and would not live there.
Thinks Michigan is good enough for
him.
2-Blacks-2 have just received a
choice lot of dried cherries and black
berries. just the thing for parties want
ing something good to eat for change.
Watch our advertising columns next
week. The boys will have something
new.
Ev. Lowry bid his many friends in
this vicinity goodbye on Monday, Feb.
"a, instead of last week as we prev
iously announced. The EXPosIToR
joins with his many friends here in
wishing him health, wealth and pros
perity.
We occasionally read of very queer
things. Last week colored woman in
Kentucky who was to be hanged, sold
her body to some medical students. the
consideration being the supply of all the
ginger bread she could eat before she
was swung off.
I'VE have met the enemy and they
are ours" said Commodore Perry, thus
telling the story of the battle of Lake
Erie And it is also a fact that DIR.
Bulls Cough Syrup is no sooner used
than the cold is conquered and the
cough disappears.
Surveyors were in the village Satur-
day taking measurements for the gov
eminent between the station and post
office. We were informed that the post
Office was just within the 80 rod line.
therefore the +. Il T. NJ. R'y Co. will
be compelled to hire the mail carried.
$4,000 to loan on farm mortgages.
Parties desiring to borrow money on
farm mortgages will do well to see us
before borrowing elsewhere us we have
the above amount to loan and will
place it at low rates of interest. Bring
abstracts of title. Yale Bank of b. Il.
Noble. 24-3m
The undersigned assignee Of the late
firm of Wear x Paisley Will offer for
sale TO the highest bidder the book ac-
counts at the post office in the village
of Yale on the Sth day Of March 1880
at O'Clock p. m. \ list of the accounts
may be seen at the pOst-oilice.
JAS. f. LUTZ, Assignee.
Joseph Williams, ST., living with his
son Charles north of this village cele-
brated his 95th birthday Sunday, Feb,
23. He came to this country 80 years
ago and has resided here ever since. Is
hearty and healthy and as spry as man
of 30. The EXPOSIToR wishes that he
may celebrate many more birthdays.
1t is said the Patrons of Industry are
getting up tickets for the coming spring
elections in many localities. Exchange
1t is their privilege, for they have a per-
feet right to support their own brothers
in township. state. congressionional or
presidential elections. Go ahead, gen
tlemen, and nominate men who, if elect
ed, will be in sympathy with your best
interests.
Atlanta, Ga. is said TO have queer
way of Furnishing profanity in the pub
lie schools. The boys caught at using
bad language are made To wash their
mouths out with water infused with
quassia. The bitter stuff is considered
a cure; at least it is not so easily for
gotten as licking or scolding. Is
it not an invention worth more general
use? Our family discipline is pow
erty-stricken affair-mostly made up
of jawing and thrashing.
+. II. Drake received letter from
Henry GriswOld, now in Indian Terri
tory, yesterday, in which he (Griswold)
says he has all of his garden planted.
and potatoes in. Pieplant is six inches
high, and grass green. Peach trees set
out last fall have blossoms on them.
lie says that Guthrie, now ten months
old, has tine electric light plant; fran
chises sold for street car lines and also
has larger population, and does more
business in day than Port Huron.
If people would be more careful in
directing their letters there would be
fewer missent letters. a large proper
ton of the mistakes made in handling
mail is directly chargeable to the writer
who has used so little care in address
ing the envelope that it is practically
impossible to tell what the address it,
Write plainly. and IL you can not do so,
then get someone who can. Always
write the name of the town plainly, put
on the county and write the state out
in full. Follow these directions and
fewer mistakes will occur.
A baking powder man started in
business twenty years ago with cash
capital of Sl2.5O He sold out his in
terest in the business the other day for
S2,50oOO0 and had previously taken
over SS,OO0,OOO out. Doubtless his bak-
ing powder is an excellent article. but
the chief reason for his success was the
fact that he never allowed the public
to pick up paper without seeing his
lad in it. Many man COM
menced business twenty years ago with
more capital than the baking powder
man and has since been sold out by the
sheriff. But he did not advertise judi
ciously.
We print the following for the reason
that it is so simple and so effectual that
any person can test the quality of that
important element of life, the water
they drink ;-"President Angel, of the
Michigan University, furnishes the fol-
lowing rs test of the purity of water
for drinking: Dissolve about half
teaspoonful of the purest white sugar
in pint bottle completely full of the
water to be tested. and tightly stopped;
expose it to daylight and temperature
up to 20 degrees Farenheit. After a
day or two examine, holding the bottle
against something black. for whitish
floating specks, which will betray the
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