Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-06-20

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Ella Niggeman. of Lexington, and
Maggie McCandless, of Niagara Falls
last Thursday evening.
Homer Jefferson Berry, of Fargo
was in the city to-day with rat trap
on which he has just received patent
Mr.. Berry is very anxious to sell a one
fifth interest in the trap to Port Huron
parties. He says that the patent is
worth 1,0O0,OO0.-Port Huron Times.
No man can be, or will be excused
from paying his debts because the
times are hard. The printer must re-
spond when called on, but how can he
do it if so many proceed upon the
theory that he don't need his pay, or
that some time in the misty future will
do just as well.
Il. III. Moore, of Roseburg, took the
east-bound train Tuesday evening for
| Port Huron, at which point he bought
ticket for Chicago where he will re-
main few days visiting friends, before
proceeding on his way to Montana and
Washington. If the country agrees
with him he will remain out there.
A genius has got out patent for
Indian rubber houses, to be used in the
southwest. i'm the cyclone swept dist
riots. The chimneys, even. are made of
rubber, and in a high wind, will bend
| over and stretch out into the next ward,
while common two story houses will,
under pressure, resemble the Eifel
Tower.
Nicholas Hayes Il Sons purchased q
fine yearling Clydesdale colt, weighing
1000 pounds, from Colin Mckenzie. of
! Kenockee, this week for S115.00. The
colt is from John Newell's "Logie the
Laird" and matches one raised by n.
| Hayes u Son. who claim to have the
finest span Of yearling colts in st.
Clair Co.
| The chicken business is a matter of
wonderful Importance to the table COM
fort and the financial outlook of the
American farmer. Government sta
tistics show that the annual expendi-
ture in this line is S560.000.000; and de-
spite the immense production Of eggs,
several million dollars worth are annu-
ally imported TO meet the deficiency of
the home supply.
\ number of young people in the
vicinity of Speaker have been making
practice lately of disturbing the pray
er meetings which are being held in
that neighborhood. If those parties
do not wish to attend the meetings,
and behave as ladies and gentle-
men should, we would advise them
to remain away altogether or they may
get into trouble.
One of the timid. m5ld-eyed young
lady teachers of the Pontiac High
School, who would unquestionably
jump onto a center table and scream
in seventeen distinct and different
languages at the sight of little dis
consOlate mouse. is under arrest for
whaling q lump OF school boy into
paralytic paroXysms-Or words to that
effect.
Between the first OF April and the
lst of May eight ont OF every ten ten
ants in Yale notified their Ian dlords
that unless the house was repapered,
repainted. repaired and the rent lower
ed they would not remain another
month. About one landlord, in 20 con-
sented and about one tenant in l00kept
his word, and was sorry for it. All is
now settled until another spring.
All of the ties being put in place
along the railroad track between
here and Port Huron are of the reg
ulation standard gauge size. Each
section foreman has supply of them
and they go into place as fast as the
old narrow gauge ties give out.
This may be "a straw" and it NAV
not. Meanwhile any thing in regard
to the Port Hope extension is on the
quiet.-Sand Beach Times.
The teachers meeting held in the
high school building last Saturday was
largely attended by teachers of the
adjoining townships. showing the deep
interest taken. The program, adver-
tised in last weeks ExPoSIToR, was
carried out, all interested taking their
parts well. The following resolution
was passed:-"BelievIng that the grad
ingsof district sehoolsi is for their best in
treSt, therefore it is resolved that we,
the teachers assembled, express our
willingness to cGncur in carrying out
the wishes of the secretary, f. T. Law,
and that we heartily approve Of his
work in this respect. Carried unani-
mously.
Joseph Michael who died in Green
wood Monday morning last at the adj
vanced age Of 20 years, months and 5
days, was born in Switzerland in 1919,
came to America with his wife and
family in 1854 and took UP their resi-
dence lis Buffalo for time where they
lost two children from cholera. In 1857
he purchased the farm on which he died,
but did not take up his residence there
until September 1860. 4 SON died in
1875 and his wife in 1886. Ont of foT
children only one. Mrs. j. A. Vincent
is left to mourn the departure of kind
father. The funeral service was held
at the Mennonite church Wednesday at
l o'clock p. m. and was largely attended
by relatives and friends.
For some years past there has been a
dispute as to who is the rightfui owner
of the flat land on the north side OF
Mill creek beginning at w. ID. Wears
and running down to the iron bridge
on North street west. Levi Morrill,, jr..
claims that he purchased 1t of James
Ferguson and that his deed calls for
high water mark on the east side Of the
creek. AS the stream has been very
low for the past ten years it has been
hard to determine just where high wa
ter mark was. The flood of Tuesday
raised the water over the flats, and next
morning Mr.. Morrill,, with a gang of
men. proceeded to fence in the disput-
ed property. The parties who had
nOssessiOn of the land made q vip-