Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-01-23
Mr.. and Mrs. Il. +. Law are sick with

la grippe.
Charley Barrett returned from Cali
fornia Friday.
Hi Manning has been laid up with a
severe cold the past week.
John Collins, of Peck. has made large
shipments of hay from this point this
week.
Henry Holcomb is under the weather.
He don't know whether he has la grippe
or what.
Rev. Ira Billman will occupy the pull
pit III the Brick Chapel next Sunday
evening at o'clock.
Miss Allie Black has returned home
from East Saginaw where she has been
the past four months.
g. +. Michaels will give a tirst-class
ball on Monday evening, February IL.
Everybody invited to attend.
Benz. King, of Guelph, Ont, who was
visiting his brother Joseph for short
time, returned home last week.
Waterman & Co. have received big
lot Of Brooks Bros fine shoes; just
what the ladies of Yale are looking for.
Don't forget them.
Mrs. Estee, wife of the Hon. Free
Estee. of Mt. Pleasant, is visiting her
aunt. Mrs. Russell Presley. and other
friends in the village.
Miss Annie Little, of Speaker, has
purchased a three-year-old carriage
horse from VIM. Carpenter, for her own
use, for which she paid $85.
Tuesday night was the coolest we
have had as vet this winter, the ther
mometer registering below zero.
A high wind prevailed all night.
The attendance of scholars at school
has dropped to about One-half the usual
number within the past two weeks on
account of so much sickness among the
children.
VIM. II. Garlick, the good-looking,
good-natured and obliging clerk of the
Rapley House, left Tuesday morning
| for his home in Minden City, and will
be gone about three weeks.
Parties wishing to invest in village
or farm property will do well to consult
Drake Il MenZies list in this issue. If
you have any real or personal property
to dispose of, call and get our terms for
selling.
! y Lapeer man refused to pay the
Michigan Hedge Fence Co. for hedge,
alleging that it had not grown as they
promised it would. The company sued
him. were beaten in two courts and
then gave up.-Port Huron Times.
The four new States have beauti-
/ FIJI CD nicknames. The nickname OF
/ North Dakota is the "Flicker-tail state"
| South Dakota. the "SWnge-cat State;"
| Washington is the Chinook state,
and Montana is the "Stub-toe state
/ one Of the decisions OF the Supreme
/ Court at its recent session is Go the ei
1 feet that arrests are unWarranted un-
/ less the officer sees the person arrested
/ commit some breach OF the peace. or
suspects that he has committed Il
! felony.
The devil would persist in bothering
! Martin Luther until the baldhead monk
/ dispatched him with a bottle of ink: so
we learn that a bottle of ink might rid
| you Of any devil, but bottle of Dr.
Bulls Cough syrup will always rid you
of any cold.
1t is predicted by good authority
that the year 1890 will be the most
prosperous in the history of the country.
That will be welcome news to all our
readers. Now let everyone endeavor
! to do his share of the work, and also
obtain his share of the good fortune.
$4,000 to loan on farm mortgages
Parties desiring to borrow money on
farm mortgages will do well to see us
before borrowing elsewhere as we have
the above amount to loan and will
place it ut low rates of interest. Bring
abstracts,of title. Yale Bank of b. X.
Noble. 24-3m
The new election law applies only to
general elections, therefore it will not
be necessary at the spring elections to
| build fences and booths inside the
schoolhouses and other places where
town meetings are held; nor to send to
Lansing to get tickets printed.-Lapeer
Clarion.
Some men try to hide everything they
have, even their prosperity, for fear of
arousing the jealousy of their neigh
bors; while others try to fortify them
selves by making the biggest possible
showing. There is nothing like success
to attract support; the plsdder is always
passed by.
The papers are full of discussion as
to where a perfect rhyme for 1890 may
be found. The cockney who pronoun-
ces the phrase dainty maidens" as il
it were spelled "dinty miden" should
write one of the Idly pipers" on the
subject. lie has very much the best of
the discussion.
Word is received that young daugh-
ter of Stephen Barr, living in the south
west part of this township, came near
being burned to death Tuesday. 1t
seems the child was left alone in the
house and in playing around the stove
her dress caught fige and she would
have burned to death only she had on a
/ flannel skirt. AS it is she is in very
critical condition.
IN old woman by the name of IIOl-
comb, hailing from Brockway, has been
making life miserable for the lawyers
for several days past. She claims that
prominent citizens of Brockway induc-
ed her to marry man whom they knew
to be either foolish or crazy, and she is
anxious to secure divorce from him.
! Up To last evening no lawyer had been
found who was willing to take the case.
Port Huron Times.
Mrs. VIM. Greenberg, living six miles
southeast of Morley, who has for the
last four years suffered the annoyance
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