Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-06-04

cost at j. G. Holden's.
The diphtheria scare has abated.
No more cases are reported.
w. w. Cowing, attorney at law,
celebrated his 3Sth birthday on Sunday
last.
We thank Will Palmer for a beauh-
full bouquet of lilacs left at our office
yesterday.
You will find the largest and best
stock of ladies and gents fine shoes at
j. G. Holden's.
Pay your freight bills promptly and
don't make the drayman run three or
four times for 10 cents.
Don't be backward in patronizing the
ExPosIToR item box in the post-otfice.
If you have an item of news let us
know it.
David Macarthur is busy with the
paint brush and is making vast inn
provement III the appearance of his
building.
In this issue will be found change
of adv. for our hustling general
merchants f. I. Palmer 4 Co. Our
readers will be benefited by reading it.
Queen Bess, French Lilac, Apple
Blossom, Wild Plum Blossom, and
Martha Washington are the best per-
fumes on earth for sale at Grant Hol-
den d Bros.
The thunder reared, the lightning
flashed and the rain came down in
torrents Tuesday evening about 3
O'Clock, doing great amount of dam
age to crops.
We obtain patents for protection, not
for ornament. Send for our valuable
pamphlet. Dubois & Dubois, Inven-
tive Age Building, Washington, ID. G..
Mention this paper. 81
One of the interesting features of the
program for Epworth League next
Tuesday evening will be n talk by Rev.
Fitzpatrick on the "Epworth League
and its relation to the church,"
c. Andreae & Sons are on deck and
prepared to pay the highest market
price in cash for 100000 pounds of
wool ut the wooden mills. Don't sell
yonr wool until you get their prices.
The council wishes it distinctly un-
derstood by persons who tether their
stock on the streets or commons that
if they bother any one of the village
the marshal has orders to impound
them.
The double postal card, the only
means yet provided for the payment
in the international mail service Of re-
turn postage by the sender of COM
municatiOn. will be ready for sale
about July lst.
The NJ. =. church last Sunday even
ing was well filled, the occasion being
the memorial services. Rev's. w. +.
Perkins, Billman and Fitzpatrick made
very interesting addresses and the NJ 4.
+. choir sang very appropriate pieces.
A Jersey Cow at your own price.
| Will sell from to 3 head of Jersey
cattle. on Wednesday, June Sth, 1892,
at o'clock u. NJ, at my residence in
Speaker, Mich. Terms months
time on good approved joint notes with
s per cent interest. ANDREW MooRE.
Lightning played peculiar freak in
the home of John Covert, Berrien
county farmer. A bolt entered the
house and completely shattered bed
stead on which Covert's wife and
daughter-in-law were sleeping. The
two women entirely escaped any in
jury.
One of the windows in F. Il. Palmer's
store was thing of beauty this week,
being draped, trimmed ana decorated
in honor of Decoration day with large
picture of Gen. Grant in the centre.
Fred is always to the front with fresh
and new ideas about making things
attractive.
Died, in Greenwood, on Monday,
May 30, 1892, Mrs. Fred Black, aged IL
years. The funeral services were held
in the Schram school house on We'd
nesday by Rev. w. +. Perkins. De-
ceased had been married only short
time and will be greatly missed by her
afflicted friends.
The Bankers Art Publishing Co., of
Detroit, will soon present to the pub
lie book entitled, "Under the Oaks
at Jackson, Eighteen Hundred and
Fifty-Four and Since" which will con-
tain the principles and men of the
republican party. Every republican
should purchase one of these books.
There will be State Checker Tour
nament in Detroit Oh November l6
next, ut which the prizes will aggregate
$3.50; the first prize will be 800. Now
is the time for our local checker play
ers to brush up. The winner will have
his expenses paid as a participant of
the Worlds Fair Tournament in Chi
cago in 1893. All interested from the
interior will be given reduced rates at
Detroit hotels and boarding houses.
Late Saturday night Sheriff Bernatz
returned from Peck where he went in
search of some of the members OF the
Sartwell gang. While there he visited
the house of John Van Conant, who
is the father of Bert Van Conant, now
in Jail, and recovered valuable music
box, a breech loading shot gun and
several other valuable articles which
had been stolen by Bert Van Conant.
A large amount of the stolen property
1t Is said, was sold to parties in the
vicinity of Van Commits home, ana
the officers are making an effort to re-
cover it.-Port Huron Times.
Every line of a newspaper costs
something. If it is for the benefit of
an individual it should be paid for.
If grocer was asked to donate gro
ceries to one abundantly able to pay
for them he would refuse. The pro
prietor of newspaper must pay for
the free advertising if the beneficiary
does not, and yet it is one of the hard.
est things to be learned by many that